Growing Opportunities for Adult Life Skills
Private foundation · Bolton, Ontario · BN 794201475RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($436,273) as filed with the CRA.
Growing Opportunities for Adult Life Skills is a private foundation based in Bolton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $387K in revenue and $436K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 9% from government. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $31K.
Compared with 730 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 35% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $120K in 2022 to $387K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
Respite Work. Educational advancement in computers music cooking cleaning and basic well being as well as day trips and recreational activities
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2022–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $387K | $436K | $337K | — | — | $18K |
| 2023 | $433K | $398K | $275K | — | — | $68K |
| 2022 | $120K | $151K | — | — | — | $36K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $31K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$156K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Chantal Ferguson (executive director); Alannah Forgiarini (executive director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Growing Opportunities for Adult Life Skills’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 794201475RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.