Canadian Mental Health Association Waterloo Wellington Branch
Publicly funded institution · Guelph, Ontario · BN 118834183RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($51,583,650) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Mental Health Association Waterloo Wellington Branch is a charitable organization based in Guelph, 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 $51.4M in revenue and $51.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 87% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $549K.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range.
In its own words
Community based mental health services including: mental health promotion and intervention crisis intervention clinical therapeutic services children's (mental health and developmental) adults and seniors programs and community consultant services. Services are provided by community workers social workers psychologists nurses psychiatrists and early childhood educators and child and youth workers.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $51.4M | $51.6M | $43.1M | $707K | — | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $48.6M | $48.5M | $40.9M | $406K | — | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $45.1M | $45M | $38M | $247K | — | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $43.9M | $43.8M | $36.9M | $303K | — | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $43.5M | $43.6M | $36.6M | $449K | — | $1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $549K from 26 charities:
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$179K
- The Canadian Mental Health Association$71K
- Astley Family Foundation$50K
- The Guelph Community Foundation$46K
- Canadahelps Canadon$37K
- Canadahelps Canadon$37K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$30K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$24K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$20K
- United Way Community Services of Guelph and Wellington$20K
- Duff's Presbyterian Church$6,004
- The Guelph Community Foundation$5,000
- Bailie Family Foundation$5,000
- Abundance Canada$4,391
- Challenger Motor Freight Inc Employees Charity Trust$3,000
- RBC Foundation$2,500
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$2,250
- Centre Wellington Community Foundation$2,000
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$1,200
- The Synod of the Diocese of Niagara$1,000
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$996
- Canadian Mental Health Association Ontario Division$967
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$376
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$370
- United Way of Regina$13
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9995 positions
- Total compensation, all staff$32.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Mental Health Association Waterloo Wellington Branch’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118834183RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.