Safetynet Children & Youth Charities
Charitable organization · Oakville, Ontario · BN 853458966RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($599,825) as filed with the CRA.
Safetynet Children & Youth Charities is a charitable organization based in Oakville, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $901K in revenue and $600K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 21% from donations, 29% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $167K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 83% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $478K in 2020 to $901K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Clothing bank to assist the entire family unit offer free one to one music assist children with their educational needs used furniture kitchen supplies kitchen items and small appliances are offered helps obtain good condition used bicycles furniture delivery for families that meet the requirements
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $901K | $600K | $590K | — | — | $777K |
| 2023 | $748K | $604K | $595K | — | — | $481K |
| 2022 | $581K | $517K | $486K | — | — | $336K |
| 2021 | $620K | $511K | $477K | — | — | $256K |
| 2020 | $478K | $397K | $377K | — | — | $147K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $167K from 15 charities:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$60K
- Martin Harris Foundation$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$21K
- Canadahelps Canadon$21K
- Oakville Community Foundation$11K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$7,261
- Lamb Foundation$5,000
- Bailie Family Foundation$5,000
- Glen Abbey United Church$1,981
- The Sixty Three Foundation$1,500
- Rotary Club of Oakville Trafalgar Foundation Inc$1,000
- Circle of Harmony Chorus$600
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$505
- Nathan and Lily Silver Family Foundation$500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$217
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$271K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Omar Abdel-Qader; Nadia Chandra (secretary); Janice Gill; Bridgette Hoffer (chair); Katrina Holmes; Shari Patterson; Karen Sawyer (interim chair); William Shields (executive director); Bree-Ann Wilson.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Safetynet Children & Youth Charities’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 853458966RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.