Hope for Mental Health Society
Publicly funded institution · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 130336316RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($448,807) as filed with the CRA.
Hope for Mental Health Society is a charitable organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 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 $444K in revenue and $449K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 80% from government, 5% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $112K.
Compared with 739 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The society's mission is to make a positive difference in the lives if people families and communities in nova scotia affected by schizophrenia psychosis bipolar and all related illnesses.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $444K | $449K | $319K | — | — | $144K |
| 2023 | $493K | $487K | $369K | $741 | — | $149K |
| 2022 | $403K | $398K | $294K | $2,141 | — | $143K |
| 2021 | $500K | $400K | $311K | $2,088 | — | $138K |
| 2020 | $448K | $427K | $341K | $3,713 | — | $38K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $112K from 11 charities:
- Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia$43K
- The Windsor Foundation$25K
- Fred and Edith Greene Foundation$10K
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$10K
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$9,500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$6,975
- RBC Foundation$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,337
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$360
- United Way of Cape Breton County$110
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
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
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$366K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Thomas Messanger (treasurer); Karen Slaunwhite (executive director); Andrew Veinotte (president); Diane Wanderer (director); Fern Greening (director); Mike Butt (director); Terry Gibbs (director); Crystal Rosemary Neisten-Lahey (director); Stephen Anderson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hope for Mental Health Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130336316RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.