Medicine Hat Women's Shelter Society
Publicly funded institution · Medicine Hat, Alberta · BN 119036929RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,252,176) as filed with the CRA.
Medicine Hat Women's Shelter Society is a charitable organization based in Medicine Hat, Alberta, 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 $3.4M in revenue and $3.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations, 72% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $630K.
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 25% 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 $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 32 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
24 hour help line emergency shelter - phoenix safe house 2nd stage shelter - musasa house housing first outreach services support groups child and youth support
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.4M | $3.3M | $2.7M | $131K | — | $5.3M |
| 2023 | $3.3M | $2.9M | $2.5M | $66K | — | $5M |
| 2022 | $3.9M | $3.2M | $2.9M | $34K | — | $4.7M |
| 2021 | $4.5M | $3.3M | $3.1M | $28K | — | $4M |
| 2020 | $3.4M | $3.5M | $3.3M | $49K | — | $2.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $630K from 21 charities:
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Canada$292K
- Canadahelps Canadon$116K
- Canadahelps Canadon$116K
- Community Foundation of Medicine Hat and Southeastern Alberta$68K
- United Way of South Eastern Alberta$8,926
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,104
- Canary Foundation$5,195
- S.M. Blair Family Foundation$5,000
- Aecon Transportation West LTD. Employee Charitable Foundation$3,000
- RBC Foundation$2,500
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$2,335
- Christian Reformed Church Medicine Hat$1,061
- Temple Baptist Church$1,010
- Rehabilitation and Employment for Developing Independence (redi) Enterprises Society$807
- Bethlehem Lutheran Church Hilda$600
- ST. Paul Lutheran Church of Medicine Hat Alberta$250
- Fifth Avenue Memorial United Church$180
- Foremost Pastoral Charge$100
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$87
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$59
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$40
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions32
- Total compensation, all staff$2.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sherilynn Bebeau (director); Jennifer Kerslake (president); Patrick Bohan (director); Bailey O'Reilly (treasurer); Jase Cowan (director); Miles Thorson (director); Mark Lewall (director); Ryan Thorburn (vice president); Brent Secondiak (director); Joanne Smith (director); Reagan Weeks (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Medicine Hat Women's Shelter Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119036929RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.