British Columbia · Registered charity
STEPS FORWARD - INCLUSIVE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIETY
STEPS FORWARD - INCLUSIVE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$239,533 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$192,800). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$1.6M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- C$240k
- Net assets
- C$782k
What Steps Forward - Inclusive Post-Secondary Education Society does
Ongoing programs
Inclusion staff support students with developmental disabilities studying in post secondary educational institutions in British Columbia to complete coursework be engaged in campus activities seek and retain employment and to be active in their campus and local communities. Inclusion staff also support students and their families to build their capacity to extend inclusion and full participation beyond their campus Involvement and after graduation.
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from C$503k to C$708k (+41%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 96% · 2018 97% · 2019 98% · 2020 98% · 2021 91% · 2022 90% · 2023 93% · 2024 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of STEPS FORWARD - INCLUSIVE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (8% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose C$4k → C$37k.
From the CRA filings of STEPS FORWARD - INCLUSIVE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
STEPS FORWARD - INCLUSIVE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund STEPS FORWARD - INCLUSIVE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 72% · 2019 96% · 2020 95% · 2021 87% · 2022 57% · 2023 81% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
81% of STEPS FORWARD - INCLUSIVE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIETY's grant income comes from British Columbia funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
STEPS FORWARD - INCLUSIVE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIETY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government revenue STEPS FORWARD - INCLUSIVE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 97% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like STEPS FORWARD - INCLUSIVE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIETY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In British Columbia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds STEPS FORWARD - INCLUSIVE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIETY?
- STEPS FORWARD - INCLUSIVE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$239,533 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$192,800). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STEPS FORWARD - INCLUSIVE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 5 organizations giving C$239,533 in grants to STEPS FORWARD - INCLUSIVE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIETY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEPS FORWARD - INCLUSIVE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIETY?
- VANCOUVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$192,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEPS FORWARD - INCLUSIVE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.
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These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register