United Way of Bruce Grey
Charitable organization · Owen Sound, Ontario · BN 898768627RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,461,711) as filed with the CRA.
United Way of Bruce Grey is a charitable organization based in Owen Sound, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 87% from donations, 6% from government, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $655K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 30% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 18 qualified donees totalling $196K in 2024, the largest being $44K to United Way of Canada. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $2.5M in 2020 to $1.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The united way of bruce grey is a non-profit non-partisan volunteer driven organizations that engages in an effort to mobilize resources to support a broad range of non-profit human care services. It exist to improve the quality of life of all people in counties of bruce and grey by raising and investing money in services and programs that help meet human needs in our communities. During the year the united way of bruce grey campaigned funds and donations which were allocated to registered charities to operate charitable programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.5M | $933K | $225K | $199K | $237K |
| 2023 | $1.9M | $1.9M | $1M | $203K | $583K | $285K |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.3M | $167K | $112K | $274K |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.5M | $154K | $290K | $337K |
| 2020 | $2.5M | $2.4M | $1.4M | $153K | $1M | $282K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $196K to 18 qualified donees:
- United Way of Canada$44K
- Canadian Mental Health Association of Grey Bruce$37K
- Bruce Grey Child and Family Services$35K
- Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada$16K
- The Meeting Place Tobermory$11K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada/conseil de Direction de l'Armée du Salut du Canada$7,000
- Elephant Thoughts Educational Outreach$6,000
- YMCA of Owen Sound Grey Bruce$5,000
- Women's House Serving Bruce & Grey$5,000
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Grey Bruce and West Simcoe$5,000
- Hope Haven Therapeutic Riding Centre Inc.$4,000
- South Grey Bruce Youth Literacy Council$4,000
- Pegasus Riding Association Nurturing Challenged Equestrians$4,000
- Saugeen Valley Children's Safety Village$4,000
- Safe 'N Sound Residence$3,000
- REACH Centre Grey/Bruce$3,000
- Kincardine Community Services Association$2,500
- Owen Sound North Grey Union Public Library$1,500
Received $655K from 22 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$142K
- Canadahelps Canadon$142K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$84K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$60K
- United Way Simcoe Muskoka$56K
- Community Foundation Grey Bruce$43K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$36K
- The James Goreski Private Foundation$35K
- The Medavie Foundation Inc.$23K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$10K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$7,970
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- RBC Foundation$3,500
- Canada Gives$2,500
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$2,092
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$1,177
- United Way of Canada$1,000
- Grace United Church$528
- Southampton Rotary Club Charitable Trust$450
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$311
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$134
- Beth Ezekiel Synagogue$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$469K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tarah Coleman (treasurer); Alison Fernandes (director); Kitty Hawkrigg (director); Breanne Moss (chair); Chris Mudrick (director); Jackie Ralph (agency representative); Nuala Robinson (director); Rachel Stack (director); Jennifer Tuer (vice chair); Debbie Caswell (director); Paul Wagenaar (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from United Way of Bruce Grey’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 898768627RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.