The Olde Forge Community Resource Centre
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 107794000RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($996,393) as filed with the CRA.
The Olde Forge Community Resource Centre is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $987K in revenue and $996K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 55% 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 $110K.
Compared with 1,147 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 47% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 76% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Provides information resources & program activities to elderly members of the community. They also provide care & support to seniors & adults with disabilities. Services include: filling out seniors' tax returns holding workshops & training sessions offering low cost meeting room space & photocopying/faxing services. The centre provides transportation to medical appointments home help home repairs & maintenance snow clearing & grass cutting bi-weekly luncheons telephone assurance foot care grocery van & bus service respite care and adult day programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $987K | $996K | $847K | $6,470 | — | $232K |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.1M | $7,893 | — | $241K |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.4M | $3,785 | — | $272K |
| 2021 | $860K | $860K | $746K | $645 | — | $273K |
| 2020 | $792K | $792K | $632K | $5,862 | — | $273K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $110K 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
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$763K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joel Van Snick (chair); Sheila Gariepy (vice-chair); Janice Bridgewater (secretary); Alex Cullen (director); Carole Gagnon (director); Catherine Farrow (director); Liddell Malan-Bennett (treasurer); Carol Doyle (director); Meghan O'Halloran (director); Annam Ganesan (director); Samir Nawaz (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Olde Forge Community Resource Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107794000RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.