Pathstone Mental Health
Publicly funded institution · ST Catharines, Ontario · BN 107773483RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($12,368,597) as filed with the CRA.
Pathstone Mental Health is a charitable organization based in ST Catharines, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $14M in revenue and $12.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 85% from government, 9% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $981K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 109 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Pathstone mental health is a children's mental health agency providing assessment counselling and crisis intervention services to children and youth up to 18 years of age. The agency also operates a residential care program providing treatment programs and 24/7 care. Other programs include day treatment school based programs psychological assessments alternative measures and services for youth offenders.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $14M | $12.4M | $10.4M | — | — | $1M |
| 2023 | $12.1M | $11.6M | $10.3M | — | — | $773K |
| 2022 | $13.3M | $12.3M | $11.2M | — | — | $2.8M |
| 2021 | $12.6M | $12M | $10.7M | — | — | $644K |
| 2020 | $10.9M | $10.8M | $9.6M | — | — | $683K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $981K from 10 charities:
- Pathstone Foundation$957K
- Benevolent Society of Grimsby and District$10K
- Vancouver Foundation$8,100
- Niagara Peninsula Foundation for Children$5,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$625
- Kiwanis Club of ST Catharines Charitable Trust$412
- United Way Niagara$306
- United Way Niagara$306
- Canadahelps Canadon$24
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
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
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions109
- Total compensation, all staff$9.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jennifer Ferguson (chair); Laura Fyfe (chair); Paddie Lucas (director); Carling Wright (secretary); Karen Smith Curtis (treasurer); Brad Mayhew (director); Benoit Beausoleil (vice-chair); Willow Shawanoo (director); Woody McKaig (director); Brian Ferguson (director); Suzanne Curtin (secretary); Aliyah Cimek-McCulligh (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Pathstone Mental Health’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107773483RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.