Amref Health Africa in Canada
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119211282RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($9,605,440) as filed with the CRA.
Amref Health Africa in Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, 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 $13.6M in revenue and $9.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from government, 86% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $11.7M.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 63% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $9M in 2020 to $13.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Amref health africa in canada ensures access to good health for the most vulnerable and marginalized people in africa. With their active involvement we develop and implement innovative and sustainable solutions to critical health challenges facing the continent. We support amref health africa in africa to address critical health challenges by raising funds providing project support building capacity raising awareness and engaging the canadian public in african health development.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $13.6M | $9.6M | $557K | $350K | $8.4M | $5.4M |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $1.6M | $342K | $348K | $422K | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $2.9M | $1.7M | $1M | — | $1.9M |
| 2021 | $4.4M | $6.3M | $4.7M | $1.1M | $212K | $3.1M |
| 2020 | $9M | $6.9M | $5.3M | $761K | $701K | $5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $11.7M from 18 charities:
- Mastercard Foundation$11.4M
- Carlin Foundation$46K
- Canadahelps Canadon$42K
- Canadahelps Canadon$42K
- BenefAction Foundation$28K
- Almathea Charitable Foundation$25K
- The Chêne Foundation$15K
- The Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation$10K
- The Barr Family Foundation$10K
- The Peter and Melanie Munk Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The K M Hunter Charitable Foundation$4,500
- Abundance Canada$2,500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$2,366
- Beedie Luminaries Foundation$1,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$469
- Ontario Christian Gospel Center$300
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$22
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$4
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$725K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ryan Wiley (chair); Karen Wensley (audit chair); John Adam Gordon (director); Serena Hak (director); Zuwa Matondo (director); Florence Temu (director); Marc David Munk (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Amref Health Africa in Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119211282RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.