Northern Health Authority
Publicly funded institution · Prince George, British Columbia · BN 886135953RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,441,529,459) as filed with the CRA.
Northern Health Authority is a charitable organization based in Prince George, British Columbia, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $1.4B in revenue and $1.4B in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 91% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.4M.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 47% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 5,810 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $949.4M in 2020 to $1.4B in 2024.
In its own words
The role of the Authority is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the north region of British Columbia and those referred from outside the region. Northern Health Authority was created under the Health Authorities Act of British Columbia on December 12 2001 with a Board of Directors appointed by the Ministry of Health. The Authority is dependent on the Ministry of Health to provide sufficient funds to continue operations replace essential equipment and complete its capital projects
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4B | $1.4B | $1.3B | $0 | $0 | -$19.3M |
| 2023 | $1.2B | $1.2B | $1.1B | — | — | -$24M |
| 2022 | $1.1B | $1.1B | $1B | — | — | $16.5M |
| 2021 | $1B | $1B | $951.7M | — | — | $15.6M |
| 2020 | $949.4M | $947M | $872.2M | — | — | -$952K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3.4M from 11 charities:
- Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation$1.7M
- Bulkley Valley Health Care and Hospital Foundation$606K
- Fort ST. John Hospital Foundation$364K
- RBC Foundation$250K
- Pacific Public Health Foundation$241K
- B.v.d. Hospital Auxiliary Society$133K
- Dawson Creek and District Hospital Foundation$92K
- Vancouver Foundation$20K
- Auxiliary to University Hospital of Northern British Columbia Society$400
- Starlight Children's Foundation Canada$370
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$84
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over10 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5,810
- Total compensation, all staff$1B
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Northern Health Authority’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 886135953RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.