The Ottawa Mission
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 108150509RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($23,368,160) as filed with the CRA.
The Ottawa Mission is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $24.1M in revenue and $23.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 46% from donations, 23% from government, 10% from other charities. In 2024, 76 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.6M.
Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 167 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $10.7M in 2020 to $24.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
We provide emergency shelter services for homeless men which includes lodging meals clothing and laundry facilities. We hold daily chapel services. We operate residential and non residential drug and alcohol addictions treatment programs. we provide hospice services for the homeless men and women suffering from terminal illness. We provide spiritual and grief counselling. We provide free health care and dental services to the homeless and those at risk of being homeless. We provide training for workers interested in the food services and building maintenance industries. We provide educationa…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $24.1M | $23.4M | $18.8M | $2.1M | — | $13.2M |
| 2023 | $21.3M | $21.4M | $16.9M | $2.4M | — | $12.5M |
| 2022 | $23.8M | $19.3M | $14.9M | $2M | $338K | $12.5M |
| 2021 | $13.3M | $11.5M | $10.5M | — | — | $8M |
| 2020 | $10.7M | $10.7M | $9.9M | — | — | $7.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.6M from 76 charities:
- Aqueduct Foundation$280K
- Canadahelps Canadon$210K
- Canadahelps Canadon$210K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$135K
- RJL Braydon Charitable Foundation$100K
- RBC Foundation$85K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$66K
- BT Sullivan Family Foundation$50K
- The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation$50K
- The David Family Foundation$38K
- T-Gear Foundation$30K
- Aqueduct Foundation$28K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$27K
- The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation$25K
- Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem Knights Hospitaller Foundation (Ontario Commandery)$25K
- BenefAction Foundation$22K
- The Bloodroot Fund$20K
- Toronto Foundation$20K
- The Matt Foundation$20K
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$18K
- Arno Family Foundation$18K
- The Welch Community Foundation$12K
- The Graham Family Foundation$10K
- The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation$10K
- Mount Zion--Church of the Firstborn$10K
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 positions167
- Total compensation, all staff$14.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Allen Baron (president); Scott Hannant (director); Anthony Bailey (director); Jack Murta (vice president); Gord Lorimer (director); Peter Saunders (director); Katie Burkholder-Harris (director); Anthony Bennett (director); Elie Labaky (secretary); Adam Harvey (treasurer); Corrie Hobin (director); Paul Burnett (director); Brenda Kirkwood (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Ottawa Mission’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108150509RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.