Norwest Community Health Centres
Publicly funded institution · Thunder Bay, Ontario · BN 129646949RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($17,383,090) as filed with the CRA.
Norwest Community Health Centres is a charitable organization based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, 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 $17.2M in revenue and $17.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 85% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $393K.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 19% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $300,000–349,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 101 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Health care services are provided to the communities ranging from preventative education to treatment and follow-up; Consumption and Treatment services; harm reduction
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $17.2M | $17.4M | $14.8M | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $15.5M | $15.6M | $13.3M | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2022 | $15.2M | $15.8M | $13.4M | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2021 | $13.9M | $14.3M | $12.2M | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $13M | $12.7M | $10.8M | — | — | $1.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $393K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9993 positions
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions101
- Total compensation, all staff$12.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Thompson (director); Gregg Kendall (secretary treasurer); Angele Brunelle (director); James McPherson (chair); Nathanial Izzo (director); Lisa Hadland (director); Cathy Clara (vice chair); Kelly Fortier (director); Lisa Joubert (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Norwest Community Health Centres’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129646949RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.