Charity BreakdownCanadian charity filings, itemized

VGH & Ubc Hospital Foundation

Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 132173063RR0001 · Foundations · website

Your $100, itemizedVGH & Ubc Hospital FoundationFiscal year ended March 31, 2024
Gifts to other charities$58
Fundraising$31
Management & admin$7
Charitable programs$3
Other$1
TOTAL$100
Registered

Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($88,967,898) as filed with the CRA.

VGH & Ubc Hospital Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $127.1M in revenue and $89M in expenditures.

Its funding that year was roughly 38% from donations, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 168 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $25.8M.

Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 12% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 82% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 93 permanent full-time positions.

As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $51.6M in 2024, the largest being $51.4M to Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $82.5M in 2020 to $127.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 22 names.

In its own words

To solicit encourage and provide a medium for gifts donations bequests endowments and other acquisitions of real and personal property to promote research patient care and fund programs equipment and facilities at Vancouver General Hospital UBC Hospital GF Strong Rehab Centre Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and Vancouver Community.

Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.

The ledger, 2020–2024

YearRevenueSpendingProgramsFundraisingGifts outNet assets
2024$127.1M$89M$2.6M$27.3M$51.6M$452.9M
2023$116.1M$87.5M$2.6M$24.4M$53.5M$401.6M
2022$113.2M$83.5M—$21.2M$56.2M$377.1M
2021$88.8M$66.7M$0$21.7M$41.4M$350.4M
2020$82.5M$88.4M$0$26.2M$58.4M$306.3M

Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.

Money between charities, 2024

Received $25.8M from 168 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
  • $250,000–299,9992 positions
  • $200,000–249,9993 positions
  • $160,000–199,9994 positions
  • Permanent full-time positions93
  • Total compensation, all staff$11.4M

Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.

Directors & trustees (2024)

Jagjit Sihota-Chahil (chair); William Lin (director); Penny Ballem (director); Vivian Eliopoulos (director); Paul Geyer (treasurer); Kendall Ho (director); Ayeesha Lalji (director); Judy Leung (director); Alidad Pejman (director); Gary Redekop (director); Tara Sedlak (director); Keith Spencer (director); James Szabo (vice chair); Angela Chapman (secretary); Naz Panahi (director); Michelle De Moor (director); Pankaj Agarwal (director); David Helliwell (director); Judi Hess (director); Melissa Louie (director); Simpson Ma (director); Robert Rennie (director).

As listed on its 2024 return.

Check the source

Every figure on this page is from VGH & Ubc Hospital Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132173063RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.