Casa Luz House of Light
Private foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 758951693RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($317,479) as filed with the CRA.
Casa Luz House of Light is a private foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $283K in revenue and $317K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 77% from donations, 23% from other charities. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $60K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 82% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Casa Luz House of Light supports specific projects for young mothers and their children at high social risk in Costa Rica. This includes professional care staff on location in Costa Rica. Casa Luz House of Light sends out educational newsletters to its constituency to provide information regarding the plight of at risk families in Costa Rica and the programs provided through Casa Luz in Costa Rica. Casa Luz provides the at risk families with educational spiritual psychological and social support in a residential program. Casa Luz House of Light also facilitates visits to Casa Luz in Cost…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $283K | $317K | $311K | — | — | $305K |
| 2023 | $280K | $200K | $193K | — | — | $340K |
| 2022 | $269K | $210K | $202K | — | — | $260K |
| 2021 | $225K | $157K | — | — | — | $200K |
| 2020 | $219K | $174K | $171K | — | — | $132K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $60K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joanne Janzen (chair and treasurer); Vern Byggdin (member at large); Andrew Tritter (member-at-large); Joshua Braun (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Casa Luz House of Light’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 758951693RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.