East York Learning Experience
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FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY
Audited financial statements for current and previous years available on the charity’s website.
A
RESULTS REPORTING
Grade based on the charity's public reporting of the work it does and the results it achieves.
Good
DEMONSTRATED IMPACT
The demonstrated impact per dollar Ci calculates from available program information.
NEED FOR FUNDING
Charity's cash and investments (funding reserves) relative to how much it spends on programs in most recent year.
97%
CENTS TO THE CAUSE
For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 97 cents are available for programs.
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OVERVIEW
About East York Learning Experience:
East York Learning Experience is a 5-star charity. It has an A results reporting grade, which is above average, and Good demonstrated impact. Its overhead spending is outside Ci’s reasonable range and it has enough reserve funds to cover two years and one month of its annual program costs.
Founded in 1987, East York Learning Experience (EYLE) helps adults improve their reading, writing, basic math, and digital literacy skills. The charity reports that 42% of Canadian adults aged 16-65 have low literacy skills. This prevents them from applying for jobs, filling out forms, and writing letters. EYLE reports that 42% of its learners attained their highest education outside Canada. EYLE reports that it has helped over 1,100 clients since its founding.
A Charity Intelligence 2024 Top 100 Rated Charity
East York Learning Experience works with the Ontario Literacy Curriculum Framework. It uses milestones designed by the Ministry of Training, Colleges & Universities to measure progress. EYLE assesses clients’ literacy at intake. It helps clients set goals they want to work towards in the program. Clients can pick one of five goal pathways: independence, employment, adult high school, post-secondary, or apprenticeship. Clients then follow an individualized training plan to meet their literacy goals. They meet with trained volunteer tutors one-on-one once a week. Tutoring typically lasts three months to three years depending on the client’s goals. EYLE follows up with students three, six, and 12 months after the program to monitor how their increased literacy skills are helping them.
In the fiscal year ending March 2024 (F2024), EYLE served 78 clients. EYLE manages 40-50 active learner/tutor pairs at any given time. When they started the program, 72% of EYLE learners had worked in Canada. 4% had worked outside of Canada. 24% had no work experience. Of those learners unemployed, 78% had been unemployed for more than six years. In F2024, EYLE’s website received 2,125 visits. EYLE is aiming to launch an online workshop series in September 2024. This would allow students outside its catchment area to take part in EYLE programming.
EYLE has 60 volunteer tutors. It reports that these tutors provide a value of around $130k in tutoring hours. Volunteer tutors allow EYLE to keep its overhead spending low. EYLE also operates out of a low-cost facility designed for nonprofits.
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Results and Impact
East York Learning Experience reports that 5% of students who exited the program in F2024 found employment. 35% of students who exited the program in F2024 transitioned into further training or education.
While Charity Intelligence highlights these key results, they may not be a complete representation of EYLE’s results and impact.
Read Charity Intelligence's report on how we measure East York Learning Experience's impact. East York Learning Experience has a Good impact rating based on demonstrated social impact per dollar spent.
Impact Rating: Good
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Finances
East York Learning Experience is a small charity in terms of donations. It received $228k in donations and special events revenue in F2024. It also received $138k in government funding (36% of total revenue). Administrative costs are 3% of total revenue (excluding investment income) and fundraising costs are less than 1% of donations. Overhead spending is 3%, which is outside Ci’s reasonable range. For every dollar donated, 97 cents are available for the cause. In F2024, EYLE spent $206k on its programs (54% of total revenue).
In F2024, EYLE had a surplus of $162k and spent $9k on capital expenditures.
At the end of F2024, EYLE had $436k in reserve funds. This is enough to cover 212% or two years and one month of its annual program costs.
This charity profile is an update that was sent to East York Learning Experience for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.
Update on July 29th, 2024 by Thea Clark.
Financial Review
Fiscal year ending March
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2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Administrative costs as % of revenues | 2.9% | 4.1% | 4.7% |
| Fundraising costs as % of donations | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.4% |
| Total overhead spending | 2.9% | 4.2% | 5.1% |
| Program cost coverage (%) | 212.3% | 146.9% | 124.1% |
Summary Financial StatementsAll figures in $s |
2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donations | 220,825 | 115,445 | 105,983 |
| Government funding | 137,957 | 142,537 | 143,395 |
| Special events | 6,931 | 8,197 | 8,930 |
| Investment income | 26 | 19 | 14 |
| Other income | 13,408 | (2,550) | (1,130) |
| Total revenues | 379,147 | 263,648 | 257,192 |
| Program costs | 205,548 | 193,943 | 179,093 |
| Administrative costs | 10,873 | 10,904 | 12,187 |
| Fundraising costs | 30 | 100 | 418 |
| Other costs | 92 | 405 | 416 |
| Total spending | 216,543 | 205,352 | 192,114 |
| Cash flow from operations | 162,604 | 58,296 | 65,078 |
| Capital spending | 8,794 | 644 | 2,224 |
| Funding reserves | 436,406 | 284,811 | 222,310 |
Note: DEFERRED REVENUE: Ci adjusted for deferred revenue, affecting total revenue by $8k in F2024, ($350) in F2023, and $350 in F2022. GRANTS RECEIVABLE: Ci adjusted for change in grants receivable, affecting total revenue by $6k in F2024, ($3k) in F2023, and ($2k) in F2022. MISCELLANEOUS AND INTEREST INCOME: Ci included miscellaneous and interest income in revenue, affecting total revenues by $26 in F2024, $369 in F2023, and $164 in F2022. PURCHASE OF CAPITAL ASSETS: Ci removed purchase of capital assets from expenses, affecting total expenses by ($9k) in F2024, $nil in F2023, and $nil in F2022.
Salary Information
$350k + |
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$300k - $350k |
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$250k - $300k |
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$200k - $250k |
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$160k - $200k |
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$120k - $160k |
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$80k - $120k |
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$40k - $80k |
2 |
< $40k |
0 |
Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2023
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Comments & Contact
Comments added by the Charity:
Updated on August 14, 2024:
We’d like to extend a huge thank you to our donors. Your support over the last few years has enabled us to do so much more, improving our programming to better help our students meet their literacy goals.
Some of these enhancements include extending our hours of operation, developing and facilitating a series of 7 workshops which are now run annually, developing a 6-week computer basics class that is being offered in each quarter, student welcome packages and more. Without your help, these initiatives would not have been possible.
Below comments are in reference to a previous profile:
East York Learning Experience has a small staff contingent and thus is a volunteer-driven organization. Each year we rely on the assistance of 50-70 volunteers to work on our Board of Directors, our committees, at fundraising events, and to deliver our literacy services on a one-to-one basis.
Our volunteer tutors go through a screening interview, participate in our tutor training program (small group format 2 to 3 times per year), are then matched with a student and receive ongoing support from staff.
Initially these volunteers make a one year commitment to EYLE. However, many stay with us for several years. Each year we celebrate & honour our volunteers at our Annual Meeting of Members. At this event we recognize our 1,3,5,10,15,20, 25 & 30 year volunteers. These long-term volunteers represent almost ½ of our entire volunteer membership. Their reasons for staying with us may vary, but frequently we hear comments such as:
At EYLE our goal has been to foster a welcoming, relaxed, informal learning environment while delivering professional literacy services that meet the individual needs of our learners. Our success rate with learners and the dedication demonstrated by our staff and volunteers are indicators that we have met this goal.
As an organization with a relatively small budget, we are proud of what we have accomplished and the positive impact we have had on so many lives in our community. Without our committed volunteers and funding support from various levels of government, foundations, corporations, service clubs and the broader community, this would not have been possible.
Thank you for taking the time to learn more about us and the work that we do.
Gail McCullough
Managing Director
East York Learning Experience
Charity Contact
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