The Hospital for Sick Children
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 107492928RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,355,338,599) as filed with the CRA.
The Hospital for Sick Children 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 $1.4B in revenue and $1.4B in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 74% from government, 16% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 59 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $8M.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 7% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 4,774 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $4.1M in 2024, the largest being $4.1M to The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 25 names.
In its own words
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and to prepare the next generation of leaders in child health.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4B | $1.4B | $1B | $0 | $4.1M | $374.1M |
| 2023 | $1.3B | $1.3B | $955.3M | — | $3.5M | $360.3M |
| 2022 | $1.2B | $1.2B | $938.1M | — | $738K | $405.3M |
| 2021 | $1.1B | $1.1B | $893.4M | $0 | $2.9M | $347.5M |
| 2020 | $1.1B | $1.1B | $877M | — | $2.9M | $318.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4.1M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $8M from 59 charities:
- Canadian Cancer Society$1.5M
- Breakthrough T1D Canada/Percée DT1 Canada$1.4M
- Ch.i.l.d. Foundation$1M
- Brain Canada Foundation$753K
- Weston Family Foundation$743K
- Cancer Research Society$538K
- James W Cochrane Endowment$263K
- Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada$217K
- Diabetes Canada Diabète Canada$200K
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$169K
- Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Association of Canada (debra Canada)$161K
- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada/societe de Leucemie & Lymphome du Canada$158K
- The Frank Hay Memorial Foundation$114K
- The Kidney Foundation of Canada$102K
- Kindred Foundation$99K
- Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada$83K
- Ledcor Charitable Foundation$70K
- Fighting Blindness Canada$70K
- Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation$50K
- Avern Pardoe Foundation$44K
- The Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation of Canada$40K
- Molly Towell Perinatal Research Foundation$30K
- Alastair & Diana Gillespie Foundation$30K
- Link Charity Canada Inc$24K
- Pulmonary Hypertension Association of Canada$23K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over10 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4,774
- Total compensation, all staff$856M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kathleen Taylor (chair); Yongah Kim (vice chair); Clara Angotti (trustee); Jessica Chutter (trustee); Janet Davidson (trustee); Meric Gertler (trustee); Deland Kamanga (trustee); Bharat Masrani (trustee); Joseph Natale (trustee); Irwin Rotenberg (trustee); John Sullivan (trustee); Frank Vettese (trustee); Elizabeth Wilson (trustee); Sonia Baxendale (ex-officio); Ronald Cohn (ex-officio); Jeremy Friedman (ex-officio); Judy Van Clieaf (ex-officio); Rola Dagher (trustee); Walied Soliman (ex-officio); Kelly LaRocca (trustee); Michael Medline (trustee); John Graham (trustee); Hratch Panossian (trustee); Luc Mertens (ex-officio); Clare Sellers (ex-officio).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Hospital for Sick Children’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107492928RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.