Orbis Canada Foundation
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 886490994RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,748,560) as filed with the CRA.
Orbis Canada Foundation is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 78% from donations, 16% from other charities. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $497K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 9% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Reducing blindness trough the exchange of professional skills and education. The charity has sponsored programs in developing countries.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.7M | $746K | $741K | — | $2.1M |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $1.3M | $450K | $614K | — | $2.2M |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.1M | $288K | $497K | — | $1M |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.4M | $551K | $640K | — | $746K |
| 2020 | $1M | $1M | $246K | $649K | — | $377K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $497K from 21 charities:
- BenefAction Foundation$300K
- OBAT Canada$60K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$50K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$20K
- Luke Four Foundation$20K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$12K
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,869
- The Peterborough K. M. Hunter Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$5,000
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,635
- The Tonglen Foundation$2,000
- The John David and Signy Eaton Charitable Foundation$1,000
- Totem Charitable Foundation$1,000
- CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund$855
- The Charitable Trust of Rotary Club of Flamborough A.M.$600
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$405
- The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society$193
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$180
- United Way of Greater Toronto$150
- Vibrant Markham Foundation$50
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$447K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Max Beck (treasurer); Dominique Geottrion (director); Catherine Hansen (director); Derek Hodkey (ex officio); Simon Holland (board chair/president); Hugh O'Reilly (director); Bulgan Orgilsaikhan (secretary); Lesra Martin (director); Alexandria Sham (director); Robert Byers (director); Anna Ells (director); Femida Kherani (director); John O'Leary (director); Benoit Saulnier (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Orbis Canada Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 886490994RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.