The Kensington Eye Institute
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 872408109RR0001 · Supportive Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($31,279,778) as filed with the CRA.
The Kensington Eye Institute is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under supportive 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 $30.1M in revenue and $31.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 57% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $305K.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 8% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 169 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $19.7M in 2020 to $30.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The kensington eye institute is licensed under the independent health facilities act and operates a surgical and medical vision care and research facility to provide surgical medical and ancillary ambulatory care services to the public. The institute is dedicated to providing educational programs and materials as well as academic and teaching resources pertaining to medical and surgical eye care including specifically the education of medical students physicians surgical residents and fellows nursing staff technologists and other paramedical personnel. The institute also conducts researc…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $30.1M | $31.3M | $24.4M | — | — | $8.4M |
| 2023 | $29.4M | $28.7M | $22.2M | — | — | $9.5M |
| 2022 | $24.8M | $24.4M | $15.2M | — | — | $8.9M |
| 2021 | $21.6M | $22.3M | $16.3M | — | — | $8.5M |
| 2020 | $19.7M | $20M | $14.5M | — | $452K | $9.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $305K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions169
- Total compensation, all staff$13.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nicolas Brearton (director); Lesley Byrne (director); Janet Downing (director); Marnie Escaf (director); Georgia Gerring (director); Jeannine Girard-Pearlman (director); Cathrine Hunter (director); Jim Nelles (chair); Xiaobo Wang (director); Shari Wilson (director); Nizar Mohamed (director); Gary Rodin (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Kensington Eye Institute’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 872408109RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.