Hospice of Waterloo Region
Publicly funded institution · Waterloo, Ontario · BN 140415795RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,866,546) as filed with the CRA.
Hospice of Waterloo Region is a charitable organization based in Waterloo, 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 $4.3M in revenue and $4.9M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations, 66% from government, 6% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $197K.
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 6% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 23 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Hospice of waterloo region is a registered charity incorporated without capital under the laws of ontario and is dedicated to providing comfort care and support to people affected by a life-threatending illness. The organization has a palliative care centre that includes spaces for a medical clinic client programming volunteer services education classrooms administrative offices and residence hospice beds.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.3M | $4.9M | $3.2M | $440K | — | $16.3M |
| 2023 | $4.9M | $4.8M | $3.1M | $486K | — | $16.9M |
| 2022 | $5.1M | $4.3M | $2.8M | $347K | — | $16.8M |
| 2021 | $7.2M | $2.8M | $1.6M | $233K | — | $16M |
| 2020 | $4.9M | $2.1M | $1.3M | $331K | — | $10.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $197K from 16 charities:
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$80K
- Abundance Canada$52K
- The Savvas Chamberlain Family Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$11K
- Mabel and Gordon McMillen Foundation$7,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,821
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundation$4,500
- The Gordon Linkletter Family Fund$3,000
- Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fund$1,400
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,000
- Flavelle Family Foundation$500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$51
- K-W Singers$50
- Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Waterloo$50
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
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
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions23
- Total compensation, all staff$2.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Linda Brooks (president); Sarah Chen (director); Pat Forte (director); Michael Lough (corporate secretary); Sarah McLennan (director); Paul Reitzel (treasurer); Bruce Rodrigues (vice president); Surekha Shenoy (director); Bryan Stortz (past president); Fauzia Wafai (director); Victor Zamin (director); Alan Quarry (director); Merrick Levene (director); Nancy Fox (director); Tom Galloway (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hospice of Waterloo Region’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 140415795RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.