Mental Health Commission of Canada
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 852998988RR0001 · Research · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($26,685,936) as filed with the CRA.
Mental Health Commission of Canada is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, 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 $26.7M in revenue and $26.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 62% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $236K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 27% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 93% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 110 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $7.5M in 2022 to $26.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The mental health commission of canada (mhcc) shines a light on mental health and works to improve the lives of people who experience mental health problems and illnesses (as well as their families and caregivers). Mhcc convenes stakeholders develops and influences public policy and seeks to inspire collective action. Existing research policy and programming areas include: suicide prevention stigma and discrimination access to high-quality culturally appropriate mental health services workplace psychological health and safety mental health advancement and substance use health. We o…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2022–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $26.7M | $26.7M | $21.8M | $98K | — | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $30.3M | $29.9M | $24.4M | $93K | $2,538 | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $7.5M | $7.4M | $5.8M | — | $1,000 | -$156K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $236K from 6 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
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9995 positions
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions110
- Total compensation, all staff$16.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Charles (chuck) Bruce (chair); Beth Tyndall (vice-chair); Armaghan Alam (director); Susannah Crabtree (chair of the audit and finance); André Delorme (director); Sarika Gundu (director); Sonia Isaac-Mann (director); Didier Jutras-Aswad (director); Donovan Taplin (director); Benoit-Antoine Bacon (director); Michelle Boudreau (director); Holly Graham (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mental Health Commission of Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 852998988RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.