Valley Regional Hospital Foundation
Public foundation · Kentville, Nova Scotia · BN 119280808RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,384,093) as filed with the CRA.
Valley Regional Hospital Foundation is a public foundation based in Kentville, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.2M in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 85% from donations, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $76K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 10% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 75% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $519K in 2024, the largest being $519K to Nova Scotia Health Authority. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $716K in 2020 to $2.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
The charity is involved in various fundraising campaigns to raise money to pay for the acquisition of equipment and wellness programs for the valley regioal hospital.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.2M | $1.4M | $193K | $111K | $519K | $7.1M |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $2.7M | $222K | $67K | $2M | $5.6M |
| 2022 | $2.4M | $869K | $166K | $69K | $358K | $6.6M |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1M | $131K | $53K | $560K | $5.7M |
| 2020 | $716K | $1M | $143K | $41K | $517K | $4.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $519K to 1 qualified donee:
- Nova Scotia Health Authority$519K
Received $76K from 14 charities:
- The McCain Foundation$25K
- The Rotary Clubs of Kings County Charitable Foundation$24K
- Canadahelps Canadon$8,938
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$6,525
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,935
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$3,000
- George F. Wade Foundation$2,000
- WCPD Foundation$1,000
- Hantsport Baptist Church$500
- Avonport United Baptist Church$500
- Avonport United Baptist Church$200
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$100
- Christian Reformed Church of Kentville$80
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
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
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$535K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Andrena Hull (director); Brittany Traynor (director); Carrie Jones (treasurer); Debbie Hennigar (president); George Lohnes (director); Jennifer Boyd (director); John Mackay (director); Judy Rafuse (director); Karen McKay-Harding (director); Kathleen Mulherin (director); Logan Morse (vice president); Mandeep Panesar (director); Mike Landry (director); Rick Ramsay (director); Robert Harris (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Valley Regional Hospital Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119280808RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.