The Door
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 896041563RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($297,879) as filed with the CRA.
The Door 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $341K in revenue and $298K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 16% from donations, 57% from government, 9% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $53K.
Compared with 1,890 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 43% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $181K in 2020 to $341K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Providing high risk youth with social recreational and educational free programs and services for youth between the ages of 12-18. On going programs include homework help dinner program clothing exchange job readiness life skill workshops career talks resources for education referrals and music lessons.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $341K | $298K | $250K | $41K | — | $229K |
| 2023 | $310K | $296K | $228K | $1,956 | — | $186K |
| 2022 | $275K | $238K | $174K | $649 | — | $172K |
| 2021 | $200K | $198K | $148K | $314 | — | $135K |
| 2020 | $181K | $156K | — | — | — | $133K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $53K from 6 charities:
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
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$213K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sarah Carneiro (secretary); Rick Desclouds (chair); Fallon Julie (treasurer); Serguei Tabatchenko (director); Ashley McMullan (vice chair); Luc Laland (director); Kristin Horton (director); James Merhej (director); Justin Claros (director); Joe Carrigan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Door’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 896041563RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.