Health Sciences Centre Foundation Inc.
Public foundation · Winnipeg, Manitoba · BN 118955012RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($16,016,560) as filed with the CRA.
Health Sciences Centre Foundation Inc. is a public foundation based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $38.5M in revenue and $16M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 21% from donations, 20% from other charities. In 2024, 51 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.3M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 25% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 20 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $651K in 2024, the largest being $651K to The Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba Inc.. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $14.8M in 2020 to $38.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 19 names.
In its own words
The health sciences centre foundation inc. Raises funds through a combination of donations specific fundraising events and invested funds. These funds are distributed to grant recipients and to specific capital and/or endowment projects
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $38.5M | $16M | $5.9M | $2.1M | $5.7M | $103.7M |
| 2023 | $30.9M | $18.2M | $10.1M | $6.7M | — | $81.2M |
| 2022 | $20.7M | $13M | $6.5M | $5.7M | — | $68.5M |
| 2021 | $23.9M | $13.3M | $6.7M | $5.7M | — | $60.8M |
| 2020 | $14.8M | $18.6M | $12.1M | $5.7M | — | $50.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $651K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $3.3M from 51 charities:
- Price Family Foundation Inc.$1M
- The Ernst Hansch Foundation Inc.$600K
- Wellington West Foundation Inc.$334K
- Carolyn Sifton Foundation Incorporated$250K
- The Dufresne Foundation Inc.$200K
- Abundance Canada$152K
- Wellington West Foundation Inc.$150K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$125K
- Aqueduct Foundation$56K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$53K
- BenefAction Foundation$52K
- Andison Family Foundation Inc.$50K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$38K
- Dorothy and Hugh Cole Foundation$32K
- DR. Alfred E. Deacon Medical Research Foundation Inc.$26K
- The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba$26K
- Canadahelps Canadon$17K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$13K
- The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba$12K
- The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$9,000
- Alan and Doreen Thompson Charitable Foundation Inc.$8,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,818
- Crafting for a Cure$5,246
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,900
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions20
- Total compensation, all staff$2.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jonathan Lyon (ex-officio); Paul Beaudin (ex-officio); Ray Bouchard (director); Richard Buchwald (director); Jim Eng (director); William Gardner (vice chair); Patricia Ann Gehlen Preston (director); Perry Gray (director); Katie Hall Hursh (director); Tina Jones (chair); Brian Lerner (director); Mike Linton (director); John Christopher Macaulay (director); Margaret Rita Proven (director); Andrew Stibbard (treasurer); Susan Ann Thompson (director); Christopher Watson (director); Jackie Wild (director); Shawn Young (ex-officio).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Health Sciences Centre Foundation Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118955012RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.