Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 871067245RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($14,580,223) as filed with the CRA.
Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario is a charitable organization based in Toronto, 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 $14.7M in revenue and $14.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 83% from government, 7% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $228K.
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 fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 89% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 27 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $45K in 2024, the largest being $45K to Canadian Cancer Society. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 17 names.
In its own words
1. Best Practices and Continuous Improvement – as the official advisor on childhood cancer care and control to the Ministry of Health POGO is relied upon to address priority issues in the system to evaluate new treatments and anticipate resource requirements promoting evidence-based practice to achieve best outcomes equitable access and optimal use of resources in alignment with POGO’s Childhood Cancer Care Plan. 2. Planning and Monitoring – POGO leads the development and execution of POGO’s Childhood Cancer Care Plan; identifies collects maintains and makes available childhood cancer-re…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $14.7M | $14.6M | $12.3M | $756K | $45K | $3.9M |
| 2023 | $11.6M | $11.5M | $9.5M | $728K | — | $3.7M |
| 2022 | $11M | $10M | $8.3M | $531K | — | $3.7M |
| 2021 | $11.2M | $10.4M | $8.7M | $566K | $0 | $2.7M |
| 2020 | $10.7M | $11M | $9.1M | $760K | $12K | $1.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $45K to 1 qualified donee:
- Canadian Cancer Society$45K
Received $228K from 22 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$59K
- Liuna Local 183 Charitable Foundation$25K
- Toronto Foundation$25K
- TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$16K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$15K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$15K
- Larry And Judy Tanenbaum Family Foundation$10K
- Kindred Foundation$10K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$5,932
- The Guelph Community Foundation$5,000
- The Di Marco Family Foundation$5,000
- The BLG Foundation$2,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,000
- The Philip Smith Foundation$2,000
- The Fuller Giving Foundation$2,000
- Mel & Pamela Himel Family Foundation$1,000
- Bradford West Gwillimbury Seniors Association$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$821
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$720
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$100
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$50
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions27
- Total compensation, all staff$3.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
James Scongack (president); Heather Connelly (secretary); Joan Green (director); Donna Johnston (director); Charmaine van Schaik (director); Pearl Schusheim (treasurer); Teri Stewart (director); Jim Whitlock (director); Alexandra Zorzi (director); Sumit Gupta (director); Jennifer La Rosa (director); Cindy Milne-Wren (director); Laura Wheaton (director); Jillian Ross (chief executive officer); David Hodgson (medical director); Michelle Johnston (director); Jennifer Lomax (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 871067245RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.