Serenity Renewal for Families
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 119145787RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($543,450) as filed with the CRA.
Serenity Renewal for Families is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $608K in revenue and $543K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 62% from donations, 9% from government, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $134K.
Compared with 1,130 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Serenity renewal for families provides hope and support in a safe environment through counseling educational workshops and programs for individuals and families affected directly or indirectly by addictions.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $608K | $543K | $398K | — | — | $594K |
| 2023 | $619K | $594K | $447K | — | — | $529K |
| 2022 | $846K | $552K | $120K | — | — | $505K |
| 2021 | $583K | $522K | $411K | — | — | $210K |
| 2020 | $538K | $452K | $356K | — | — | $158K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $134K from 16 charities:
- The Derick Brenninkmeyer Charitable Foundation$20K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$17K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$16K
- Five B Family Foundation$15K
- Taggart Parkes Foundation$15K
- The Bloodroot Fund$14K
- Danbe Foundation Inc.$10K
- Charitable Foundation$8,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$6,600
- The Robert Campeau Family Foundation$4,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,307
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,863
- The Harry P Ward Foundation/la Fondation Harry P Ward$2,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$524
- Rideau Park United Church$400
- Congregation of Notre Dame Visitation Province Inc.—
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
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$287K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Jamie Dugmore (chair); Kevin Fitzgerald (secretary); George Hajecek (vice chair); Monique Cousineau (treasurer); Jennifer Forbes (secretary); Janet Cooper (member at large).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Serenity Renewal for Families’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119145787RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.