Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 108051541RR0002 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,416,625,522) as filed with the CRA.
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is a charitable organization based in Toronto, 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 $1.5B in revenue and $1.4B in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 88% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $62K.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 59% 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 $350,000 and over range (7 positions in that band). The charity reported 6,725 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $9.7M in 2024, the largest being $9.5M to Sunnybrook Research Institute. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 21 names.
In its own words
Sunnybrook health sciences centre is a teaching and research hospital affiliated with the university of toronto. Sunnybrook is focused on providing care that is tailored to the patient's unique needs developing a system of care around the patient's journey and delivering the highest possible quality which is provided by high performing teams.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5B | $1.4B | $1.3B | — | $9.7M | $949.7M |
| 2023 | $1.3B | $1.3B | $1.2B | — | $10.2M | $878.1M |
| 2022 | $1.2B | $1.2B | $1.1B | — | $9.7M | $888.9M |
| 2021 | $1.2B | $1.2B | $1.1B | — | $9.2M | $840.5M |
| 2020 | $1.1B | $1.1B | $1B | — | $10.7M | $818M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $9.7M to 2 qualified donees:
Received $62K from 8 charities:
- Conam Charitable Foundation$34K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$19K
- The Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Charitable Foundation$3,600
- The GRA Charitable Trust$2,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,200
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,166
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$200
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over7 positions
- $300,000–349,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6,725
- Total compensation, all staff$824.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Carol Annett (director/chair); Sharon Domb (director/president mdmsa); Donna Duncan (director); Colin Lynch (director); Linda Mantia (director); Maneesh Mehta (director); Anne Norman (director); Andrew Smith (director/president/ ceo/office); Kevin Strain (director); Ru Taggar (director/officer); Iliana Valiente (director); Galen Weston (director); Carey Diamond (director); Michele Beals (officer); Jennifer Mahboob (board secretary); Pooneh Baghai (director); Andrew Duncan (director); Patricia Houston (director/dean faculty of med u); Simron Singh (director/vp mdmsa); David Simmonds (director); Albert Yee (director/chair mac).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108051541RR0002), or read how we compute the receipt.