Lay-Up Youth Basketball
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 777096124RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,818,156) as filed with the CRA.
Lay-Up Youth Basketball is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 17% from donations, 34% from government, 39% from other charities. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $737K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 15% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $616K in 2020 to $1.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Lay-up is working on the future of access to basketball through cost-free leadership basketball programs in toronto's priority communities. Lay-up's mission is to empower youth with confidence life skills and to support their positive development. High quality basketball is used as a platform to deliver meaningful customized on and off court programming that will equip and inspire youth to overcome barriers in academia life skills development and healthy living. Lay-up offers summer camps and school year programs to children ages 6-14 as well as programs and personal development th…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $1.8M | $1.2M | — | — | $271K |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.5M | $1M | — | — | $365K |
| 2022 | $1M | $1.1M | $697K | — | — | $474K |
| 2021 | $955K | $706K | $603K | — | — | $523K |
| 2020 | $616K | $547K | $495K | $0 | $0 | $274K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $737K from 26 charities:
- The Aune Foundation$200K
- The Michael Young Family Foundation$150K
- Aubrey & Marla Dan Foundation$100K
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation$45K
- Kyzalea Foundation$25K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$25K
- The Blidner Family Foundation$25K
- Rideau Hall Foundation$23K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- The Charles H. Ivey Foundation$20K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$17K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$13K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$13K
- St. Andrew's Charitable Foundation$12K
- Indigo Love of Reading Foundation$11K
- The Ralph M. Barford Foundation$10K
- Johansen-Larsen Foundation$7,500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$6,508
- Tippet Foundation$5,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$3,500
- Toronto Foundation$3,007
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,869
- Willowdale Rotary Club Community Service Foundation$1,000
- Harbourfront Gives Foundation$720
- Canadahelps Canadon$475
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
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Max Daviau (board chair); Eric Moncik (director); James Bigg (director); Jason Melbourne (director); Jermaine Anderson (director); Karen Papadopoulos (co-chair); Michael Simonetta (director); Abby Albino (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lay-Up Youth Basketball’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 777096124RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.