Mental Health Research Canada Recherche en Santé Mentale Canada
Public foundation · Mississauga, Ontario · BN 702662529RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,703,730) as filed with the CRA.
Mental Health Research Canada Recherche en Santé Mentale Canada is a public foundation based in Mississauga, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 27% from government, 20% from other charities. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $107K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 18% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 93% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $248K in 2020 to $1.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all with a mission to lead and partner to improve mental health practices where Canadians connect live and work. We pride ourselves on being nimble collaborative forward-looking and committed to excellence in all that we do. We advance new knowledge that is focused on practical outcomes for Canadians and also share existing knowledge to encourage stakeholders …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.7M | $1.1M | $223K | — | $7.5M |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.7M | $1.2M | $248K | — | — |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.4M | $913K | $196K | — | $8.1M |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.1M | $769K | $56K | — | $7.9M |
| 2020 | $248K | $606K | $339K | $46K | — | $7.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $107K from 10 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$20K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$16K
- F. K. Morrow Foundation$5,000
- Indigenous Women's Fund of Canada$5,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$3,682
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,519
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$750
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$887K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Trainor (past board chair); Ken Ross (secretary); David Dozois (director); Andrew Greenshaw (board chair); Karen Omelchuk (director); Kerilee Snatenchuk (director); Mark Allen (director); Brad Glynn (director); Lina Di Genova (director); Monika Mielnik (director); Marianne Nguyen (director); Scott Phillips (treasurer); Mary Deacon (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mental Health Research Canada Recherche en Santé Mentale Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 702662529RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.