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YOUTH CANADA ASSOCIATION (YOUCAN!)/ASSOCIATION DES JEUNES CANADIENS

YOUTH CANADA ASSOCIATION (YOUCAN!)/ASSOCIATION DES JEUNES CANADIENS (Alberta) receives grants from 23 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,400,733 to it, the largest being H W SIEBENS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$406,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
C$3.3M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
C$1.4M
Net assets
C$2.0M
14/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Youth Canada Association (Youcan!)/Association Des Jeunes Canadiens does

Ongoing programs

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 skills necessary to transition back into school or employment from the harmful lifestyles they are currently living in; includes employment and personal developmental. The goal of this program is to have the youth leave stable enough to either go back to school or gain meaningful employment. 3. Step up and step in program focuses on youth engagement leadership and empowerment-geared toward the prevention of youth violence and criminal activity in edmonton; relentless youth outreach workers work with the youth on their diverse variety of activities and events to provide the support and…

As stated on its FY2024 T3010.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$1.8M) Expenses 100 (C$1.7M) Net assets 100 (C$334k)2018 Revenue 89 (C$1.6M) Expenses 93 (C$1.6M) Net assets 90 (C$302k)2019 Revenue 95 (C$1.7M) Net assets 151 (C$504k)2020 Revenue 91 (C$1.6M) Net assets 178 (C$596k)2021 Revenue 92 (C$1.6M) Expenses 93 (C$1.5M) Net assets 209 (C$698k)2022 Revenue 126 (C$2.2M) Expenses 104 (C$1.7M) Net assets 358 (C$1.2M)2023 Revenue 121 (C$2.1M) Expenses 116 (C$1.9M) Net assets 421 (C$1.4M)2024 Revenue 183 (C$3.3M) Expenses 159 (C$2.7M) Net assets 599 (C$2.0M)
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Revenue (183)Expenses (159)Net assets (599)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from C$1.2M to C$1.9M (+61%).

C$551k
C$823k
C$891k
C$1.1M
C$1.2M
C$1.9M
C$2.0M
C$2.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 50% · 2018 49% · 2019 59% · 2020 72% · 2021 68% · 2022 55% · 2023 60% · 2024 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

43% of YOUTH CANADA ASSOCIATION (YOUCAN!)/ASSOCIATION DES JEUNES CANADIENS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (34% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 355 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

C$105k
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C$22k
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C$90k
’21
C$497k
’22
C$209k
’23
C$595k
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2.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

20172018201920202022
Listed135667
Joined·+0+1+0·
No longer listed·800·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell C$220k → C$218k.

From the CRA filings of YOUTH CANADA ASSOCIATION (YOUCAN!)/ASSOCIATION DES JEUNES CANADIENS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

YOUTH CANADA ASSOCIATION (YOUCAN!)/ASSOCIATION DES JEUNES CANADIENS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund YOUTH CANADA ASSOCIATION (YOUCAN!)/ASSOCIATION DES JEUNES CANADIENS.

29%
largest funder
68%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 53% · 2019 52% · 2020 49% · 2021 69% · 2022 25% · 2023 23% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

58% of YOUTH CANADA ASSOCIATION (YOUCAN!)/ASSOCIATION DES JEUNES CANADIENS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

57% of YOUTH CANADA ASSOCIATION (YOUCAN!)/ASSOCIATION DES JEUNES CANADIENS's grant income comes from Alberta funders.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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Alberta out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$173k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

YOUTH CANADA ASSOCIATION (YOUCAN!)/ASSOCIATION DES JEUNES CANADIENS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 388 support of schools and education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 388 support of schools and education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government revenue YOUTH CANADA ASSOCIATION (YOUCAN!)/ASSOCIATION DES JEUNES CANADIENS reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$1.9M
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  • 59% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 9%Fundraising 2%

Questions and answers

Who funds YOUTH CANADA ASSOCIATION (YOUCAN!)/ASSOCIATION DES JEUNES CANADIENS?
YOUTH CANADA ASSOCIATION (YOUCAN!)/ASSOCIATION DES JEUNES CANADIENS (Alberta) receives grants from 23 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,400,733 to it, the largest being H W SIEBENS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$406,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does YOUTH CANADA ASSOCIATION (YOUCAN!)/ASSOCIATION DES JEUNES CANADIENS have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 23 organizations giving C$1,400,733 in grants to YOUTH CANADA ASSOCIATION (YOUCAN!)/ASSOCIATION DES JEUNES CANADIENS, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of YOUTH CANADA ASSOCIATION (YOUCAN!)/ASSOCIATION DES JEUNES CANADIENS?
H W SIEBENS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$406,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like YOUTH CANADA ASSOCIATION (YOUCAN!)/ASSOCIATION DES JEUNES CANADIENS find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register