Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre – Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Shareholders of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre has no shareholders. It is a corporation without share capital: the 1998 statute from which the present corporation descends continued it “as a corporation without share capital” and provided that “the corporation has no members” (S.O. 1998, c. 12, ss. 3(1) and 7, repealed 4 June 2007), and GLEIF records its legal form as an Ontario not-for-profit corporation. There is no share register, no issued capital and no ownership percentage to report, and nobody holds an equity stake in the hospital.

It is also a registered charity (CRA business number 108051541RR0002, designation C, charitable organisation). A registered charity’s property is held for its charitable purposes, not for owners. The Province of Ontario is its main funder (Ontario Health and the Ministry of Health provided C$1,258.2 million of C$1,759.2 million consolidated revenue in the year to 31 March 2026), but funding is not ownership, and the audited statements do not describe the Province as owning or controlling the corporation.

The provider’s stored shareholder field for this record holds only generic text about Canadian company shareholder filings, which does not apply to a hospital corporation without share capital.

Ultimate beneficial ownership

No natural person is, or could be, the ultimate beneficial owner of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in the ownership sense, because there are no shares or ownership interests to trace. Who owns Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre: no one. It is a not-for-profit public hospital corporation.

Data availability

Not applicable rather than not public: the entity has no share capital, so no shareholder or UBO information exists to publish. The 1998 statute’s “no members” provision is quoted from the repealed Act as published on e-Laws. The current by-laws were not retrieved, so this page does not state the corporation’s present membership arrangements.

Sources

• Ontario e-Laws, Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre Act, 1998, S.O. 1998, c. 12, ss. 3 and 7 (repealed 4 June 2007): https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/98s12 (retrieved 2026-10-16)
• GLEIF LEI record 549300Y7CBSBIJW8GB25, legal form CMB6 (Ontario not-for-profit corporation): https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/549300Y7CBSBIJW8GB25 (retrieved 2026-10-16)
• Canada Revenue Agency, 2024 List of charities, identification file: https://open.canada.ca/data/dataset/80c00cdb-1358-415c-bb8b-0de7f12675b8 (retrieved 2026-10-16)
• Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Consolidated Financial Statements, 31 March 2026, statement of operations and note 1: https://sunnybrook.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/SHSC-Consolidated-Financial-Statements-March-31-2026.pdf (auditor’s report 22 June 2026; retrieved 2026-10-16)

Directors and officers of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is governed by a volunteer board of directors and managed by a President and Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Andy J. Smith has been President and CEO since 2017, according to the hospital’s governance page (retrieved 16 October 2026). The CRA charity return for the fiscal period ending 31 March 2024 records Andrew Smith as “Director/President/CEO” with a start date of 1 July 2017.

The hospital’s governance page (retrieved 16 October 2026, with a 2026-27 board schedule) names Colin Lynch as Chair of the Board of Directors. The 2025-2026 Year in Review, published in 2026, signs its message as from Carol Annett, Chair, Board of Directors. The hospital’s own publications therefore show that the chair changed after the Year in Review was prepared, but the effective date of the change was not found in any source retrieved.

The CRA charity return for the period ending 31 March 2024 lists 30 director and officer appointments. Twenty-one carry no end date, and nine record an end date between June 2023 and June 2024. The return’s position labels include ex officio seats such as the president of the medical staff, the chair of the medical advisory committee and the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Toronto. A charity return is a dated filing, not a live register, so it does not show who holds office today.

The provider’s stored officer field for this record contains no officers. It holds only generic text saying officer data is not available for the jurisdiction, which is incorrect for a Canadian registered charity, whose directors are published each year in its CRA return.

Recent officer changes

• Board Chair: Carol Annett (named as Chair in the 2025-2026 Year in Review) was succeeded by Colin Lynch (named as Chair on the governance page retrieved 16 October 2026). The effective date was not disclosed in the sources retrieved.
• Thomas Flynn, recorded as “Director/Officer Board Chair”, has an end date of 19 June 2023 in the CRA return for the period ending 31 March 2024.

Data availability

Officer information is partial and dated. Director names, positions and start and end dates come from the annual CRA charity return, and the latest one retrieved covers the period ending 31 March 2024. Current office-holders come from the hospital’s own website. Nationality and country of residence are not disclosed in either source. The Ontario Business Registry, which holds the corporation’s filed director information, could not be searched because it returned a captcha challenge.

Sources

• Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Governance & Leadership: https://sunnybrook.ca/about-sunnybrook/governance-leadership/ (retrieved 2026-10-16)
• Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Year in Review 2025-2026: https://sunnybrook.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/SB_AnnualReport_2026.pdf (published 2026; retrieved 2026-10-16)
• Canada Revenue Agency, 2024 List of charities, directors/officers file, BN 108051541RR0002, fiscal period end 31 March 2024: https://open.canada.ca/data/dataset/80c00cdb-1358-415c-bb8b-0de7f12675b8 (retrieved 2026-10-16)

Group structure of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre has no parent company. It is a not-for-profit corporation without share capital, and GLEIF records a “NON_CONSOLIDATING” reporting exception for both its direct and its ultimate accounting-consolidation parent. Its audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2026 consolidate two not-for-profit corporations of which the hospital is the sole voting member: Sunnybrook Research Institute and Sunnybrook Research Academy. These are membership relationships, not shareholdings, so no ownership percentage applies.

The same statements name three related not-for-profit entities that are not consolidated. Vibrant Community Health, a Toronto community health centre, has had the hospital as its sole voting member since 1 April 2025, but the hospital elected not to consolidate it. The Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation is an independent corporation without share capital with its own board; it raises funds for the hospital, and the hospital has an economic interest in its net assets. The third is the St. John’s Rehab Volunteer Association. All of these are entities in Canada.

The provider’s stored group field holds only a generic absence notice. It does not record any of these relationships.

Verified corporate relationships

Recent structural changes

• 1 April 2025: voluntary integration with Vibrant Community Health, under which the hospital became Vibrant’s sole voting member (consolidated financial statements, 31 March 2026, note 2).
• 4 June 2007: the Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre Act, 1998, under which the corporation had been formed by amalgamation in 1998, was repealed by S.O. 2007, c. 10, Sched. J, s. 5.

Data availability

Partial. The relationships above come from the hospital’s audited consolidated statements and the CRA charity list, and both are dated. Membership terms and by-laws were not retrieved. The Ontario Business Registry, which would give Ontario corporation numbers for the Ontario-incorporated entities, is captcha-gated and was not used.

Sources

• Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Consolidated Financial Statements, 31 March 2026, notes 2, 12 and 13: https://sunnybrook.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/SHSC-Consolidated-Financial-Statements-March-31-2026.pdf (auditor’s report 22 June 2026; retrieved 2026-10-16)
• GLEIF, direct and ultimate parent reporting exceptions for LEI 549300Y7CBSBIJW8GB25: https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/549300Y7CBSBIJW8GB25/direct-parent-reporting-exception (retrieved 2026-10-16)
• Canada Revenue Agency, 2024 List of charities, identification file: https://open.canada.ca/data/dataset/80c00cdb-1358-415c-bb8b-0de7f12675b8 (retrieved 2026-10-16)
• Corporations Canada, federal corporation search, Sunnybrook Research Academy (763333-5): https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cc/lgcy/fdrlCrpDtls.html?p=0&corpId=7633335 (retrieved 2026-10-16)
• Ontario e-Laws, S.O. 2007, c. 10, Schedule J: https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/s07010 (retrieved 2026-10-16)