The Foundation of Guelph General Hospital
Public foundation · Guelph, Ontario · BN 843454190RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,798,919) as filed with the CRA.
The Foundation of Guelph General Hospital is a public foundation based in Guelph, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $8.3M in revenue and $7.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 66% from donations, 9% from government, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 27 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $740K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 52% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $6.5M in 2024, the largest being $6.5M to Guelph General Hospital Commission. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $5M in 2020 to $8.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The foundation's mission is to transform healthcare through giving. We achieve this through a range of fundraising programs carried out by our professional team and volunteers. Ongoing programs include annual monthly and online giving; special and third party events; direct mail and marketing; telephone fundraising; planned giving; major gifts; sponsorship; and lotteries/raffles.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.3M | $7.8M | $350K | — | $6.5M | $17M |
| 2023 | $8.6M | $11.8M | — | $267K | $10.5M | $16.5M |
| 2022 | $8.8M | $7M | $190K | — | $5.7M | $19.7M |
| 2021 | $9.6M | $5.1M | — | $1.4M | $3.5M | $17.9M |
| 2020 | $5M | $3.4M | — | $874K | $2.3M | $13.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $6.5M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $740K from 27 charities:
- Aqueduct Foundation$302K
- The Colwyn and Jean Rich Foundation$100K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$54K
- The Stonefields Foundation$45K
- Waterloo Regional Health Network Foundation$37K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- FDC Foundation$25K
- The Guelph Community Foundation$22K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$20K
- Guelph Firefighters Benevolent Foundation$14K
- Fondation Sandra Schmirler Foundation$12K
- BenefAction Foundation$10K
- Starlight Children's Foundation Canada$6,627
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,920
- Alice and Murray Maitland Foundation$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,000
- The Middlefield Charitable Foundation$2,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,640
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,545
- Abundance Canada$1,450
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,000
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$600
- United Way of Greater Toronto$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$949K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tony Bier (director); Christina Crowley-Arklie (chair); Tracey Curtis (director); Jay Elinesky (director); Khalil Khamis (vice chair); Maria Roman-Bricknell (director); Taha Zafar (director); Lisa Gazzola (director); Robert Maier (director); Marissa Teeter (director); Mark Walton (director); Kathy Wilkie (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Foundation of Guelph General Hospital’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 843454190RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.