Bridges Community Health Centre Corporation
Publicly funded institution · Fort Erie, Ontario · BN 853843324RR0001 · Core Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,537,069) as filed with the CRA.
Bridges Community Health Centre Corporation is a charitable organization based in Fort Erie, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $4.5M in revenue and $4.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 99% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2023, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $7,500.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 49% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 26 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The bridges community health centre provides primary health care services and health promotion programs using a multidisciplinary team of health care providers. A diabetes education program is available by physician referral for anyone with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Mental health services include mental health assessments short term supportive counselling linkages with community services psychiatric consultations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.5M | $4.5M | $4M | — | — | $0 |
| 2023 | $4.5M | $4.5M | $4M | — | — | $0 |
| 2022 | $4.3M | $4.3M | $3.8M | — | — | $0 |
| 2021 | $4.3M | $4.3M | $3.8M | — | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $4.1M | $4.1M | $3.6M | — | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $7,500 from 1 charity:
- United Way Niagara$7,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions26
- Total compensation, all staff$3.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
James Brennan (president); Alan Stouffer (director); Donna Martens Gamm (director); Joan Christensen (director); Scott Caldwell (treasurer); Lee Vanderlaan (secretary); Claudia Brema (vice president); Gina Collins (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bridges Community Health Centre Corporation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 853843324RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.