Sunnybrook Research Institute
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 813563665RR0001 · Research
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($163,536,572) as filed with the CRA.
Sunnybrook Research Institute is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under research. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $164M in revenue and $163.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from government, 31% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $35.5M.
Compared with 74 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 1% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 756 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $45K in 2024, the largest being $25K to The Gairdner Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The vision of SRI is to invent the future of health care. Our main aims are to understand and prevent disease and develop treatments that enhance and extend life. SRI was incorporated without share capital under the Corporations Act of Ontario on April 27 2010. Effective December 1 2010 the Institute began operations and assumed the activities that were previously carried out by a division of SHSC.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $164M | $163.5M | — | — | $6.6M | $40.3M |
| 2023 | $133.3M | $133.3M | $121.6M | — | $2M | $32.3M |
| 2022 | $124.6M | $124.6M | $114.5M | — | $24K | $35.6M |
| 2021 | $110.9M | $110.1M | $103.2M | — | $1,000 | $41.2M |
| 2020 | $115M | $114.4M | $107M | — | $15K | $35.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $45K to 3 qualified donees:
Received $35.5M from 18 charities:
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$24.4M
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre$9.5M
- Brain Canada Foundation$727K
- Cancer Research Society$160K
- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada/societe de Leucemie & Lymphome du Canada$150K
- Breakthrough T1D Canada/Percée DT1 Canada$135K
- Fighting Blindness Canada$130K
- Praespero - An Autoimmune Research Fund$100K
- Pooler Charitable Fund$71K
- Praxis Spinal Cord Institute$60K
- The Prostate Cancer Fight Foundation$33K
- Movember Canada$13K
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$10K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$5,092
- Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine$2,500
- Prostate Cure Foundation$1,500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$155
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$152
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $300,000–349,9993 positions
- $250,000–299,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions756
- Total compensation, all staff$77.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kullervo Hynynen (officer/vice president); Linda Mantia (director); Galen Weston (director); Donald Lang (director); Andrew Smith (chief executive officer); Michael Young (officer evp & cao); Maneesh Mehta (director); Michele Beals (chief financial officer); Carol Annett (director /officer chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sunnybrook Research Institute’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 813563665RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.