Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 135275857RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($117,312,496) as filed with the CRA.
Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada 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 $117.6M in revenue and $117.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 79% from donations, 11% from government. In 2024, 490 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $16.1M.
Compared with 85 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 99% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 83% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 147 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Médecins sans frontières offers assistance to populations in distress victims of natural or man-made disasters and victims of armed conflicts without discrimination and irrespective of race religion creed or political affiliation. Médecins sans frontières observes neutrality and impartiality in the name of universal medical ethics and right to humanitarian assistance and demands full and unhindered freedom in the exercise of function. Médecins sans frontières volunteers promised to honour their professional code of ethics and to maintain complete independence from all political economic …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $117.6M | $117.3M | $96.6M | $17M | $80.2M | $13.6M |
| 2023 | $122.6M | $122.4M | $18.8M | $17.1M | $85.1M | $13.4M |
| 2022 | $122.1M | $121.7M | $102.3M | $16.3M | — | $13.2M |
| 2021 | $113.3M | $122.3M | $103.7M | $15.9M | — | $12.8M |
| 2020 | $97M | $91.2M | $75.6M | $13.1M | — | $26M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $16.1M from 490 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$2.6M
- Canadahelps Canadon$2.6M
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2M
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$837K
- Aqueduct Foundation$628K
- BenefAction Foundation$572K
- Vancouver Foundation$259K
- Wheeler Family Foundation$235K
- Link Charity Canada Inc$225K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$219K
- Canada Gives$214K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$213K
- The Walker Lynch Foundation$201K
- The Sonor Foundation$200K
- Charity Intelligence Canada$175K
- David and Penny Wilson Family Foundation$150K
- The Calgary Foundation$141K
- Abundance Canada$128K
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$125K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$117K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$104K
- Edwards Charitable Foundation$100K
- Airlie Foundation$100K
- The Alexander Charles Foundation$100K
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$100K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions147
- Total compensation, all staff$19.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ruby Gill (board president); Adam Disimine (secretary); Heather Thomson (board director); Nadine Crossland (vice president); Sabrina Feldman (legal officer); Tania Keefe (board director); Michael Fark (board director); Stephanie Mayronne (board director); Chloe Eustache (board director); Harrison Hopkins (board director); Akash Kapoor (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 135275857RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.