Thrive Youth Development Canada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 886917764RR0002 · Education in the Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,357,716) as filed with the CRA.
Thrive Youth Development Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under education in the arts. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 46% from donations, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $405K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 1% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range.
In its own words
Learn Create Explore Build to Change and Youth Lead Impact--arts education and leadership programs. Cultural and leadership awards recognition. After school programs and coordination with performing arts groups for attending theatre concerts opera and ballet performances in cities such as Toronto Surrey and Vancouver.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $126K | — | — | $280K |
| 2023 | $313K | $666K | $593K | — | — | $194K |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $1M | — | — | $809K |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $927K | $827K | — | — | $656K |
| 2020 | $1M | $769K | $681K | — | — | $370K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $405K from 19 charities:
- The Bradstreet Family Foundation$50K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$49K
- Canadahelps Canadon$49K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$37K
- Openroad Foundation$30K
- Beedie Foundation$30K
- The Counselling Foundation of Canada$25K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Comart Foundation$15K
- Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation$10K
- The Janice Lewis and Mitchell Cohen Foundation$10K
- Temerty Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$7,500
- Conam Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Ontario Arts Foundation/fondation des Arts de l'Ontario$3,638
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$3,300
- Emerald Foundation$3,000
- Arbor Memorial Foundation-$2,500
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
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Total compensation, all staff$852K
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 Thrive Youth Development Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 886917764RR0002), or read how we compute the receipt.