Northern Youth Abroad
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 865305791RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2023-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,904,753) as filed with the CRA.
Northern Youth Abroad is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2023, it reported $2M in revenue and $1.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 46% from government, 9% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $169K.
Compared with 583 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 56% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $664K in 2020 to $2M in 2023. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Northern youth abroad seeks to cultivate leadership cross-cultural awareness individual career goals and global citizenship in northern youth. The organization endeavors to enhance student participation in education by providing life-changing experiences through work and travel.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2023
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $2M | $1.9M | $1.6M | — | — | $1.6M |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1.2M | — | — | $1.5M |
| 2021 | $821K | $754K | $514K | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $664K | $558K | $441K | — | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $169K from 11 charities:
- Makeway Foundation$50K
- Tachane Foundation Inc.$40K
- Canadahelps Canadon$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$20K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$12K
- Weston Family Foundation$10K
- Vancouver Foundation$6,550
- Healthy Horizons Foundation Inc.$5,000
- Carthy Foundation$5,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$97
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
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$588K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Denise Cooper (director); Kevin Iksiktaaryuk (director); Vinnie Karetak (vice chair past chair); Patricia Macneil (director); Angela Nuliayok Rudolph (director); Lois Philipp (past chair); Kristen Sawyers (director); James Snider (chair); Maurizio Sottile (treasurer); Trent Waterhouse (director); Janelle Wilson (director).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Northern Youth Abroad’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 865305791RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.