Niagara Health Foundation
Public foundation · Welland, Ontario · BN 899402697RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($20,984,723) as filed with the CRA.
Niagara Health Foundation is a public foundation based in Welland, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $98.5M in revenue and $21M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 84% from donations. In 2024, 49 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.9M.
Compared with 85 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 59% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 97% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 21 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $17.4M in 2024, the largest being $17.4M to Niagara Health System. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $8.3M in 2020 to $98.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
We establish and administer funds for the purchase of direct patient diagnostic and treatment equipment and the improvement of facilities at the niagara health system sites. We print newsletters to help educate the public about the services provided by nhs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $98.5M | $21M | $4,500 | $2.4M | $17.4M | $115.7M |
| 2023 | $19M | $8.1M | $10K | $2.3M | $4.6M | $38.2M |
| 2022 | $9.9M | $8.1M | $17K | $1.9M | $5.1M | $27.4M |
| 2021 | $11.4M | $5.9M | $33K | $1.6M | $3.3M | $25.6M |
| 2020 | $8.3M | $5M | $12K | $1.1M | $2.4M | $20.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $17.4M to 1 qualified donee:
- Niagara Health System$17.4M
Received $1.9M from 49 charities:
- The River Realty Foundation$508K
- The Branscombe Family Foundation$500K
- Niagara's Cancer CARE Run Foundation$330K
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$200K
- Turner Family Foundation$50K
- Waterloo Regional Health Network Foundation$37K
- RBC Foundation$25K
- Canada Gives$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$21K
- Fondation Sandra Schmirler Foundation$20K
- The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation$20K
- Trust Under the Will of the Estate of William Douglas$14K
- Cidel Foundation$13K
- Canadahelps Canadon$12K
- The Guelph Community Foundation$10K
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$10K
- Starlight Children's Foundation Canada$8,116
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$8,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$7,976
- Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at Canada Inc.$5,062
- Fleming College Foundation$5,000
- Toronto Foundation$4,804
- Niagara Region Police Association Charitable Fund$3,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,000
- Abundance Canada$2,750
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions21
- Total compensation, all staff$2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michael Grocholsky (director); Albert Iannantuono (past chair); Kevin Wilson (chair); Sunny Halani (director); Jason Lostracco (treasurer); Joe Deman (director); Jennifer Grossi (director); Ruth-Ann Nieuwesteeg (director); Rachel Stuchberry (vice chair); Maria Menechella (director); Sheila Deluca (director); Richard Atherton (director); Bunny Alexander (director); James Baird (director); Irfan Daya (director); Marylee O'Neil (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Niagara Health Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 899402697RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.