Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care
Publicly funded institution · Penetanguishene, Ontario · BN 838367027RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($200,935,057) as filed with the CRA.
Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care is a charitable organization based in Penetanguishene, Ontario, 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 $201.8M in revenue and $200.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 95% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $82K.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 21% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 90% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 886 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Waypoint centre for mental health care is a fully-accredited 315-bed psychiatric hospital and home to the waypoint research institute. The 155-bed regional hosptial programs provide inpatient and outpatient services for people requiring specialty mental health and addiction treatment and care from simcoe county part of dufferin county the southern portions of muskoka/parry sound and portions ontario health central region. In addition the hospital is the province's only high secure forensic mental health hospital for patients with mental illness who have become involved in the criminal just…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $201.8M | $200.9M | $171.4M | $541K | — | $73.9M |
| 2023 | $192.7M | $190.5M | $165.5M | $362K | $1,032 | $69.8M |
| 2022 | $182.8M | $177.5M | $24.3M | $272K | — | $67.1M |
| 2021 | $176.1M | $170.9M | $148.9M | $254K | — | $62.1M |
| 2020 | $162.6M | $159.8M | $20.6M | $185K | — | $56.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $82K from 8 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over10 positions
- Permanent full-time positions886
- Total compensation, all staff$146.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Morana Bakula (director); Howard Barbaree (vice chair); Gail Czukar (director); Soumya Ghosh (director); Trisha Hutzul (director); Steve Parry (vice chair); Doris Shirriff (director); Jill Tettmann (director); George Vadeboncoeur (director); Ernie Vaillancourt (chair); Betty Valentine (director); Nadiya Sunderji (director); Kevin Young (director); Linda Adams (director); Reheel Shahid (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 838367027RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.