Outside Looking In
Charitable organization · Ohsweken, Ontario · BN 815517099RR0001 · Education in the Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,348,388) as filed with the CRA.
Outside Looking In is a charitable organization based in Ohsweken, Ontario, classified by the CRA under education in the arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $2.6M in revenue and $2.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 69% from donations. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $885K.
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 $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.3M in 2020 to $2.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Outside looking in offers a high school accredited dance program providing the opportunity to indigenous youth and their communities to engage in long-term intensive education and life skill lessons through dance. Should youth fulfill the academic and attendance requirements of the program youth get the opportunity to join other indigenous youth from across canada for two weeks in toronto preparing for an ultimate performance on stage to show off their talents and abilities before hundreds at the sony centre for the performing arts. The purpose of the program is to teach indigenous youth a…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.6M | $2.3M | $1.7M | — | — | -$98K |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $3M | $2.3M | — | — | -$311K |
| 2022 | $2.1M | $2.7M | $2.1M | — | — | $229K |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $990K | $573K | — | — | $767K |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $998K | $589K | — | — | $688K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $885K from 15 charities:
- Pathy Family Foundation$310K
- RBC Foundation$250K
- Tachane Foundation Inc.$200K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$50K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$35K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$22K
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,877
- S.M. Blair Family Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,000
- Toronto Foundation$1,000
- Sony Canada Charitable Foundation$610
- The Lowidt Foundation$500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$194
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$52
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$49
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tamara Podemski (director); William Pashby (secretary); Derek Sutherland (director); Daniel Brant (chair); Darren Googoo (director); Jennifer Page (director); Deborah Antenore (director); Freddie Wood (director); Nick Javor (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Outside Looking In’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 815517099RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.