Bruce Grey Child and Family Services
Publicly funded institution · Owen Sound, Ontario · BN 106914120RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($23,121,361) as filed with the CRA.
Bruce Grey Child and Family Services is a charitable organization based in Owen Sound, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $22.8M in revenue and $23.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 98% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $49K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 12% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 129 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $42K in 2024, the largest being $42K to Keystone Child Youth & Family Services. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Administration of the child youth and family services act.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $22.8M | $23.1M | $19.1M | — | $42K | $1.8M |
| 2023 | $22.1M | $21.9M | $18.2M | — | $42K | $2.5M |
| 2022 | $21.1M | $20.9M | $17.7M | — | $37K | $2.6M |
| 2021 | $20.7M | $20.2M | $16.9M | — | $42K | $2.8M |
| 2020 | $20.3M | $20.5M | $17.7M | — | $30K | $2.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $42K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $49K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions129
- Total compensation, all staff$14.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Craig Ambrose (director); Susanne Snowdon (secretary); Ellen Dirstein (director); Alison Fernandes (past-chair); John Tamming (director); Selwyn Hicks (chair); James Rice (director); Chris Wren (chair-elect); Selena Vander Ploeg (director); Melissa Clancy (director); George Sanz (tresurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bruce Grey Child and Family Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106914120RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.