Saffron Centre LTD.
Publicly funded institution · Sherwood Park, Alberta · BN 892438219RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,066,443) as filed with the CRA.
Saffron Centre LTD. is a charitable organization based in Sherwood Park, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $1.1M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 72% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $41K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 88% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 88% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Providing compassionate and specialized councelling education and advocacy for those impacted by sexual violence as we journey together towards healing and justice saffron centre recognizes that effective therapy looks not only at the surface of the problem but the underlying individual intrapersonal familial social and cultural issues. We work at providing outstanding service and care to victims to recent or historical sexual assult and sexual abuse sexual violence including sexual explotation childhood sexual assult and/or abuse and ptsd as a result of sexual trauma. Our public ed…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $1M | $1,186 | — | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.2M | $1.2M | $7,625 | — | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.1M | $1.1M | $3,329 | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $955K | $931K | $7,526 | — | $859K |
| 2020 | $1M | $820K | $803K | $3,349 | — | $623K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $41K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$789K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mike Shellenberg (treasurer); Bill Tonita (director); Nicole Andersen (director); Ken Glover (secretary); Lauren Lonsberry (director); Erin Stroud (director); Dion Mathason (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Saffron Centre LTD.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892438219RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.