Health Sciences North
Publicly funded institution · Sudbury, Ontario · BN 885027243RR0001 · Core Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($696,397,000) as filed with the CRA.
Health Sciences North is a charitable organization based in Sudbury, 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 $696M in revenue and $696.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 72% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.7M.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 29% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 2,700 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Operates as a health care organization that provides a wide range of services; acute inpatient care diagnostic and therapeutic outpatient clinics mental health and addictions and community care services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $696M | $696.4M | $615.3M | — | — | -$6.8M |
| 2023 | $631.5M | $645.6M | $572.1M | — | — | -$6.4M |
| 2022 | $610M | $609.9M | $539.4M | — | — | $14.2M |
| 2021 | $600.9M | $580.1M | $562.7M | — | — | $14M |
| 2020 | $527.4M | $529.1M | $513.2M | — | — | -$6.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3.7M from 7 charities:
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
- $250,000–299,9995 positions
- $200,000–249,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2,700
- Total compensation, all staff$405.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Catherine Cervin (elected director); Marc Despatie (elected director); Francesca Grosso (elected director); Tom Laughren (vice chair (elected dire); David McNeil (ex-officio dir. preside); Bhatia Pankaj (ex-officio dir. chief o); Michel Paulin (elected director); Stéphan Plante (chair (elected director)); Pamela Williamson (elected director); Shayne Wisniewski (elected director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Health Sciences North’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 885027243RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.