Ottawa Inner City Health Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 851839233RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($15,648,101) as filed with the CRA.
Ottawa Inner City Health Inc. is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $15.6M in revenue and $15.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 83% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $35K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 20% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 81 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $10.3M in 2020 to $15.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Ottawa inner city health inc. Was established to provide health care and social support services to people living in ottawa affected by poverty substance use physical and mental illness. Services are provided through a range of programs and services located across the city of ottawa which includes 7 supportive housing programs a hospice 2 shelter based 24/7 programs a supervised injection site a mobile mental health van a primary care clinic and a covid isolated centre and mobile testing and vaccination program.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $15.6M | $15.6M | $13.4M | — | — | $3.6M |
| 2023 | $16.1M | $15.8M | $12.9M | — | — | $3.7M |
| 2022 | $16M | $15.4M | $13.3M | — | — | $3.6M |
| 2021 | $15.6M | $14.8M | $12.7M | — | — | $3M |
| 2020 | $10.3M | $10.1M | $9M | — | — | $2.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $35K from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions81
- Total compensation, all staff$13.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Helen Gottfried-Unruh (director); Catharine Vandelinde (director); Martine Dore (vice chair); Peter Tilley (chair person); Marc Provost (director); Honorata Bittner (director); David Arnold (secretary-treasurer); Lindy Rosco (director); Dawn Lyons (directors); Kira Mandryk (director); Joanne Whittle.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ottawa Inner City Health Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 851839233RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.