South-East Ottawa Community Services
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 133465310RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($34,187,204) as filed with the CRA.
South-East Ottawa Community Services 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 $36.2M in revenue and $34.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $358K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 59% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 62 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Primary health care counselling seniors' community home support seniors and youth programs and services housing loss prevention & outreach web and internet access community services and resource development midwifery community development framework program administration income tax return preparation flu and covid clinic primary care outreach for seniors earlyon - child & family centre breastfeeding foot care counselling and intake nutrition counselling and workshops. Covid testing and vaccination nutrition programs food supports.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $36.2M | $34.2M | $31.9M | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $35.3M | $33.2M | $30.9M | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $34.5M | $32.5M | $30.4M | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $33.2M | $31.3M | $29.2M | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $29.4M | $28.5M | $26.5M | — | — | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $358K from 8 charities:
- Happy Roots Foundation$200K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$141K
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,403
- Ottawa Mennonite Church$5,943
- Emmanuel United Church$2,138
- The Incorporated Synod Of The Diocese Of Ottawa$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$920
- Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa)$200
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
- $120,000–159,9997 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions62
- Total compensation, all staff$8.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Fadi El Masry (president); Sarah Kennell (vice president); Mayse Abu-Shaaban (vice president); Brian Wade (secretary-treasurer); Suzanne Swan (member-at-large); Pamela Obegu (director); Jacqui Drope (director); Elizabeth Haslam (director); Kevin Mansfield (director); Dominique Conway (director); Isabelle Sirois (director); Kathryn Render (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from South-East Ottawa Community Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 133465310RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.