Alberta Health Services
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 124072513RR0010 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($18,704,565,500) as filed with the CRA.
Alberta Health Services is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. 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 $18.8B in revenue and $18.7B in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $19M.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 85% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 52,312 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Alberta health services (ahs) is mandated by the government of alberta for the delivery and operation of the public health system in alberta. Ahs is also responsible to: - promote and protect the health of the population and work towards the prevention of disease and injury; - assess on an ongoing basis the health needs of the population; - determine priorities in the provision of health serices and allocate resources accordingly; - ensure that reasonable access to quality health services is provided and; - promote the provision of health services in a manner that is responsive to th…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $18.8B | $18.7B | $18.2B | — | $19K | $967.8M |
| 2023 | $17.6B | $17.5B | $17B | — | $2.4M | $840.4M |
| 2022 | $17.2B | $17.1B | $16.6B | — | $52.5M | $1.1B |
| 2021 | $16.5B | $16.4B | $15.9B | — | $9.5M | $1B |
| 2020 | $15.3B | $15.5B | $15B | — | — | $878.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $19M from 23 charities:
- Calgary Health Foundation$10.1M
- University Hospitals Foundation$6.3M
- Brooks and District Health Foundation$726K
- Medicine Hat and District Health Foundation$702K
- Strathcona Community Hospital Foundation$308K
- Sturgeon Community Hospital and Health Centre Foundation$298K
- Fort Saskatchewan Community Hospital Foundation$111K
- Windy Slopes Health Foundation$103K
- Taber and District Health Foundation$101K
- Crowsnest Pass Health Foundation$58K
- Cardston and District Health Foundation$56K
- The HIROC Foundation$26K
- Bassano and District Health Foundation$16K
- Lloydminster Region Health Foundation Inc.$15K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$15K
- Kindred Foundation$10K
- Fort Macleod and District Health Foundation$10K
- Community CARE Foundation of Edson and District$9,455
- Westlock Community Foundation$1,833
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$620
- The M T M Agricultural Society$500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$342
- Rick's Heart Foundation$269
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over10 positions
- Permanent full-time positions52,312
- Total compensation, all staff$9B
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lyle Oberg (board chair); Sandy Edmonstone (vice chair); Paul Haggis (board member); Angela Fong (board member); Cynthia Farmer (board member); Evan Romanow (board member); Andre Tremblay (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Alberta Health Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 124072513RR0010), or read how we compute the receipt.