The Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 119229318RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,169) as filed with the CRA.
The Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation is a public foundation based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 $1.4M in revenue and $1,169 in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 71% from donations, 29% from other charities. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $249K.
Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $7.8M in 2020 to $1.4M in 2024.
In its own words
Dalhousie medical research foundation provides funding for research in the faculties of medicine health and dentistry at dalhousie university in the form of studentships graduate studentships fellowships chairs and other salary support the purchase of equipment and renovation of research facilities and other research grants.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1,169 | — | — | — | $25K |
| 2023 | -$4.6M | $4.4M | $6,667 | — | $3.2M | $97K |
| 2022 | $7.2M | $9M | — | $1.4M | $6.6M | $0 |
| 2021 | $18.4M | $8.4M | $6.2M | $1.3M | $6.2M | $88.3M |
| 2020 | $7.8M | $7.8M | — | $1.2M | $5.6M | $78.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $249K from 13 charities:
- Trust Under the Will of Helen U. Palmer$77K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$75K
- Parkinson Canada Inc.$38K
- Aqueduct Foundation$23K
- Pictou County Prostate Cancer Support Association$10K
- Frederick a & Abbie Lane Charity Fund$6,932
- BenefAction Foundation$6,567
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$6,249
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,531
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$1,476
- The Bert and Shari Frizzell Family Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$870
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$345
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$647K
Schedule 3 of its 2023 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119229318RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.