Choices for Youth Inc
Publicly funded institution · ST. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador · BN 130889942RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($11,820,816) as filed with the CRA.
Choices for Youth Inc is a charitable organization based in ST. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $12.2M in revenue and $11.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations, 62% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 25 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1M.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 146 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $7.8M in 2020 to $12.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Choices for youth is a professional services youth-focused non-profit charitable organization that creates spaces and conversations and operates programs and social enterprises to help vulnerable youth secure stable housing employment and education while improving health and family stability.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $12.2M | $11.8M | $10M | $378K | — | $3.3M |
| 2023 | $11M | $10.9M | $9.2M | $329K | — | $2.9M |
| 2022 | $9.1M | $9.1M | $7.5M | $269K | — | $5.2M |
| 2021 | $8.3M | $8.2M | $6.9M | — | — | $2.2M |
| 2020 | $7.8M | $7.9M | $6.2M | — | — | $2.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1M from 25 charities:
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$250K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$250K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$100K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$100K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$70K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$70K
- Basil Dobbin Family Foundation Inc.$50K
- A Way Home: Working Together to End Youth Homelessness$25K
- BenefAction Foundation$16K
- Air Canada Foundation$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$13K
- Canada Gives$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$8,209
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$8,077
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$5,389
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$5,000
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$3,500
- Mazon Canada$3,100
- Vancouver Foundation$1,350
- The R.D. Pippy Family Foundation$1,200
- United Way of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc.$1,053
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$541
- The Coffey Family Foundation$500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$67
- United Way of Regina$54
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions146
- Total compensation, all staff$8.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Hoskins (board member); Kaylah Mercer (secretary); Geoff Davis (chair); John Samms (board member); Meghan Riggs (board member); Bruce Belbin (vice chair); Tracey Power (treasurer); Sean Ryan (board member); Lisa Bishop (board member); Andrew Macdonald (board member); Lori Menchenton (board member); Sherry Nandha (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Choices for Youth Inc’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130889942RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.