Ottawa Valley Community Foundation
Public foundation · Pembroke, Ontario · BN 858125958RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($317,537) as filed with the CRA.
Ottawa Valley Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Pembroke, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $988K in revenue and $318K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 35% from donations, 38% from government. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $11K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 42% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 47 qualified donees totalling $200K in 2024, the largest being $25K to BGC Renfrew County. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $218K in 2020 to $988K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The foundation provdies funds to other local registered charities as well as improving their efficiency and effectiveness by holding conferences identifying community needs and the provision of administrative services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $988K | $318K | $28K | — | $234K | $1.5M |
| 2023 | $430K | $386K | $42K | — | $301K | $873K |
| 2022 | $230K | $221K | $50K | — | $130K | $830K |
| 2021 | $257K | $165K | $27K | — | $113K | $822K |
| 2020 | $218K | $200K | $176K | — | $126K | $730K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $200K to 47 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- BGC Renfrew County$25K
- Robbie Dean Family Counselling Centre$19K
- Pembroke Regional Hospital Foundation$17K
- Pembroke Horticultural Society$14K
- Pembroke & Area Airport Commission (city of Pembroke)$10K
- Carefor Health & Community Services$8,000
- Eganville and District Senior Citizen's Needs Association$7,150
- Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$5,500
- The Deep River and District Hospital Foundation$5,000
- ST. Francis Memorial Hospital Association$5,000
- The Dementia Society of Ottawa and Renfrew County/La Sociétéde la démence d'Ottawa et du comte de Renfrew$5,000
- Community Living Upper Ottawa Valley$5,000
- First Step Options$5,000
- Petawawa Pantry$5,000
- The Grind Pembroke$4,863
- Pflag Canada$4,350
- Columbus House (pembroke) Inc..$3,000
- Renfrew Victoria Hospital$2,600
- Barry's Bay & Area Senior Citizens Home Support Services$2,500
- Arnprior and District Food Bank Inc.$2,500
- Renfrew & District Food Bank Inc.$2,500
- The Eganville and District Community Food Bank$2,500
- Ronald McDonald House Canada / Maison Ronald McDonald Canada$2,500
- Wesley United Church$2,500
- Vincent de Paul-Conseil national du Canada Society of Saint-Vincent de Paul-National council of Canada$2,500
Received $11K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Fred Blackstein (director); Matthew Bradley (director); Hilary Moss (director); Brian Mulvihill (director); Yves Roy (director); Kim Chenard (director); Shelley Murphy (director); Shannon Fraser (director); Alastair Baird (director); Nancy McCluskey (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ottawa Valley Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 858125958RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.