Nova Scotia · Registered charity
COLCHESTER EAST HANTS BRANCH CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
COLCHESTER EAST HANTS BRANCH CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$498,041 to it, the largest being BenefAction Foundation (C$211,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$1.8M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- C$498k
- Net assets
- C$1.8M
What Colchester East Hants Branch Canadian Mental Health Association does
Ongoing programs
Community living program-supporting people who are living independently with mentall illness small options housing-residential setting with 24/7 staff support club-supportive environment for adults experencing mental illness and who need an opportunity to participate in their own wellness youth & adult outreach-mental health support offered to community members food services-program to help people living with mental illness to gain cooking skills and offer healthy meals at affordable costs
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from C$1.4M to C$3.2M (+137%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 87% · 2018 83% · 2019 72% · 2020 72% · 2021 78% · 2022 86% · 2023 86% · 2024 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of COLCHESTER EAST HANTS BRANCH CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose C$35k → C$76k.
From the CRA filings of COLCHESTER EAST HANTS BRANCH CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
COLCHESTER EAST HANTS BRANCH CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund COLCHESTER EAST HANTS BRANCH CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 78% · 2019 86% · 2020 50% · 2021 66% · 2022 60% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
38% of COLCHESTER EAST HANTS BRANCH CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
COLCHESTER EAST HANTS BRANCH CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 4 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
COLCHESTER EAST HANTS BRANCH CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 257 supportive health care nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 257 supportive health care nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government revenue COLCHESTER EAST HANTS BRANCH CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 88% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like COLCHESTER EAST HANTS BRANCH CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Nova Scotia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds COLCHESTER EAST HANTS BRANCH CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION?
- COLCHESTER EAST HANTS BRANCH CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$498,041 to it, the largest being BenefAction Foundation (C$211,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLCHESTER EAST HANTS BRANCH CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 18 organizations giving C$498,041 in grants to COLCHESTER EAST HANTS BRANCH CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLCHESTER EAST HANTS BRANCH CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION?
- BenefAction Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$211,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLCHESTER EAST HANTS BRANCH CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nova Scotia.
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These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register