L'Arche Canada Foundation
Public foundation · Richmond Hill, Ontario · BN 889909719RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,502,901) as filed with the CRA.
L'Arche Canada Foundation is a public foundation based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.3M in revenue and $2.5M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 75% from donations, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 44 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $863K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 28% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $1.6M in 2024, the largest being $1.6M to L'Arche Canada. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $4.1M in 2020 to $2.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Raising funds for l'arche canada et its 29 communities across canada in support of people with intellectual disabilities
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.3M | $2.5M | $255K | $339K | $1.6M | $3.4M |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $2.8M | $220K | $292K | $2.1M | $3.6M |
| 2022 | $3.2M | $3.4M | $191K | $234K | $2.8M | $4.2M |
| 2021 | $3M | $2M | $115K | $465K | $1.2M | $3.9M |
| 2020 | $4.1M | $3.6M | $198K | $742K | $2.3M | $2.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.6M to 1 qualified donee:
- L'Arche Canada$1.6M
Received $863K from 44 charities:
- The Loretto Ladies' Colleges and Schools$250K
- Fondation Traçons un Chemin$170K
- L'Arche Daybreak$101K
- The Pindoff Family Charitable Foundation$100K
- Fondation Mirella & Lino Saputo$100K
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$20K
- L'Arche Sudbury Inc.$17K
- Lamb Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$13K
- The Bloodroot Fund$13K
- Link Charity Canada Inc$12K
- The Calgary Foundation$8,403
- Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver$8,000
- L'Arche-Ottawa$7,000
- The Peterborough K. M. Hunter Charitable Foundation$5,000
- OMI Lacombe Canada Inc.$4,450
- Fondation Denise et Robert Gibelleau$3,368
- The First Christian Reformed Church of New Westminster B.C.$2,623
- Elisabeth Langenbach Foundation$2,100
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,000
- Les fraternités monastiques des frères de Jérusalem - Montréal$1,525
- Vancouver Foundation$1,376
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,098
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,025
- Canada Gives$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$188K
Schedule 3 of its 2021 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Donna Diskos (director); Terence Downey (director than chairman); Joseph Reynaud; Paul Vogel; Lauren M. Alexander.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from L'Arche Canada Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889909719RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.