The Canadian Mental Health Association
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 106863657RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($11,235,964) as filed with the CRA.
The Canadian Mental Health Association is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $10.9M in revenue and $11.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 61% from donations, 12% from government. In 2024, 66 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.4M.
Compared with 85 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 43% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 52 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 92 qualified donees totalling $3.3M in 2024, the largest being $838K to Canadian Mental Health Association Vancouver-Fraser Branch. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $5.4M in 2020 to $10.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
The association is a organization dedicated to the promotion of mental health for all canadians and to support the recovery and resilience of people experiencing mental health illness. This is achieved through strengthening the capacity of individuals families professionals organizations and communities to addess mental health needs influence policy provide services and form partnerships required to addess mental health needs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $10.9M | $11.2M | $4.9M | $1.6M | $3.3M | $4.9M |
| 2023 | $10.4M | $8.9M | $4.5M | $627K | $2.4M | $5.3M |
| 2022 | $8.4M | $7.1M | $2.9M | $490K | $1.6M | $3.8M |
| 2021 | $7.8M | $5.4M | $608K | $242K | $1.2M | $2.4M |
| 2020 | $5.4M | $5.9M | $452K | $1.7M | $1M | $659K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.3M to 92 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Canadian Mental Health Association Vancouver-Fraser Branch$838K
- Canadian Mental Health Association B.C. Division$228K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Kelowna and District Branch$114K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Toronto Branch$103K
- Canadian Mental Health Association - Calgary Region$91K
- Canadian Mental Health Association/peel Branch$78K
- Canadian Mental Health Association-Edmonton Region$75K
- The Canadian Mental Health Association Ottawa Branch$75K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Waterloo Wellington Branch$71K
- Canadian Mental Health Association B.C. Division$71K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Grey Bruce$63K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Windsor-Essex County Branch$61K
- The Canadian Mental Health Association Alberta Division and Centre for Suicide Prevention$60K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Manitoba and Winnipeg Inc.$58K
- Canadian Mental Health Association of New Brunswick Inc. / Association canadienne pour la santé mentale du Nouveau-Brunswick Inc.$48K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Nova Scotia Division$46K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Vernon and District Branch$46K
- Sleep Country$42K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Prince Edward Island Division$41K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Halton Region Branch$41K
- Cmha Alberta Centre for Suicide Prevention$41K
- Association Canadienne pour la Sante Mentale (region de Quebec) Inc.$38K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Ontario Division$37K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Simcoe County Branch$36K
- Canadian Mental Health Association North and West Vancouver Branch$36K
Received $1.4M from 66 charities:
- Weston Family Foundation$600K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$232K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$110K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Ontario Division$94K
- BenefAction Foundation$39K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$38K
- United Way Niagara$37K
- Canadahelps Canadon$34K
- Canadahelps Canadon$34K
- Dr. Lou and Mae Lukenda Charitable Foundation$25K
- Rexall Care Network$25K
- The Sydney and Florence Cooper Charitable Foundation$25K
- The Masonic Foundation of Ontario$21K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$15K
- Fraser Family Foundation$10K
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$10K
- Charitable Foundation of Carquest and Worldpac (canada) Ltd./fondation de Bienfaisance Carquest et Worldpac (canada) Ltee$10K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$8,208
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$8,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$6,964
- The Calgary Foundation$5,000
- Definity Insurance Foundation$5,000
- La Fondation Rossy The Rossy Foundation$5,000
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$5,000
- Poole Mennonite Church$4,530
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9995 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions52
- Total compensation, all staff$5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Amanda O'Sullivan (treasurer); David Delong (chair); Aileen McGinty (director); Keisha Campbell (director); Sean Kennedy (director); Ross Manning (vice chair); Marcel Gagnon (director); Frances Moriarty (director); Cecil Villard (director); Sharon Pitawanakwat (director); Genevieve Cyr (director); Monique Levesque-Pharoah (director); Jasmine Beriault (director); Dylan Bell (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Canadian Mental Health Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106863657RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.