Central Alberta's Safe Harbour Society for Health and Housing
Publicly funded institution · Red Deer, Alberta · BN 861962280RR0001 · Core Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,726,326) as filed with the CRA.
Central Alberta's Safe Harbour Society for Health and Housing is a charitable organization based in Red Deer, Alberta, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 $7M in revenue and $6.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $86K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 56% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 50 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
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Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7M | $6.7M | $6.1M | — | — | $2.3M |
| 2023 | $5.8M | $5.7M | $5.1M | — | — | $2.1M |
| 2022 | $5.7M | $5.5M | $5M | — | — | $2M |
| 2021 | $6M | $5.6M | $5.1M | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $5.1M | $4.8M | $4.3M | — | — | $1.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $86K from 12 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$26K
- Canadahelps Canadon$26K
- Community Foundation of Central Alberta$13K
- Red Deer Food Bank Society$12K
- The Board of Trustees of the Red Deer Public School District No. 104$2,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,750
- The Calgary Foundation$1,739
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,095
- New Life Fellowship Christian Reformed Church Religious Soci$554
- First Baptist Church of Red Deer Society$220
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$50
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$50
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions50
- Total compensation, all staff$4.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Darolee Bouteiller (treasurer); Edith Hiebert (director); Valerie Joa (director); Susan Knopp (secretary); Geraldine Schepp (chair); Jason Snider (vice chair); Bastiaan Vander Vliet (director); Dallas Williams (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Central Alberta's Safe Harbour Society for Health and Housing’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 861962280RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.