Canadian Mental Health Association Ontario Division
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 106863665RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($25,712,915) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Mental Health Association Ontario Division is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 $25.3M in revenue and $25.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 80% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 28 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $623K.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 20% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 163 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 28 qualified donees totalling $110K in 2024, the largest being $94K to The Canadian Mental Health Association. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $16.3M in 2020 to $25.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The association works to improve the lives of all ontarions through leadership collaboration and the continual pursuit of excellence in community mental health ans addiction services. The association envisions a society that embraces and invests in the mental health of all people and values self-determination diversity and inclusion social justice innovation ans collabration. Activities include but are not limited to policy research and development and advocacy and media awareness. Ongoing programs include the bounce back program whereby two levels of evidence-based structuredm cognitive-…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $25.3M | $25.7M | $21.8M | $388K | $110K | $17.3M |
| 2023 | $26.1M | $26.7M | $21.8M | $448K | $139K | $17.7M |
| 2022 | $18.3M | $18.2M | $15.3M | $264K | $145K | $18.3M |
| 2021 | $21.8M | $17.2M | $14.6M | $221K | $189K | $18.2M |
| 2020 | $16.3M | $16.7M | $14.4M | $219K | $138K | $13.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $110K to 28 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Canadian Mental Health Association$94K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Toronto Branch$4,474
- The Canadian Mental Health Association Ottawa Branch$1,632
- Cmha Peel Region$1,082
- Canadian Mental Health Association York Region Branch$1,024
- Canadian Mental Health Association Waterloo Wellington Branch$967
- Canadian Mental Health Association Thames Valley Addiction & Mental Health Services$715
- Cmha Halton Region$657
- Canadian Mental Health Association Niagara Branch$568
- Canadian Mental Health Association Durham Branch$560
- Canadian Mental Health Association/l'association Canadienne pour la Sante Mentale-Filiale S D & G/prescott-Russell Branch$534
- Canadian Mental Health Association Lambton Kent Branch$480
- Cmha Hamilton$383
- Canadian Mental Health Association Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge Branch$370
- Canadian Mental Health Association Simcoe County Branch$365
- Canadian Mental Health Association Windsor-Essex County Branch$311
- Cmha Grey Bruce$277
- Canadian Mental Health Association Brant-Haldimand-Norfolk Branch$265
- Enrichment Centre for Mental Health$254
- Resilience Huron Perth Mental Health Services$231
- Canadian Mental Health Association$191
- Canadian Mental Health Association Thunder Bay Branch$156
- Cmha North Bay and District$134
- Cmha Cochrane Timiskaming$125
- Canadian Mental Health Association Sault Ste. Marie Branch$109
Received $623K from 28 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$96K
- Canadahelps Canadon$96K
- NHL Foundation Canada$92K
- The Medavie Foundation Inc.$75K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$73K
- The Canadian Mental Health Association$37K
- Tim O'Heron Charitable Trust$25K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$20K
- The McGuire Family Foundation$20K
- A Dollar A Day Foundation$20K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$19K
- Aqueduct Foundation$12K
- The Ryckman Trust$9,042
- The Canadian Mental Health Association$8,517
- RBC Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$4,000
- RBC Foundation$2,500
- Oakville Community Foundation$2,000
- Toronto Foundation$1,917
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,781
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$1,540
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$513
- Daat Charitable Foundation$500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$289
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$188
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
- $120,000–159,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions163
- Total compensation, all staff$15.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Catherine Simunovic; Marcel Gagnon (past chair); Noureen Ali (board member); Bill Chantler (chair); Zehra Sheerazi (vice chair); Anne-Marie Hourigan (secretary); Prajakta Raut (board member); David Smith (board member); Bryanne Smart (director); Louise Paquette (treasurer); David Woodard (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Mental Health Association Ontario Division’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106863665RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.