University of Ottawa
STAR RATINGCi's Star Rating is calculated based on the following independent metrics: |
✔+
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.
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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.
58%
CENTS TO THE CAUSE
For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 58 cents are available for programs.
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Programs
About University of Ottawa:
Founded in 1848, the University of Ottawa is the largest bilingual (English-French) university in the world. It is a member of the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities, which represents Canada’s top research-intensive universities. University of Ottawa offers more than 450 undergraduate and graduate programs in 10 faculties – Arts, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, Civil Law, Common Law, Medicine, Science, Social Science, and the Telfer School of Management.
University of Ottawa had 35,514 undergraduate, 4,501 masters, 1,964 doctorate and 274 other graduate students, for a total full-time student population of 42,553 in F2018. In F2018, University of Ottawa had 1,201 full-time regular professors. University of Ottawa offers 64 undergraduate and 12 graduate co-op programs. It has 263 teaching laboratories and 302 classrooms and seminar rooms.
University of Ottawa is home to 76 Canada Research Chairs, 38 University of Ottawa Research Chairs, 9 Research Chairs in Canadian Francophonie, and 52 Endowed and Sponsored Research Chairs. The university has 823 research laboratories, and a total of 3,708,595 print and e-books in its library collections.
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Results and Impact
University of Ottawa reports that in the 2017 Canadian University Survey Consortium, which asks respondents to rate their entire educational experience at the university, 17% responded excellent and 57% responded good. In F2016, the university reported a 76.8% graduation rate, an 88.8% 6-month employment rate, and a 93.9% two-year employment rate.
The university reports that in F2018, it ranked 9th for total research funding. Additionally, it ranked 8th in research intensity.
While Ci highlights these key results, they may not be a complete representation of University of Ottawa’s results and impact.
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Finances
University of Ottawa received total donations of $20.6m in F2018. Administrative costs are 13% of revenues (excluding investment income) and fundraising costs are 30% of donations. For every dollar donated, 58 cents go to the cause. This is outside Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending.
Net funding reserves of $597.9m (of which $280.0m are donor-endowed) can cover nine months of annual program costs. Excluding donor-endowed funds, University of Ottawa can cover five months of annual program costs.
This charity report is an update that has been sent to University of Ottawa for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.
Updated on July 25, 2019 by Lauren Chin.
Financial Review
Fiscal year ending April
|
2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Administrative costs as % of revenues | 12.7% | 14.5% | 14.8% |
| Fundraising costs as % of donations | 29.5% | 30.6% | 24.2% |
| Total overhead spending | 42.3% | 45.1% | 38.9% |
| Program cost coverage (%) | 76.6% | 82.7% | 83.0% |
Summary Financial StatementsAll figures in $000s |
2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donations | 20,610 | 20,222 | 26,352 |
| Government funding | 532,326 | 523,358 | 501,038 |
| Fees for service | 403,703 | 381,806 | 361,184 |
| Business activities (net) | 53,013 | 51,519 | 45,991 |
| Investment income | 61,389 | 26,883 | 44,370 |
| Other income | 28,778 | 28,357 | 26,663 |
| Total revenues | 1,099,819 | 1,032,145 | 1,005,598 |
| Program costs | 780,744 | 776,778 | 745,796 |
| Administrative costs | 132,315 | 146,165 | 142,162 |
| Fundraising costs | 6,084 | 6,185 | 6,364 |
| Other costs | 39,633 | 34,393 | 35,404 |
| Total spending | 958,776 | 963,521 | 929,726 |
| Cash flow from operations | 141,043 | 68,624 | 75,872 |
| Capital spending | 237,990 | 139,802 | 106,409 |
| Funding reserves | 597,919 | 642,035 | 619,005 |
Note: Ci has used the fundraising expenses reported in the charity’s T3010 filing in this report.
Salary Information
$350k + |
4 |
$300k - $350k |
1 |
$250k - $300k |
5 |
$200k - $250k |
0 |
$160k - $200k |
0 |
$120k - $160k |
0 |
$80k - $120k |
0 |
$40k - $80k |
0 |
< $40k |
0 |
Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2018
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