Str8 up 10 000 Little Steps to Healing Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Saskatoon, Saskatchewan · BN 849289434RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,807,229) as filed with the CRA.
Str8 up 10 000 Little Steps to Healing Inc. is a charitable organization based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $2.1M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 32% from donations, 60% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $134K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 72% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 26 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $373K in 2020 to $2.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Str8 up offers outreach services programming and support to those who have lived or are living criminal street lifestyles and who want to make positive changes in their lives. Our goal is to provide hope healing and opportunities and to walk beside our members as they take their 10 000 little steps. Gang violence reduction strategy-cim
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.1M | $1.8M | $1.7M | — | — | $1M |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $1.6M | $1.5M | — | — | $762K |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1.2M | — | — | $444K |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $1.1M | — | — | $203K |
| 2020 | $373K | $267K | $200K | — | — | $158K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $134K from 18 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$70K
- United Way of Saskatoon and Area$35K
- Canadahelps Canadon$13K
- Deplaedt Charitable Foundation$5,000
- United Way of Saskatoon and Area$2,791
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,705
- Episcopal Corporation of Saskatoon$1,683
- Saskatchewan Community Foundation Corp.$1,000
- Abundance Canada$993
- Ukrainian Catholic Parish of Saints Peter and Paul$800
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$736
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$570
- Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church Saskatoon Inc$500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$40
- The Ursulines of ST Angela's Convent—
- The Ursuline Nuns of Bruno—
- The Ursuline Nuns of Bruno—
- Les Filles de la Providence—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions26
- Total compensation, all staff$1.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Diann Block (director); Brent Misener (board chair); Devon Napope (director/member); Jillian Baker (director); Gene Dupuis (treasurer); Deborah Hamp (secretary); Mario Ahenakew (director /member); Ridge Zotter (director); Ghere Tewelde (director /member); Robert Henry (director /member); Cherysse Mackechnie (director /member); Trevor Smallchild (director /member); Desire Laliberte (director /member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Str8 up 10 000 Little Steps to Healing Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 849289434RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.