Harvest House Ministries of Ottawa
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FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY
Audited financial statements for current and previous years available on the charity’s website.
A
RESULTS REPORTING
Grade based on the charity's public reporting of the work it does and the results it achieves.
n/r
DEMONSTRATED IMPACT
The demonstrated impact per dollar Ci calculates from available program information.
NEED FOR FUNDING
Charity's cash and investments (funding reserves) relative to how much it spends on programs in most recent year.
71%
CENTS TO THE CAUSE
For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 71 cents are available for programs.
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OVERVIEW
About Harvest House Ministries of Ottawa:
Harvest House Ministries is a five-star financially transparent charity with reasonable program cost coverage. It has an A results reporting score, which is excellent. For every dollar donated, 71 cents are available to go to the cause. This is within Ci’s reasonable range.
Founded in 1979, Harvest House Ministries of Ottawa-Carleton (HHMO) is a Christian charity that helps men aged 16-30 recover from drug addiction and reintegrate into society. The charity's clients enroll in a year-long treatment program at the charity’s 24-bed main facility and four re-entry homes. This comprehensive treatment plan includes therapeutic classes, personal development mentorship, high school education certificates, and jobs training.
HHMO’s two program pillars are Core Addiction Treatment Programming and Rehabilitation and Community Reintegration. It spent $1.1m on its programs in the fiscal year ending in March 2024 (F2024).
Core Addiction Treatment Programming was 56% of the charity’s program spending. HHMO offers counselling, a relapse prevention course, and biblical studies for its clients. In F2024, the charity held 104 counselling sessions (208 hours of counselling) attended by 65 clients. 59 clients learned life skills and coping mechanisms at 104 relapse prevention classes (208 hours), 14 of whom completed all classes.
Rehabilitation and Community Reintegration was 44% of the charity’s program spending. In F2024, HHMO provided anger management courses, high school education, and jobs training for its clients. In F2024, HHMO helped 18 clients recognize and process explosive anger at 26 separate classes (52 hours). The charity also provided telephone sales, woodworking, public speaking, and senior care skills training to 61 people, 23 of whom completed all required classes. HHMO additionally ran 80 sessions or 200 hours worth of high school education classes attended by 19 people.
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Results and Impact
According to the charity, treating one person at Harvest House Ministries of Ottawa-Carleton costs $103 daily. This is $223 cheaper than the $326 daily cost associated with incarcerating one person suffering from addiction.
According to the charity, 14 clients graduated from A New Direction in F2024 – a class developed by the Minnesota Department of Corrections and Hazelden Publishing aimed at relapse and crime prevention. After 12 months, nine of these clients (64%) did not relapse. Ten of these clients (71%) did not commit another criminal offense after 12 months.
Of the 23 clients who completed Harvest House Ministries of Ottawa-Carleton’s skills training courses, 15 (65%) found and held a job for 12 months after leaving this program in F2024.
Of the 19 students who attended the charity’s high school education classes, 10 (53%) earned a GED in F2024.
While Ci highlights these key results, they may not be a complete representation of the charity’s results and impact. This charity is not yet rated on impact (n/r). This does not affect the charity’s star rating.
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Finances
In F2024, Harvest House Ministries of Ottawa-Carleton received $1.7m in donations and special events revenue, a 14% increase from $1.4m received in F2023. The charity does not report government funding in either its audited financial statements nor its T3010 filings with the CRA.
In F2024, administrative costs are 14% of revenues and fundraising costs are 15% of donations. This means HHMO has 29% overhead spending and that for every dollar donated, 71 cents are available to go to the cause. This is within Ci’s reasonable range.
In F2024, the charity spent $1.1m on its programs. This is an 18% increase from $963k spent in F2023.
At the end of F2024, Harvest House Ministries of Ottawa-Carleton had $271k gross and $255k net reserve funds. Ci backed out $15k worth of interest-bearing debts from the charity’s gross reserve funds. Its reserves cover 22% or around three months of its annual program spending.
Profile updated by Julian Dranitsaris on February 4, 2025. Comments and corrections may be forthcoming.
Financial Review
Fiscal year ending March
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2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Administrative costs as % of revenues | 13.9% | 20.5% | 19.3% |
| Fundraising costs as % of donations | 15.4% | 18.8% | 27.3% |
| Total overhead spending | 29.3% | 39.3% | 46.6% |
| Program cost coverage (%) | 22.4% | 50.9% | 50.7% |
Summary Financial StatementsAll figures in $s |
2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donations | 1,140,137 | 908,778 | 752,591 |
| Government funding | 0 | 0 | 159,454 |
| Fees for service | 188,621 | 149,783 | 127,004 |
| Business activities (net) | 3,625 | 10,850 | 1,830 |
| Special events | 513,274 | 538,014 | 537,990 |
| Total revenues | 1,845,657 | 1,607,425 | 1,578,869 |
| Program costs | 1,137,921 | 963,491 | 891,087 |
| Administrative costs | 255,730 | 329,993 | 304,658 |
| Fundraising costs | 255,127 | 272,034 | 352,889 |
| Other costs | 175 | 5,331 | 4,186 |
| Total spending | 1,648,954 | 1,570,849 | 1,552,820 |
| Cash flow from operations | 196,703 | 36,576 | 26,049 |
| Capital spending | 255,850 | 137,827 | 61,690 |
| Funding reserves | 255,244 | 490,068 | 451,339 |
Note: 1. LINE ITEM COSTING: HHMO follows line item costing, meaning that Ci assigned expense line items to program, administrative, and fundraising activities to the best of its ability. Ci also referred to the charity’s T3010 filings with the CRA when available. 2. DEFERRED DONATIONS AJDUSTMENT: HHMO follows deferred accounting. Ci adjusted changes in the charity’s deferred donations to report financial information consistently. This affected revenues by ($1k), ($2k), and ($nil) in F2024, F2023, and F2022 respectively. 3. F2024 T3010 FILINGS: HHMO’s T3010 filings with the CRA are not yet available at the time this report was published. Ci will have the opportunity to update this profile with the latest T3010 information when it becomes publicly available. 4. PLEDGES RECEIVABLE ADJUSTMENT: Ci also adjusted revenues for changes in pledges receivable. This affected revenues by $14k, ($5k), and $3k in F2024, F2023, and F2022 respectively.
Salary Information
$350k + |
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$300k - $350k |
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$250k - $300k |
0 |
$200k - $250k |
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$160k - $200k |
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$120k - $160k |
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$80k - $120k |
2 |
$40k - $80k |
8 |
< $40k |
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Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2023
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