The Steele Family Foundation
Private foundation · Caledon Village, Ontario · BN 829322767RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,457,024) as filed with the CRA.
The Steele Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Caledon Village, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.7M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 13% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $110K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 53% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 93% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $482K in 2024, the largest being $421K to SOS Children's Villages Canada / SOS Villages d'enfants Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $164K in 2020 to $2.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Granting funds to and monitoring programs of charities whose main focus is on assisting those struggling with poverty and substance abuse by providing food clothing housing and medical assistance. Granting funds to and monitoring progress of charities who work with physically and mentally handicapped persons as well as programs that support youth activities. To further the education of economically disadvantaged children and youth by constructing equipping staffing maintaining and/or operating schools or other educational facilities in impoverished areas of the world and providing schol…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.7M | $1.5M | $784K | $3,565 | $496K | $22.7M |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $978K | $389K | $34K | $311K | $21.4M |
| 2022 | $19.9M | $702K | $310K | $78K | $130K | $21.1M |
| 2021 | $735K | $379K | $12K | $26K | $271K | $1.9M |
| 2020 | $164K | $187K | $77K | — | $29K | $1.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $482K to 3 qualified donees:
Received $110K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$6,290
Schedule 3 of its 2023 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michael Steele (president); Stacey Coote (director); David Dozzo (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Steele Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 829322767RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.