West Island Youth Action (AJOI)
Publicly funded institution · Sainte-Genevieve, Quebec · BN 829675610RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,410,559) as filed with the CRA.
West Island Youth Action (AJOI) is a charitable organization based in Sainte-Genevieve, Quebec, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 81% from government, 16% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $314K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $971K in 2020 to $1.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Ajoi vise à améliorer la qualité de vie des jeunes et à brises le déni de la pauvreté de l'ouest-de-l'île. La mission d'ajoi est d'offrir des services de prévention et d'intervention en travail de rue et de milieu auprès des jeunes et des personnes vulnérables dans le secteur de l'oest-de-l'île de montréal. Ajoi fournit les services suivants: accompagnement référence vers des professionnels aide à la recherche d'emploi aide à la recherche de logement médiation distribution de matériel afin de réduire la prolifération d'itss intervention de crise atéliers de prévention en milieu scolaire…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $1.1M | — | — | $1.5M |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $875K | — | — | $325K |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.3M | — | — | $315K |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $988K | — | — | $178K |
| 2020 | $971K | $942K | $705K | $3,283 | — | $168K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $314K from 14 charities:
- Centraide Du Grand Montréal$154K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$66K
- West-island community shares$50K
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/hockey Aide les Sans-Abri$27K
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- The Masonic Foundation of Québec$3,300
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,127
- Pointe-Claire Oldtimers Foundation$1,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,080
- Fondation J-Rodolphe-La Haye Inc$1,000
- The Fabrique of the Parish of Saint Luke-Archidiocese de Montreal$1,000
- The Azrieli Foundation$1,000
- Fondation Laure Gaudreault$488
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$400
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michel Wilson (president); Jag Nara Simha Devara (treasurer); Howard Nadler (administrator); Ann Francis (administrator); Martine Haines (administrator); Véronique Babin (administrator); Virginie Tourte (administrator); Nell Owusu (administrator); Athéna Quesnel-Revelakis (administrator).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from West Island Youth Action (AJOI)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 829675610RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.