Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 106846942RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($130,569,174) as filed with the CRA.
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $162.5M in revenue and $130.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 51% from donations, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 429 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $7.1M.
Compared with 85 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 14% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 83% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 290 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 41 qualified donees totalling $10.3M in 2024, the largest being $1.3M to The Governors of the University of Alberta. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
1. Funds researchers and research teams working in medical institutes universities hospitals and communities across Canada as part of commitment to fund life-saving research. 2. Provides the public with health information and education programs on preventing and managing heart disease and stroke. 3. Provides special awareness and education materials to reach out to diverse groups at increased risk of or living with heart disease and stroke. 4. Provides professional education programs and resuscitation courses to keep healthcare providers up to date; implements multi-pronged programs focu…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $162.5M | $130.6M | $71.3M | $55.4M | $1.3M | $186.6M |
| 2023 | $137M | $112.4M | $53.3M | $55.3M | $889K | $145.6M |
| 2022 | $126.5M | $110.3M | $54.8M | $52.2M | $589K | $122.6M |
| 2021 | $135.9M | $98.3M | $50.5M | $44.7M | $867K | $106.7M |
| 2020 | $117.2M | $112M | $54.8M | $51.9M | $1M | $69.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $10.3M to 41 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Governors of the University of Alberta$1.3M
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$1.1M
- UHN Foundation$823K
- The University of Western Ontario$736K
- The University of British Columbia$725K
- McMaster University$696K
- University of Ottawa Heart Institute Foundation Fondation de l'Institut de Cardiologie de l'Universite d'Ottawa$474K
- The University of Manitoba$460K
- Fondation de l'Institut de Cardiologie de Montreal/montreal Heart Institute Foundation$441K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$408K
- L'Institut de Recherche du Centre Universitaire de Santé McGill The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre$285K
- Dalhousie University$269K
- University of Guelph$264K
- University of Saskatchewan$195K
- London Health Sciences Centre$181K
- L'Hôpital Général Juif Sir Mortimer B. Davis$176K
- The Ottawa Hospital Foundation/la Fondation de l'Hopital d'Ottawa$171K
- Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal$165K
- ST. Michael's and Providence Foundation$152K
- Canadian Blood Services$125K
- Queen's University at Kingston$125K
- Simon Fraser University$107K
- Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation$96K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$93K
- Université Laval$89K
Received $7.1M from 429 charities:
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$907K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$587K
- Canadahelps Canadon$571K
- Canadahelps Canadon$571K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$485K
- Vancouver Foundation$452K
- The Calgary Foundation$438K
- Healthpartners Canada$436K
- Aqueduct Foundation$348K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$177K
- Federated Health Charities Corporation$140K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$139K
- BenefAction Foundation$126K
- The Cardinal Foundation$106K
- The Edmond Gunn Foundation$92K
- The Victoria Foundation$75K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$56K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$50K
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$50K
- Canada Gives$43K
- Abundance Canada$43K
- Harold Patrick Leask and Jean Beatrice Leask Foundation$40K
- Margaret Rothweiler Charitable Foundation$35K
- The Lecky Foundation$30K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$27K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over3 positions
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $250,000–299,9993 positions
- $200,000–249,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions290
- Total compensation, all staff$33.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Chris Tambakis (board member); Kostia Pantazis (board member); Charlene Ripley (chair); Derek Lothian (board member); Ratika Parkash (board member); Sonia Anand (board member); Gavin Oudit (board member); Jason Chang (board member); Clayton Norris (board member); Kyle Hickey (board member); Stephen Carlin (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106846942RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.