Northern Lights Regional Health Foundation
Public foundation · Fort McMurray, Alberta · BN 107395030RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,410,980) as filed with the CRA.
Northern Lights Regional Health Foundation is a public foundation based in Fort McMurray, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $3.1M in revenue and $3.4M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from donations, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $541K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 15% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 95% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $2.1M in 2024, the largest being $1.8M to Alberta Health Services. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Raise funds in support of Alberta Health Services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.1M | $3.4M | — | $935K | $2.1M | $14.4M |
| 2023 | $3.4M | $3.8M | — | $1M | $2.4M | $14.3M |
| 2022 | $4.6M | $4.2M | — | $581K | $3.3M | $14.2M |
| 2021 | $4.1M | $2.4M | — | $578K | $1.6M | $14.8M |
| 2020 | $3.9M | $2.8M | — | $983K | $1.5M | $12.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.1M to 2 qualified donees:
- Alberta Health Services$1.8M
- Alberta Cancer Foundation$265K
Received $541K from 9 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$336K
- Ledcor Charitable Foundation$80K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- ATB Investor Services Foundation$25K
- Fondation Sandra Schmirler Foundation$20K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$12K
- Giles Family Foundation$12K
- Markaz-Ul-Islam Congregation of Fort McMurray$1,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$455K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gregory Fuhr (chair); Nelson Barbosa (director); Stephane Gagnon (vice chair); Connor Clark (director); Adele Thomson (director); Kevin Shulko (director); Karla Buffalo (director); Jordanna Lambert (director); Fauzia Haq Nawaz; Denean Robinson (treasurer); James Secord (director); Graham Longpre (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Northern Lights Regional Health Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107395030RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.