Federation of Canadian Secondary Students
Charitable organizationSupport of schools and education·42 SASSAFRAS ST · KITCHENER, ON · N2N 3S1·BN 818506784RR0001·website ↗
Last reported: F2024 filing · period ending 2024-12-24
Cents to cause T1
99¢
of each dollar spent, to programs
Operating overhead T1
1%
typical range 5–35%
Reserves T1
—
not in this filing
Revenue T1
$12K
not reviewed by an analyst (Charity Intelligence)
— means the filing doesn't include the lines needed; details and sources below.·How to read these figures
Common questions
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Is Federation of Canadian Secondary Students a registered charity?
Per CRA records, it filed a F2024 T3010 return under charity number 818506784RR0001. Registration status can change, so check the CRA charities listing for its current status. Only a currently registered charity can issue an official donation receipt.
Where is Federation of Canadian Secondary Students located?
Per its F2024 T3010, its address on file is 42 SASSAFRAS ST, KITCHENER, ON, N2N 3S1. Source.
What does Federation of Canadian Secondary Students do?
In its own words, from its F2024 T3010 filing: "1. Conferences workshops and seminars on mental health stress anxiety coping identity-based discrimination and other issues related to youth and mental health for secondary/CÉGEP students across Canada to advance education by supporting students and communities. 2. Leadership and mentorship services such as…" Full program description.
How much of Federation of Canadian Secondary Students's spending goes to programs?T1
Per its F2024 T3010, 99¢ of each dollar it spent went to programs (self-reported, not independently verified). Full figures.
How big is Federation of Canadian Secondary Students?T1
Its last-reported revenue was $12K (F2024), which places it in Charity Compass's under $1M revenue band, alongside 27,629 other operating charities.
What it does — in its own words
Ongoing programs
1. Conferences workshops and seminars on mental health stress anxiety coping identity-based discrimination and other issues related to youth and mental health for secondary/CÉGEP students across Canada to advance education by supporting students and communities. 2. Leadership and mentorship services such as admissions applications seminars to secondary/CÉGEP students across Canada in order to help prepare them for the transition to post-secondary pathways including college university apprenticeship/trades and the workplace. 3. Internet-based youth engagement platform to suppo… Show more
1. Conferences workshops and seminars on mental health stress anxiety coping identity-based discrimination and other issues related to youth and mental health for secondary/CÉGEP students across Canada to advance education by supporting students and communities. 2. Leadership and mentorship services such as admissions applications seminars to secondary/CÉGEP students across Canada in order to help prepare them for the transition to post-secondary pathways including college university apprenticeship/trades and the workplace. 3. Internet-based youth engagement platform to support schools and education by fostering civic engagement among secondary/CÉGEP students across Canada in order to support and empower youth. 4. Furtherance of education though the creation and facilitation of equity and anti-discrimination trainings to secondary school students with particular emphasis on historically marginalized groups in Canada. 5. Furtherance of education by developing a financial literacy training program tailored for Canadian secondary student audiences. Focuses of the financial literacy training program focused on supplementing existing material in provincial curricula. 6. Furtherance of education through the creation of curriculum and learning materials addressing Indigenous Peoples and climate change beyond the scope addressed in provincial educational curricula. This included a targeted program of learning circles and delivery of educational content with a focus on environmental issues environmental racism disproportionate effects of climate change Indigenous reconciliation and decolonization. 7. Furtherance of education through a new mutual aid research program to allow Canadian secondary students the ability to complete their required community services hours for secondary school remotely under the constraints posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. A specific focus of this program was ameliorative and targeted at students from rural remote and northern communities who may be at risk of not completing secondary school.
Program descriptions from its F2024 T3010 filing, verbatim · self-reported · this is also the text our semantic search matches against. source ↗
Tier 1 — what we computed (open data)
From the charity's own F2024 T3010 filing. Self-reported; not independently verified. You can recompute every figure. New to these terms? Read what cents to the cause, overhead and reserves mean.
99¢
Per its F2024 T3010, 99¢ of each dollar spent went to programs. The rest ran the organization and raised money; higher is not automatically better.
Sector median: 89¢ across 55,155 computed charities; 89¢ among those its size (under $1M).
this charity 99¢ · sector median 89¢ · all 55,155 computed charities
T3010 line 5000 ÷ 4950 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗ · what this means
1%
Management, administration, and fundraising as a share of total spending. We treat 5–35% as the typical range; we state the figure, you judge.
T3010 line (5010 + 5020) ÷ 4950 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗ · what this means
—
Not reported in this filing: the return leaves out the lines this figure needs, so we show nothing rather than an estimate.
T3010 line (4100 + 4140) ÷ 5000 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗ · what this means
Total revenue
T1 · computed (open data)$12K
Last-reported total revenue.
T3010 line 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Donor-funded
T1 · computed (open data)12%
Share of revenue from receipted donations.
T3010 line 4500 ÷ 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
87%
Share of revenue from federal, provincial, and municipal sources.
T3010 line 4570 (or 4540+4550+4560) ÷ 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗ · what this means
Where the money comes from
Shares of last-reported revenue, per its F2024 T3010. Self-reported; not independently verified.
Receipted donationsT1
12%
T3010 4500 ÷ 4700
GovernmentT1
87%
T3010 4570 (or 4540+4550+4560) ÷ 4700
Other revenueT1
1%
T3010 remainder ÷ 4700
Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Over the years
Every figure as filed at each fiscal period end, 2019–2024.
| Period end | Revenue | Cents to cause | Overhead | Reserves |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-24 | $1K | 91¢ | 9% | — |
| 2020-12-24 | $3K | 90¢ | 10% | — |
| 2021-12-24 | $18K | 94¢ | 1% | — |
| 2022-12-24 | $43K | 99¢ | 1% | — |
| 2023-12-24 | $23K | 83¢ | 17% | — |
| 2024-12-24 | $12K | 99¢ | 1% | — |
| trend |
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From its T3010 filings (CRA annual releases) · self-reported, not audited by us · when a period is restated in a later release, the newest figures are shown · ✱ = cents-to-cause outside the valid 0–100% range (filing error; not used in rankings). source ↗
★ Tier 2 — Charity Intelligence (analyst-reviewed)
Not rated by Charity Intelligence. Their analysts cover 819 of Canada's 83,761 charities; absence of a rating says nothing about this charity. Our computed figures above stand on their own.
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Board of directors
10 directors reported · 10 of 10at arm's length
- Ebadi, RomanDirectorarm's length
- Jamal, HusaynChairpersonarm's length
- Chai, Samantha VSecretaryarm's length
- Pacouloute, Irvine (Saika)Directorarm's length
- Callaghan, D'Juan IDirectorarm's length
- Goloubov, BenjaminDirectorarm's length
- Pasquariello, Laura BDirectorarm's length
- George, RyanDirectorarm's length
- Yu, BruceVice-Chairpersonarm's length
- Moreau, Andrea JDirectorarm's length
From its F2024T3010 filing (public CRA record), as filed. “Arm's length” means not related to other officials by family or business ties. source ↗
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