Boost Child & Youth Advocacy Centre
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119039568RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,945,692) as filed with the CRA.
Boost Child & Youth Advocacy Centre is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.9M in revenue and $4.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 28% from donations, 48% from government, 11% from other charities. In 2024, 30 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $737K.
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 32% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 28 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Boost is a creative community response to child abuse investigations. A partnership among local community and government agencies it brings together all professionals involved in child abuse cases under one roof for a coordinated interdisciplinary response to child abuse victims in Toronto. Programs include Prevention & Education Advocacy Assessment-Directed Therapy Child victim Witness Support and Coordination. Child Victim Witness Support program extends beyond Toronto's borders to other regions in Ontario.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.9M | $4.9M | $4M | $378K | — | $2.6M |
| 2023 | $4.8M | $4.6M | $3.9M | $347K | — | $2.6M |
| 2022 | $4.9M | $4.2M | $3.8M | $256K | — | $2.4M |
| 2021 | $5M | $4.3M | $4M | $111K | — | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $4.9M | $4.4M | $4.1M | $104K | — | $935K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $737K from 30 charities:
- The Aune Foundation$233K
- Fondation Mirella & Lino Saputo$200K
- La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso$75K
- Aqueduct Foundation$40K
- The Thor E and Nicole Eaton Family Charitable Foundation$33K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- The Robert Harding Foundation$20K
- The G.Scott Paterson Foundation$16K
- Harvey and Annice Frisch Family Foundation$15K
- BenefAction Foundation$10K
- Brookfield Partners Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$9,952
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,783
- The Sheldon Inwentash and Lynn Factor Charitable Foundation$7,500
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$6,540
- The McCleave Family Foundation$5,000
- Canada Gives$5,000
- Sofina Foundation$5,000
- Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg Foundation$5,000
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$3,000
- The BLG Foundation$2,500
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$1,500
- The Policaro Foundation$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$990
- The Jeremy & Judith Freedman Family Foundation$600
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions28
- Total compensation, all staff$2.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Julie Robertson (treasurer); Daniela De Gasperis (director); Jennifer Stanton (director); Luke Leon (director); Regan Watts (director); Rahim Valani (director); Rochelle Direnfeld (director); Gianluca Cairo (director); John Jay McCauley (director); Shelby Austin (director); Natasha Struminikovski (director); John Brodhead (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Boost Child & Youth Advocacy Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119039568RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.