Lion Hearts Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Kingston, Ontario · BN 794309328RR0001 · Christianity
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,015,286) as filed with the CRA.
Lion Hearts Inc. is a charitable organization based in Kingston, Ontario, classified by the CRA under christianity. 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 $4.9M in revenue and $5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 25% from donations, 54% from government, 15% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 31 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 81 religious institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 81% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 54 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $11K in 2024, the largest being $11K to Kingston Gospel Temple Inc.. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.2M in 2020 to $4.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Lionhearts inc. Is a registered charity that alleviates poverty by recovering and providing surplus food and household goods to frontline agencies serving people experiencing food insecurity and homelessness. In 2024 our operations expanded to london ontario joining our existing work in kingston and ottawa. Across these regions we recovered over $10.3 million in food and goods including more than 565 000 pounds of food in kingston alone. These resources supported over 130 partner organizations while diverting significant materials from landfills. Through our community nutrition program w…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.9M | $5M | $4.8M | — | $11K | $370K |
| 2023 | $3.3M | $3.3M | $3.2M | — | $61K | $531K |
| 2022 | $2M | $1.5M | $1.4M | — | $46K | $606K |
| 2021 | $952K | $971K | $886K | — | $31K | $173K |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $1M | $930K | — | $20K | $182K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $11K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $1.1M from 31 charities:
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$441K
- Canadahelps Canadon$248K
- Canadahelps Canadon$248K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$75K
- Community Foundation for Kingston & Area$50K
- Anna & Edward C. Churchill Foundation$30K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$9,386
- Mazon Canada$7,100
- Vancouver Foundation$6,750
- Bromley Road Baptist Church$5,146
- Community Foundation for Lennox & Addington$5,000
- Kingston Alliance Church of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada$2,800
- Kingston Gospel Temple Inc.$2,400
- Faith United Church$2,329
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2,205
- Full Gospel Assembly$2,040
- Arlington Woods Free Methodist Church$1,200
- Community Response to Neighbourhood Concerns (crnc)$1,000
- Westside Fellowship Christian Reformed Church of Kingston$814
- Third Day Worship Centre$600
- ST. Mark's Anglican Church Barriefield$500
- The Way$500
- Trinity United Church$400
- Cooke's-Portsmouth Pastoral Charge$350
- ST Paul's Presbyterian Church$338
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions54
- Total compensation, all staff$2.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
William Thomas (secretary); Cornelia Abrams (chair); Dawn Blackmore (director); Thomas-Benjamin Kennedy (coo); Mike Welch (treasurer); Darren McDevitt (director); Elizabeth Meyer (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lion Hearts Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 794309328RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.