William Osler Health System Foundation
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✔+
FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY
Audited financial statements for current and previous years available on the charity’s website.
B-
RESULTS REPORTING
Grade based on the charity's public reporting of the work it does and the results it achieves.
n/r
DEMONSTRATED IMPACT
The demonstrated impact per dollar Ci calculates from available program information.
NEED FOR FUNDING
Charity's cash and investments (funding reserves) relative to how much it spends on programs in most recent year.
79%
CENTS TO THE CAUSE
For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 79 cents are available for programs.
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OVERVIEW
About William Osler Health System Foundation:
William Osler Health Foundation is a 3-star charity. The charity has a B- Results Reporting grade, which is below average. Its overhead spending is 21%, within Ci’s reasonable range. The charity can cover over nine years of annual program costs, outside Ci’s reasonable limit of three years.
Founded in 2002, William Osler Health Foundation (Osler Foundation) raises money for William Osler Health System (Osler). The healthcare group includes Brampton Civic Hospital, Etobicoke General Hospital, and Peel Memorial Centre for Integrated Health and Wellness. The Foundation states that the three hospitals provide life-changing health care to more than 1.3 million people in one of the fastest growing areas in Canada, as the communities are growing three times faster than the provincial average. The charity reported that Osler receives double the number of cardiac arrest cases compared to neighbouring centres, treating 14% of the province’s cardiac arrest cases while representing 6% of the population.
In F2025, Osler Foundation granted $5.2m to the William Osler Health System, as well as $107k listed as grants to others. In F2025, Osler reported 364,161 unique patient visits, with 310,713 emergency visits, 88,448 mental health and addictions cases, and 77,924 surgeries.
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Results and Impact
Ci could not find any quantified outcomes on the William Osler Health Foundation’s website.
This may not be a complete representation of the charity’s results and impact.
The charity is not yet rated on impact (n/r), which does not affect its star rating.
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Finances
William Osler Health Foundation’s audited financial statements follow activity-based costing, which is a best practice.
Osler Foundation had $22.8m in donations in F2025. Administrative costs are 6% of revenue (less investment income). Fundraising costs are 15% of donations. This results in total overhead spending of 21%. For every dollar donated, 79 cents are available to go to the cause, within Ci’s reasonable range.
Osler Foundation has $50.9m in reserve funds. This can cover 965%, or just under nine years and eight months of annual grant spending. This is outside Ci’s reasonable limit of three years.
Osler Foundation reported $2.5m in investment income. It had a return on investment of 4% in F2025 and had a 5-year average return of 4%.
Profile updated by Leah Holmes on August 27, 2025. Comments and corrections may be forthcoming.
Financial Review
Fiscal year ending March
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2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Administrative costs as % of revenues | 6.0% | 5.8% | 9.3% |
| Fundraising costs as % of donations | 14.6% | 15.5% | 27.2% |
| Total overhead spending | 20.5% | 21.3% | 36.5% |
| Program cost coverage (%) | 964.5% | 438.9% | 298.8% |
Summary Financial StatementsAll figures in $000s |
2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donations | 22,782 | 20,957 | 11,081 |
| Investment income | 2,481 | 1,770 | 15 |
| Total revenues | 25,264 | 22,727 | 11,096 |
| Grants | 5,275 | 8,121 | 8,603 |
| Administrative costs | 1,361 | 1,215 | 1,026 |
| Fundraising costs | 3,321 | 3,253 | 3,013 |
| Total spending | 9,956 | 12,590 | 12,642 |
| Cash flow from operations | 15,308 | 10,137 | (1,546) |
| Capital spending | 8 | 54 | 3 |
| Funding reserves | 50,874 | 35,640 | 25,703 |
Note: Ci adjusted for grants payable to Osler, affecting expenses by ($38k) in F2025, ($8k) in F2024, and ($47k) in F2023. Ci adjusted for deferred donations, affecting total revenues by $277k in F2025, ($138k) in F2024, and $158k in F2023.
Salary Information
$350k + |
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$300k - $350k |
0 |
$250k - $300k |
0 |
$200k - $250k |
2 |
$160k - $200k |
2 |
$120k - $160k |
2 |
$80k - $120k |
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$40k - $80k |
0 |
< $40k |
0 |
Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2024
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Comments & Contact
Comments added by the Charity:
William Osler Health System Foundation added these comments to the 2018 profile update:
William Osler Health System Foundation (Osler Foundation) believes in being both efficient and effective in meeting its mission to build and foster relationships to raise funds to support William Osler Health System’s (Osler) capital, education and research priorities.
With the support of the community, Osler Foundation has helped fund the building and equipping of Brampton Civic Hospital, opened in 2007. The Foundation is now in the process of raising funds to build the new Peel Memorial Centre for Integrated Health & Wellness in Brampton, to fund a new four-storey, five-level wing at Etobicoke General Hospital, and to continue to equip Brampton Civic’s much needed programs and services.
Fundraising efforts respect the donor community’s preferred methods of engaging with Osler Foundation, which includes community events. With the funding opportunity that lies ahead, Osler Foundation and its Board of Directors is balancing revenues and expenses with a new focus on significantly building major gift fundraising capacity which will positively impact both efficiency and effectiveness.
Financial Reserves
Osler is in an unprecedented time of growth, requiring a large funding reserve to meet the increased funding requirements at major building milestones.
Transparency
Osler Foundation believes in transparency and informed giving. We encourage the public to visit the “Accountability to our Donors” pages which include our financial statements on Osler Foundation’s website (www.oslerfoundation.org), as well as Osler’s website (www.williamoslerhc.on.ca) to see how donations are making a difference, every day, to patients. We welcome direct inquiries and thank all donors for their support as Osler strives to achieve its Vision of delivering ‘Patient-inspired health care without boundaries’.
Comments for the 2025 profile update may be forthcoming.
Charity Contact
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