Pine River Institute
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 874627516RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,787,768) as filed with the CRA.
Pine River Institute is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, 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 $10.8M in revenue and $10.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 84% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $143K.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 12% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 71 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $78K in 2024, the largest being $78K to Pine River Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $5.7M in 2020 to $10.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 20 names.
In its own words
The organization operates a live-in school and treatment centre for youth with addictive behaviour. The objective of the organization is to bring an innovative life-saving treatment facility to youth and their familties in canada.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $10.8M | $10.8M | $8.7M | — | $78K | $504K |
| 2023 | $10M | $10M | $7.3M | — | $727K | $504K |
| 2022 | $8.8M | $8.8M | $5.8M | — | $1.4M | $504K |
| 2021 | $6.1M | $6.1M | $4.6M | — | $387K | $504K |
| 2020 | $5.7M | $5.7M | $4.5M | — | $201K | $503K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $78K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $143K from 13 charities:
- The Norman and Marian Robertson Charitable Foundation$50K
- Aqueduct Foundation$20K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$20K
- Rexall Care Network$20K
- The Bedolfe Foundation$15K
- The Donald F. Hunter Charitable Foundation$10K
- Dufferin Community Foundation$3,500
- Canada Gives$3,000
- BenefAction Foundation$918
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$499
- Link Charity Canada Inc$250
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$120
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$100
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
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions71
- Total compensation, all staff$7.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Claire Fainer (board member); Edyta Pacuk (board member); John Sinclair (board member); Kevin McKenzie (board member); Athena Varmazis (vice chair); Patrick Nelson (board member); Cory Estrela (board member); Andrea Fellows (board member); Karen Leslie (director); Melissa Law (board member); Lori Newton (board member); Bruce Rivers (board member); Iain McMeekin (board member); Amanda Martino (board member); Cristina Burgess (board member); Guy Carr-Harris (board member); Clare Gaudet (board member); Nancy Hamm (board member); Maria Milanetti (board member); Janet Newlands (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Pine River Institute’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 874627516RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.