Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth
Charitable organization · Trent Lakes, Ontario · BN 709167092RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($396,036) as filed with the CRA.
Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth is a charitable organization based in Trent Lakes, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $468K in revenue and $396K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations, 25% from government, 57% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $348K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 44% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $63K in 2020 to $468K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
To facilitate hands-on and life-skills educational opportunities for indigenous youth through working on community projects that support the needs of the local community. Project selection and development is carried out with local youth and community members to further build capacity and ensure the project is fully utilized. Ongoing programs: - esdc funded project: yess - tto - construction build - wwfn - food sovereignty - eskasoni - food sovereignty - virtual digital skills - cultural camp - tb3 welding techniques project - timmins traditional skills
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $468K | $396K | $338K | — | — | $237K |
| 2023 | $495K | $411K | $374K | — | — | $165K |
| 2022 | $507K | $435K | $414K | — | — | $100K |
| 2021 | $296K | $261K | $251K | — | — | $28K |
| 2020 | $63K | $60K | $50K | — | — | -$1,268 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $348K from 12 charities:
- Gordon & Ruth Gooder Charitable Foundation$100K
- RBC Foundation$93K
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$33K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$25K
- Indigenous Youth Roots Canada$15K
- Terence & Svea McKillen Foundation$15K
- Johansen-Larsen Foundation$10K
- The George Lunan Foundation$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,262
- United Way of Greater Toronto$991
- Troop Impact Foundation—
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
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$167K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ty Kushnir (director of fundraising); Jessica Mirasty (secretary); Mitchell Muscat (treasurer); Jadelyn Psutka (director of hr); Evan Veryard (chairman); Roberta Bighetty (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 709167092RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.