The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation
Public foundation · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 119126217RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($21,972,014) as filed with the CRA.
The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation is a public foundation based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $22.7M in revenue and $22M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 25% from donations, 10% from other charities. In 2024, 41 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.8M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 2% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 93% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 36 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 76 qualified donees totalling $11.4M in 2024, the largest being $2.3M to The Governors of the University of Alberta. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation raises and manages funds to advance and support the Royal Alexandra Hospital Alberta Health Services and post-secondary institutions in Edmonton Alberta. Enhancement includes the funding of equipment research education and patient comfort initiatives not publicly funded.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $22.7M | $22M | $0 | $11.5M | $9.2M | $46.3M |
| 2023 | $22.7M | $21.4M | — | $11.1M | $9.1M | $43.6M |
| 2022 | $23.2M | $21.6M | — | $9.9M | $10.4M | $46.2M |
| 2021 | $21.4M | $18.8M | — | $8.6M | $7.9M | $46.8M |
| 2020 | $19.3M | $17.3M | $2.3M | $6.5M | $7M | $38.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $11.4M to 76 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Governors of the University of Alberta$2.3M
- Alberta Health Services$2.2M
- Calgary Health Foundation$1.3M
- Alberta Cancer Foundation$699K
- Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation$554K
- Mental Health Foundation$508K
- Covenant Foundation$377K
- Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation$358K
- BC Women's Health Foundation$327K
- Women's College Hospital Foundation$327K
- University Hospitals Foundation$300K
- The Boyle Street Service Society$288K
- Grande Prairie Regional Hospital Foundation$158K
- Jasper Place Wellness Centre$150K
- Sturgeon Community Hospital and Health Centre Foundation$104K
- Emergency Medical Services (ems) Foundation$95K
- Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation$81K
- Stettler Health Services Foundation$64K
- Brain CARE Centre (BCC)$61K
- Ponoka and District Health Foundation$60K
- Tri-Community Health and Wellness Foundation$54K
- Claresholm and District Health Foundation$52K
- Northern Lights Health Foundation$50K
- High River District Health CARE Foundation$49K
- Northwest Health Foundation$47K
Received $1.8M from 41 charities:
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$311K
- Cam & Dawn Allard Family Foundation$250K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$231K
- The Highbury Foundation$200K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$160K
- O'Connell Foundation$100K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$84K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$55K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- ATB Investor Services Foundation$50K
- Gordon & Diane Buchanan Family Foundation$30K
- Allard Foundation LTD.$27K
- The Whitearn Foundation/la Fondation Whitearn$25K
- William & Florence Lede Family Foundation$25K
- University Hospitals Foundation$24K
- Lions of Alberta Foundation$21K
- Cliff Lede Family Charitable Foundation$18K
- Canadahelps Canadon$17K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$15K
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation$13K
- Jackie Pennock Family Foundation$10K
- The Robbins Foundation Canada$10K
- Shelley and Guy Scott Family Foundation$6,500
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$6,000
- Value Partners Charitable Foundation Inc.$5,000
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
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions36
- Total compensation, all staff$3.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Daniel Lefaivre (board chair); Sandra Hawes (director); Carlie Perssson (treasurer); Dianne Balon (director); Victoria Burgess (director); Fausto Franceschi (director); Chari Radha (director); Justin Archer (director); Lisa Diamond (director); Bhupinder Lalh (director); Sally Banek (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119126217RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.