Pilgrims Hospice Society
Charitable organization · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 897041455RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,580,074) as filed with the CRA.
Pilgrims Hospice Society is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $7.4M in revenue and $6.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 44% from donations, 42% from government, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 36 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $804K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 72% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 24 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.3M in 2020 to $7.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The pilgrims hospice society provides supportive and compassionate family-centred care to enhance the quality and dignity of life for those diagnosed with a progressive life-threatening illness as well as support to those who are grieving. The centre is a warm and family-friendly end-of-life residence with 12 comfortable suites for individuals in the final stages of life who do not require acute medical care. In addition pilgrims hospice society offers a home visiting hub program which provides home visits from primary palliative care physicians. This service bridges the gap for those livi…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.4M | $6.6M | $5.9M | $344K | — | $5.6M |
| 2023 | $10.5M | $6.3M | $5.8M | $200K | — | $4.8M |
| 2022 | $5.2M | $5.2M | $4.9M | $58K | — | $654K |
| 2021 | $3.7M | $4.1M | $3.8M | $139K | — | $663K |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $1.4M | $1.2M | $23K | — | $1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $804K from 36 charities:
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$156K
- The Stollery Charitable Foundation$77K
- Trust Under Will of Robert Tegler$75K
- Cam & Dawn Allard Family Foundation$70K
- The Leder Charitable Foundation$50K
- Muehlenfeld Family Foundation$50K
- The Matt & Betty-Jean Baldwin Foundation$40K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$37K
- Angela and Collin Herbers Family Charitable Foundation$35K
- Melton Foundation$30K
- BenefAction Foundation$29K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$26K
- The Highbury Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$16K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$15K
- Zender Family Foundation$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$13K
- The Allan & Sally Sawin Foundation$10K
- ATCO Electric Epic$9,720
- The Calgary Foundation$5,000
- Jackie Pennock Family Foundation$5,000
- The John and Dianne Storey Family Foundation$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,080
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$1,831
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,500
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
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions24
- Total compensation, all staff$4.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Garnet Clark (chair); Carole Anctil-Michalyshyn (vice chair); Patrick La Forge (director); Elizabeth Taylor (director); Wendy Dawson (director); Jeanne Weis (director); Sharilee Fossum (treasurer); Audrey Hanna (secretary); Kevin O'Neil (director); Kim Wallin (director); Fiona Ellington (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Pilgrims Hospice Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 897041455RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.