Sketch Working Arts for Street Involved and Homeless Youth
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 859128332RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,971,272) as filed with the CRA.
Sketch Working Arts for Street Involved and Homeless Youth is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2M in revenue and $2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations, 35% from government, 19% from other charities. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $746K.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 30% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 17 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $3.7M in 2020 to $2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Sketch working arts (sketch) engages diverse youth aged 16-29 in toronto who are navigating poverty living homeless or otherwise on the margins in the following activities: 1. Discover activities that engage youth facing multiple barriers including homelessness marginalization poverty hunger isolation mental and physical adversities. These activities involve providing healthy meals nutritional awareness and emotional support. This also includes referrals to resources in health care housing and other social supports. 2. Develop activities involve arts exploration technical developm…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2M | $2M | $1.5M | $202K | — | -$704K |
| 2023 | $3.1M | $3.5M | $3M | $299K | — | -$704K |
| 2022 | $3.5M | $3.8M | $3.1M | $317K | — | -$271K |
| 2021 | $4.1M | $4M | $3.2M | $255K | — | $5,573 |
| 2020 | $3.7M | $3.7M | $2.9M | $245K | — | -$98K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $746K from 22 charities:
- The McGuire Family Foundation$200K
- Future Generations Foundation$135K
- The Slaight Family Foundation$100K
- Canadahelps Canadon$64K
- Canadahelps Canadon$64K
- MLSE Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$22K
- Co-operators Community Fund (Charity)$22K
- Toronto Foundation$15K
- Rotary Club of Toronto Charitable Foundation$12K
- Plusoneplusone Canada$10K
- The Kiwanis Club of Toronto Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$9,030
- The Newall Family Foundation$7,500
- Community Counts Foundation$5,000
- St. Andrew's Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Johansen-Larsen Foundation$5,000
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The Calgary Foundation$4,451
- Univox Choirs Toronto Inc.$1,500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$248
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions17
- Total compensation, all staff$721K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Natassia Morris (chair); Noah Aiken-Klar (director); Olivia Coombe (vice-chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sketch Working Arts for Street Involved and Homeless Youth’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 859128332RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.