Healthbridge Foundation of Canada
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 129950051RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,001,587) as filed with the CRA.
Healthbridge Foundation of Canada is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $5M in revenue and $5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 66% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $212K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 59% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.9M in 2020 to $5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
HealthBridge works with partners world-wide to improve health and health equity through research policy and action in the following programming areas: Food and Nutrition: combating hunger and malnutrition and improving food security; Improving gender equity and reproductive maternal newborn and child health (RMNCH); Advancing global tobacco control and NCD prevention; improving the livability of cities by ensuring access for the most vulnerable to healthy transportation healthy foods and parks and public spaces.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5M | $5M | $4.5M | — | — | $350K |
| 2023 | $4.7M | $4.7M | $4.2M | — | — | $388K |
| 2022 | $3.9M | $3.9M | $3.5M | — | — | $398K |
| 2021 | $2.5M | $2.6M | $2.2M | — | — | $424K |
| 2020 | $2.9M | $2.8M | — | — | — | $536K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $212K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$609K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Orvill Adams (co-chair); Eva Rathgerber (co-chair); Elvis Safary (director); Abiola Okpechi (director); Don de Savigny (director); Mark Zuidgeest (treasurer); Lauren Wiebe (director); Joel Rocque (director); Afzaa Rajabali (director); Malek Batal (director); Rebecca Brodmann (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Healthbridge Foundation of Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129950051RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.