Mental Health Foundation
Public foundation · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 821577673RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,168,290) as filed with the CRA.
Mental Health Foundation is a public foundation based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $3M in revenue and $3.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from donations, 36% from other charities. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.1M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 6% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 92% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $173K in 2024, the largest being $123K to Alberta Health Service. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The charity's purpose is fund raising for the primary areas of education research innovation and integrated mental health and addiction services. The foundation's mandate supports programs and services throughout the province of alberta.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3M | $3.2M | $10K | $806K | $1.3M | $3M |
| 2023 | $2.8M | $2.8M | $1.2M | $901K | $163K | $3.1M |
| 2022 | $2.8M | $2.3M | $1.3M | $443K | $192K | $3.1M |
| 2021 | $3M | $2.6M | $2.1M | $99K | — | $2.7M |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $2.1M | $1.5M | $144K | — | $2.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $173K to 2 qualified donees:
- Alberta Health Service$123K
- Tourette OCD Alberta Network Association$50K
Received $2.1M from 26 charities:
- The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation$508K
- Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation$500K
- The Stollery Charitable Foundation$250K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$214K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$154K
- RBC Foundation$100K
- Hunter Family Foundation$100K
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$100K
- The Leder Charitable Foundation$35K
- A Dollar A Day Foundation$30K
- Wolfe Pack Warriors Foundation$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$15K
- Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation$12K
- BenefAction Foundation$10K
- Melton Foundation$10K
- Cam & Dawn Allard Family Foundation$10K
- William & Florence Lede Family Foundation$10K
- Allard Foundation LTD.$6,000
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$5,065
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation$5,000
- The Masonic Foundation of Alberta$4,500
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$1,800
- ATCO Electric Epic$1,033
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$482
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$279
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Roseanne Carey (treasurer); Simon Foxcroft (trustee); Aileen Giesbrecht (governance chair); Deann Hunter (board chair); Nicholas Mitchell (ahs representative); Angela Porteous (trustee); Donna Sawchuk (trustee); Dania Spillet (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mental Health Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 821577673RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.