Community Foundation Grey Bruce
Public foundation · Owen Sound, Ontario · BN 141036228RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,348,483) as filed with the CRA.
Community Foundation Grey Bruce is a public foundation based in Owen Sound, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.1M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from donations. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $219K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 47% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 121 qualified donees totalling $832K in 2024, the largest being $61K to Corporation of the City of Owen Sound. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.2M in 2020 to $4.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Overall mission is to enrich the quality of life of the people of the community by supporting charitable educational and cultural organizations. This is done by providing the expertise needed to manage and invest endowment funds in order that those funds provide an ongoing source of funding for various charities. As well management is provided for restricted funds to ensure that grant recipients meet the requirements of respective donors.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.1M | $1.3M | $320K | — | $832K | $23.8M |
| 2023 | $3.8M | $1.3M | $297K | — | $839K | $21.1M |
| 2022 | -$1.5M | $1.3M | $248K | — | $879K | $18.6M |
| 2021 | $3.9M | $1.1M | $223K | — | $694K | $0 |
| 2020 | $2.2M | $1.1M | $215K | — | $700K | $18.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $832K to 121 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Corporation of the City of Owen Sound$61K
- United Way of Bruce Grey$43K
- Community Living Kincardine and District$35K
- Osprey Museum$34K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$30K
- Huron Shores Hospice$28K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Grey Bruce$23K
- Town of South Bruce Peninsula$23K
- Keystone Child Youth & Family Services$22K
- Bluewater District School Board$22K
- Grey County Kiwanis Festival of Music$19K
- Owen Sound Little Theatre$19K
- Dundalk District Agricultural Society$15K
- Collingwood Climate Action Team$15K
- Bruce Grey Child and Family Services$14K
- The Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology$14K
- Saugeen First Nation #29$12K
- Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation$11K
- The University of Western Ontario$11K
- ST. George's Anglican Church$10K
- Saugeen Hospice Incorporated$10K
- Residential Hospice of Grey-Bruce Inc.$9,666
- University of Guelph$9,100
- Women's House Serving Bruce & Grey$9,000
- Owen Sound Hunger Relief Effort$9,000
Received $219K from 13 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$62K
- Canadahelps Canadon$62K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$35K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$13K
- Grey Sauble Conservation Foundation$12K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- Laidlaw Foundation$8,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,130
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,243
- Canadian Federation Of University Women Owen Sound Scholarship Fund$2,000
- Community Foundations of Canada$1,000
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
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
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$331K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sharon Vokes (director); Kate Mosher (vice chair); Clarke McLeod (director); Terry King (treasurer); Michelle Forge (director); Jane Phillips (director); Elizabeth Burrows (director); Alanna Leffley (director); Rick Hill (chair); Selwyn Hicks (director); Robert Kanduth (director); Neil McCutcheon (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Community Foundation Grey Bruce’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 141036228RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.