Saint Elizabeth Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Markham, Ontario · BN 884726753RR0001 · Supportive Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,702,315) as filed with the CRA.
Saint Elizabeth Foundation is a charitable organization based in Markham, Ontario, 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 $3.5M in revenue and $2.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 66% from government, 9% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $117K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 91% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 28 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $52K in 2024, the largest being $52K to Saint Elizabeth Health CARE. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The foundation strives to improve the health and quality of life of canadians by supporting advances in health care research and technologies continuing education and technical training. The foundation supports the ongoing development of innovation charitable programs such as health clinics caregiver programs palliative care programs meeting the physical emotional and spitirual needs of patients and their families guidebooks distributed free of charge to individuals families and organizations across canada. The foundation seeks charitable support designed to improve aboriginal health car…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.5M | $2.7M | $2.6M | $25K | $52K | $9M |
| 2023 | $3M | $2M | $1.8M | $7,965 | $101K | $8.2M |
| 2022 | $3.9M | $1.6M | $1.4M | $10K | $145K | $7.2M |
| 2021 | $3.7M | $1.1M | $989K | $8,000 | $114K | $4.9M |
| 2020 | $3.1M | $2.3M | $2.2M | $14K | $64K | $2.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $52K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $117K from 19 charities:
- The Basilian Fathers of Sandwich in Ontario$40K
- The Peterson Foundation$30K
- Friends of Dismas Incorporated$15K
- The Sisters of St. Joseph for the Diocese of Toronto in Upper Canada$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- The Philip Smith Foundation$4,000
- Vancouver Foundation$3,000
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$3,000
- Trust Under Will of Vera Dolly Denty Foundation$2,429
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,358
- C And C Family Foundation$1,650
- New Beginnings Church$1,390
- The Racioppo Family Foundation$1,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,000
- Our Lady's Missionaries$1,000
- Toronto Foundation$750
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$620
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
- Les Missionnaires Oblates de Saint-Boniface—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions28
- Total compensation, all staff$1.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gordon Stothart (chair); Nancy Lefebre (director); Sandra Pupatello (director); John Yip (director); David Bruyea (director); Georgette Gregory (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Saint Elizabeth Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 884726753RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.