Grace Health Centre for Children Women and Families
Publicly funded institution · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 887854354RR0001 · Core Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($403,610,000) as filed with the CRA.
Grace Health Centre for Children Women and Families is a charitable organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 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 $429.4M in revenue and $403.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 89% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $20.8M.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 55% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 1,969 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 8 qualified donees totalling $610K in 2024, the largest being $579K to Kids Help Phone. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 26 names.
In its own words
The izaak walton killam health centre provides quality in-patient and out-patient care for children women and families in the three maritime provinces and beyond. It is a tertiary care health centre providing ambulatory care services and maintaining in-patient beds. It is dedicated to family centered care education research and health promotion. The health centre offers a wide range of health services to women children and their families.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $429.4M | $403.6M | $373.1M | — | $610K | $258.8M |
| 2023 | $380.4M | $354.5M | $327.9M | — | — | $233M |
| 2022 | $321.1M | $320.1M | $294.2M | — | — | $213.5M |
| 2021 | $315.5M | $300.6M | $280.1M | — | — | $212.5M |
| 2020 | $293.7M | $292.5M | $271.8M | — | — | $197.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $610K to 8 qualified donees:
- Kids Help Phone$579K
- Brigadoon Children's Camp Society$10K
- Children First Canada$10K
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada$5,535
- Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia$5,000
- Ronald McDonald House Charities Atlantic Association$814
- Canadian Cancer Society$510
- Cbcra Canadian Cancer Society$100
Received $20.8M from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over3 positions
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions1,969
- Total compensation, all staff$297.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ron Smith; Thane Stevens; Sonya Fraser; Tracey Cutcliffe; Lois Scott; Krista Jangaard; Christopher Fowles; Michael Morris; Catherine Woodman; Darrell White; Cheryl Stewart-Walsh; Aldéa Landry; Julia Donahue; Lindsay Hawker; Ashwin Kutty; Gina Kinsman; David Lavigne; Wendy Griffin; Teresa Fortuna; Monica Foster; Sheila Woodcock; Cheryl Paynter; Justin Ghosn; Alexa Bagnell; Janet Dunphy; John Sylliboy.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Grace Health Centre for Children Women and Families’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 887854354RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.