Crohn's and Colitis Canada / Crohn et Colite Canada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118831486RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($15,767,580) as filed with the CRA.
Crohn's and Colitis Canada / Crohn et Colite Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $14M in revenue and $15.8M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 62% from donations, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 150 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.6M.
Compared with 85 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 18% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 78% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 56 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 18 names.
In its own words
Crohn's and Colitis Canada is the only national volunteer-based charity focused on finding the cures for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis and improving the lives of children and adults affected by these devastating diseases. We are one of the top two health charity funders of Crohn's and colitis research in the world investing over $141 million in research since 1974. We are transforming the lives of people affected by Crohn's and colitis (the two main forms of inflammatory bowel disease) by investing in four key mission priorities: research patient programs advocacy education and …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $14M | $15.8M | $8.9M | $5.6M | — | $5.7M |
| 2023 | $14.3M | $16.8M | $9.4M | $5.6M | — | $7.4M |
| 2022 | $13.6M | $14.2M | $8M | $3.6M | — | $9.9M |
| 2021 | $12.7M | $11.4M | $6.2M | $3M | — | $10.5M |
| 2020 | $12.5M | $11.4M | $5.8M | $3.1M | — | $9.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.6M from 150 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$225K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$171K
- Healthpartners Canada$153K
- United Way Niagara$136K
- Healthpartners Canada$113K
- Canadahelps Canadon$112K
- Canadahelps Canadon$112K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$82K
- Federated Health Charities Corporation$67K
- The Walker Lynch Foundation$52K
- The Buttercup Foundation/ La Fondation Buttercup$40K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$27K
- The Mireille and Murray Steinberg Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille Mireille et Muuray Steinberg$25K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$21K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$20K
- The Albert and Phyllis Kipnes Foundation$17K
- The Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundation$15K
- Alan and Doreen Thompson Charitable Foundation Inc.$15K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$12K
- Children's Hospital Aid Society$10K
- The Tony and Robyn Eames Family Foundation$10K
- The John C. and Sally Horsfall Eaton Foundation$10K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$9,778
- United Way of Calgary and Area$9,108
- BenefAction Foundation$8,700
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
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions56
- Total compensation, all staff$6.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Adrianna Czornyj (co-vice chair); Ronald Dunn (co-vice chair); Sonu Dhanju Dhillon (director and secretary); John Van de Pol (director); Sylvain Chiasson (director); Susan Cowan (chair); Ruth Scully (director); Kaley Wilson (director); Keith Persaud (treasurer); Jodene Baker (director); Deanna Gibson (director); Kyle Steward (director); Dan Tanenbaum (director); Janis Byrne (director); Darren Kerr (director); Jess Messias (director); Sara Gottlieb (director); Edward (ted) Fleming (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Crohn's and Colitis Canada / Crohn et Colite Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118831486RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.