Camino Wellbeing + Mental Health
Publicly funded institution · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 106880115RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($18,719,544) as filed with the CRA.
Camino Wellbeing + Mental Health is a charitable organization based in Kitchener, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $18.6M in revenue and $18.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 52% from government, 35% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 29 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5.2M.
Compared with 115 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 26% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 131 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $12.1M in 2020 to $18.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Children's Mental Health Programs including Section 23 School FASD Treatment Program Trauma Treatment Intensive Community Services Early Intervention School Based Programs Respite Learning Assessments and Resources. Individual Couple Family and Group Counselling including Quick Response and Single Session Counselling. Outreach Services in two Neighbourhoods to assist low income families cover basic needs. Newcomers Program aimed at aligning Mental Health Supports for Government Assisted Refugees in Waterloo Region. Pathways to Education site aimed at reducing poverty and its effects by …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $18.6M | $18.7M | $16.2M | $66K | $0 | $12M |
| 2023 | $13.8M | $13.8M | $10.4M | $68K | — | $8.8M |
| 2022 | $13.8M | $12.8M | $9.7M | $193K | — | $9.9M |
| 2021 | $16M | $11.7M | $9.7M | $185K | — | $7.7M |
| 2020 | $12.1M | $11.2M | $9.6M | $140K | — | $4.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $5.2M from 29 charities:
- Pathways to Education Canada/Passeport pour ma réussite Canada$1.7M
- Saint Monica House$1.5M
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation$1.4M
- The Fairmount Foundation$200K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$91K
- Len and Helen Georgiou Foundation$80K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$35K
- Astley Family Foundation$35K
- UHN Foundation$20K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$19K
- Bridges To Belonging$17K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$7,200
- Abundance Canada$5,650
- Locking Arms Foundation$5,000
- Fondation RONA$4,018
- The Gordon Linkletter Family Fund$2,000
- Canada Gives$2,000
- ST. Andrew's Presbyterian Church$2,000
- India Heritage Research Foundation (ihrf) Canada$1,779
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,606
- Waterloo Regional Health Network Foundation$955
- Rotary Club of Kitchener-Westmount Charitable Foundation$750
- All Saints Church$695
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9997 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions131
- Total compensation, all staff$14.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lori Payne (board chair); Benton Leong (board director); Mathuri Mayakrishnan (board director); Elaine Reid (board vice-chair); Colleen Heinrichs (board treasurer); Maria De Boer (board director); Jeff Desbiens (board director); Cheryl Hotchkiss (board director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Camino Wellbeing + Mental Health’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106880115RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.