Grand River Hospital Corporation
Publicly funded institution · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 107579823RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($597,391,000) as filed with the CRA.
Grand River Hospital Corporation is a charitable organization based in Kitchener, 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 $610.5M in revenue and $597.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 82% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $7.4M.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2,464 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
Operates as a full service hospital providing patient care under the following programs: -cancer care -complex continuing care - laboratory - mental health and addictions -renal -childbirth -critical care - medical imaging - pharmacy - stroke -children's - emergency - medicine -rehabilitation -surgery
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $610.5M | $597.4M | $498.9M | — | — | $69.7M |
| 2023 | $550.9M | $550.8M | $464M | — | — | $56.9M |
| 2022 | $524M | $517.9M | $425.9M | — | — | $62.1M |
| 2021 | $499.5M | $488.3M | $406.3M | — | — | $53.4M |
| 2020 | $424.7M | $424.7M | $355.1M | — | — | $38.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $7.4M from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over2 positions
- $300,000–349,9997 positions
- $250,000–299,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2,464
- Total compensation, all staff$384.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ron Gagnon (chief executive officer); Doug Murry (chief financial officer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Grand River Hospital Corporation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107579823RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.