Bluewater Health Foundation
Public foundation · Sarnia, Ontario · BN 869394163RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,933,552) as filed with the CRA.
Bluewater Health Foundation is a public foundation based in Sarnia, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $5.1M in revenue and $3.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 39% from donations, 8% from other charities. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $959K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 8% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 87% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $1.6M in 2024, the largest being $1.6M to Bluewater Health. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.1M in 2020 to $5.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Bluewater Health Foundation raises funds for the hospital group known as Bluewater Health. These funds are spent on capital projects and to facilitate the acquisition of leading edge equipment and technology and the provision of programs and education for patients staff and physicians.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.1M | $3.9M | $289K | $1.7M | $1.6M | $12M |
| 2023 | $4M | $5.9M | $215K | $1.4M | $3.9M | $10.8M |
| 2022 | $6.5M | $2.1M | $216K | $1.6M | — | $12.8M |
| 2021 | $4.9M | $717K | $270K | $181K | — | $10.5M |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $3.8M | $306K | $984K | $2.2M | $6.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.6M to 1 qualified donee:
- Bluewater Health$1.6M
Received $959K from 19 charities:
- The Lockwood Foundation$500K
- The Mike Weir Foundation/fondation Mike Weir$215K
- The Gordon Foundation$100K
- The Charles Kennedy Charitable Foundation$33K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$25K
- Waterloo Regional Health Network Foundation$19K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$11K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$11K
- Sarnia Community Foundation$11K
- Fondation Sandra Schmirler Foundation$10K
- Starlight Children's Foundation Canada$7,996
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,224
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,830
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,394
- ST. Paul's Outreach Foundation of Sarnia Ontario$1,000
- United Way of Sarnia-Lambton$249
- ST. Andrew's Presbyterian Church$50
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$613K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Colin McElrea (chair); John 'Jack' Sherman (vice-chair); Robert Hislop (secretary-treasurer); Andrew Warder (director); Cheryl Willsie (director); Patti Moss (director); Charles Fisher (director); Mark Braet (director); Laurie Hicks (director); Manjit Singh (director); Michelle Parks (director); Rudy Bhola (director); Barry Riedy (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bluewater Health Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 869394163RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.