Positive Recreation Opportunities for Kids
Charitable organization · Thunder Bay, Ontario · BN 823587076RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($207,492) as filed with the CRA.
Positive Recreation Opportunities for Kids is a charitable organization based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $354K in revenue and $207K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 21% from donations, 36% from government, 8% from other charities. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $13K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 89% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $193K in 2020 to $354K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Despite looming lock-downs pro kids was able to place 497 children into community activities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $354K | $207K | $106K | $77K | — | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $331K | $198K | $113K | $70K | — | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $310K | $189K | $98K | $75K | — | $939K |
| 2021 | $243K | $161K | — | — | — | $819K |
| 2020 | $193K | $177K | — | — | — | $737K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $13K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$152K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Doug Eddington (director); Kathy Ball (director); Lance Barenz (director); Sara-Lynn Tayebi (youth representative); Melanie Tibishkogejig (director); Rachel Coffey (director); Katie Burton (director); Cody Kostecki (director); Omer Belisle (director); Barry Smith (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Positive Recreation Opportunities for Kids’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 823587076RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.