Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 118781103RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($83,615,646) as filed with the CRA.
Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service is a charitable organization based in Calgary, 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 $88.4M in revenue and $83.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 51% from government, 40% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 34 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $35.6M.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 355 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 19 names.
In its own words
Shock trauma air rescue service (stars) is funded by individual donors service groups corporate donors and government contributions. Stars is a network of highly skilled professionals providing rapid and specialized emergency care to critically ill and injured patients in the air on the ground or virtually. A portion of stars' revenue is provided by shock trauma air rescue service foundation.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $88.4M | $83.6M | $72.6M | — | — | $64.3M |
| 2023 | $86.3M | $78.7M | $69.1M | — | — | $49.3M |
| 2022 | $79.8M | $75.8M | $67.6M | — | — | $39.7M |
| 2021 | $63.7M | $72.5M | $64.6M | — | — | $37.7M |
| 2020 | $64.9M | $74.1M | $65.9M | — | — | $37.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $35.6M from 34 charities:
- Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service Foundation$35.2M
- BenefAction Foundation$102K
- The Killarney Foundation Inc.$96K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$40K
- Ptarmigan Charitable Foundation$30K
- Lions of Alberta Foundation$10K
- Fraser Family Foundation$10K
- ATB Investor Services Foundation$10K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$10K
- Community Foundation of Central Alberta$10K
- ATB Investor Services Foundation$9,600
- United Way of Calgary and Area$8,205
- Centra Cares Foundation$7,500
- The Berry Creek Agricultural Society$5,000
- Price Family Foundation Inc.$5,000
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$5,000
- Community Foundation of Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta$5,000
- Value Partners Charitable Foundation Inc.$3,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,956
- ST. Brieux Donors Choice$1,935
- ATB Investor Services Foundation$1,500
- Carlyle and District Donors Choice$1,490
- Kinsella Recreation and Agricultural Society$1,000
- ATB Investor Services Foundation$1,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$694
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $250,000–299,9994 positions
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions355
- Total compensation, all staff$42.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Doug Anderson (director); Noralee Bradley (director); Michael Broadfoot (director); Gordon Chrenek (director); Tasha Giroux (director); Bevin Wirzba (director); Richard Hotchkiss (director); Theresa Jang (director); Kyle Jeworski (director); Helen Kasdorf (director); Carla Madra (director); Mike Marsh (director); Marnie Smith (director); Curtis Stange (director); Shelly Zubert (director); J. Neil Armstrong (director); Jane Mactaggart (director); Susan Mackenzie (director); Heather Ryan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118781103RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.