Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service Foundation
Public foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 818459521RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($68,077,606) as filed with the CRA.
Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service Foundation is a public foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $80.5M in revenue and $68.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 34% from donations. In 2024, 143 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.2M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 7% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 89% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 46 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $35.2M in 2024, the largest being $35.2M to Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Shock trauma air rescue service foundation conducts fundraising activities to support shock trauma air rescue service (stars) and is funded by individual donors service groups corporate donors government contributions in addition to administering two lotteries in saskatchewan and alberta. 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.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $80.5M | $68.1M | — | $31.1M | $35.2M | $54.2M |
| 2023 | $62.4M | $56.3M | — | $25.5M | $29.1M | $41.7M |
| 2022 | $63.5M | $67.2M | — | $24.8M | $40.5M | $35.6M |
| 2021 | $61.8M | $55.5M | — | $24.4M | $29.3M | $39.2M |
| 2020 | $57.8M | $59.8M | — | $26.7M | $31.4M | $32.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $35.2M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $3.2M from 143 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$423K
- The Calgary Foundation$363K
- Canadahelps Canadon$215K
- Canadahelps Canadon$215K
- Cal Wenzel Family Foundation$200K
- M-E Squared Foundation$125K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$105K
- Buchanan Family Foundation$103K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$103K
- Caron Education Foundation$100K
- Broadfoot Family Foundation$100K
- The Smoky Lake Agricultural Society$77K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$68K
- Aqueduct Foundation$66K
- Morden Community Thrift Shop Inc.$60K
- Caron Education Foundation$59K
- John Deere Foundation of Canada$50K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- ATCO Electric Epic$39K
- Saskatchewan Community Foundation Corp.$32K
- Berkhold Family Foundation$30K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$29K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$27K
- BenefAction Foundation$26K
- Saskatchewan Lions Foundation Inc.$25K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9995 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions46
- Total compensation, all staff$4.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Helen Kasdorf (director); Doug Anderson (director); Michael Broadfoot (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 818459521RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.