Women's House Serving Bruce & Grey
Publicly funded institution · Kincardine, Ontario · BN 108104464RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,050,885) as filed with the CRA.
Women's House Serving Bruce & Grey is a charitable organization based in Kincardine, 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 $2.1M in revenue and $2.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from donations, 83% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $123K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 60% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 19 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Temporary safe residential shelter with 13 beds for women & children in crisis; 2 crisis & 1 sexual assault crisis telephone lines available 24 hours at kincardine shelter. Community counselling services in bruce & grey counties with offices & counselling rooms in kincardine & owen sound. Child & youth counselling in-house and non-residential children: sexual assault services with 1 counsellor available in grey county. Transition workers assist women leaving abusive relationships child witness workers support children who have witnessed violence against their mothers. Transitional low incom…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.1M | $2.1M | $1.9M | $59K | — | $756K |
| 2023 | $2.2M | $2.2M | $2M | $36K | — | $752K |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $1.6M | $27K | — | $741K |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $1.6M | $41K | — | $722K |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.6M | $55K | — | $729K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $123K from 21 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$34K
- Canadahelps Canadon$34K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- Community Foundation Grey Bruce$9,000
- Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/Initiative Canada Jeunesse et Philanthropie$5,000
- United Way of Bruce Grey$5,000
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$2,805
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,769
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$2,365
- MOOD DISORDERS SOCIETY OF CANADA La Societe Pour Les Troubles de L'Humeur du Canada$1,917
- Grace United Church$1,000
- The Harbour$1,000
- Hepworth / Sauble Beach Pastoral Charge$755
- Chalmers Community Church$700
- Southampton Rotary Club Charitable Trust$650
- ST Luke's Church$500
- ST Paul's Church$500
- ST Pauls United Church$351
- Chesley Pastoral Charge$170
- Faith Lutheran Church$103
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
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions19
- Total compensation, all staff$1.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sarah Foster (director); Sasha Segal (director); Amanda Friesen (treasurer); Christine John (director); Joanna Malott (secretary); Lisa McArthur (vice chair); Kate Cammidge-Irwin (director); Judy Rich (chair); Allison O'Neill (director); Kelly Hegarty (director); Stephanie Metcalfe (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Women's House Serving Bruce & Grey’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108104464RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.