Solcz Family Foundation
Private foundation · Windsor, Ontario · BN 751191321RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,252,951) as filed with the CRA.
Solcz Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Windsor, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.4M in revenue and $2.3M in expenditures.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 47% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 36 qualified donees totalling $1.8M in 2024, the largest being $225K to Big Brothers Big Sisters Windsor Essex. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.2M in 2020 to $5.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Provide assistance to other organizations aiming to improve the welfare of the windsor-essex community
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.4M | $2.3M | $163K | — | $1.8M | $41.2M |
| 2023 | $4.8M | $2.4M | $155K | — | $1.9M | $38.1M |
| 2022 | -$3.6M | $1.5M | $135K | — | $1.1M | $35.7M |
| 2021 | $5.3M | $2.1M | $129K | — | $1.6M | $40.8M |
| 2020 | $2.2M | $1.6M | $112K | — | $1.3M | $37.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.8M to 36 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Windsor Essex$225K
- Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada$130K
- New Beginnings (essex County)$125K
- The Windsor-Essex Children's Aid Foundation$125K
- Brain Injury Association of Windsor and Essex County$100K
- Windsor Essex Child/Youth Advocacy Centre$100K
- South Essex Community Council$80K
- John McGivney Children's Centre$70K
- Windsor Homes Coalition Inc$65K
- The Windsor-Essex Children's Aid Foundation$64K
- The Art Gallery of Windsor$56K
- The Windsor Residence for Young Men$55K
- Body Brave Inc.$50K
- Transition to Betterness Family & Health CARE$50K
- The Kiwanis Club of Windsor$50K
- The Canadian National Institute For The Blind$45K
- Sleep in Heavenly Peace$44K
- Second Chance Ministry$42K
- Brain Injury Association of Windsor and Essex County$37K
- Trans Wellness Ontario$33K
- The Windsor Symphony Society$30K
- Connections An Early Years Family Centre Inc.$30K
- Junior Achievement of South Western Ontario Inc.$25K
- Safe Families Canada$24K
- Best Buddies of Canada$21K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$163K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Len Solcz (president & treasurer); Mark Solcz (director vice president); Martin Solcz (director chair); Michael Solcz (vp & secretary); Michael Solcz (director); Jennifer Solcz (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Solcz Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 751191321RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.