Canadian Mental Health Association Thunder Bay Branch
Publicly funded institution · Thunder Bay, Ontario · BN 130293327RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,273,225) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Mental Health Association Thunder Bay Branch is a charitable organization based in Thunder Bay, 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 $8.5M in revenue and $8.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 91% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $66K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 94% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 58 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Crisis Response phone and text lines including mobile crisis and 988 support; Court Diversion programming for adult and youth; client case management; early psychosis intervention; forensics supportive housing; New Foundations and education and training.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.5M | $8.3M | $8.3M | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $8.6M | $8.5M | $8.5M | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $8.2M | $7.9M | $7.9M | — | $9,000 | $0 |
| 2021 | $7M | $6.9M | — | — | $0 | $731K |
| 2020 | $6.7M | $6.7M | — | — | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $66K from 13 charities:
- ATCO Electric Epic$21K
- The Canadian Mental Health Association$17K
- BenefAction Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,288
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$5,000
- RBC Foundation$2,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,248
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$922
- The Sisters of ST Joseph of Sault Ste Marie$500
- United Way of Thunder Bay$286
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$200
- Canadian Mental Health Association Ontario Division$156
- United Way of Greater Toronto$38
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions58
- Total compensation, all staff$6.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jordan Vigliarolo (chair); Michaela Coulter (director); Sarah Hamlin (treasurer); Matthew Pascuzzo (co-chair); Pamela Kaartinen (director); Brian Ross (secretary); Liam Fors (director); Connor Remus (director); Eric Armiento (director); Miranda Bevilacqua (director); Samantha Paterson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Mental Health Association Thunder Bay Branch’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130293327RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.