Stratford General Hospital Foundation
Public foundation · Stratford, Ontario · BN 119200004RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,540,614) as filed with the CRA.
Stratford General Hospital Foundation is a public foundation based in Stratford, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.4M in revenue and $6.5M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 91% from donations. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $175K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 55% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $5.8M in 2024, the largest being $5.7M to Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.4M in 2020 to $4.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The foundation supported stratford general hospital (sgh) with grants to buy medical and other hospital equipment. The foundation works with the community to raise funds for major renovations special projects equipment and education for sgh. The foundation continues to raise funds for essential medical equipment in fiscal 2024 and continues to raise funds for its next capital equipment campaign.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.4M | $6.5M | — | $258K | $5.8M | $6.7M |
| 2023 | $1.9M | $1.9M | — | $429K | $1.1M | $8.9M |
| 2021 | $2.3M | $2.1M | — | $317K | $1.5M | $4M |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $2.1M | — | $372K | $1.4M | $3.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $5.8M to 2 qualified donees:
Received $175K from 19 charities:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$108K
- The Hogervorst Foundation$15K
- The Royal Canadian Legion Ontario Provincial Command Branches and Ladies' Auxiliaries Charitable Foundation$10K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$10K
- Reformed Mennonite Church$8,000
- Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$4,335
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,645
- Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation$2,500
- Kilroy Council No. 1431 Charitable Welfare Trust$2,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,000
- Abundance Canada$1,100
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,085
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,047
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$340
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$240
- Kelowna General Hospital Foundation$100
- Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada$50
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$493K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Phil Buxton (treasurer); Alyson Conrad (trustee); Robert Gould (trustee); Cheryl Hunt (secretary); Fritz Steigmeier (trustee); Barb Thibeault (chair); Andrew Williams (trustee); Josef Frank (vice-chair); Alistair Smith (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Stratford General Hospital Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119200004RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.