Northern Ontario School of Medicine University
Publicly funded institution · Thunder Bay, Ontario · BN 864660352RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($65,365,000) as filed with the CRA.
Northern Ontario School of Medicine University is a charitable organization based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 April 30, 2024, it reported $66.4M in revenue and $65.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 81% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $17.2M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 6% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 264 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Provision of medical education student bursaries and research
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $66.4M | $65.4M | — | — | $2.5M | $0 |
| 2023 | $84.3M | $82.5M | — | — | $2.1M | $0 |
| 2022 | $52.7M | $54.8M | — | — | $1.8M | $0 |
| 2021 | $51.7M | $54.1M | — | — | $2M | $0 |
| 2020 | $51.6M | $52M | — | — | $1.5M | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $17.2M from 23 charities:
- Lakehead University$15.2M
- North Eastern Ontario Health Education Advancement Foundation$1.3M
- The Slaight Family Foundation$500K
- The Masonic Foundation of Ontario$50K
- Mach-Gaensslen Foundation of Canada$25K
- Ernest Bradshaw Estate$12K
- Oakville Community Foundation$10K
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$10K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$10K
- John Andrews Foundation$8,000
- The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem in Canada l'Ordre Militaire et Hospitalier de Saint-Lazare-De-Jerusalem au Canada$5,000
- Frog's Breath Foundation$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,910
- BenefAction Foundation$2,500
- Ontario Medical Foundation$2,500
- Community Foundation Grey Bruce$1,600
- The Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation of Canada$1,000
- John Carl Macisaac Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$910
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$544
- The Lougheed Foundation$500
- Kawartha Lakes Health CARE Initiative$200
- Canadahelps Canadon$192
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9996 positions
- $160,000–199,99922 positions
- Permanent full-time positions264
- Total compensation, all staff$46.3M
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 Ontario School of Medicine University’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 864660352RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.