Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans
Publicly funded institution · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 746886878RR0001 · Research · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,642,142) as filed with the CRA.
Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans is a charitable organization based in Hamilton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under research. 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 $4.6M in revenue and $4.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $243.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The research program's objectives are to: - drive progress on new knowledge and understanding of military member veteran and family well-being. - foster the development and implementation of policies and strategies on programs and benefits that address identified priorities in military veteran and family well-being. - identify assess and promote new approaches models and best practices leading to improve well-being for military members veterans and their families. - build capacity whithin the research field engaged in studying veterans' issues - foster partnerships and networks w…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2022–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.6M | $4.6M | $3.3M | — | — | $0 |
| 2023 | $4.5M | $4.5M | $3.1M | — | — | $0 |
| 2022 | $4.4M | $4.4M | $3.3M | — | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $243 from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Melanie Borho-Persechini (treasurer); Jonathan Bramson (chair); Myra Freeman (chair of governance sub); David Henley (director); Raymond McInnis (chair of hr sub-committee); Heather Parry (director); Sharon Pierson (director); Genevieve Richer (director); Walter Natynczyk (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 746886878RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.