Step-By-Step Child Development Society
Publicly funded institution · Coquitlam, British Columbia · BN 129352167RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($773,486) as filed with the CRA.
Step-By-Step Child Development Society is a charitable organization based in Coquitlam, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $799K in revenue and $773K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 81% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2021, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $121.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 54% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (6 positions in that band). The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Daycare family resources program harbourview program portable program scout's hall.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $799K | $773K | $684K | — | — | $317K |
| 2023 | $609K | $652K | $584K | — | — | $292K |
| 2022 | $544K | $529K | $477K | — | — | $334K |
| 2021 | $520K | $482K | $431K | — | — | $319K |
| 2020 | $537K | $534K | $498K | — | — | $282K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2021
Received $121 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$601K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Andrea Bertness (director at large); Heather Nowak (director at large); Sarah Bergreen (president); Katherine Comberbatch (secretary); Tanya Namdari (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Step-By-Step Child Development Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129352167RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.