Vancouver Island Health Authority
Publicly funded institution · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 140926726RR0001 · Supportive Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,219,850,363) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Island Health Authority is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, 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 $4.2B in revenue and $4.2B in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 91% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $19M.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 85% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (8 positions in that band). The charity reported 13,864 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.8B in 2020 to $4.2B in 2024.
In its own words
Island health plans and delivers health care services to the residents of vancouver island in the province of british columbia. Health care services include but are not limited to acute care long-term care home support addictions mental health and preventative health community care and residential care.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.2B | $4.2B | $4.1B | — | — | -$88.6M |
| 2023 | $3.7B | $3.7B | $3.6B | — | — | -$91.7M |
| 2022 | $3.4B | $3.4B | $3.4B | — | — | -$57.1M |
| 2021 | $3.2B | $3.1B | $3.1B | — | — | -$57M |
| 2020 | $2.8B | $2.8B | $2.7B | — | — | -$63.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $19M from 17 charities:
- Victoria Hospitals Foundation$10.1M
- Lady Minto Hospital Foundation$4M
- Saanich Peninsula Hospital and Healthcare Foundation$2.2M
- Eldercare Foundation of Vancouver Island$704K
- Campbell River Hospital Foundation$496K
- Children's Health Foundation of Vancouver Island$473K
- Nanaimo Auxiliary to the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital$412K
- Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation$279K
- Chemainus Health CARE Auxiliary$70K
- Chemainus Health CARE Foundation$59K
- Lady Minto Hospital Auxiliary Society$51K
- Royal Jubilee Hospital Auxilliary$42K
- Ladysmith Health CARE Auxiliary$36K
- Sovereign Order of ST. John Victoria Commandery Foundation$12K
- Cystic Fibrosis Canada / Fibrose Kystique Canada$9,325
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$210
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$130
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over8 positions
- $300,000–349,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions13,864
- Total compensation, all staff$2.8B
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 Island Health Authority’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 140926726RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.