Stepstones for Youth
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 853550077RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,768,181) as filed with the CRA.
Stepstones for Youth is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.8M in revenue and $2.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 25% from donations, 26% from government, 42% from other charities. In 2024, 42 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.2M.
Compared with 414 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 81% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 36 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.1M in 2020 to $2.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Stepstones for youth helps unlock the potential of vulnerable children and youth who have experienced trauma and abuse and are living in poverty many of whom are from foster care and the child welfare system. The organization's prevention and intervention services result in educational success secure employment safe and stable housing positive connections and long-lasting support networks which reduce isolation homelessness criminal involvement adverse physical and mental health and long-term dependency on social services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.8M | $2.8M | $2.5M | $200K | — | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $2.2M | $2.1M | $142K | — | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.5M | $1.4M | $80K | — | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.1M | $883K | $106K | — | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $892K | $614K | $58K | $120K | $937K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.2M from 42 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$147K
- The Newlands Family Foundation$100K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$85K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$75K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$67K
- The Lillian Meighen and Don Wright Foundation$65K
- Pelletier Youth in Transition$63K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation$50K
- W. C. Kitchen Family Foundation$50K
- Aubrey & Marla Dan Foundation$45K
- BenefAction Foundation$35K
- The Bickle-Wilder Foundation$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- Gordon & Ruth Gooder Charitable Foundation$25K
- The Chawkers foundation$25K
- Aqueduct Foundation$25K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$25K
- Williams Wilson Sherport Foundation$25K
- The Catherine Donnelly Foundation$20K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$15K
- Belsize Foundation$15K
- The Kiwanis Club of Toronto Foundation$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions36
- Total compensation, all staff$1.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sharon Beers (member); Katherine Brown (secretary); Lorna Freeman (chair); Roman Lifshitz (member); Tanya Sinha (vice-chair); Brendan Cochrane (treasurer); Timothy Leonard (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Stepstones for Youth’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 853550077RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.