Waterloo Regional Health Network Foundation
Public foundation · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 889180394RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($17,156,020) as filed with the CRA.
Waterloo Regional Health Network Foundation is a public foundation based in Kitchener, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $21.6M in revenue and $17.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 46% from donations. In 2024, 70 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.9M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 9% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 81% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 24 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 56 qualified donees totalling $8.2M in 2024, the largest being $7.4M to Grand River Hospital Corporation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $8.5M in 2020 to $21.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
We support grand river hospital corporation and other registered chartieis as approved by the board of directors.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $21.6M | $17.2M | $1.4M | $5.6M | $8.4M | $39.1M |
| 2023 | $23.4M | $13.2M | $2.7M | $2.7M | $6.1M | $34.7M |
| 2022 | $12.3M | $13.4M | $282K | $2.4M | $9.3M | $24.4M |
| 2021 | $16.8M | $9M | — | $2M | $5.7M | $30.3M |
| 2020 | $8.5M | $7.7M | — | $1.7M | $5.1M | $27.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $8.2M to 56 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Grand River Hospital Corporation$7.4M
- University of Waterloo$125K
- Timmins and District Hospital Foundation la Fondation de l'Hopital de Timmins et du District$51K
- North Bay Regional Health Centre Foundation$42K
- Niagara Health Foundation$37K
- The Foundation of Guelph General Hospital$37K
- Windsor Regional Hospital Foundation$36K
- Lakeridge Health Foundation$30K
- ST Mary's General Hospital Foundation Kitchener-Waterloo$29K
- Sault Area Hospitals Foundation$26K
- ST. Joseph's Healthcare Foundation Hamilton$26K
- Health Sciences North Foundation$24K
- The May Court Club of Oakville$23K
- Pembroke Regional Hospital Foundation$22K
- Chatham-Kent Health Alliance Foundation$20K
- Bluewater Health Foundation$19K
- Arnprior Regional Health Foundation$18K
- Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital Foundation$17K
- Cambridge Memorial Hospital Foundation$15K
- Carleton Place and District Memorial Hospital Foundation$14K
- Humber River Health Foundation$14K
- Headwaters Health CARE Foundation$14K
- Riverside Foundation for Health CARE$13K
- Southlake Regional Health Centre Foundation$12K
- West Parry Sound Health Centre Foundation$12K
Received $1.9M from 70 charities:
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation$500K
- Canadahelps Canadon$126K
- Canadahelps Canadon$126K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$108K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$105K
- Grand River Hospital Corporation Charity Trust$103K
- The Savvas Chamberlain Family Foundation$100K
- The Hebel Family Foundation$100K
- Abundance Canada$88K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$50K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- The Prostate Cancer Fight Foundation$50K
- Takla Foundation$36K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$34K
- Aqueduct Foundation$28K
- NHL Foundation Canada$25K
- BenefAction Foundation$17K
- Ryan Saturno Patient Amenities Fund$15K
- Starlight Children's Foundation Canada$11K
- The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundation$11K
- Zonta Club of Kitchener-Waterloo Charitable Foundation$10K
- Mabel and Gordon McMillen Foundation$10K
- Markham Waterloo Mennonite Conference$10K
- Charitus$10K
- Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation$10K
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
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions24
- Total compensation, all staff$2.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Seth Jutzi (chair); Tobi Day Hamilton (vice chair); Jonathan Dunlop (director); Sandra Stone (director); Neil Naik (director); Komal Singh (diretor); Ronald Gagnon (director); Shereen El Feki (director); Jacqueline Chiarot (director); Joshua Mitchell (treasurer); Darren Johnston (director); Charlene Wetherill (director); Samantha Santos (director); Amber French (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Waterloo Regional Health Network Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889180394RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.