British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 118852433RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($109,631,521) as filed with the CRA.
British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $140.3M in revenue and $109.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 33% from donations, 8% from other charities. In 2024, 263 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $11.6M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 84% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 131 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 7 qualified donees totalling $66.1M in 2024, the largest being $66M to Provincial Health Services Authority. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
To provide funding to British Columbia's Children's Hospital (a program of Provincial Health Services Authority) for research equipment education health promotion and program development.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $140.3M | $109.6M | — | $29.2M | $66.1M | $334.2M |
| 2023 | $120.3M | $129.2M | — | $26.8M | $89.6M | $279.9M |
| 2022 | $145.9M | $128.8M | — | $26.6M | $91.1M | $286M |
| 2021 | $106.7M | $141.3M | — | $24.8M | $106.9M | $254.6M |
| 2020 | $159.8M | $94.2M | — | $29.8M | $54.7M | $206.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $66.1M to 7 qualified donees:
- Provincial Health Services Authority$66M
- VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation$55K
- Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra$10K
- Covenant House Vancouver$10K
- Arthritis Society Canada$5,000
- Coast Mental Health Foundation$4,000
- Taiwanese Canadian Cultural Society$1,000
Received $11.6M from 263 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$1.3M
- Seedlings Foundation$1M
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$709K
- Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation$702K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$566K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$558K
- Michael Cuccione Foundation$550K
- Sickkids Charitable Giving Fund$475K
- James Family Foundation$293K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$272K
- Milan & Maureen Ilich Foundation$250K
- The River Foundation$220K
- Beedie Foundation$202K
- The Peterson Group Foundation$170K
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$151K
- Canadahelps Canadon$143K
- Canadahelps Canadon$143K
- Aqueduct Foundation$141K
- Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation Fondation Proches Aimants Petro-Canada$130K
- The Azrieli Foundation$119K
- Ledcor Charitable Foundation$110K
- The Lum Family Foundation$105K
- Wesik Family Foundation$105K
- Gooding Family Foundation$100K
- Canucks for Kids Fund$100K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $250,000–299,9993 positions
- $160,000–199,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions131
- Total compensation, all staff$15.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michael Brankston (vice chair); Dale Boniface (director); Darrell Jones (director); Julia Kim (chair); Ratana Stephens (director); Martin Thibodeau (director); William Westeringh (director); Catherine McLeod-Seltzer (director); Vanessa Flockton (director); Steven Miller (director); Sophia Alibhai (director); Jonathan Becker (director); Kelly Blankstein (director); Chris Chan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118852433RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.