Vancouver Hospice Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 867021206RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,435,464) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Hospice Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, 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 $4.4M in revenue and $3.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 16% from donations, 50% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $229K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 18% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.4M in 2020 to $4.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
The vhs's mandate is to build freestanding hospices in vancouver and support bereaved families. Vsh raises public awareness for quality end-of-life care. Vhs raises funds to develop hospice facilities and provide community services such as healing touch workshops bereavement program individual and family counseling and public education programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.4M | $3.4M | $2.7M | $291K | — | $6.8M |
| 2023 | $3.7M | $3M | $2.4M | $277K | — | $5.8M |
| 2022 | $2.9M | $2.6M | — | — | — | $5.1M |
| 2021 | $3M | $2.3M | $1.8M | $244K | — | $4.8M |
| 2020 | $2.4M | $2.1M | $1.7M | $213K | — | $4.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $229K from 20 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$77K
- Canadahelps Canadon$77K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$16K
- Music Heals Charitable Foundation$13K
- BenefAction Foundation$8,751
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$8,692
- Link Charity Canada Inc$8,000
- Vancouver Foundation$7,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$5,000
- The Andrew Mahon Foundation$2,500
- Andre and Brock Rowland Foundation$2,500
- The Parish of ST. Philip's Vancouver$1,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$575
- Vancity Community Foundation$500
- The Zacks Family Charitable Foundation$500
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$500
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$398
- OMI Lacombe Canada Inc.$250
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$203
- 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
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$2.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Eugene Gruber (chairperson); Mandy Hoeltgen (secretary); Howard Jampolsky (director); Patricia Lucy (director); Afzal Mangalji (director); Kathryn Irene Nicholson (director); Neil Perk (treasurer); Patricia Porterfield (director); Remtulla Salima (chairperson); Patricia Richardson (director); Elinor Wilson (director); Jennifer Woolley (vice chair); Phillippe Mendelson (director); Pamela Teeaert (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver Hospice Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 867021206RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.