Good Samaritan Canada (a Lutheran Social Services Organization)
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 853862043RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($71,950,929) as filed with the CRA.
Good Samaritan Canada (a Lutheran Social Services Organization) is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, 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 $81.4M in revenue and $72M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 75% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $9,038.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 92% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 324 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $53.2M in 2020 to $81.4M in 2024.
In its own words
Operating long term care nursing homes licensed care and assisted living care homes and related support programs. Primarily for seniors with limited care beds for young adults.some senior housing also provided under the guidlines of the superintendent of housing british columbia.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $81.4M | $72M | $71.1M | $113K | — | $36.2M |
| 2023 | $69.7M | $65.8M | $64.9M | $99K | — | $26.7M |
| 2022 | $67.4M | $62.4M | $61.9M | $97K | — | $22.9M |
| 2021 | $60.4M | $63.3M | $6M | $85K | — | $17.9M |
| 2020 | $53.2M | $56.4M | $53.1M | $34K | — | $20.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $9,038 from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9998 positions
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions324
- Total compensation, all staff$42.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Good Samaritan Canada (a Lutheran Social Services Organization)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 853862043RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.