Hospice Niagara
Publicly funded institution · ST-Catharines, Ontario · BN 899716294RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,840,076) as filed with the CRA.
Hospice Niagara is a charitable organization based in ST-Catharines, Ontario, 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 $5.7M in revenue and $5.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 22% from donations, 52% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 46 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $475K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 7% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 80% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 45 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Visiting volunteer program children’s bereavement support program adolescent bereavement support program bereavement support program day hospice program residential hospice
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.7M | $5.8M | $4.1M | $1.3M | — | $3.3M |
| 2023 | $6.1M | $5.8M | $3.5M | $1.8M | — | $3.5M |
| 2022 | $5.7M | $4.9M | $3.3M | $1.2M | — | $3.1M |
| 2021 | $6.6M | $5.8M | $4.1M | $1.3M | — | $7.1M |
| 2020 | $5.4M | $4.9M | $3.7M | $756K | — | $5.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $475K from 46 charities:
- Niagara's Cancer CARE Run Foundation$140K
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$63K
- BenefAction Foundation$48K
- Wise Guys Charity Fund$25K
- St. John the Theologian Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church$25K
- J.R. Armstrong Family Foundation$23K
- Douglas Memorial Hospital Auxiliary$20K
- Jack A. Vanderlaan Foundation$20K
- Fort Erie Conservation Club Inc$15K
- The Charles & Florence Martin Foundation$12K
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$9,791
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,763
- Conam Charitable Foundation$6,000
- The Royal Canadian Legion Ontario Provincial Command Branches and Ladies' Auxiliaries Charitable Foundation$5,370
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,188
- Erwin Taylor Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$4,669
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$4,650
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$3,767
- Fonthill United Church$2,800
- United Way Niagara$2,480
- United Way Niagara$2,480
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$2,259
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$2,150
- ST Catharines Netherlands Reformed Congregation$2,000
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
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions45
- Total compensation, all staff$4.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bernice Alexander (secretary); Debbie Beaudoin (vice chair); Linda Boich (director); Lisa Burland (director); Daniel Cohen (director); Harry Korosis (director); Christopher McQueen (director); Carol Nagy (executive director); Greg Reiser (treasurer); Archie Reynolds (chair); Guy Rizzo (director); John Trivieri (past chair); Shauna Arnott (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hospice Niagara’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 899716294RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.