Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
Publicly funded institution · Thunder Bay, Ontario · BN 896100658RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($491,276,424) as filed with the CRA.
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre is a charitable organization based in Thunder Bay, 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 $491.8M in revenue and $491.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 87% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $6M.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 36% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 2,158 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 17 names.
In its own words
Specialized and general hospital based health care for the people of Northwestern Ontario. Providing educational opportunities to students of the Northern School of Medicine in our roll as a teaching hospital.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $491.8M | $491.3M | $442.1M | — | — | $0 |
| 2023 | $439.6M | $442.7M | $398.4M | — | — | $0 |
| 2022 | $435.2M | $429.4M | $386.4M | — | — | $0 |
| 2021 | $428.6M | $417.5M | $375.7M | — | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $384.8M | $388.1M | $349.3M | — | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $6M from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $300,000–349,9993 positions
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2,158
- Total compensation, all staff$330.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gord Wickham (director); Patricia Lang (director); Matt Simeoni (director); Joy Wakefield (director); Christine Bates (director); Douglas Judson (director); Andrew Dean (director); Rhonda Crocker Ellacott (president secretary director); Bradley Jacobson (chief of staff director); Adam Vinet (cne director); Sarita Verma (dean nosmu director); Charles Campbell (director); Kim Ferris (director); Michael Pelletier (director); James Peotto (director); Elrasheed Osman (president psa director); Justin Garofalo (chief financial officer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 896100658RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.