Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation
Charitable organization · Sydney, Nova Scotia · BN 130404593RR0001 · Core Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,253,335) as filed with the CRA.
Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation is a charitable organization based in Sydney, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $6.4M in revenue and $3.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 65% from donations. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $438K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $2M in 2024, the largest being $2M to Nova Scotia Health Authority (nsha). Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.9M in 2020 to $6.4M in 2024.
In its own words
Radiothon; festival of the greens & because you care fundraisers; conducted direct mail campaign for specific equipment for the nova scotia health authority. Received memorial donations and endowments.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.4M | $3.3M | — | $728K | $2M | $22.3M |
| 2023 | $5.6M | $2.3M | — | $762K | $1M | $19.3M |
| 2022 | $4.3M | $4.1M | — | $545K | $1.6M | $16.1M |
| 2021 | $5.5M | $2.2M | — | $468K | $822K | $15.8M |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $2.4M | — | $362K | $1.1M | $12.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $438K from 21 charities:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$151K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$100K
- Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia$50K
- Fondation Sandra Schmirler Foundation$35K
- RBC Foundation$33K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$13K
- Starlight Children's Foundation Canada$11K
- The Glen and Julie LeBlanc Foundation$10K
- The John and Jeanne Eyking Family Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,162
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$6,475
- United Way of Cape Breton County$2,674
- Sacred Heart Hospital Charitable Foundation$2,500
- ATCO Electric Epic$2,040
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,827
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$1,100
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$502
- Zakuta family foundation$250
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
- Corporation of the Sisters of ST Martha—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$728K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130404593RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.