Matthews House Hospice
Publicly funded institution · Alliston, Ontario · BN 851009555RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,347,076) as filed with the CRA.
Matthews House Hospice is a charitable organization based in Alliston, Ontario, 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 $4.5M in revenue and $4.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations, 64% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $159K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 55% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 52 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Providing hospice programs and nurse care for individuals in need. Providing day programs to help support those with dementia their families and caretakers food and daily services to the community for those in need. That struggle to take care of themselves in home care for emergency situations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.5M | $4.3M | $3.9M | $208K | — | $2.8M |
| 2023 | $9M | $4.4M | $4.1M | $109K | — | $2.4M |
| 2022 | $3.8M | $4.1M | $3.6M | $136K | — | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $4M | $3.1M | $2.7M | $134K | — | $3.7M |
| 2020 | $3.4M | $2.8M | $2.5M | $121K | — | $7.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $159K from 15 charities:
- BenefAction Foundation$35K
- The Leonard & Betty Jeffery Foundation$30K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$22K
- The Morningview Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$14K
- Canada Gives$13K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$10K
- Honda Canada Foundation$6,476
- JO-NA Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,000
- Windsor Evangel Bible Church Inc$2,000
- Krilavicius Family Foundation$2,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$684
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$641
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions52
- Total compensation, all staff$3.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Cathy Morden (president); Edna Sears (secretary); Ken Cowen (director); Rachel Donoghue (director); Carole Butterworth (director); Sharon Babin (treasurer); Michelle Hutt (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Matthews House Hospice’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 851009555RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.