Youthlink
Publicly funded institution · Scarborough, Ontario · BN 126207786RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,923,737) as filed with the CRA.
Youthlink is a charitable organization based in Scarborough, 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 $9.1M in revenue and $8.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 59% from government, 30% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.3M.
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 27% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 93% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 60 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Youthlink provides a range of services from prevention to early intervention to treatment for young people between the ages of 12-24 and their families living in the city of toronto. Range of services include: * individual family and group counselling * school based prevention programs * residential treatment program * community outreach work * after school programming * whats up walkin * transitional housing * youth sheltershelter
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.1M | $8.9M | $7.5M | $158K | — | $7.4M |
| 2023 | $8.5M | $8.5M | $6.6M | $215K | — | $7.2M |
| 2022 | $9.1M | $8.2M | $6.5M | $279K | — | $7.2M |
| 2021 | $8.2M | $8.2M | $6.8M | $184K | — | $6.3M |
| 2020 | $8M | $8M | $6.3M | $266K | — | $6.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.3M from 19 charities:
- Pathways to Education Canada/Passeport pour ma réussite Canada$1.2M
- United Way of Greater Toronto$708K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$200K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$70K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$70K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$30K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$29K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$10K
- The Harold E. Ballard Foundation$10K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$7,674
- Kids Up Front Foundation (toronto)$7,554
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$7,531
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,416
- Traquair Family Foundation$5,000
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$3,219
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$2,156
- Abundance Canada$1,000
- Toronto District School Board$500
- Parkwoods United Church—
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
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions60
- Total compensation, all staff$5.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sanjeev Agarwal (treasurer); Shamshad Bee (member); Steven Chuang (member); Nathan Ram (member); Alisha Tharani (member); Tamara Wattley-Wisdom (member); Dianne Weatherby (chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Youthlink’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 126207786RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.