Victoria Hospice Society
Charitable organization · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 119284230RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,299,889) as filed with the CRA.
Victoria Hospice Society is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $10.6M in revenue and $10.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 37% from donations, 48% from government, 15% from other charities. In 2024, 34 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.6M.
Compared with 85 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 55% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 75% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $160,000–199,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 37 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 6 qualified donees totalling $189K in 2024, the largest being $65K to Comox Valley Hospice Society. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Since 1980 victoria hospice has been playing a critical role providing physical emotional and spiritual care for people facing death and bereavement in this community. Our nurses counselors spiritual caregivers physicians and trained volunteers provide comofrt for the patient and support for the family rather than a cure for progressive and life-limiting illness. Care is offered in patients' homes within our 18-bed in-patient unit and as specific medical consultation to patients in other health care facilities. We aslo provide bereavement services following the death of a loved one fro…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $10.6M | $10.3M | $8.1M | $948K | $208K | $2.3M |
| 2023 | $9.2M | $9.1M | $695K | $842K | $190K | $2M |
| 2022 | $10.3M | $10.2M | $6.8M | $629K | $1.4M | $1.9M |
| 2021 | $10M | $9.9M | $7.6M | $717K | $714K | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $9.9M | $9.8M | $7.2M | $646K | $1.2M | $1.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $189K to 6 qualified donees:
Received $1.6M from 34 charities:
- Victoria Hospice and Palliative CARE Foundation$1.1M
- The Victoria Foundation$190K
- Auchinleck Family Foundation$55K
- Canadahelps Canadon$45K
- Canadahelps Canadon$45K
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$45K
- The R K Grant Family Foundation$25K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$15K
- Charlton L Smith Charitable Foundation$15K
- Arbor Memorial Foundation$10K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$9,450
- Music Heals Charitable Foundation$8,750
- Wheaton Family Foundation$5,000
- Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia$4,974
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,775
- Sovereign Order of ST. John Victoria Commandery Foundation$3,700
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,297
- The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem in Canada l'Ordre Militaire et Hospitalier de Saint-Lazare-De-Jerusalem au Canada$2,500
- The Jawl Foundation$2,500
- Big Wheel Community Foundation$2,212
- Conam Charitable Foundation$2,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,650
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,346
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,080
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions37
- Total compensation, all staff$8.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dawn Nedzelski (director); Paul Pallan (chair); Jennifer Ambers (director); Rachel Holmes (director); Sheila Aujla (vice-chair); Wendy Hill (director); Lori Moen (director); Trudi Brown (chair); Andrew Wray (director); Brecon Gage (director); Angus Izard (treasurer); Chris Lawless (director); Laurie Pettinger (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Victoria Hospice Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119284230RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.