Safe 'N Sound Residence
Publicly funded institution · Owen Sound, Ontario · BN 846584951RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($596,249) as filed with the CRA.
Safe 'N Sound Residence 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 $508K in revenue and $596K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 54% from government, 32% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $218K.
Compared with 1,890 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 81% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 90% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $229K in 2020 to $508K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Safe 'n sound provides safe emergency shelter and support for homeless people in partnership with community services and public education and advocacy for homelessness prevention. We operate the space (310 8th street east owen sound) - a community within a community where the at risk of homelessness and the homeless can access basic needs as well as support advocacy and referral an after-hours emergency housing program which provides emergency shelter in motels with transportation and breakfast 7 days a week and an emergency housing and support telephone line where members of the communi…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $508K | $596K | $566K | $932 | — | -$280K |
| 2023 | $380K | $411K | $387K | $1,973 | — | -$192K |
| 2022 | $466K | $721K | $702K | — | — | -$161K |
| 2021 | $393K | $310K | $290K | $706 | — | $94K |
| 2020 | $229K | $264K | $219K | $4,266 | — | $10K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $218K from 20 charities:
- Comart Foundation$50K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$44K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- Weston Family Foundation$15K
- The Joan and Jim Patterson Foundation$10K
- Community Foundation Grey Bruce$6,000
- United Way Simcoe Muskoka$5,788
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$4,372
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,699
- United Way of Bruce Grey$3,000
- Rockcliffe Pentecostal Church$2,600
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$2,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,200
- Walkerton Pentecostal Church$1,200
- Calvary Missionary Church$1,100
- Meaford United Church$1,000
- Owen Sound Knights of Columbus Council No 2092 Charitable Trust$1,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$500
- Beth Ezekiel Synagogue$100
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
- $1–39,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$454K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Annette Pedlar (executive director); Rachel Paterson (board chair); Douglas Cleverley (treasurer); Jacob Morris--Wheeler (board member); Geneva King (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Safe 'N Sound Residence’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 846584951RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.