Somerset West Community Health Centre
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 118881671RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($21,089,016) as filed with the CRA.
Somerset West Community Health Centre 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 $20.9M in revenue and $21.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from government, 5% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $229K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 7% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 82% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 94 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
The charity offers primary health care including a walk-in clinic mental health counselling (newcomer chine general) anonymous hiv testing acupuncture therapy a variety of life skills groups for new immigrants parents and youths services crisis counselling outreach counselling for diabetes asthma new parents and other care. Harm reduction opioid against treatment program and safe consumption services. Other programs for primary health care includemental health and counselling. Ottawa newcomer centre lung health community development children and youth and harm reduction.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $20.9M | $21.1M | $16.7M | $12K | — | $8.7M |
| 2023 | $21.5M | $21.4M | $16.9M | — | $7,961 | $8.9M |
| 2022 | $20.6M | $20.7M | $16.4M | — | $4,000 | $8.8M |
| 2021 | $22M | $18M | $14.6M | — | $7,000 | $8.9M |
| 2020 | $15.7M | $15.6M | $12.1M | — | $8,949 | $4.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $229K from 8 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions94
- Total compensation, all staff$15.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stacy Douglas (director); Elham Gharji (director); Colleen Hendrick (secretary); Arlo Litman (director); Drew Meerveld (director); Iman Mohamed (chairperson); Francis Nolan-Poupart (treasurer); Sammy Onyeama-Asonye (vice chairperson); Alexa Paz (director); Derek Villis (director); Ife Olarewaju (director); Jen Arntfield (director); Joey Yip (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Somerset West Community Health Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118881671RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.