Childrens Hospital of Eastern Ontario - Ottawa Children's Treatment Centre
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 106914682RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($511,598,000) as filed with the CRA.
Childrens Hospital of Eastern Ontario - Ottawa Children's Treatment Centre is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core 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 $510.5M in revenue and $511.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 87% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $14.4M.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 32% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 2,587 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $325.1M in 2020 to $510.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 18 names.
In its own words
CHEO is the national capital region's pediatric health and research centre offering a wide range of services: full-service 24-hour specialized children's hospital school and preschool autism therapy provider child and youth mental health agency children’s treatment centre rehabilitation service pediatric palliative care hospice school community and home health provider service coordinator genetics program and training and education for health professionals.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $510.5M | $511.6M | $455.7M | — | — | $15.8M |
| 2023 | $422.4M | $433.7M | $388.7M | — | — | $20.6M |
| 2022 | $377.1M | $375.3M | $331.7M | — | — | $34.1M |
| 2021 | $347.4M | $342.4M | $302.5M | — | — | $31.6M |
| 2020 | $325.1M | $325.8M | $285.7M | — | — | $26.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $14.4M from 18 charities:
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Foundation$13.9M
- The Bloodroot Fund$270K
- Canada Gives$100K
- The Jesse Davidson Foundation$69K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$57K
- Canadahelps Canadon$11K
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$10K
- Cystic Fibrosis Canada / Fibrose Kystique Canada$8,250
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,245
- Avonmore Finch Pastoral Charge$900
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$716
- United Way of Greater Toronto$690
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$677
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$510
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$482
- United Way/Centraide (Central N.B./Region Du Centre du N.B.)Inc.$270
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$249
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9997 positions
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2,587
- Total compensation, all staff$342.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jim Armour (director (vice chair)); Sacha Baharmand (director); Filipe Dinis (director (treasurer)); Karen Green (director); Tammy Degiovanni (director (cne)); Benoit Laberge (director); Jo-Anne Poirier (director (chair)); Louis Doyle (director); Justin Ferrabee (director); Jill Scott (director); Heidi Hauver (director); Annie Chartrand (director); Alex Munter (director (ceo)); Lindy Samson (director (chief of staff)); John Reisman (director (president medical…); Nancy Naylor (director); Seema Nagpal (director); Julie St-Pierre (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Childrens Hospital of Eastern Ontario - Ottawa Children's Treatment Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106914682RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.