Bruyère Health Foundation
Public foundation · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 888460441RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,529,467) as filed with the CRA.
Bruyère Health Foundation is a public foundation based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $3.9M in revenue and $6.5M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 72% from donations, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 28 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $566K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 20% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $4.2M in 2024, the largest being $4M to Bruyère Health / Santé Bruyère. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $8.7M in 2020 to $3.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Provide health care for the elderly the disabled and terminally ill. Provide chronic long-term palliative ambulatory and outreach geriatric and general rehabilitation. Improve and enhance the well being of patients.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.9M | $6.5M | $257K | $307K | $4.2M | $2.4M |
| 2023 | $4.6M | $2.4M | $231K | $374K | — | $5.2M |
| 2022 | $6.2M | $2.7M | $111K | $681K | — | $6.8M |
| 2021 | $4.4M | $2.2M | $92K | $480K | — | $6.5M |
| 2020 | $8.7M | $4.1M | $151K | $565K | $1.7M | $6.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4.2M to 2 qualified donees:
Received $566K from 28 charities:
- The William Shenkman Foundation$250K
- RJL Braydon Charitable Foundation$100K
- Taggart Parkes Foundation$50K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$27K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$21K
- Canadahelps Canadon$21K
- WCPD Foundation$12K
- The Matt Foundation$10K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$9,545
- The Walter and Friedl Stenger Foundation$8,332
- Arbor Memorial Foundation$7,500
- Labarge Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,269
- BenefAction Foundation$3,000
- The Barber Family Charitable Foundation$2,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,500
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$2,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,178
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,092
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$950
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$749
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$709
- Rideau Park United Church$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9994 positions
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Scott Brooker (drector); Guy Chartrand (director); Thomas Hewitt (secretary (as of 09/07/2021)); Joanne Kudakiewicz (director); Loretta Layton (director); Clifford Lebarron (honourary director non-voting); Rob Moffatt (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bruyère Health Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888460441RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.