Abbotsford Hospice Society
Charitable organization · Abbotsford, British Columbia · BN 118776053RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,824,026) as filed with the CRA.
Abbotsford Hospice Society is a charitable organization based in Abbotsford, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $1.9M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 46% from donations, 25% from government. In 2024, 27 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $630K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 13% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $171K in 2024, the largest being $171K to Abbotsford Hospice Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Abbotsford hospice & grief support society (ahgss) exists to provide compassionate support to the abbotsford community during times of grief and loss. We help children and their families as they cope with grief death and dying through skilled and compassionate support education and advocacy. Ahgss provides grief support for the whole family caring for the hearts of children ages 3 and up youth adults and their families through programming one-to-one companioning and memorializing moments. Ahgss continues to champion compassionate care for our community for over 35 years of service an…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.9M | $1.8M | $730K | — | $171K | $10.3M |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.5M | $559K | — | $100K | $10.3M |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $563K | — | — | $10.4M |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $1.6M | $528K | — | $298K | $10.5M |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $1.6M | $544K | — | $286K | $10.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $171K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $630K from 27 charities:
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$380K
- Lakeshore Housing Society$32K
- The Foundation Office.ca$28K
- F & E Strumpski Foundation$25K
- United Way British Columbia$20K
- Canada Gives$17K
- First West Foundation$15K
- Abbotsford Community Foundation$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$12K
- Abundance Canada$10K
- Seedlings Foundation$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- A440 Foundation$9,100
- BenefAction Foundation$8,000
- Abbotsford Community Foundation$7,500
- Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation Fondation Proches Aimants Petro-Canada$7,500
- Fellowship of Man Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Hylcan Foundation$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,984
- The Hamber Foundation$2,500
- Link Charity Canada Inc$2,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,314
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$995
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$769
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$847K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ryan Calder (chair); Jay Kang (treasurer); Kam Grewal (vice chair); Bharathi Sandhu (director); Katie Syroid (director); Shawna Vandeven (director); Harsimran Dhanoa (director); Fran Vanderpol (secretary); Jeevin Phagura (director); Ferrario Randy (director); Michael Eden (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Abbotsford Hospice Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118776053RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.