Hospice Society of Greater Halifax
Charitable organization · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 869623215RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,487,055) as filed with the CRA.
Hospice Society of Greater Halifax is a charitable organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.1M in revenue and $4.5M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations, 46% from government. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $154K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 51% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 30 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Operation of residential hospice facility. Leading fundraising efforts to support operations of the hospice providing support programs to those with a life limiting illness and their family members including bereavement support.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.1M | $4.5M | $3.6M | $704K | — | -$413K |
| 2023 | $3.8M | $3.7M | $3M | $645K | — | $144K |
| 2022 | $3.8M | $3.5M | $2.9M | $413K | — | $188K |
| 2021 | $4.3M | $3.1M | $2.7M | $326K | — | $372K |
| 2020 | $4.5M | $3M | $2.5M | $351K | — | -$47K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $154K from 26 charities:
- Walker Wood Foundation$30K
- Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia$27K
- Fred and Edith Greene Foundation$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$17K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$11K
- Foundation 2020$10K
- Open Sky$5,000
- Black Family Foundation$5,000
- The Spatz Foundation$4,536
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,500
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$4,192
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$3,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2,596
- BenefAction Foundation$2,000
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$2,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,160
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,010
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$1,000
- Grace United Church$500
- RCMP Veterans' Association Foundation$200
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$65
- Saint Mary's University$50
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
- Society of the Sacred Heart (canada) /societe du Sacre-Coeur(canada)—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions30
- Total compensation, all staff$2.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Phil Otto (chair); Riley Otto (director); Graham Langill (director); Victoria Sullivan (director); Kevin Landry (director); Corey Mattie (vice chair); Anne Campbell (director); Meagan Halverson (secretary); Kelly Duplisea (director); Geoff Regan (director); Jillian Sexton (director); Rod Wilson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hospice Society of Greater Halifax’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 869623215RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.