Providence Health CARE Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 873465728RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,440,596,000) as filed with the CRA.
Providence Health CARE Society 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 $1.4B in revenue and $1.4B in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $28.4M.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 76% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 5,286 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $9,350 in 2024, the largest being $7,500 to Kilala Lelum Health and Wellness Cooperative. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Providence situated in central vancouver provides acute long-term care geriatric rehabilitation continuing care and other tertiary care services to the residents of greater vancouver regional area and other residents of bc. Providence is responsible for operating seven community dialysis clinics in the vancouver region an addiction clinc and has clinical operations on 10 different sites: st. Paul's hospital holy family hospital mount saint joseph hospital brock fahrni pavilion st. Vincent's langara youville residence st. John hospice may's place hospice chenchenstway and honori…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4B | $1.4B | $1.4B | — | $9,350 | -$93.8M |
| 2023 | $1.2B | $1.2B | $1.2B | — | $9,350 | -$96M |
| 2022 | $1.2B | $1.2B | $1.1B | — | — | -$91.3M |
| 2021 | $1.1B | $1.1B | $1.1B | — | — | -$97.3M |
| 2020 | $1B | $1B | $999M | — | $1,800 | -$92.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $9,350 to 2 qualified donees:
Received $28.4M from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over3 positions
- $300,000–349,9993 positions
- $250,000–299,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5,286
- Total compensation, all staff$774.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Allore (director); Peter Bull (director); Neysa Finnie (director); Eric Harris (director/chair); Maria Harris (director); Debra Doucette (director); Karen Keilty (director); Dermot Kelleher (director); Michael Kennedy (director); Nelson Kwan (director); Christopher Lewis (director); Ivor Luk (director); Judith Lynam (director); Kirk Mitchell (director); Kate Perkins (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Providence Health CARE Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 873465728RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.