Canadian Cancer Society
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118829803RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-01-31. Split of total expenditures ($165,787,171) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Cancer Society is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending January 31, 2024, it reported $181.1M in revenue and $165.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 58% from donations, 11% from government, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 601 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $16M.
Compared with 85 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 33% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 695 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 56 qualified donees totalling $40.2M in 2024, the largest being $6.8M to Queen's University at Kingston. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 20 names.
In its own words
The Canadian Cancer Society works tirelessly to save and improve lives. We raise funds to fuel the brightest minds in cancer research. We provide a compassionate support system for all those affected by cancer across Canada and for all types of cancer. Together with patients supporters donors and volunteers we work to create a healthier future for everyone. Because to take on cancer it takes all of us. It takes a society.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $181.1M | $165.8M | $66.8M | $47.8M | $42.1M | $169M |
| 2023 | $160.7M | $165.6M | $60.4M | $47.3M | $49.3M | $153.3M |
| 2022 | $171.9M | $149.8M | $54.8M | $43.3M | $43M | $155M |
| 2021 | $159.7M | $159M | $52.8M | $48.2M | $47.4M | $124.1M |
| 2020 | $187.6M | $176.5M | $108.1M | $58.1M | $1.2M | $122.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $40.2M to 56 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Queen's University at Kingston$6.8M
- University Health Network$4.6M
- The University of British Columbia$2.2M
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$2.1M
- Provincial Health Services Authority$2M
- Dalhousie University$1.8M
- Université de Montréal$1.8M
- The Hospital for Sick Children$1.5M
- Mount Sinai Hospital$1.3M
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$1.2M
- McMaster University$1.2M
- University Health Network$1.1M
- Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal$1.1M
- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute/Institut de recherche de l'hopital d'Ottawa$935K
- L'Institut de Recherche du Centre Universitaire de Santé McGill The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre$884K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$854K
- Sunnybrook Research Institute$719K
- L'Hôpital Général Juif Sir Mortimer B. Davis$711K
- The Governors of the University of Alberta$654K
- The University of Manitoba$651K
- Universite de Sherbrooke$466K
- Sinai Health Foundation$428K
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine$374K
- Université de Moncton$359K
- University of Prince Edward Island$340K
Received $16M from 601 charities:
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$3M
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2M
- Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation$1.1M
- Canadahelps Canadon$772K
- Canadahelps Canadon$772K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$691K
- Healthpartners Canada$668K
- Healthpartners Canada$565K
- Weston Family Foundation$500K
- The Calgary Foundation$411K
- Aqueduct Foundation$357K
- Smith-Homestead Foundation$250K
- Myriad Canada Foundation$250K
- Federated Health Charities Corporation$218K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$217K
- Norris Family Foundation$200K
- Fondation Mirella & Lino Saputo$200K
- BenefAction Foundation$156K
- NHL Foundation Canada$150K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$138K
- The Garron Foundation$100K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$99K
- Cancer Research Society$97K
- The Staal Family Foundation$95K
- The Edmond Gunn Foundation$92K
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
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9996 positions
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions695
- Total compensation, all staff$59.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Donna Carbell (director); Chen Fong (director); Arthur Heinmaa (director); Chan Hon Goh (director); Jonathan Irish (director); Shachi Kurl (co-chair); Rex Lee (director); Virginia McLaughlin (director); Hilary Pearson (director); Christopher Wein (co-chair); Andrea Seale (ceo and secretary); Robin Speer (director); John Trang (director); Stephen Forbes (director); Manon Boisclair (director); S. Eshwar Kumar (director); Lauren MacDonald (director); Tony R. Ritlop (director); Cyntia Morton (director); Stephen Robbins (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Cancer Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118829803RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.