Adventure4Change
Charitable organization · Waterloo, Ontario · BN 741081327RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,384,411) as filed with the CRA.
Adventure4Change is a charitable organization based in Waterloo, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 48% from government, 43% from other charities. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $481K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 84% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $502K in 2020 to $1.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
A4c exists for the primary purpose of reducing the impact of poverty and where possible eliminating it all together for children youth and families. We have a highly developed and rigorously-tested personal and community development approach that emphasizes prevention equity and local leadership. We work collaboratively with community members through an asset-based community development lens to build thriving neighbourhoods where individuals can belong and contribute. A4c works every day not to bring programs to a community but through relationship to enable and coach community resid…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $1.3M | $13K | — | $681K |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $1M | $18K | — | $556K |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $836K | $807K | $8,661 | — | $392K |
| 2021 | $496K | $398K | $365K | $12K | — | $402K |
| 2020 | $502K | $296K | $269K | $4,628 | — | $301K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $481K from 17 charities:
- Abundance Canada$151K
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation$80K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$54K
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$50K
- Astley Family Foundation$39K
- MLSE Foundation$30K
- MSC Canada$23K
- Rideau Hall Foundation$10K
- The Meeting House Church Family$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$8,758
- Creekside Church$8,000
- Social Venture Partners Waterloo Region$5,674
- Culleen and Donald Kurt Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- Waterloo Rotary Club Charitable Foundation$1,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$625
- The Food Bank of Waterloo Region—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$799K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Marion Marshall (director); David Marshall (associate chair); Jeff Wong (director); Corrie Ballantyne (chair); Tarique Plummer (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Adventure4Change’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 741081327RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.