Youth Opportunities Unlimited
Publicly funded institution · London, Ontario · BN 119307668RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($11,065,731) as filed with the CRA.
Youth Opportunities Unlimited is a charitable organization based in London, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $11.4M in revenue and $11.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 13% from donations, 114% from government, 38% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 53 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $872K.
Compared with 115 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 93 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $6.7M in 2020 to $11.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
1. To help young people who are unemployed not in school or training disadvantaged or disabled develop skills and search techniques to enable them to prepare for seek secure and maintain full-time part-time and casual work from all areas of employment by providing job training and formal and informal educational opportunities as they arise through both in-house programing social enterprises and connections with community partners. 2. To help young people who are impacted by poverty housing instability poor overall health/welness and those in transition from government care develop s…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11.4M | $11.1M | $9.5M | $346K | — | $5.6M |
| 2023 | $9.7M | $9.5M | $7.9M | $182K | — | $5.2M |
| 2022 | $9.6M | $9.1M | $7.8M | $86K | — | $5.1M |
| 2021 | $8.5M | $7.6M | $336K | $38K | — | $14.9M |
| 2020 | $6.7M | $7M | $5.9M | $87K | — | $3.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $872K from 53 charities:
- The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation$250K
- RBC Foundation$100K
- United Way Simcoe Muskoka$93K
- Smith Family Foundation$63K
- United Way Elgin Middlesex$35K
- The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation$35K
- Peoples Ministries Inc.$27K
- Hobgoblin Foundation$25K
- London Community Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$24K
- Canadahelps Canadon$24K
- Aqueduct Foundation$20K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$18K
- The Lawson Foundation$15K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$11K
- Smith Family Foundation$10K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$9,242
- BenefAction Foundation$8,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$8,000
- Shealtiel Foundation$7,000
- Kiwanis Club of Forest City - London$6,200
- Hageman Family Foundation$5,000
- Smith Family Foundation$5,000
- Smith Family Foundation$5,000
- The Bridge a Markham Community Church$4,800
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
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions93
- Total compensation, all staff$5.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kelly Austin (2nd vice president); Scott Collyer (director); Danielle D'Alonzo (director); Terry Gillis (president); Dan Grantham (director); Phil Masschelein (director); Cheryl Miller (director); Alanna Sawatzky (director); Rod Skinkle (director); Naushad Syed (director); Jeff Van Hoeve (treasurer); Moe Zeidan (vice president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Youth Opportunities Unlimited’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119307668RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.