Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/Initiative Canada Jeunesse et Philanthropie
Public foundation · Coldwater, Ontario · BN 840662712RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($857,074) as filed with the CRA.
Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/Initiative Canada Jeunesse et Philanthropie is a public foundation based in Coldwater, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $630K in revenue and $857K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 32% from donations, 14% from government, 36% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $315K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 43% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 98 qualified donees totalling $469K in 2024, the largest being $5,000 to Youth Without Shelter Terra House North Toronto Emergency Residence and Referral Agency. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $1.2M in 2020 to $630K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
YPI Canada is an innovative public foundation and world leader in youth-led participatory grant-making. We offer an inclusive fully-resourced and equity-focused youth civic education project that takes place in high schools across Canada. YPI grants hundreds of thousands of dollars to community-based social service charities each year 100% based on the research and peer-to-peer advocacy of thousands of teenagers who participate in our annual project. YPI takes place in high schools where it is implemented inclusively to all students across grade 9 or 10 as a curriculum-linked graded pr…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $630K | $857K | $244K | $54K | $469K | $37K |
| 2023 | $695K | $829K | $220K | $59K | $470K | $264K |
| 2022 | $985K | $1.1M | $375K | $124K | $503K | $398K |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1M | $320K | $95K | $503K | $543K |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $292K | $114K | $619K | $338K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, June 30, 2024
- From other charities$229,600
- Receipted donations$201,000
- Investment income$6,151
- Other gifts$910
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $469K to 98 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Youth Without Shelter Terra House North Toronto Emergency Residence and Referral Agency$5,000
- YWCA British Columbia$5,000
- YMHC Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Women's House Serving Bruce & Grey$5,000
- Women's Hostels Incorporated$5,000
- Women's Centre of Calgary$5,000
- Welland Heritage Council and Multicultural Centre$5,000
- Victoria Disability Resource Centre$5,000
- Victim Services of Peel$5,000
- Umbrella Society for Addictions and Mental Health$5,000
- Treehouse Advocacy Centre Society Vancouver$5,000
- Toronto Vegetarian Food Bank$5,000
- Their Opportunity Minor Sports Corporation$5,000
- The Stop Community Food Centre$5,000
- The Sonshine Street Preschool$5,000
- L'Arbre Social/The Social Tree$5,000
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada/conseil de Direction de l'Armée du Salut du Canada$5,000
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada/conseil de Direction de l'Armée du Salut du Canada$5,000
- The Ottawa Mission$5,000
- The Ottawa Food Bank/la Banque d'Alimentation d'Ottawa$5,000
- The Mustard Seed Foundation$5,000
- Zajac Ranch Society$5,000
- The Good Shepherd Centre Hamilton$5,000
- The Kristen French Child Advocacy Centre Niagara$5,000
- Stepstones for Youth$5,000
Received $315K from 15 charities:
- The Calgary Foundation$120K
- Werklund Foundation$55K
- The Molson Foundation/fondation Molson$50K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$25K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$25K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$17K
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$5,000
- Durham Community Foundation$4,000
- Trafalgar Castle School$2,500
- Greenwood College School$2,500
- The Linden School$2,500
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$2,500
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$2,500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$750
- Canadahelps Canadon$154
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$276K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Eric Blais (director); Naomi Racette; Wei Wang; Kristin Shearer (treasurer); Freda Stolz (director); Lauren Herbert (secretary); Marissa Soumalias.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/Initiative Canada Jeunesse et Philanthropie’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 840662712RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.