Institute for Improved Health Outcomes
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 132314154RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,333,746) as filed with the CRA.
Institute for Improved Health Outcomes is a public foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. 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 September 30, 2024, it reported $2.6M in revenue and $2.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 80% from government, 15% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $195K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 96% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $160,000–199,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 16 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Channel knowledge into better bone and joint health care services. Facilitate the improvement of clinical care related to bone and joint health. Fund research activities and distribute results to medical practitioners the government and the public. MAP TO MOTION is completing an integrated bone and joint information hub to link information from acute care interventions community-based care and newly acquired long-term patient outcomes targeted to benefit patients clinicians researchers and government.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.6M | $2.3M | $2.3M | $27K | — | $856K |
| 2023 | $2M | $2M | $1.7M | $2,140 | — | $588K |
| 2022 | $2.1M | $2.1M | $1.9M | $20K | — | $565K |
| 2021 | $2M | $2M | $1.8M | $20K | — | $549K |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $1.9M | $1.6M | $34K | $250 | $619K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $195K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions16
- Total compensation, all staff$1.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Don Dick (chair); Ann McCaig (honorary chair); Kelley Desouza (director); Lauren Beaupre (director); Rick Anderson (director); Tony Fields (director); Karen Wichuk (director); Randy Goebel (director); Murray Smith (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Institute for Improved Health Outcomes’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132314154RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.