Hospice Calgary Society
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 118963669RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,986,811) as filed with the CRA.
Hospice Calgary 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 $4.2M in revenue and $5M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 16% from donations, 65% from government, 13% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 25 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $701K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 48% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 75% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 25 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Through 2 sites of care we provide services for people of all ages during illness and after death. Our residential hospice provides end-of-life care for adults with advanced cancer. Our living with advanced illness centre provides grief support for people during illness through counselling group programs (peer support) and educational services (workshops consultations professional training). Our children's grief centre supports families with children under the age of 19 who are impacted by illness or death through counselling group programs and educational services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.2M | $5M | $4.4M | $64K | — | $3.9M |
| 2023 | $4.6M | $4.8M | $4.3M | $48K | — | $4.6M |
| 2022 | $3.9M | $4.7M | $4.2M | $42K | — | $4.8M |
| 2021 | $4.1M | $4.4M | $4M | $18K | — | $5.6M |
| 2020 | $5.1M | $4.4M | $4M | $63K | — | $5.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $701K from 25 charities:
- ATB Investor Services Foundation$333K
- The Calgary Foundation$143K
- Berkhold Family Foundation$40K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$26K
- Aqueduct Foundation$25K
- The Arthur J E Child Foundation$25K
- The Qr77/westin Hotel Calgary Children's Foundation$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$8,000
- United Way of Calgary and Area$7,999
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$7,000
- Calgary Flames Foundation$5,000
- Children's Hospital Aid Society$5,000
- The Foundation for Seniors' CARE-Hearts of Excellence$2,500
- Ad Ventures Alberta Charitable Foundation$2,500
- Abundance Canada$1,500
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$1,500
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$623
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$500
- ATCO Electric Epic$500
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$322
- United Way of Greater Toronto$95
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$25
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions25
- Total compensation, all staff$3.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Angela Butler (board chair); Sheri Allen (vice chair); Usman Ali (treasurer); Krista Pell (seretary); Michael Waite (past chair); Malik Amery (director); William Brunton (director); Roxann McKendry (director); Anita Perry (director); Mylene Tiessen.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hospice Calgary Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118963669RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.