LivWise Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 817054968RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($40,187) as filed with the CRA.
LivWise Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $32K in revenue and $40K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% from donations, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $31K.
Compared with 3,025 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 53% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $38K in 2024, the largest being $33K to The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $180K in 2020 to $32K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Livwise Foundation continues unchanged as a grant-making charity which donates substantially all of its raised funds to Qualified Donees in the brain cancer research and family support space.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $32K | $40K | — | — | $38K | $11K |
| 2023 | $41K | $37K | $0 | — | $35K | $19K |
| 2022 | $12K | $26K | $0 | — | $24K | $16K |
| 2021 | $11K | $3,162 | — | — | $0 | $30K |
| 2020 | $180K | $175K | — | — | $80K | $22K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $38K to 2 qualified donees:
Received $31K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kari Winemaker (president); Kaily Wise (director); Robyn Linden (director); Daniel Brodleib (director); Shauna Merkur (director); Amanda Kastner (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from LivWise Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 817054968RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.