Giant Steps Toronto Inc.
Charitable organization · Unionville, Ontario · BN 898362579RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($822,091) as filed with the CRA.
Giant Steps Toronto Inc. is a charitable organization based in Unionville, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $805K in revenue and $822K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 20% from other charities. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $486K.
Compared with 1,130 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 89% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 14 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $1.5M in 2020 to $805K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
A centre devoted to therapy for children with autism spectrum disorder
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $805K | $822K | $487K | $97K | — | $329K |
| 2023 | $932K | $826K | $459K | $103K | — | $345K |
| 2022 | $552K | $639K | $87K | $86K | — | $240K |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $1.5M | $1.1M | $91K | — | $327K |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $1.1M | $112K | — | $704K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $486K from 20 charities:
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$275K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$46K
- Unity for Autism$40K
- Knight Bain Seath & Holbrook Spirit Foundation$27K
- Weston Family Foundation$15K
- Paul B. Helliwell Foundation$12K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$11K
- Arthur & Audrey Cutten Foundation$10K
- Alice and Murray Maitland Foundation$10K
- The Ben and Hilda Katz Charitable Foundation$10K
- Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation$9,000
- The Birks Family Foundation$5,000
- Hylcan Foundation$5,000
- The George Lunan Foundation$5,000
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$2,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,280
- BenefAction Foundation$877
- THE BRETTLER/Mintz Foundation$501
- The Georgina Foundation$500
- Canadahelps Canadon$385
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions14
- Total compensation, all staff$609K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Martin Buckingham (president); Danny Cisterna (treasurer); Howat Noble (board member); Paul Congi (board member); Nazir Visram (board member); Shaheed Ali (board member); Jose Duran (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Giant Steps Toronto Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 898362579RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.