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.
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.