Colchester East Hants Branch Canadian Mental Health Association
Publicly funded institution · Truro, Nova Scotia · BN 889971792RR0002 · Supportive Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,637,841) as filed with the CRA.
Colchester East Hants Branch Canadian Mental Health Association is a charitable organization based in Truro, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under supportive 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 $1.8M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 88% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $80K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 12% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 86% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Community living program-supporting people who are living independently with mentall illness small options housing-residential setting with 24/7 staff support club-supportive environment for adults experencing mental illness and who need an opportunity to participate in their own wellness youth & adult outreach-mental health support offered to community members food services-program to help people living with mental illness to gain cooking skills and offer healthy meals at affordable costs
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.8M | $1.6M | $1.2M | $2,479 | — | $1.8M |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1.4M | $764K | $161 | — | $1.5M |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $951K | $2,086 | — | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.4M | $1M | $2,947 | — | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $1.4M | $1.1M | $5,944 | — | $967K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $80K from 8 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
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 Colchester East Hants Branch Canadian Mental Health Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889971792RR0002), or read how we compute the receipt.