Canadian Blood Services
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 870157641RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,518,946,230) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Blood Services is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under supportive 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 $1.5B in revenue and $1.5B in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 98% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 38 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $428K.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 58% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 2,636 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Canadian blood services/société canadienne du sang (the corporation) owns and operates the national blood supply system for canada except québec and is responsible for the collection testing processing and distribution of blood and blood products including red blood cells platelets plasma and cord blood as well as the recruitment and management of donors. In addition the corporation provides the following services: (I) contracting of plasma protein manufactuers and purchasing and distributing of plasma protein and related products (ii) developing and managing donor registries for st…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5B | $1.5B | $1.4B | $951K | — | $356.2M |
| 2023 | $1.4B | $1.4B | $1.3B | $969K | — | $357.4M |
| 2022 | $1.3B | $1.3B | $1.2B | $996K | — | $350.6M |
| 2021 | $1.2B | $1.2B | $1.2B | $985K | — | $299.7M |
| 2020 | $1.2B | $1.2B | $1.1B | $1M | — | $312.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $428K from 38 charities:
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada$125K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$69K
- ATCO Electric Epic$48K
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$40K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Aqueduct Foundation$23K
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$12K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$10K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$10K
- United Way Niagara$7,996
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$5,642
- Loran Scholars Foundation$5,000
- The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation$5,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$3,422
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$2,500
- United Way of Calgary and Area$2,366
- Wolfe Pack Warriors Foundation$2,000
- Tahira & Iltihab Hassan Charitable Trust$2,000
- Father Cummings Council No. 2042 Charitable Trust$1,500
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$1,286
- The Calgary Foundation$1,000
- Hill Family Foundation$1,000
- The Roger and Edith Davis Foundation$1,000
- Port Moody Fire Fighters' Charitable Society$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over10 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2,636
- Total compensation, all staff$343.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Adkins (board member); Marilyn Barrett (board member); Catherine Butt (board member); Catherine Cook (board member); Robert Kwon (board member); David Lehberg (board member); Anne McFarlane (board member); David Morhart (board member); Brian Postl (board chair); Roona Sinha (board member); Judy Steele (board member); Donnie Wing (board member); Glenda Yeates (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Blood Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 870157641RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.