Ottawa Network for Education
Public foundation · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 119071280RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($5,132,868) as filed with the CRA.
Ottawa Network for Education is a public foundation based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $5M in revenue and $5.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from donations, 44% from government, 40% from other charities. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $706K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 32% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 85% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 21 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 7 qualified donees totalling $2.8M in 2024, the largest being $1.5M to Ottawa Carleton District School Board. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
Ottawa network for education fuels kids and ignites learning every school day. Our mission is to inspire and support every child's learning journey in reaching their full potential by connecting community resources to help k-12 students succeed. Working with their four public school boards in ottawa our programs are offered in english and french. Our programs include: the school breakfast program classroom gardens volunteers in education ottawa reads junior achievement ottawa and the step for youth in schools community coalition.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5M | $5.1M | $1.2M | $433K | $2.8M | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $4.8M | $4.7M | $1.2M | $396K | $2.5M | $1.5M |
| 2022 | $4.9M | $4.7M | $1.4M | $285K | $2.5M | $1.4M |
| 2021 | $4.6M | $4.3M | $1.9M | $292K | $1.7M | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $4.1M | $3.8M | $1.5M | $342K | $1.4M | $928K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.8M to 7 qualified donees:
- Ottawa Carleton District School Board$1.5M
- Ottawa Catholic District School Board$592K
- Conseil de Dist des Ecoles Publiques de Langue Francaise #59$368K
- Conseil Scolaire de District Catholique du Centre-Est de l'Ontario$364K
- Junior Achievement of Central Ontario$8,000
- Junior Achievement of Northern & Eastern Ontario$6,485
- Junior Achievement of South Western Ontario Inc.$6,269
Received $706K from 17 charities:
- The Charitable Foundation of the Ontario Grocery Industry$160K
- RJL Braydon Charitable Foundation$100K
- Breakfast Club of Canada$97K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$78K
- Junior Achievement of Canada$66K
- Senators Community Foundation$51K
- Malhotra Family Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$34K
- RBC Foundation$30K
- Canada Gives$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,306
- Airlie Foundation$5,000
- Excellence in Literacy Foundation$2,000
- ST. Brigid's Summer Camp$2,000
- Arbor Memorial Foundation$1,250
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$39
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions21
- Total compensation, all staff$1.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Julie Beauchamp (director); Marc Bertrand (director); Christian-Charle Bouchard (director); Pino Buffone (director); Margo Crawford (director); Tom D'Amico (director); Kathleen Devenny (director); Amanda Goth (director); Joan Highet (director); Louise Malthotra (director); Gregory Matthews (director); Mita Meyers (director officer); Heather Norris (office); Sarwar Qureshi (director); Gregory Richards (director); Neil Schwartz (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ottawa Network for Education’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119071280RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.