Brightshores Health System Owen Sound Foundation
Public foundation · Owen Sound, Ontario · BN 124052507RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,931,179) as filed with the CRA.
Brightshores Health System Owen Sound Foundation is a public foundation based in Owen Sound, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4M in revenue and $3.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 61% from donations. In 2024, 31 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $294K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 41% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $3.1M in 2024, the largest being $3.1M to Brightshores Health System. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Promote devise sponsor establish assist develop and participate in measures and programs to raise money for capital projects and staff education of brightshores health system
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4M | $3.9M | $186K | $239K | $3.1M | $19.7M |
| 2023 | $4M | $4.2M | $160K | $203K | $3.5M | $18.3M |
| 2022 | $5.6M | $4.4M | $148K | $174K | $3.8M | $19.3M |
| 2021 | $4M | $3.2M | $150K | $161K | $2.7M | $19.2M |
| 2020 | $5.4M | $4.3M | $245K | $194K | $3.6M | $16.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.1M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $294K from 31 charities:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$94K
- Lora Bay Foundation$85K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$15K
- Canada Gives$13K
- RBC Foundation$10K
- Waterloo Regional Health Network Foundation$9,953
- Featherson Charitable Foundation$9,000
- Community Foundation Grey Bruce$8,374
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,241
- Starlight Children's Foundation Canada$4,577
- The Tom and Ruth Kritsch Family Foundation$2,500
- Wietse and Corrie Van Dolder and Family Charitable Foundation$2,500
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$2,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,967
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,502
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,430
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,330
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$1,000
- Owen Sound Knights of Columbus Council No 2092 Charitable Trust$1,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$942
- Trillium Home of the Ladies Orange Benevolent Association Ofontario$500
- The Veritas Foundation/La Fondation Veritas$500
- Faith Lutheran Church$500
- Toronto Foundation$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$424K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Chris Frook (director); Joanne Horton (past chair); Rebecca Chisholm (director); Kelly Haefling (director); Scott Milencoff (director); Anne Robertson (chair); Morag Kloeze (vice chair); Trish McNamee (treasurer); Anne Jones Lisinski (auxilliary rep.); Jessica Linthorne (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Brightshores Health System Owen Sound Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 124052507RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.