Ottawa Salus Corporation
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 129856340RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($13,822,130) as filed with the CRA.
Ottawa Salus Corporation 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 $14M in revenue and $13.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 64% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $387K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 2% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 82% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 110 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Ottawa salus provides housing and support services to people with serious and persistent mental illness and substance use health. Ottawa salus offers a variety of services to individuals living within its 14 properties or in the community. Our services include rehabilitation services recreational activities occupational therapy as well as case management services in english french als and lsq.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $14M | $13.8M | $3.8M | $158K | — | $4.4M |
| 2023 | $10.8M | $11.6M | $2.5M | $104K | — | $4.2M |
| 2022 | $10.6M | $10.5M | $8.9M | $193K | $0 | $4.9M |
| 2021 | $10.6M | $10.1M | $8.4M | $164K | — | $4.9M |
| 2020 | $10M | $9M | $8.1M | $37K | — | $4.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $387K from 15 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$140K
- The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation$122K
- Aqueduct Foundation$25K
- The Matt Foundation$20K
- The Clematis Foundation$20K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$12K
- Senators Community Foundation$11K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$10K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$5,180
- Makeway Foundation$2,500
- Fondation RONA$2,301
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,698
- Charitable Foundation$1,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$512
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
- $80,000–119,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions110
- Total compensation, all staff$7.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sarah Bertrand (treasurer); Camille Therriault-Power (past chair); Michel Boulay (director); Bernard Etzinger (director); Tim Moran (director); Fiona Murray (director); Janet Yale (chair); Melanie Vadeboncoeur (director); Kevin Yemm (director); Rachel Baxter (director); Tadiwa Maradzikwa (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ottawa Salus Corporation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129856340RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.