Lions Gate Hospital Foundation
Public foundation · North Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 119020907RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($38,139,144) as filed with the CRA.
Lions Gate Hospital Foundation is a public foundation based in North Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $35.8M in revenue and $38.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 65% from donations, 8% from other charities. In 2024, 76 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $9.3M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 62% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 86% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $35M in 2024, the largest being $35M to Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 18 names.
In its own words
The foundation's purpose is to raise funds for the enhancement of patient care at the publicly funded healthcare facilities on the north shore including lions gate hospital evergreen house cedar garden cedarview lodge berkley care centre margaret fulton centre west vancouver adult day care north shore hospice community and family programs and the greta and robert h.n. Ho psychiatry & education centre (the hope centre).
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $35.8M | $38.1M | — | $965K | $35M | $207M |
| 2023 | $34.5M | $12.3M | — | $723K | $9.6M | $206M |
| 2022 | $29.1M | $15.1M | — | $678K | $12.5M | $180.9M |
| 2021 | $38.6M | $6.3M | — | $408K | $4.1M | $175.9M |
| 2020 | $31.2M | $7.2M | — | $430K | $5M | $138M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $35M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $9.3M from 76 charities:
- The Paul Myers Family Foundation$5M
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$787K
- Fonteromano Foundation$550K
- BenefAction Foundation$453K
- The Walker Lynch Foundation$403K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$250K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$153K
- Vancouver Foundation$139K
- Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation$135K
- Krogseth Foundation$120K
- Gooding Family Foundation$114K
- Conam Charitable Foundation$100K
- James Family Foundation$100K
- Louis Family Foundation$85K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$59K
- Canada Gives$54K
- The Belmont Foundation$50K
- Chernoff Family Foundation$50K
- Longhedge Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$43K
- Kingsway Foundation$39K
- Senft Family Foundation$35K
- Ahamed Foundation$34K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
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
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$1.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Brighid Cassidy (director); Sandra Enticknap (past chair); Adil Ahamed (director); Gutmanis Greg (treasurer); Bruce Chan (co-vice chair); Sally Dennis (director); Darren Yada (director); Curt Barnardi (chair); Joan Proudfoot (director); Peter Buckley (secretary); Morna Slielka (director); Darlene Mackinnon (director); Selina Ladak (director); Yang Wang (director); Alex Messina (director); Farah Sayani (co-vice chair); Lee Ann Lambert (director); John Zaplatynsky (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lions Gate Hospital Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119020907RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.