Crossroads Children's Mental Health Centre
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 134012285RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,950,096) as filed with the CRA.
Crossroads Children's Mental Health Centre is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, 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 $5M in revenue and $5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 90% from government, 7% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $52K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 71% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 52 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The crossroads children’s mental health center is a children’s mental health treatment centre that provides services up the age of 12 for those who have serious emotional and behavioral difficulties. We also operate a mental health clinic both virtually and in person for the same age group
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5M | $5M | $4.6M | — | — | $424K |
| 2023 | $4.5M | $4.5M | $4.1M | — | — | $361K |
| 2022 | $4.5M | $4.4M | $4.1M | $0 | $0 | $343K |
| 2021 | $4.2M | $4.2M | $3.8M | $0 | $0 | $287K |
| 2020 | $4.2M | $4.2M | $4.4M | $0 | $0 | $226K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $52K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions52
- Total compensation, all staff$4.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nicholas Watters (president); Bill Strutt (treasurer); Aaron Pesa (director); Rob Cleroux (director); Ashley Edathe (vice president); Petra Duschner (secretary); Lindsey Ehman (director); Joanne Baldassi (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Crossroads Children's Mental Health Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 134012285RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.