Charity BreakdownCanadian charity filings, itemized

The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 108084419RR0001 · Foundations · website

Your $100, itemizedThe Hospital for Sick Children FoundationFiscal year ended March 31, 2024
Gifts to other charities$65
Fundraising$25
Management & admin$7
Other$2
Charitable programs$1
TOTAL$100
Registered

Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($263,101,527) as filed with the CRA.

The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $297.1M in revenue and $263.1M in expenditures.

Its funding that year was roughly 33% from donations, 23% from other charities. In 2024, 345 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $66.1M.

Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 86% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (7 positions in that band). The charity reported 239 permanent full-time positions.

As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 39 qualified donees totalling $3.4M in 2024, the largest being $287K to Sainte-Justine UHC Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $186M in 2020 to $297.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 36 names.

In its own words

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has accounted for about 10% of overall funding support at the Hospital. Our funding supports: At SickKids: Patient care; education programs for staff and trainees; capital projects; the purchase of equipment; and ground breaking research into children's health. Our core funding to the SickKids Research Institute for example allows our researchers to compete fo…

Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.

The ledger, 2020–2024

YearRevenueSpendingProgramsFundraisingGifts outNet assets
2024$297.1M$263.1M$1.6M$65.8M$172.5M$1.4B
2023$279.3M$279.6M$1.5M$70.5M$185.5M$1.4B
2022$298.6M$227.8M$1.3M$65.8M$139.6M$1.4B
2021$268.1M$148.8M$1M$43.6M$83M$1.1B
2020$186M$216.1M$1.3M$52.6M$142.7M$1.1B

Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.

Money between charities, 2024

Granted $3.4M to 39 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:

Full grant ledger — all 39 grants

Received $66.1M from 345 charities:

As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.

What it pays

Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:

  • $350,000 and over7 positions
  • $250,000–299,9993 positions
  • Permanent full-time positions239
  • Total compensation, all staff$31.9M

Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.

Directors & trustees (2024)

Lalit Aggarwal (director); Kevin Au-Yeung (director); Jordan Banks (director); Sonia Baxendale (chair); Jordan Bitove (director); Emily Burnett (director); Ronald Cohn (director); Erin Donohue (director); Douglas Farley (director); Mary Federau (director); Stephen Forbes (director); John Francis (director); Jordan Gnat (director); Wesley Hall (director); Jake Herman (director); Kevin Kaye (director); Christian Lassonde (vice chair); Claudette McGowan (director); Barry McLellan (director); Derek Neldner (treasurer); Isaac Olowolafe Jr. (director); Dustin Reid (director); Suzanne Rogers (director); Claire Sellers (director); Walied Soliman (vice chair); Christina Sorbara (director); Kathleen Taylor (director); Maryann Turcke (director); Albert Wang (director); V. Prem Watsa (director); Nilam Ganenthiran (director); Claudia Hepburn (director); Deland Kamanga (director); Sachin Shah (director); Jennifer Suess (director); Jeff Kimel (director).

As listed on its 2024 return.

Check the source

Every figure on this page is from The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108084419RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.