Casa Child Adolescent and Family Mental Health
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 130178734RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($32,640,949) as filed with the CRA.
Casa Child Adolescent and Family Mental Health is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $32.6M in revenue and $32.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 89% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $821K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 88% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 223 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $450K in 2024, the largest being $450K to The Governors of the University of Alberta. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $15.4M in 2020 to $32.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
CASA Mental Health delivers holistic culturally safe wrap-around mental health services to Albertans aged 3 - 18 and their families. Major programs include Residential and Day Programs that consist of CASA House Preschool Day Programs Adolescent Day Program Children's Day Program. Moreover CASA provides specialty programs i.e. Family Therapy / Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Treatment Resources and Community Supports / Indigenous Services / Trauma and Attachment Group / Trauma Clinic. In addition to treatment CASA is a teaching and research organization affiliated with the University of Alber…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $32.6M | $32.6M | $27.5M | $1.5M | — | $6.1M |
| 2023 | $22M | $22.5M | $17.7M | $1.5M | — | $6M |
| 2022 | $16.8M | $15.6M | $13.8M | $419K | — | $6.6M |
| 2021 | $17.7M | $14.4M | $13M | $229K | — | $5.3M |
| 2020 | $15.4M | $15.6M | $14.1M | $484K | — | $2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $450K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $821K from 19 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$345K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$158K
- Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation$122K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$100K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$31K
- Aqueduct Foundation$26K
- BenefAction Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$14K
- Value Partners Charitable Foundation Inc.$10K
- Legacy Plus Foundation Canada$7,500
- Edmonton Realtors' Charitable Foundation$5,625
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$5,587
- Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/Initiative Canada Jeunesse et Philanthropie$5,000
- Community Foundation of Central Alberta$5,000
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$2,270
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$297
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation$100
- The National Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation of Canada-$81K
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
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions223
- Total compensation, all staff$25.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Janet Hancock (chair); Heather Hicks (vice chair); Lara Oberg-Stenson (past chair); Bob McColl (treasurer); Manraj Deol (secretary); Nick Lilley (director); John McCaffray (director); Jill Sheward (director); Thomas Stewart (ex officio youth member); Bryan Mwaka (director); Krystal Gray (director); Katie Hayes (director); Bonita Young (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Casa Child Adolescent and Family Mental Health’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130178734RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.