Surrey Hospice Society
Publicly funded institution · Surrey, British Columbia · BN 119206605RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($511,216) as filed with the CRA.
Surrey Hospice Society is a charitable organization based in Surrey, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $469K in revenue and $511K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 52% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $6,322.
Compared with 739 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 47% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 83% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
1. Provide grief counselling to families and individuals facing life ending illnesses. 2. Provide volunteer support to patients in laurel place hospice and surrey memorial hospital palliative/teritary units.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $469K | $511K | $428K | $21K | — | -$53K |
| 2023 | $753K | $716K | $638K | $35K | — | $36K |
| 2022 | $429K | $489K | $438K | — | — | -$14K |
| 2021 | $383K | $505K | $445K | $525 | — | -$25K |
| 2020 | $537K | $529K | $367K | $956 | — | $85K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $6,322 from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$365K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Shara Nixon (president); Camille Viray (director); Althea Linnitt (treasurer/secretary); Parm Marathu (director); Pash Brar (director); Kulwinder Saini (director); Bilal Cheema (director); Josephine Chauhan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Surrey Hospice Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119206605RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.