Johansen-Larsen Foundation
Private foundation · London, Ontario · BN 824722011RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($480,826) as filed with the CRA.
Johansen-Larsen Foundation is a private foundation based in London, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $149K in revenue and $481K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 80% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 48 qualified donees totalling $457K in 2024, the largest being $75K to Lush Valley Food Action Society. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $325K in 2020 to $149K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The johansen-larsen foundation funds other charities that carry out education initiatives that improve the lives of marginalized children youth and animals at risk.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $149K | $481K | $71K | — | $404K | $6M |
| 2023 | $161K | $333K | $13K | — | $262K | $5.7M |
| 2022 | $166K | $508K | $434K | — | $434K | $5.4M |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $523K | $461K | — | $461K | $6.6M |
| 2020 | $325K | $338K | $276K | — | $276K | $5.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Investment income$149,190
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $457K to 48 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Lush Valley Food Action Society$75K
- Returning To Spirit - Residential School Reconciliation Inc.$15K
- Girls Incorporated of York Region$10K
- Culture for Kids in the Arts$10K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$10K
- Inner City Outreach$10K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oxford County$10K
- Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth$10K
- The Writers' Exchange Society$10K
- Shuswap Children's Association$10K
- Theatre of the Beat Inc.$10K
- John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights$10K
- Start2Finish Canada$10K
- Finding Our Power Together$10K
- Canadian Foundation for the Prevention of Family Violence$9,840
- Farm Centre Association Inc.$7,500
- Bill Reid Foundation$7,500
- Rainbow Songs Foundation$7,500
- Kawartha Turtle Trauma Centre$7,500
- Scarborough Women's Centre$7,500
- The Riverwood Conservancy$7,500
- The Table Community Food Centre$7,500
- Lay-Up Youth Basketball$7,500
- Excellence in Literacy Foundation$7,500
- Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra Association Inc.$7,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dennis Bonney; Marianne Larsen; Ian Esquivel; Yvonne Vanriel; Shelley Knott Fife; Christian Jacobsen-Perez Alfonso.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Johansen-Larsen Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 824722011RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.