The Charles H.best Diabetes Centre
Publicly funded institution · Whitby, Ontario · BN 136623295RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,242,055) as filed with the CRA.
The Charles H.best Diabetes Centre is a charitable organization based in Whitby, 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 $2.7M in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 22% from donations, 60% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $43K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 45% 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 $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The charles h. Best centre (founded in 1989) is a one-of-a-kind community healthcare centre (charitable organization) exclusively serving patients and families living with type 1 diabetes. We offer state-of-the-art clinical programming and services based on a truly integrated and collaborative care model. Our educators include registered nurses registered dietitians registered social workers registered practical nurse administrative team and an executive director. We are affiliated with many physicians both pediatric and adult who run clinics at our centre. Our unique services include:…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.7M | $2.2M | $2M | $179K | — | $3.3M |
| 2023 | $2.4M | $2.1M | $1.7M | $208K | — | $2.8M |
| 2022 | $2M | $1.8M | $1.4M | $63K | — | $1.7M |
| 2021 | $2M | $1.9M | $1.4M | $79K | — | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $1.9M | $1.3M | $445K | — | $1.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $43K from 16 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$16K
- RBC Foundation$5,000
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$5,000
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$5,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$2,683
- Arbor Memorial Foundation$2,000
- United Way of Durham Region$1,631
- Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Persons$1,500
- The W. P. Scott Charitable Foundation$1,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,260
- Kiwanis Club of Oshawa Education Foundation$500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$375
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$300
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$100
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$55
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$1.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Serge Babin (chair); Alan Curry (treasurer); Carol Stevenson (vice-chair); Ian Robertson (director); Mike Grass (director); Colum Savage (director); Hala Shamaa (secretary); Marlene Grass (director); Andrew McDonald (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Charles H.best Diabetes Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 136623295RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.