Black Health Alliance
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 815175674RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,536,047) as filed with the CRA.
Black Health Alliance is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.3M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations, 34% from government, 33% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $370K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 89% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $45K in 2024, the largest being $40K to Canadian Children's Literacy Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $483K in 2020 to $2.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Black Health Alliance centres Black communities in defining the challenges and barriers affecting our health and well-being. We provide a platform for Black people to establish a common voice around systemic problems and we work to co-design and mobilize the tools skills resources and partnerships to implement solutions that improve health outcomes across Canada. Our programming is focused on community engagement research health promotion development of policy solutions strategy development and implementation support activities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.3M | $1.5M | $1.4M | — | $120K | $6.8M |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $1.1M | $1.1M | — | — | $6M |
| 2022 | $2.4M | $1.3M | $1.3M | — | — | $4.8M |
| 2021 | $4M | $625K | $604K | — | — | $3.7M |
| 2020 | $483K | $243K | $228K | — | — | $306K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $45K to 2 qualified donees:
Received $370K from 15 charities:
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$100K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$82K
- Canadahelps Canadon$54K
- Canadahelps Canadon$54K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$28K
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$25K
- T.R. Meighen Family Foundation/Fondation de la Famille T.R. Meighen$15K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$5,755
- Kindred Foundation$5,000
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$265
- Abundance Canada$250
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$243
- United Way of Prince Edward Island$200
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$135
- United Way British Columbia$43
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
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$851K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lydia-Joi Marshall (president); Ngozi Iroanyah (secretary); Samiya Abdi (director); Philippe Gagnon-Joseph (director); Tatenda Musewe (director); Adrian Palmer (director); Adom Bondzi-Simpson (director); Bukola Salami (director); Paul Bailey (executive director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Black Health Alliance’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 815175674RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.