Canadian Mental Health Association Vernon and District Branch
Publicly funded institution · Vernon, British Columbia · BN 106863731RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,384,981) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Mental Health Association Vernon and District Branch is a charitable organization based in Vernon, British Columbia, 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 $10.4M in revenue and $10.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 69% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $710K.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $200,000–249,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 64 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $5.8M in 2020 to $10.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Mental Health Awareness and Educational programs: Mental Health First Aid SafeTalk Assist and Suicide Awareness courses; therapeutic programs for individuals experiencing mental health issues; subsidized meal programs; job support and life skills training; Peer Support and Wellness grants for empowerment health and education; and a rent subsidy program to provide financial assistance to individuals' rent. There are also senior and youth programs summer camp art expression and workplace mental health education. Subsidized Housing: CMHA Vernon operates 7 subsidized housing complexes in par…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $10.4M | $10.4M | $9.3M | $197K | $0 | $7.2M |
| 2023 | $8.7M | $8.4M | $6.4M | $108K | — | $5.2M |
| 2022 | $7.2M | $7.3M | $6M | $102K | $0 | -$2.1M |
| 2021 | $6.6M | $6M | $5.4M | — | — | $5M |
| 2020 | $5.8M | $5.5M | — | — | — | $4.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $710K from 16 charities:
- Foord Family Foundation$500K
- The Canadian Mental Health Association$46K
- United Way British Columbia$40K
- Byram Family Foundation$28K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$23K
- Community Foundation of the North Okanagan$21K
- Canadahelps Canadon$17K
- BenefAction Foundation$10K
- The Gordon and Jean Steele Family Foundation$7,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,486
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- RBC Foundation$2,500
- Canadian Mental Health Association B.C. Division$1,535
- Vancouver Foundation$1,350
- United Way British Columbia$784
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$149
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions64
- Total compensation, all staff$6.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Richard Finn (director); Tom Christensen (vice president); Tom Nolan (director); David Service (director); Jodi Cunningham (president); David Penner (director); Kyle Camalush (director); Dominic Scorah (treasurer); Jennifer Guscott (director); Marilyn Scott (director); Taylor Sheardown (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Mental Health Association Vernon and District Branch’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106863731RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.