The Odawa Native Friendship Centre
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 128017852RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,883,200) as filed with the CRA.
The Odawa Native Friendship Centre is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.7M in revenue and $4.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 35% from government. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $232K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 61% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 77% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 45 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The odawa native friendship centre puts on various programs to positively affect the quality of life for aboriginal people living in the capital region including: odawa sweetgrass home childcare agency youth support employment training & referral family support services counselling referrals culture relations (anti-racism) alcohol and drug counselling referrals and an emergency food bank location. The complete list of on-going programs consist of: akwe:go alternative secondary school indigenous bail supervision indigenous criminal court worker. Cultural resource. Early year…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.7M | $4.9M | $4.4M | $71K | — | $216K |
| 2023 | $4.4M | $4.3M | $3.8M | $14K | — | $395K |
| 2022 | $3.7M | $3.6M | $3.3M | — | — | $264K |
| 2021 | $3.8M | $3.5M | $3.4M | — | — | $205K |
| 2020 | $3.4M | $3.5M | $3.2M | $777 | — | -$72K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $232K from 17 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$61K
- Canadahelps Canadon$61K
- Indigenous Reconciliation Fund$50K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$14K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$10K
- Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa)$8,653
- Senators Community Foundation$7,500
- OSEG Foundation$5,000
- The United Church of Canada$5,000
- The Eastern Ontario & Western Quebec Christmas Cheer Foundation/la Fondation Esprit de Noel de l'Est de l'Ontario et l'Ouest du Québec$2,900
- Makeway Foundation$2,500
- Vancouver Foundation$1,350
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,173
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,168
- Centretown Churches Social Action Committee (ccsac)$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$939
- Ottawa-Carleton District School Board$65
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions45
- Total compensation, all staff$2.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nelson Alisappi (vice-president); Marie-Celine Charron (director); Liane Chiblow (director); Jacques Dalton (treasurer); Jonah Keehig (secretary); Michael Lacka (director); Vanessa McGregor (president); Ember Sarazin (treasurer); Hunter Leanne (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Odawa Native Friendship Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 128017852RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.