Urban squash Toronto
Charitable organization · North York, Ontario · BN 805110061RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($806,290) as filed with the CRA.
Urban squash Toronto is a charitable organization based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $956K in revenue and $806K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 63% from donations, 10% from government, 27% from other charities. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $549K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 47% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $436K in 2020 to $956K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 18 names.
In its own words
UST combines an intensive after-school 7 days-a-week year-long education program with concentrated athletics (principally squash). The mission of Urban Squash Toronto (UST) is to empower and inspire underserved youth in the Jane and Finch area to improve academic and athletic achievement through intensive educational programming and support squash training mentorship and character development.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $956K | $806K | $660K | — | — | $389K |
| 2023 | $792K | $764K | $641K | — | — | $264K |
| 2022 | $465K | $511K | $407K | — | — | $236K |
| 2021 | $603K | $505K | $394K | — | — | $311K |
| 2020 | $436K | $361K | $311K | — | — | $212K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $549K from 20 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$189K
- Canadahelps Canadon$189K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$30K
- The Bruce H. Mitchell Foundation$25K
- The Sixty Three Foundation$25K
- Weston Family Foundation$20K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$14K
- Toronto Foundation$13K
- Canada Gives$12K
- Mauer-Sheiner Foundation$10K
- Mazon Canada$6,390
- Duncan M. & Judith O. Jessiman Foundation Inc.$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- The Robert and Tatiana Ritchie Foundation$2,000
- Kids Up Front Foundation (toronto)$1,486
- Abundance Canada$1,000
- Peter Wood Family Foundation$1,000
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$500
- Nathan and Lily Silver Family Foundation$500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$500
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
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$393K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Graham McBride (co-chair); Tori Buffery (director); Anita Nador (co-chair); Steve Martin (director); Alex Wu (director); James McKay (director); Noorez Lalani (director); Rasheed Saleuddin (director); William Fanjoy (director); Josh Nevsky (director); Bryan Salazar (director); Rob Maxwell (director); Benjamin Kaak (director); Harvey Bains (director); Jeremy Burke (director); Liam Sobey (director); Larry Chan (director); James Neate (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Urban squash Toronto’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 805110061RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.