Selah Charitable Trust
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 863181129RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($275,310) as filed with the CRA.
Selah Charitable Trust is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $264K in revenue and $275K in expenditures.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 69% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 10 qualified donees totalling $252K in 2024, the largest being $90K to The Yonge Street Mission. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $44K in 2020 to $264K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Investing funds and making donations to qualified donees
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $264K | $275K | $12K | — | $252K | $3.7M |
| 2023 | $161K | $585K | $11K | — | $552K | $3.7M |
| 2022 | $46K | $204K | $15K | — | $179K | $4.2M |
| 2021 | $95K | $172K | $8,668 | — | $156K | $4.3M |
| 2020 | $44K | $205K | $9,767 | — | $191K | $4.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $252K to 10 qualified donees:
- The Yonge Street Mission$90K
- Scott Mission$50K
- Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec$37K
- Matthew House Refugee Services - Toronto$33K
- Church of the Messiah$11K
- Toronto Youth for Christ$11K
- Little Trinity Church$8,000
- Church of the Holy Trinity$8,000
- Youth for Christ South Island Association$3,000
- Imago$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Wendy Macdonald (chairperson); Margaret Elizabeth Schell (trustee); Fraser Macdonald (trustee); Matthew Macdonald (trustee); Jessica Macdonald (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Selah Charitable Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 863181129RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.