A Way Home: Working Together to End Youth Homelessness
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 795393891RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,015,696) as filed with the CRA.
A Way Home: Working Together to End Youth Homelessness is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $2.1M in revenue and $2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 66% from government, 15% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $297K.
Compared with 47 grantmaking institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 70% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 10 qualified donees totalling $584K in 2024, the largest being $124K to Trellis Society for Community Impact. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $4.3M in 2022 to $2.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
#1 - To relieve poverty specifically youth homelessness by contributing to government policies and engaging in non-partisan advocacy in matters relating to youth homelessness. #2 - To advance education by conducting and supporting research into youth homelessness and its prevention and disseminating the results of such research to the public and the community stakeholders to promote the broader application of research findings. #3 - In furtherance of the above noted objects to advance education and promote excellence and efficiencies in the delivery of interventions addressing and prevent…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2022–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.1M | $2M | $1.3M | — | $584K | $1M |
| 2023 | $3.8M | $3.7M | $1.4M | — | $2.2M | $980K |
| 2022 | $4.3M | $4.1M | $1.3M | — | $2.8M | $896K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $584K to 10 qualified donees:
- Trellis Society for Community Impact$124K
- York University$121K
- Okanagan Boys and Girls Clubs$70K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Kelowna and District Branch$68K
- Grande Prairie Youth Emergency Shelter Society$68K
- Covenant House Toronto$45K
- Threshold Housing Society$35K
- Choices for Youth Inc$25K
- 360Kids Support Services$15K
- Pacific Community Resources Society$14K
Received $297K from 8 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$649K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Cecile Arbaud (board member); Mary Birdsell (board member); Sean Kidd (board member); Bruce Pearce (board member); Jeff Dyer (chair); Clovis Grant (board member); Veniecia Laylor (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from A Way Home: Working Together to End Youth Homelessness’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 795393891RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.