Ottawa Muslim Community Services
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 763220480RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($147,158) as filed with the CRA.
Ottawa Muslim Community Services is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $172K in revenue and $147K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 14% from donations, 81% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $16K.
Compared with 1,147 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 93% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $17K in 2020 to $172K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The mission of the charity is to build a stronger healthier community and increase accessibility through mobile social services . education and collaboration and increasing food security through a holiday food hamper program.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $172K | $147K | $147K | — | $0 | $72K |
| 2023 | $108K | $89K | $32K | — | — | $47K |
| 2022 | $74K | $88K | $88K | — | $0 | $18K |
| 2021 | $63K | $48K | $47K | — | — | $16K |
| 2020 | $17K | $15K | $15K | — | — | $1,422 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $16K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$44K
Schedule 3 of its 2023 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Shawana Shah (director); Beshir Ali (director); Muhamed Awada (director); Charles Ghadban (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ottawa Muslim Community Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 763220480RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.