Outward Bound Canada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 892511692RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,551,920) as filed with the CRA.
Outward Bound Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.6M in revenue and $7.6M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 26% from other charities. In 2024, 31 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $788K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 49 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.1M in 2020 to $5.6M in 2024.
In its own words
OBC delivers experiential education programs that cultivate resilience leadership connections and compassion through inspiring journeys of self discovery in the natural world. The majority of our programs take place while travelling through wilderness settings throughout Canada's provinces & territories. We also run urban programs for inner city youth out of our centres in Toronto & Vancouver. Activities include; canoeing sea kayaking white water canoeing trekking and hiking mountaineering rock climbing snow shoeing & winter camping. Programs are accessible to the general public sch…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.6M | $7.6M | $5.9M | $30K | — | -$1.1M |
| 2023 | $7.1M | $8M | $6.4M | $489K | — | -$1.4M |
| 2022 | $5.9M | $6.1M | $4.7M | $438K | — | $325K |
| 2021 | $3.7M | $3.8M | $2.5M | $444K | — | -$69K |
| 2020 | $3.1M | $3.2M | $1.8M | $497K | — | $101K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $788K from 31 charities:
- The Calgary Foundation$232K
- RBC Foundation$75K
- Krogseth Foundation$50K
- Weston Family Foundation$50K
- The Krawczyk Family Foundation$50K
- The Daniel Family Foundation$40K
- The Jarislowsky Foundation/la Fondation Jarislowsky$35K
- Ptarmigan Charitable Foundation$30K
- Somerset Foundation$25K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$25K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$19K
- The Anderson Family Foundation$18K
- Blue Crane Charitable Foundation$15K
- The Toronto Star Children's Charities$14K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$10K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$10K
- C.M. Odette Philanthropic Foundation$10K
- Vancouver Foundation$9,395
- Hamilton Community Foundation$6,191
- Aqueduct Foundation$6,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$5,066
- The Brophy Family Foundation$5,000
- Flavelle Family Foundation$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- $40,000–79,99938 positions
- Permanent full-time positions49
- Total compensation, all staff$4.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Outward Bound Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892511692RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.