Take Me Outside Fitness and Outdoor Education for Youth
Charitable organization · Banff, Alberta · BN 850695206RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($729,876) as filed with the CRA.
Take Me Outside Fitness and Outdoor Education for Youth is a charitable organization based in Banff, Alberta, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $864K in revenue and $730K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from other charities. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $350K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 22% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 99% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
1. Each year in October we organize Take Me Outside (TMO) Day a national event directed at educators students & administrators across Canada. TMO Day is a week’s worth of programs & events that address all four purposes. It is intended to educate all of those involved around physical activity sedentary screen time nature deficit disorder & promoting health and wellbeing. 2. The Take Me Outside For Learning Challenge is a year long (Sep – Jun) program that encourages and supports weekly outdoor experiential education for students & teachers across Canada. TMO creates curates & delivers …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2023–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $864K | $730K | $457K | $187K | — | $261K |
| 2023 | $437K | $339K | $154K | — | — | $537K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $350K from 2 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
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$219K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Patrick Maher (chair); Elisabeth Saxton (director); Sarah Ketcheson (secretary); Sheamus Donnery (director); Charlotte de Souza (director); Natalie Harder (director); Kate Porter (director); Degju Suwal (treasurer); Nick Townley (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Take Me Outside Fitness and Outdoor Education for Youth’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 850695206RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.