Palliative Care Society of the Bow Valley
Charitable organization · Canmore, Alberta · BN 786815126RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($733,866) as filed with the CRA.
Palliative Care Society of the Bow Valley is a charitable organization based in Canmore, Alberta, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $734K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 69% from donations, 13% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $272K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 6% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $259K in 2020 to $1.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
We will enable individuals and their families to receive care close to where they call home by coordinating and developing a full spectrum of palliative and end-of-life care in the bow valley.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $734K | $207K | $200K | — | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $1M | $579K | $207K | $152K | — | $762K |
| 2022 | $704K | $436K | $172K | $74K | — | $292K |
| 2021 | $324K | $318K | $117K | $44K | — | $24K |
| 2020 | $259K | $245K | $91K | $58K | — | $18K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $272K from 11 charities:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$115K
- The Calgary Foundation$84K
- Madonna Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$13K
- BenefAction Foundation$4,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,040
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,000
- The Bernie and Jan McCaffery Foundation$1,000
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$1,000
- Wolfe Pack Warriors Foundation$500
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
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$443K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jane Saly (treasurer); Belinda Boleantu (director); Dene Cooper (director); H. Penney Gaul (director); Andrew Kirk (director); Donna McKown (director); Rosemary Boulton (chair); Martin Buckley (vice chair & secretary); Leslie McDaniel (director); Brain Pickering (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Palliative Care Society of the Bow Valley’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 786815126RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.