Ottawa Innercity Ministries
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 140888736RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($899,990) as filed with the CRA.
Ottawa Innercity Ministries is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $829K in revenue and $900K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 73% from donations, 10% from government, 16% from other charities. In 2024, 53 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $735K.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 43% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (6 positions in that band). The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $610 in 2024, the largest being $610 to The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada/alliance Évangélique du Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Teaching of the christian faith by example word and care to the disadvantaged and poor in ottawa's innercity linking disadvantaged innercity with social services providing encouragement assistance food clothing to poor relieving poverty by helping underprivileged support and training so that they may become self sufficient.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $829K | $900K | $781K | — | $610 | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $895K | $799K | $608K | $72K | $2,000 | $1.8M |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.1M | $706K | $112K | $3,000 | $1.7M |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $710K | $589K | $33K | $5,000 | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $658K | $508K | $435K | $2,526 | $3,500 | $726K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $610 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $735K from 53 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$296K
- Canadahelps Canadon$296K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$29K
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$17K
- Woodvale Pentecostal Church$13K
- Parkway Road Pentecostal Church$13K
- Mazon Canada$6,400
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$5,970
- The Bloodroot Fund$5,000
- Calvin Christian Reformed Church of Ottawa$3,665
- The Robert Campeau Family Foundation$3,500
- Mount Zion--Church of the Firstborn$3,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,170
- ST Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church$3,076
- The Eastern Ontario & Western Quebec Christmas Cheer Foundation/la Fondation Esprit de Noel de l'Est de l'Ontario et l'Ouest du Québec$2,900
- The Ottawa Chinese Alliance Church$2,000
- Parkdale United Church$2,000
- Centretown Churches Social Action Committee (ccsac)$1,981
- Canadian Centre for Christian Charities$1,753
- Glad Tidings Pentecostal Church$1,700
- Église La Pêche / La Pêche Church$1,700
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,550
- Ferguson Family Foundation$1,500
- Clergy Support Memorial Church$1,270
- Arlington Woods Free Methodist Church$1,200
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$535K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Taffy Nahas (chair); Walter Semianiw (director); Karen Fishwick (director); Kari Yli-Renko (treasurer); Alysia Lau (director); Doug Cooper (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ottawa Innercity Ministries’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 140888736RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.