Durham Youth Services
Publicly funded institution · Ajax, Ontario · BN 826484479RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,591,288) as filed with the CRA.
Durham Youth Services is a charitable organization based in Ajax, Ontario, 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 $1.8M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 77% from government, 15% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $384K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $795K in 2020 to $1.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Durham youth services offers a variety of homelessness prevention rapid rehousing and housing stabilization supports youth aged 16-24 who are at risk of or experencing homelessness. Dys prevention programs include family reconnect focussed on supporting the full familyunit with the goal of having the youth remain with or return to their family home. Shelter diversion works to explore safe alternatives to shelter for youth in a housing crisis. Youth reconnect is an attatchment-based program that works with youth families schools and employment supports to help break the cycle of homelessn…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.8M | $1.6M | $1.4M | $26K | — | $2M |
| 2023 | $1.6M | $1.5M | $1.2M | $26K | $26K | $1.7M |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.2M | $1.1M | — | — | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $876K | $781K | $1,448 | — | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $795K | $720K | $653K | — | — | $892K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $384K from 21 charities:
- The Sonor Foundation$77K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$75K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$49K
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/hockey Aide les Sans-Abri$30K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$28K
- Canadahelps Canadon$26K
- Canadahelps Canadon$26K
- Crossroads Community Christian Reformed Church$25K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$19K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$13K
- Port Perry Pastoral Charge$4,050
- Durham Community Foundation$4,000
- Breakwater Foundation$3,000
- The K M Hunter Charitable Foundation$2,000
- Maranatha Christian Reformed Church of Bowmanville$1,485
- Faith United Church$1,050
- Pickering Rotary Club Charitable Trust$1,000
- Dunbarton-Fairport United Church$200
- ST Martin's Church Bay Ridges$150
- Pickering Pastoral Charge$150
- United Way of Greater Toronto$28
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jamie Deon Shalen Sodhi (treasurer); Meaghan Middleton (vice president); Linda Crawford (director); Steve White (president); Shahana Arain (director); Christy Harper (secretary); Krista McMurdo (director); Justine McCutcheon (director); Keisha Petrolo (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Durham Youth Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 826484479RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.