University of Ottawa
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 119278877RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,472,669,000) as filed with the CRA.
University of Ottawa is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 April 30, 2024, it reported $1.5B in revenue and $1.5B in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 43% from government. In 2024, 96 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $8.7M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 41% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 3,568 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The university of ottawa offers post-secondary education.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5B | $1.5B | $1.3B | $6.8M | — | $2.2B |
| 2023 | $1.4B | $1.4B | $1.2B | $6.4M | — | $2.2B |
| 2022 | $1.2B | $1.2B | $1.1B | $5.8M | — | $1.8B |
| 2021 | $1.2B | $1.2B | $1B | $5.8M | — | $2B |
| 2020 | $1.1B | $1.1B | $940M | $6.3M | — | $1.8B |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $8.7M from 96 charities:
- The Joyce Family Foundation$1.3M
- WCPD Foundation$866K
- Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine$748K
- Weston Family Foundation$523K
- The Azrieli Foundation$500K
- Actua$483K
- Cancer Research Society$364K
- Canadian Cancer Society$300K
- Brain Canada Foundation$251K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$220K
- Bill and Vicky Blair Foundation$200K
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$200K
- Fondation Luc Maurice$200K
- Generate Canada Inc.$187K
- The Molson Foundation/fondation Molson$125K
- Wolodymyr George Danyliw Foundation$125K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$125K
- Rideau Hall Foundation$124K
- The Ottawa Hospital Foundation/la Fondation de l'Hopital d'Ottawa$116K
- Diabetes Canada Diabète Canada$114K
- The Northpine Foundation$104K
- Fondation Camille Villeneuve$100K
- Fondation Camille Villeneuve$100K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$80K
- Chisholm Thomson Family Foundation$75K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over3 positions
- $300,000–349,9996 positions
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3,568
- Total compensation, all staff$851.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jacques Beauvais (provost vp academic affairs); Julie ST-Pierre (vp research & innovation); Julien Sicard (vp advancement); Annick Bergeron (secretary-general).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from University of Ottawa’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119278877RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.