Youth Assisting Youth
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119307478RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,165,172) as filed with the CRA.
Youth Assisting Youth is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, 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 $1.7M in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from donations, 68% from government, 9% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $285K.
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 1% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 91% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 25 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Youth assisting youth is an organization whose objectives are to promoting the healthy growth and development of young people strengthening families and responding to and supporting changing community needs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $2.2M | $82K | $3,447 | — | $462K |
| 2023 | $2M | $2M | $87K | $2,618 | — | $894K |
| 2022 | $2.1M | $1.8M | $82K | $9,012 | — | $867K |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.4M | $38K | $9,695 | — | $634K |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $1.5M | $1.3M | $8,100 | — | $194K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $285K from 14 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$151K
- Capitalize For Kids Foundation$40K
- Kids Up Front Foundation (toronto)$30K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$25K
- Canada Gives$10K
- Rheaume Family Foundation$10K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$7,200
- The Toronto Star Children's Charities$3,640
- CHUM Charitable Foundation$2,150
- The Sam Sorbara Charitable Foundation$2,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,976
- Vancouver Foundation$1,350
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,097
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$14
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
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions25
- Total compensation, all staff$1.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Daniel Caplan (director/youth rep); David Ehrlich (director); Erika Murray (director); Dario Kosarac (director); Maina Rambali (treasurer); Nicole Arnold (director); Craig Williamson (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Youth Assisting Youth’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119307478RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.