Praxis Spinal Cord Institute
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 819755299RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,272,417) as filed with the CRA.
Praxis Spinal Cord Institute is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under supportive 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 $11.1M in revenue and $10.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 91% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $113K.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 67% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 47 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 20 qualified donees totalling $2.7M in 2024, the largest being $1M to The University of British Columbia. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 18 names.
In its own words
Praxis’ four programming areas are: cure (translational research) care (best practice implementation) commercialization and persons with lived experience (plex). Praxis also undertakes additional activities related to network development informatics the national canadian spinal cord injury (sci) registry (rhscir) and management/administration. In f2024 the cure (translational research) program will advance and translate work in biomarkers neuro-restorative therapies and sci data. The care (best practice implementation) program will lead a comprehensive national sci care strategy an…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11.1M | $10.3M | $7M | $97K | $2.7M | $2.5M |
| 2023 | $8.3M | $7.8M | $5M | $107K | $2.3M | $1.7M |
| 2022 | $8.1M | $7.7M | $5.2M | $104K | $1.7M | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $10.8M | $10.7M | $5.5M | $28K | $4.4M | $749K |
| 2020 | $12.2M | $12.5M | $5.7M | $265K | $5.7M | $711K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.7M to 20 qualified donees:
- The University of British Columbia$1M
- University Health Network$423K
- Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociauxdu Nord-de-L'Île-de-Montréal$180K
- Regional Health Authority B/Régie régionale de la santé B$130K
- The Governors of the University of Alberta$110K
- Nova Scotia Health Authority (nsha)$110K
- The University of Manitoba$110K
- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute/Institut de recherche de l'hopital d'Ottawa$80K
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$65K
- University of Saskatchewan$60K
- Sunnybrook Research Institute$60K
- Lawson Research Institute/institut de Recherches Lawson$60K
- Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation$60K
- TFL Technology for Living Society$50K
- Unity Health Toronto$40K
- Eastern Regional Integrated Health Authority$30K
- Canadian Spinal Research Organization$24K
- McMaster University$20K
- La Corporation de l'Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal$20K
- University of Waterloo$8,000
Received $113K from 7 charities:
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
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9995 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions47
- Total compensation, all staff$4.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ben Almond (board member - vice chair); Jeremy Abitbol (board member); Michael Beattie (board member); Richdeep Gill (board member - secretary); Jeff Charpentier (board member); Kristine Cowley (board member); Shari Hughson (board member - vice chair); Ian Rigby (board member - chair); Christine Sang (board member); Nava Swersky Sofer (board member); Sean Gjos (board member); Harbir Toor (board member); Peter Guo (board member); Jauvonne Kitto (board member); Kimberly Anderson Erisman (board member); Joel Dembe (board member); David Estrada (board member); Ian Walker (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Praxis Spinal Cord Institute’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 819755299RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.