Junior Achievement of Canada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 107554222RR0002 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($7,580,400) as filed with the CRA.
Junior Achievement of Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $7.7M in revenue and $7.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 34% from donations, 9% from government, 23% from other charities. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $200,000–249,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 21 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 14 qualified donees totalling $2.6M in 2024, the largest being $474K to Junior Achievement of Central Ontario. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4.1M in 2020 to $7.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
In conjunction with our provincial Charters and Program Delivery Affiliates operating across the country JA Canada develops and delivers practical economic and business education activities for young people through the assistance of volunteers educators and business organizations. Programs can be accessed by teachers (either using volunteers in the classroom or online) parents and students (online) all free of charge. We also host national student events and business competitions.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.7M | $7.6M | $2.7M | $812K | $2.6M | $2.6M |
| 2023 | $6.8M | $6.2M | $2.5M | $809K | $2M | $3.1M |
| 2022 | $5.6M | $5.5M | $4M | $982K | $2M | $2M |
| 2021 | $5.1M | $4.9M | $1.8M | $309K | $1.8M | $1.9M |
| 2020 | $4.1M | $4.8M | $1.9M | $460K | $1.8M | $2.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.6M to 14 qualified donees:
- Junior Achievement of Central Ontario$474K
- Junior Achievement of British Columbia$349K
- Colleges and Institutes Canada/Collèges et Instituts Canada$314K
- Junior Achievement of South Western Ontario Inc.$191K
- Junior Achievement of New Brunswick Inc.$181K
- Les programmes éducatifs JA Québec$179K
- Junior Achievement of Northern Alberta$174K
- Junior Achievement of Southern Alberta$159K
- Junior Achievement of Prince Edward Island Inc.$132K
- Junior Achievement of Nova Scotia$117K
- Junior Achievement of Manitoba Inc.$105K
- Junior Achievement of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc.$102K
- Junior Achievement of Northern & Eastern Ontario$73K
- Ottawa Network for Education$66K
Received $1.1M from 14 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$347K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$286K
- Carthy Foundation$150K
- Korchinski Family Foundation Inc.$84K
- The Actuarial Foundation of Canada/la Fondation Actuarielle du Canada$65K
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$50K
- The Jay and Barbara Hennick Family Foundation$50K
- Toronto Foundation$14K
- Canadahelps Canadon$12K
- The Calgary Foundation$5,095
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$4,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,000
- United Way of Calgary and Area$451
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$40
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions21
- Total compensation, all staff$2.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Cheryl Graden (secretary); Scott Hillier (president & ceo); Sean Munro (director); Scott Munn (director); Rehan Aqeel (director); Andrew Marchant (director); Raj Bhogal (treasurer); Heather Crosby (director); Gary Kalaci (vice chair); Jeremy Trickett (director); Damien Chan (director); Trisha Mauro-Barnett (director); Jaqueline Ottmann (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Junior Achievement of Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107554222RR0002), or read how we compute the receipt.