Roger Neilson Children's Hospice / Roger Neilson Soins Palliatifs pour Enfants
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 861405496RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,179,483) as filed with the CRA.
Roger Neilson Children's Hospice / Roger Neilson Soins Palliatifs pour Enfants 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 $4.2M in revenue and $4.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 59% from government, 28% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.3M.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 21% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 21 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The object of Roger Neilson House is to enhance the quality of life for children / youth and provide respite care for the families of children / youth with progressive life-limiting illness; to construct maintain and operate a hospice for the paediatric care; to foster research and education in all areas of palliative care and to promote the dissemination of knowledge of the principles of paediatric care.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.2M | $4.2M | $3.4M | — | — | $916K |
| 2023 | $3.6M | $3.6M | $3.1M | — | — | $916K |
| 2022 | $3.5M | $3.4M | $2.9M | — | — | $957K |
| 2021 | $3.7M | $2.9M | $2.5M | — | — | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $3M | $3M | $2.5M | — | — | $888K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.3M from 13 charities:
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Foundation$1.2M
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$53K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$12K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$9,299
- Starlight Children's Foundation Canada$9,207
- Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation Fondation Proches Aimants Petro-Canada$7,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$4,000
- St Andrew's Presbyterian Church$1,000
- Elizabeth Park Protestant Chapel$900
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$834
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$156
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions21
- Total compensation, all staff$3.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alexa Brewer (director); David Creery (director); Robert Houston (secretary); Paul Lalonde (director); Janet Wilson (director); Brian Morris (director); Megan Wallace (director); Michelle Bouchard (vice chair); Mike Lupiano (past chair); Ian Hendry (chair); Jennifer Proulx (director); Celine Fu (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Roger Neilson Children's Hospice / Roger Neilson Soins Palliatifs pour Enfants’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 861405496RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.