Family SOS Association
Charitable organization · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 134859073RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($978,077) as filed with the CRA.
Family SOS Association is a charitable organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1M in revenue and $978K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 21% from donations, 30% from government, 48% from other charities. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $413K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 10% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $663K in 2020 to $1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Family SOS was founded by Dr. John Anderson a Pediatrician at the IWK. While working in the Emergency Room Dr. Anderson witnessed first hand the need for a proactive approach to addressing child abuse and neglect in the Halifax Regional Municipality. Family SOS Association was founded to respond to this need taking a preventative approach to assisting familities through developing parenting confidence and skills and providing child-centred programming. (i.e. Food support Healthy Teez/Kids In home parenting support etc)
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $978K | $588K | $40K | — | $426K |
| 2023 | $899K | $826K | $471K | $59K | — | $310K |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $969K | $655K | $17K | — | $217K |
| 2021 | $843K | $753K | $476K | $4,113 | — | $176K |
| 2020 | $663K | $807K | $139K | — | — | $86K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $413K from 22 charities:
- J and W Murphy Foundation$66K
- Canadahelps Canadon$66K
- Canadahelps Canadon$66K
- Halifax Youth Foundation$50K
- Walker Wood Foundation$31K
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$30K
- The Windsor Foundation$30K
- Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia$10K
- River Philip Foundation$10K
- Canada Gives$9,000
- The Bert and Shari Frizzell Family Foundation$7,000
- Graham W. Dennis Foundation$6,000
- Halifax Protestant Infants Foundation$6,000
- The Jamile and Gabbour Ramia Cancer Foundation$5,000
- The Wadih M. Fares Family Foundation$5,000
- RBC Foundation$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- GJM Charitable Foundation$3,000
- Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent$2,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,200
- The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society$500
- United Way of Greater Toronto-$276
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$447K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Scott Pike (chair); Kendra Coady (vice chair); Taleb Abidali (director); Mike Bailey (director); Melissa Carey (director); Brad Olsen (treasurer); Ben Rodgers (director); Rob Steele (director); Kurt Hepditch (secretary); Tanya Harrietha (director); Kaylee Hake (director); Daniel Hughes (directory); Angela Giacomantonio (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Family SOS Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 134859073RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.