The Canadian Mental Health Association Alberta Division and Centre for Suicide Prevention
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 106863491RR0001 · Core Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,963,753) as filed with the CRA.
The Canadian Mental Health Association Alberta Division and Centre for Suicide Prevention is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 $4.7M in revenue and $5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 83% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $143K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 56% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 77% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 20 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.1M in 2020 to $4.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Working to educate the public about mental health issues and offer services to those in need of mental health help through: workplace mental health training & conferences peer support programming post secondary community of practice support rural community mental health training and support youth hub development support recovery college support and mental illness studies.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.7M | $5M | $4.5M | $17K | — | $1M |
| 2023 | $8.2M | $8.3M | $7.8M | $80K | $0 | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $7.3M | $6.8M | $6.2M | $54K | $10K | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $3.6M | $3.2M | $3.1M | $55K | $4,000 | $855K |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $1.9M | $1.9M | $39K | $0 | $465K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $143K from 18 charities:
- The Canadian Mental Health Association$60K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$20K
- Aqueduct Foundation$15K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$12K
- Canadahelps Canadon$11K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,704
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$4,476
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$3,152
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,000
- The Calgary Foundation$2,337
- The Bridgeworks Hope to the World Foundation$2,000
- Rehabilitation and Employment for Developing Independence (redi) Enterprises Society$1,334
- The Wagemakers Foundation$1,000
- CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund$894
- Carthy Foundation$500
- United Way of Calgary and Area$475
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$29
- Stavely & District Community Chest—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions20
- Total compensation, all staff$2.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Brent Korte (board chair); Tim Young (treasurer); Andrew Tarbitt (director); Michael Trew (director); Camelle Hunka (past chair); Shelby Macleod (director); Ross Manning (director); Nancy Reynolds (director); Brookes Merritt (director); Tim Parker (director); Brent Taylor (director); Nancy McCalder (director); Chris McNelly (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Canadian Mental Health Association Alberta Division and Centre for Suicide Prevention’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106863491RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.