TAKE ME OUTSIDE FITNESS AND OUTDOOR EDUCATION FOR YOUTH
Charitable organizationSupport of schools and education·PO BOX 2836 · BANFF, AB · T1L 1C5·BN 850695206RR0001·website ↗
Last reported: F2024 filing · period ending 2024-12-31
Cents to cause T1
63¢
of each dollar spent, to programs
Operating overhead T1
37%
typical range 5–35%
Reserves T1
1.4 yr
of program spending, in cash and investments
Revenue T1
$864K
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
How do I donate to Take Me Outside Fitness and Outdoor Education for Youth?
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Is Take Me Outside Fitness and Outdoor Education for Youth a registered charity?
Per CRA records, it filed a F2024 T3010 return under charity number 850695206RR0001. 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 Take Me Outside Fitness and Outdoor Education for Youth located?
Per its F2024 T3010, its address on file is PO BOX 2836, BANFF, AB, T1L 1C5. Source.
What does Take Me Outside Fitness and Outdoor Education for Youth do?
In its own words, from its F2024 T3010 filing: "1. Each year in October we organize Take Me Outside (TMO) Day a national event directed at educators students & administrators across Canada. TMO Day is a week’s worth of programs & events that address all four purposes. It is intended to educate all of those involved around physical activity sedentary screen time…" Full program description.
How much of Take Me Outside Fitness and Outdoor Education for Youth's spending goes to programs?T1
Per its F2024 T3010, 63¢ of each dollar it spent went to programs (self-reported, not independently verified). Full figures.
How big is Take Me Outside Fitness and Outdoor Education for Youth?T1
Its last-reported revenue was $864K (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. Each year in October we organize Take Me Outside (TMO) Day a national event directed at educators students & administrators across Canada. TMO Day is a week’s worth of programs & events that address all four purposes. It is intended to educate all of those involved around physical activity sedentary screen time nature deficit disorder & promoting health and wellbeing. 2. The Take Me Outside For Learning Challenge is a year long (Sep – Jun) program that encourages and supports weekly outdoor experiential education for students & teachers across Canada. TMO creates curates & delivers … Show more
1. Each year in October we organize Take Me Outside (TMO) Day a national event directed at educators students & administrators across Canada. TMO Day is a week’s worth of programs & events that address all four purposes. It is intended to educate all of those involved around physical activity sedentary screen time nature deficit disorder & promoting health and wellbeing. 2. The Take Me Outside For Learning Challenge is a year long (Sep – Jun) program that encourages and supports weekly outdoor experiential education for students & teachers across Canada. TMO creates curates & delivers regular monthly resources activities & professional development opportunities that suit varying grade levels subjects & curricula to participating educators that help support them to facilitate outdoor learning. 3. Annually TMO hosts & facilitates a countrywide filmmaking competition for students. The assignment involves children and youth exploring the outdoors around their homes & communities & producing a short video featuring how they like to find adventures and spend their time exploring the outdoors in Canada. Through storytelling and filmmaking students get outside & experience for themselves that value of time in nature. The films are educational for students teachers & the general public. 4. Since the fall of 2021 TMO & one of our partners (The Outdoor Learning Store) have been providing outdoor learning workshops directed at K-12 educators. These workshops focus on practical teaching tips resources and activities that help enable educators to use the outdoors as a pedagogical approach to teaching their students. 44 000+ educators participated in our 2024 seasonal Outdoor Learning workshops. The workshops put on in partnership with The Outdoor Learning School and Store featured incredible leaders in outdoor learning from across Turtle Island/North America. In 2024 we reached 70 000 educators in a TMO event or campaign. That resulted in 885 000 students & learners being involved in initiatives that engaged them in the outdoors. 5. Since May 2023 TMO along with partners has been hosting a national outdoor learning conference to 465 educators to attend 140 different sessions. These educators are involved with Canadian organizations whose mandate involved advancing outdoor learning addressing health & wellbeing physical activity & sedentary screen time and combatting nature deficit disorder.
New programs
1. Take Me Outside launched a new Mentorship Program in 2024 where educators newer to outdoor learning (250 Mentees) can connect directly with educators with more experience in outdoor learning (90 Mentors).
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.
63¢
Per its F2024 T3010, 63¢ 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 63¢ · sector median 89¢ · all 55,155 computed charities
T3010 line 5000 ÷ 4950 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗ · what this means
37%
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
1.4 yr
Years that cash, bank balances and investments on hand could cover program spending; liabilities and restricted funds are not netted out.
Charities its size (under $1M, 27,629): median 1 yr; 14% hold under half a year. All operating charities: median 0.8 yr.
T3010 line (4100 + 4140) ÷ 5000 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗ · what this means
Total revenue
T1 · computed (open data)$864K
Last-reported total revenue.
T3010 line 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Donor-funded
T1 · computed (open data)0%
Share of revenue from receipted donations.
T3010 line 4500 ÷ 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
0%
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
0%
T3010 4500 ÷ 4700
GovernmentT1
0%
T3010 4570 (or 4540+4550+4560) ÷ 4700
Other revenueT1
99%
T3010 remainder ÷ 4700
Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Over the years
Every figure as filed at each fiscal period end, 2023–2024.
| Period end | Revenue | Cents to cause | Overhead | Reserves |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | $437K | 46¢ | 31% | 2 yr |
| 2024-12-31 | $864K | 63¢ | 37% | 1.4 yr |
| 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
9 directors reported · 9 of 9at arm's length
- Maher, PatrickChairarm's length
- Saxton, ElisabethDirectorarm's length
- Ketcheson, SarahSecretaryarm's length
- Donnery, SheamusDirectorarm's length
- de Souza, CharlotteDirectorarm's length
- Harder, NatalieDirectorarm's length
- Porter, KateDirectorarm's length
- Suwal, DegjuTreasurerarm's length
- Townley, NickDirectorarm'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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