Youth Canada Association (youcan!) / Associaton des Jeunes Canadiens
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 140979915RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,657,629) as filed with the CRA.
Youth Canada Association (youcan!) / Associaton des Jeunes Canadiens is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. 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 $3.3M in revenue and $2.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations, 59% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $152K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 48% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.6M in 2020 to $3.3M in 2024.
In its own words
1. Relentless youth worker project is an outreach project that fosters long-term relationships that assist in guiding a young person at-risk through the stages of change from living a very harmful lifestyle to living a healthy and safe lifestyle; uses youth engagement and transformational relationship building to increase the odds for these at risk youth to either stay in school go back to school get into a meaningful program or gain meaning ful employment. 2. Verto project brings 12 at-risk youth together for a unique 16-week group-based employability skills program that gives them the sk…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.3M | $2.7M | $2.3M | $54K | — | $2M |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $1.9M | — | $37K | — | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $2.2M | $1.7M | — | $38K | — | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $1.6M | $1.5M | — | — | — | $698K |
| 2020 | $1.6M | — | — | — | — | $596K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $152K from 11 charities:
- Legacy Plus Foundation Canada$50K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,614
- Aqueduct Foundation$6,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,249
- The Leder Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,181
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$1,000
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$614
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
- $40,000–79,99915 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$1.4M
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 Youth Canada Association (youcan!) / Associaton des Jeunes Canadiens’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 140979915RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.