Ottawa Islamic School
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 893673434RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,235,548) as filed with the CRA.
Ottawa Islamic School is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $3M in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $38K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 77% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 34 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $1,000 in 2024, the largest being $1,000 to OIS Educational Trust. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.6M in 2020 to $3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Delivers fully accredited ontario secondary school curriculum from kindergarden up to grade 12 including teaching religious islamic education.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3M | $2.2M | $2.1M | $65K | — | $4.5M |
| 2023 | $2.4M | $1.7M | $1.7M | $14K | — | $3.8M |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $1.6M | $500 | — | $3.5M |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.6M | $2,956 | — | $3.3M |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $1.7M | $1.7M | — | — | $2.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1,000 to 1 qualified donee:
- OIS Educational Trust$1,000
Received $38K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions34
- Total compensation, all staff$1.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Abdirahman Elmi (vice president); Rashid Farah (secretary); Ibrahim Nur (president); Ahmed Ahmed (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ottawa Islamic School’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 893673434RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.