Cowichan Valley Hospice Society
Charitable organization · Duncan, British Columbia · BN 118878388RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($847,878) as filed with the CRA.
Cowichan Valley Hospice Society is a charitable organization based in Duncan, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $848K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 51% from donations, 21% from government, 20% from other charities. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $183K.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% 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 1 qualified donee totalling $600 in 2024, the largest being $600 to Victoria Foundation. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $4M in 2020 to $1.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Palliative support program : including one to one companioning hospital team information and support for family caregivers bereavement support program : including one to one companioning bereavement support groups walking group community education : on advance care planning and hospice palliative care resource library care clinic and wellness care cowichan hospice house accepted its first patient in november of 2020. Cowichan hospice house coordinator & volunteers provide psycho-social and pratical support in patients and their families.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $848K | $621K | $62K | $600 | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $997K | $952K | $731K | $56K | $1,200 | $938K |
| 2022 | $835K | $813K | $642K | $30K | $20K | $893K |
| 2021 | $1M | $821K | $543K | $10K | $195K | $871K |
| 2020 | $4M | $3.8M | $430K | $26K | $3.3M | $659K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $600 to 1 qualified donee:
- Victoria Foundation$600
Received $183K from 20 charities:
- Victoria Hospice Society$50K
- The Victoria Foundation$42K
- Nanaimo Community Foundation$23K
- Canadahelps Canadon$13K
- Chemainus Health CARE Auxiliary$10K
- McEachern Family Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$8,000
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$8,000
- Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/Initiative Canada Jeunesse et Philanthropie$5,000
- Chemainus Health CARE Foundation$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$2,500
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$1,331
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,000
- Community Foundation of the North Okanagan$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$588
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$556
- Duncan Christian Reformed Church$505
- Crofton Community Centre Society$500
- Abundance Canada$300
- The Cowichan Spiritualist Church of Healing and Light Society$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
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$642K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jamie Goodman (president); Mary Ann Deacon (past president); Paul Terlien (director); Deborah McLaren (secretary); Helen Dunlop (director); Zoe Lauckner (director); David Lane (treasurer); David Pope (director); Constance Lacy (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cowichan Valley Hospice Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118878388RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.