Giselle Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 849554837RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($757,260) as filed with the CRA.
Giselle Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported $16.4M in revenue and $757K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% from donations.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 1% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 13 qualified donees totalling $247K in 2024, the largest being $51K to Unhcr Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $980K in 2020 to $16.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $16.4M | $757K | — | — | $247K | $17.1M |
| 2023 | $56K | $349K | — | — | $349K | $1.5M |
| 2022 | -$135K | $823K | — | — | $820K | $1.8M |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $2M | — | — | $2M | $2.7M |
| 2020 | $980K | $900K | — | — | $897K | $3.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, November 30, 2024
- Receipted donations$15,475,459
- Investment income$532,248
- Other income$462,584
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $247K to 13 qualified donees:
- Unhcr Canada$51K
- Canadahelps Canadon$40K
- The Canadian Centre for Refugee and Immigrant Health Care$30K
- War Child Canada$30K
- Living Hope Church (Vaughan) Inc.$16K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$15K
- Save the Children Canada/aide À l'Enfance Canada$15K
- Ethiopiaid Canada$10K
- PIH Partners In Health Canada$10K
- Philip Aziz Centre for Hospice Care$10K
- UHN Foundation$10K
- Matthew House Refugee Services - Toronto$5,000
- Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Total compensation, all staff$19K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Leslie Steiner (president); Adam Steiner (secretary); Aubrey Hannah (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Giselle Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 849554837RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.