Nelson and District Hospice Society
Publicly funded institution · Nelson, British Columbia · BN 119053296RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($219,235) as filed with the CRA.
Nelson and District Hospice Society is a charitable organization based in Nelson, British Columbia, 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 $208K in revenue and $219K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 21% from government, 63% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $108K.
Compared with 739 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 9% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 86% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $103K in 2020 to $208K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
One on one volunteering with and day hospice services for terminally ill/palliative clients bereavement support (individual and group) advance care planning caregiver support website resources lending library hospice volunteer training and advanced grief support training.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $208K | $219K | $97K | $397 | — | $42K |
| 2023 | $182K | $216K | $101K | $2,387 | — | $58K |
| 2022 | $171K | $171K | $157K | $7,741 | — | $87K |
| 2021 | $188K | $159K | $143K | $1,067 | $10K | $87K |
| 2020 | $103K | $117K | $112K | — | — | $48K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $108K from 11 charities:
- United Way British Columbia$78K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$7,519
- Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation Fondation Proches Aimants Petro-Canada$7,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$6,547
- Canadahelps Canadon$4,058
- Osprey Community Foundation$2,347
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$1,000
- Vancouver Foundation$879
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$574
- Yasodhara Ashram Society$200
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$70
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$93K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lonnie Lang Facchina (board chair); Lise Beaulieu (member at large); Morag Reid (treasurer); Eliza Hicks (secretary); Jean Maclean (member at large); Brenton Raby (vice chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nelson and District Hospice Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119053296RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.