Lifesong for Orphans (Canada)
Publicly funded institution · Bright, Ontario · BN 813627734RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,194,871) as filed with the CRA.
Lifesong for Orphans (Canada) is a charitable organization based in Bright, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations, 46% from other charities. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $442K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 61% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $48K in 2024, the largest being $48K to Loads of Love Humanitarian Aid & Mission Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $769K in 2020 to $1.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
To advance education by establishing and operating schools for the poor and needy in africa; to relieve poverty in africa by providing food and other basic supplies to persons in need; educating and instructing the public in africa on prevention of hiv/aids and curative measures for health.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $1.1M | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.2M | $1.2M | $2,417 | — | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $1.3M | $1.2M | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $815K | $782K | $761K | $15K | — | $881K |
| 2020 | $769K | $733K | $709K | $4,000 | — | $779K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $48K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $442K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$242K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dejan (dennis) Delic (president); Louis Jahn (director); Robert Ritzmann (director/chairman); Ken Toews (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lifesong for Orphans (Canada)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 813627734RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.