Bethany Care Society
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 106787898RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($152,097,980) as filed with the CRA.
Bethany Care Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under core 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 $157.6M in revenue and $152.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 73% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 83% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 460 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Bethany care society (bcs) is one of western canada's largest not-for-profit providers of care housing and community services for seniors and persons with disabilities. Bethany provides services along the continuum from independent seniors housing to complex continuing care and community-based services. Bethany care society provides continuing care services across eight care centres in calgary airdrie cochrane red deer didsbury and sylvan lake. In addition bethany calgary operates 97 auxiliary hospital beds with the special program of alternate level of care as a sub-acute program and…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $157.6M | $152.1M | $147.1M | — | — | $128.2M |
| 2023 | $151.8M | $145.5M | $141.1M | — | — | $121.9M |
| 2022 | $148.6M | $141M | $137.8M | — | — | $115.9M |
| 2021 | $136.4M | $134M | $130.9M | — | — | $108.5M |
| 2020 | $129.7M | $126.2M | $12.3M | — | — | $104.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.1M from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9996 positions
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions460
- Total compensation, all staff$100.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lauren Andre (board member/1st vice chair); Judy Hanson (board member/secretary); Albert Kryski (board chair); Raymond Mack (board member); Blake Lowden (board member); Salimah Pirbhai (board member); Louise Redmond (board member/2nd vice chair); Arlene Weidner (board member); Dale Ebbert (board member); Michael Thakkar (board member); Ben Kormos (board member); Fergal Duff (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bethany Care Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106787898RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.