University Health Network
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119259505RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,254,437,000) as filed with the CRA.
University Health Network 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 $3.3B in revenue and $3.3B in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 67% from government, 9% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 47 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $288M.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 45% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 13,177 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. Our primary value is the needs of patients come first. Uhn operates four hospitals. These hospitals are separately identified as princess margaret cancer center toronto general hospital toronto western hospital and toronto rehabilitation institute. Uhn is a teaching hospital for the unversity of toronto. Uhn's purpose is transforming lives and communities through excellence in care discovery and learning. The values of safety compassion teamwork integrity and stewardship…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.3B | $3.3B | $3B | — | — | $571.5M |
| 2023 | $2.9B | $3B | $2.6B | — | — | $548.7M |
| 2022 | $2.8B | $2.8B | $2.5B | — | — | $595.8M |
| 2021 | $2.7B | $2.6B | $2.3B | — | — | $586.4M |
| 2020 | $2.5B | $2.4B | $2.3B | — | — | $544.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $288M from 47 charities:
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$152.7M
- UHN Foundation$120.4M
- Canadian Cancer Society$4.6M
- Cancer Research Society$1.9M
- Canadian Cancer Society$1.1M
- Breast Cancer Canada Cancer du sein du Canada$1M
- Weston Family Foundation$924K
- Breakthrough T1D Canada/Percée DT1 Canada$759K
- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada/societe de Leucemie & Lymphome du Canada$698K
- Conam Charitable Foundation$625K
- Praxis Spinal Cord Institute$423K
- Parkinson Canada Inc.$353K
- The Kidney Foundation of Canada$348K
- Diabetes Canada Diabète Canada$346K
- Movember Canada$302K
- Stand Up To Cancer Canada$275K
- Aqueduct Foundation$218K
- The Michael and Sonja Koerner Charitable Foundation$200K
- Earle and Janice O'Born Family Foundation$167K
- Usher 1F Collaborative Canada$82K
- Lung Cancer Canada Cancer Pulmonaire Canada$75K
- Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine$68K
- Watt Research Unit Trust Foundation$63K
- Canadian Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation$60K
- CDKL5 Canada$58K
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 positions13,177
- Total compensation, all staff$1.9B
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dean Connor (board of trustees member); Janice Fukakusa (board of trustees member); Todd Halpern (board of trustees member); Stu Kedwell (board of trustees member); Peter Menkes (board of trustees member); Lawrence Pentland (board of trustees member); Brian Porter (board of trustees member); Janet Rossant (board of trustees member); Shirlee Sharkey (board of trustees member); Ajay Virmani (board of trustees member); Peter Wallace (board of trustees member); Pamela Warren (board of trustees member); Jaime Watt (board of trustees member); Cornell Wright (board of trustees member); Trevor Young (board of trustees member); Patricia Houston (board of trustees member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from University Health Network’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119259505RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.