Level. Changing Lives Through Law
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 864513783RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($613,502) as filed with the CRA.
Level. Changing Lives Through Law is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $810K in revenue and $614K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from donations, 41% from government, 42% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $220K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 50% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $303K in 2020 to $810K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Level's mission is to level barriers to justice by building empathy disrupting prejudice and advancing human rights. We envision a world where every person is treated with dignity can exercise their fundamental human rights and has the opportunity to thrive. We pursue our mission through outreach and public legal education initiatives human right research and events and through specialized mentorship programs. More specifically Level runs a one-of-a-kind national Indigenous Youth Outreach Program that engages First Nations Metis and Inuit youth aged 11-14 through fun experiential and…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $810K | $614K | $510K | — | — | $765K |
| 2023 | $369K | $363K | $309K | — | — | $568K |
| 2022 | $415K | $289K | $248K | — | — | $562K |
| 2021 | $364K | $236K | $205K | — | — | $436K |
| 2020 | $303K | $226K | $189K | — | — | $307K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $220K from 12 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$134K
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$22K
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$20K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$14K
- Canadahelps Canadon$13K
- McCarthy Tetrault Foundation$8,877
- McCarthy Tetrault Foundation$2,889
- McCarthy Tetrault Foundation$1,980
- The Calgary Foundation$1,000
- McCarthy Tetrault Foundation$969
- McCarthy Tetrault Foundation$282
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$5
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$404K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jennifer Guerard (board chair); Susan Spence (secretary); Richard Zeni (treasurer); Adrian Di Giovanni (vice chair); Heather McKay (director); Tanya Mushynski (director); Brittany Twiss (director); Fallon Melander (director); Jewel Amoah (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Level. Changing Lives Through Law’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 864513783RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.