Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 869673095RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($648,698,366) as filed with the CRA.
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health 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 $648.8M in revenue and $648.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 79% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $72.3M.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 18% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2,356 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 23 names.
In its own words
Camh works to advance knowledge about addiction and mental health through providing patient care and carrying out research and education and serves as a provincial resource to clinical helathcare providers investigators and educators in substance abues mental health and allied disciplines.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $648.8M | $648.7M | $546.8M | — | — | $89.9M |
| 2023 | $585.5M | $585.5M | $482.5M | — | — | $89.7M |
| 2022 | $529.8M | $529.8M | $444.3M | — | — | $89.7M |
| 2021 | $498.6M | $498.6M | $414.2M | — | — | $92.7M |
| 2020 | $475M | $474.9M | $397.4M | — | — | $92.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $72.3M from 22 charities:
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation$69.1M
- The Myron and Berna Garron Charitable Foundation$1.5M
- Brain Canada Foundation$1.2M
- Canadian Cancer Society$249K
- Weston Family Foundation$110K
- The Azrieli Foundation$58K
- The Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation of Canada$40K
- Aqueduct Foundation$20K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$11K
- Alpha Omega Foundation of Canada$3,850
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,648
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,380
- Pastor Family Foundation$2,000
- Sickkids Charitable Giving Fund$1,568
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,381
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
- Isberg Charitable Trust$1,000
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$625
- WCPD Foundation$375
- Canada's Walk of Fame$250
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$178
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over2 positions
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $250,000–299,9994 positions
- $200,000–249,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2,356
- Total compensation, all staff$420.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Susan Armstrong (trustee); Christine Elliott (trustee); Veronica Maggisano (trustee); Andrea Nicholls (trustee); Vivian Koen (trustee); Susan Pigott (trustee); Eileen McMahon (trustee); Tom Milroy (trustee); Howard Sapers (trustee); Jasmine Tehara (trustee); Rebecca Shields (trustee); Diane Smylie (trustee); Adelina Urbanski (trustee); Kofi Hope (trustee); Amanda Pieris (trustee); Benoit Mulsant (ex-officio trustee); Valerie Pringle (ex-officio trustee); Sarah Downey (ex-officio trustee); Sunny Sodhi (trustee); Daniele Zanotti (trustee); Dionne Sinclair (ex-officio trustee); Tarek Rajji (ex-officio trustee); Tim Guimond (ex-officio trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 869673095RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.