Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre Foundation Inc.
Public foundation · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 886463496RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($34,414,271) as filed with the CRA.
Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre Foundation Inc. is a public foundation based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $42M in revenue and $34.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 21% from donations. In 2024, 42 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.9M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 1% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 95% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 41 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 9 qualified donees totalling $11.1M in 2024, the largest being $9.6M to Nova Scotia Health Authority.
In its own words
The QEII Health Sciences Centre Foundation continues to raise and grant funds primarily for the benefit of the QEII Health Sciences Centre (part of Nova Scotia Health Authority) to support patient care research and education. The Foundation has charitable activities where it provides a number of smaller direct grants to support health education and patient assistance. This includes our Diversity in Healthcare bursary and Patient Essentials / Assistance grants.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $42M | $34.4M | $1.2M | $19.8M | $11.1M | $99.8M |
| 2023 | $37.8M | $35.9M | $856K | $20.2M | $12.7M | $92.3M |
| 2022 | $37.9M | $32.7M | $408K | $19M | $11.3M | $90.3M |
| 2021 | $43.1M | $27.5M | $527K | $16.4M | $8.5M | $85M |
| 2020 | $28.9M | $29.3M | $697K | $16.8M | $9.6M | $69.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $11.1M to 9 qualified donees:
- Nova Scotia Health Authority$9.6M
- Dalhousie University$1.5M
- The Nova Scotia Hearing & Speech Clinic$68K
- Nova Scotia Hospice/palliative CARE Association$5,428
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada$5,070
- Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer de l'Ovaire Canada$5,000
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$2,500
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$2,500
- I W K Health Centre Charitable Foundation$200
Received $1.9M from 42 charities:
- Fred and Edith Greene Foundation$450K
- Aqueduct Foundation$441K
- The Jamile and Gabbour Ramia Cancer Foundation$200K
- The Wadih M. Fares Family Foundation$100K
- RBC Foundation$100K
- The Windsor Foundation$100K
- River Philip Foundation$100K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$81K
- BenefAction Foundation$62K
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$34K
- Canadahelps Canadon$34K
- The Christina and Hedley G. Ivany Charitable Foundation$20K
- The Citrine Foundation of Canada$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$12K
- Open Sky$12K
- RBC Foundation$10K
- GJM Charitable Foundation$10K
- Black Family Foundation$10K
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$10K
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$10K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$6,249
- Arthur L. Irving Family Foundation$5,000
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$3,054
- The Fred George Foundation$3,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9995 positions
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions41
- Total compensation, all staff$4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre Foundation Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 886463496RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.