Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation
Public foundation · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 131159543RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($25,120,918) as filed with the CRA.
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation is a public foundation based in Hamilton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $56.4M in revenue and $25.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 24% from donations, 11% from other charities. In 2024, 104 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5.4M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 36 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 18 qualified donees totalling $14.1M in 2024, the largest being $12.1M to Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $28M in 2020 to $56.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $56.4M | $25.1M | $2.2M | $5.6M | $14.1M | $219.6M |
| 2023 | $47.9M | $25.6M | $2.2M | $5.5M | $14.9M | $188.4M |
| 2022 | $18.8M | $19.3M | $1.5M | $4.8M | $9.9M | $166M |
| 2021 | $41.2M | $21.1M | $26K | $3.8M | $13.8M | $166.5M |
| 2020 | $28M | $20.6M | $64K | $4.4M | $13.6M | $146.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $14.1M to 18 qualified donees:
- Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation$12.1M
- McMaster University$1.6M
- Autism Alliance of Canada$351K
- The Hospital for Sick Children$50K
- Royal Botanical Gardens$20K
- Hamilton Health Sciences Volunteer Association$13K
- Sinai Health System$10K
- Hamilton Region Conservation Authority$9,922
- YMCA of Hamilton/burlington/brantford$5,540
- Diabetes Canada Diabète Canada$5,500
- Hospital Family Houses of Ontario$5,000
- Community Support Services of Niagara Region$4,906
- Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada$3,491
- Society of Saint Vincent de Paul Hamilton West Particular Council$2,700
- ST. Michael's Hospital (toronto) Research Institute$1,837
- Hamilton Brain Injury Association$1,500
- Glanbrook Home Support Programme Inc$353
- Dundas Community Services$130
Received $5.4M from 104 charities:
- Hamilton Health Sciences Volunteer Association$1.3M
- The Joyce Family Foundation$1M
- Marta and Owen Boris Foundation$420K
- Aqueduct Foundation$358K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$285K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$169K
- Avanti Foundation$150K
- The Lecluse Family Foundation$125K
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$123K
- Hillfield Strathallan College$120K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$100K
- The Henry White Kinnear Foundation$100K
- DKM Foundation$100K
- The Azrieli Foundation$95K
- The Doug Lamon Foundation$75K
- Hultink Family Foundation$50K
- The H G Bertram Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$45K
- Canadahelps Canadon$45K
- BenefAction Foundation$41K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$33K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$30K
- The Robert Albert Wilson Memorial Trust Fund$29K
- Canada Gives$25K
- William Birchall Foundation$25K
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
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions36
- Total compensation, all staff$4.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jon Jurus (vice chair); Jane Percival (director); Holly Simmons (chair); Reginald Swamy (past chair); James Wilson (director); David VanderPloeg (director); Sebastien Hotte (director); John McKenzie (treasurer); Paul Miller (director); Jessica Durka (director); John Lewis (director); Maria Artuso (director); Doug Murray (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131159543RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.