Lifewater Canada
Publicly funded institution · Thunder Bay, Ontario · BN 885420737RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($3,993,896) as filed with the CRA.
Lifewater Canada is a charitable organization based in Thunder Bay, 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $3.7M in revenue and $4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 60% from donations, 37% from other charities. In 2024, 76 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.6M.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 63% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 86% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.2M in 2020 to $3.7M in 2024.
In its own words
Train people in Sub-Saharan Africa and Haiti to drill water wells and to improve sanitation and hygiene. Volunteers provide ongoing training and support. Sponsors are matched with villagers to make projects affordable.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.7M | $4M | $3.7M | $36K | — | $483K |
| 2023 | $3M | $3.1M | $2.8M | $27K | — | $821K |
| 2022 | $2.9M | $3.3M | $3.1M | $24K | — | $945K |
| 2021 | $2.1M | $1.1M | $1M | $22K | — | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $1M | $30K | — | $303K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3.6M from 76 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$1.3M
- Canadahelps Canadon$1.3M
- Link Charity Canada Inc$401K
- The Walker Lynch Foundation$52K
- Blossom Foundation$51K
- Hageman Family Foundation$50K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$48K
- Fellowship of Man Charitable Foundation$40K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$40K
- Abundance Canada$39K
- Lederman Foundation$36K
- The Firstline Foundation$35K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$34K
- BenefAction Foundation$27K
- The Isaac Family Foundation$25K
- Luke Four Foundation$25K
- Aqueduct Foundation$14K
- Chisholm Thomson Family Foundation$10K
- Beyond BC Greenhouse Charitable Foundation$10K
- First Christian Reformed Church of Taber Alberta$9,910
- Toronto Foundation$9,700
- Living Hope Christian Reformed Church Orillia$7,620
- Wee Waifs Worldwide Trust$7,000
- The Pew-Halim Family Foundation$7,000
- Faith United Church$5,918
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
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$246K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lifewater Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 885420737RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.