Lionheart Foundation
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 844813907RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,100,558) as filed with the CRA.
Lionheart Foundation is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 68% from donations, 21% from government. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $861K.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 42% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $38K in 2024, the largest being $38K to Action Dignity Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $509K in 2020 to $1.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
1. To promote mental health by making psychological counselling therapeutic services and therapy available to adolescents and young people with mental or developmental disabilities or disorders and to their family members and caregivers who are shown to need assistance. 2. To advance education by: a.providing specialized training to qualified counsellors therapists and medical practitioners including through seminars workshops evaluation and consultation regarding treatment methods applicable to relieving the conditions of adolescents and young people with mental or developmental …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.1M | $866K | $27K | $38K | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1M | $894K | $6,673 | — | $1M |
| 2022 | $1M | $916K | $717K | $23K | $19K | $887K |
| 2021 | $663K | $627K | $497K | $6,031 | — | $783K |
| 2020 | $509K | $487K | $356K | $7,956 | — | $747K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $38K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $861K from 18 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$171K
- Canadahelps Canadon$171K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$140K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$105K
- RBC Foundation$100K
- Hunter Family Foundation$55K
- The Calgary Foundation$38K
- Viewpoint Foundation$25K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$16K
- Capital City Church (Canada)$10K
- Chernoff Charitable Foundation$10K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$8,059
- The Jeffrey and Marilyn McCaig Family Foundation$5,000
- The Arthur J E Child Foundation$5,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,000
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
- ATCO Electric Epic$440
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
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
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$252K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Megan Babienko (chair audit and budget); Heidi Dinning (director); Greg Heath (chair); Brenda Parker (director); Carol Ann Williams (director); Peter Williams (treasurer); Tracy Luca-Hugar (director); Howard Sangwine (director); Chris Redgate (director); Kristin Cerny (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lionheart Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 844813907RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.