The Stephanie and Barry Zekelman Foundation
Private foundation · Windsor, Ontario · BN 830512554RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($641,520) as filed with the CRA.
The Stephanie and Barry Zekelman 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 $1.1M in revenue and $642K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 66% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 96% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 25 qualified donees totalling $521K in 2024, the largest being $100K to Transition to Betterness Family & Health CARE. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $341K in 2020 to $1.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The stephanie and barry zekelman foundation makes grants to charities that are qualified donees under the income tax act.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $642K | $120K | — | $521K | $5.2M |
| 2023 | $581K | $527K | $45K | — | $482K | $4.8M |
| 2022 | -$483K | $386K | $130K | — | $257K | $4.7M |
| 2021 | $1M | $378K | $50K | — | $249K | $5.6M |
| 2020 | $341K | $399K | — | — | $216K | $5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $521K to 25 qualified donees:
- Transition to Betterness Family & Health CARE$100K
- John McGivney Children's Centre$100K
- Children's Safety Village of Windsor and Essex County$100K
- Essex Region Conservation Fund$50K
- United Way / Centraide Windsor-Essex County$25K
- Ronald McDonald House Southwestern Ontario$25K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Windsor-Essex County Branch$25K
- Kingsville Community Church$15K
- Kingsville Community Church$10K
- United Way / Centraide Windsor-Essex County$10K
- The Kiwanis Club of Windsor$10K
- GR8 Day - Crossroads Addiction Recovery Support$10K
- The Art Gallery of Windsor$10K
- Transition to Betterness Family & Health CARE$5,000
- Transition to Betterness Family & Health CARE$5,000
- Special Olympics Ontario Inc.$3,000
- Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare Foundation$3,000
- Transition to Betterness Family & Health CARE$2,500
- Oneday Dreams$2,500
- Gecdsb$2,500
- Amherstburg Community Foundation$2,500
- Windsor Regional Hospital Foundation$1,500
- Canadian Tennis Association$1,500
- T2B$1,000
- Canadian Mental Health Association Windsor-Essex County Branch$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$52K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Barry Zekelman (trustee); Stephanie Zekelman (trustee); Curtis Cusinato (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Stephanie and Barry Zekelman Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 830512554RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.