Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 119261048RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,163,776,000) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, 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 $6.2B in revenue and $6.2B in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 81% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $92M.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 73% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 13,831 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $3.5M in 2024, the largest being $2.5M to VGH & Ubc Hospital Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4B in 2020 to $6.2B in 2024.
In its own words
The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.2B | $6.2B | $5.9B | — | — | $130.4M |
| 2023 | $5.3B | $5.3B | $5B | — | — | $129.3M |
| 2022 | $4.9B | $4.8B | $4.6B | — | — | $210.3M |
| 2021 | $4.6B | $4.6B | $4.4B | — | — | $194.6M |
| 2020 | $4B | $4B | $3.8B | — | — | $171M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.5M to 2 qualified donees:
Received $92M from 20 charities:
- VGH & Ubc Hospital Foundation$51.4M
- Lions Gate Hospital Foundation$35M
- Richmond Hospital Foundation$3.5M
- The Sullivan Urology Foundation$862K
- Sunshine Coast Healthcare Auxiliary Society$325K
- The Richmond Hospital/healthcare Auxiliary$176K
- Squamish Hospital Foundation$175K
- Squamish General Hospital Auxiliary Society$143K
- Pacific Public Health Foundation$100K
- Powell River Hospital Foundation$87K
- Whistler Health CARE Foundation$71K
- Bella Coola HealthCare Auxiliary$3,324
- The Parish of ST. Philip's Vancouver$2,500
- Vancity Community Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$585
- Vancity Community Foundation$500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$437
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$350
- ST. Paul's Foundation of Vancouver$170
- Canadahelps Canadon$24
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 positions13,831
- Total compensation, all staff$2.9B
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver Coastal Health Authority’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119261048RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.