Sudbury Action Centre for Youth
Publicly funded institution · Sudbury, Ontario · BN 888085644RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2023-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,256,184) as filed with the CRA.
Sudbury Action Centre for Youth is a charitable organization based in Sudbury, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2023, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $20K.
Compared with 799 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 32% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (8 positions in that band). The charity reported 24 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $706K in 2020 to $1.4M in 2023. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
1. Non-residential youth support program: provide supportive counseling advocacy crisis intervention skills training & youth support groups for at risk & vulnerable youth make ongoing referrals to schools employment programs counselling services & residential programs. 2. Harm reduction program: provide drug users in the community the supplies and services necessary to promote clean and safe use 3. Housing support program: provide housing support services from a housing first perspective 4. Tg innerselves: strives to create more inclusive and safer communities for transgender people acro…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2023
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1.1M | — | — | $297K |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $1.7M | — | — | $187K |
| 2021 | $1M | $898K | $735K | $77K | — | $175K |
| 2020 | $706K | $822K | $584K | $141K | — | $68K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $20K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions24
- Total compensation, all staff$1M
Schedule 3 of its 2023 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Mark White (treasurer); Arro Barry (director); Rita O'Link (director); Kaitlyn Morin (chair); Vanessa Vachon (director); April Phelps (secretary); Brian Short (director); Todd Kanhai (director); Vivek Patel (director); Jordan Wright (director).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sudbury Action Centre for Youth’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888085644RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.