Ontario · Registered charity
THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION
THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION (Ontario) receives grants from 826 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$410,167,463 to it, the largest being THE PETER GILGAN FOUNDATION (C$57,573,645). 501 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$297M
- Funders on record
- 826
- Grants received
- C$410M
- Net assets
- C$1.4B
What The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation does
Ongoing programs
SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has accounted for about 10% of overall funding support at the Hospital. Our funding supports: At SickKids: Patient care; education programs for staff and trainees; capital projects; the purchase of equipment; and ground breaking research into children's health. Our core funding to the SickKids Research Institute for example allows our researchers to compete for national and international research grants multiplying the impact of donor dollars. - Nationally: through our national grants program the Foundation provides funding for the child health researchers across Canada. - Internationally: Foundation funding supports training at SickKids for international fellows; training programs for health professionals in the Caribbean and in Africa and treatment of certain international patients at SickKids.
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from C$1.2B to C$1.4B (+24%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
57% of THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 308 funders, grant income rose C$34M → C$74M.
From the CRA filings of THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 826 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 17% · 2019 25% · 2020 23% · 2021 22% · 2022 15% · 2023 14% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
39% of THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
89% of THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$5.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 regions is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 41 foundations nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Organizations like THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ontario
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION?
- THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION (Ontario) receives grants from 826 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$410,167,463 to it, the largest being THE PETER GILGAN FOUNDATION (C$57,573,645). 501 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 826 organizations giving C$410,167,463 in grants to THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION, 501 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION?
- THE PETER GILGAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$57,573,645 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 826 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register