Youth Film and Media Training Network
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 851664995RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($766,009) as filed with the CRA.
Youth Film and Media Training Network is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $929K in revenue and $766K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 68% from government, 21% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $155K.
Compared with 1,147 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 39% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $539K in 2020 to $929K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Programs are designed to prepare at risk young adults for the transformational era and environment we live in to help address growing income disparities. Programs include job placement and internships: successful graduates of the training program are placed into entry level jobs and internships within the media industry. The speaker series: each month a celebrity speaker participates in the series with their session being video skyped to satellite organization across the country alumni working group: comprised of qualified and committed alumni who continue beyond the program to work on I…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $929K | $766K | $626K | — | — | $292K |
| 2023 | $762K | $926K | $688K | $62K | — | $129K |
| 2022 | $954K | $871K | $542K | $44K | — | $292K |
| 2021 | $854K | $765K | $532K | — | $59K | $209K |
| 2020 | $539K | $423K | $328K | $13K | — | $120K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $155K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$391K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Edie Weiss (president); Scott Mackenzie (director); Redmond Joseph Langan (director); Wahn Yoon (board chair); Clarence Ford (director); Shawn Ahmed (director); Oswaldo Quiroz (director); Tina Zhang (treasurer); Derek Blais (director); Kema Joseph (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Youth Film and Media Training Network’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 851664995RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.