Local Investment Toward Employment (l.i.t.e.) Inc.
Public foundation · Winnipeg, Manitoba · BN 868999558RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($235,028) as filed with the CRA.
Local Investment Toward Employment (l.i.t.e.) Inc. is a public foundation based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $323K in revenue and $235K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 24% from donations, 19% from government, 38% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $105K.
Compared with 730 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 32% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 6 qualified donees totalling $21K in 2024, the largest being $6,583 to West Broadway Development Corporation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Job grants (employment experiences and training); hamper program and social purchasing (job experiences and trainingfor people who are pre-employment and live in poverty); advocacy on community economic development
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $323K | $235K | $156K | $14K | $21K | $518K |
| 2023 | $367K | $267K | $198K | $2,946 | $25K | $430K |
| 2022 | $520K | $437K | $295K | $2,023 | $72K | $330K |
| 2021 | $444K | $319K | $193K | $1,969 | $71K | $247K |
| 2020 | $268K | $251K | $172K | $13K | $40K | $120K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, March 31, 2024
- From other charities$124,033
- Receipted donations$71,357
- Other income$45,436
- Investment income$6,705
- Other gifts$6,204
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $21K to 6 qualified donees:
Received $105K from 15 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$42K
- Canadahelps Canadon$42K
- Urban Systems Foundation$6,000
- The Waterbury Foundation$5,000
- The Cardinal Foundation$2,000
- Fort Garry Mennonite Fellowship$1,500
- Abundance Canada$1,250
- McClure United Church$1,132
- Charleswood Mennonite Church$1,030
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$750
- The Winnipeg Foundation$540
- The Community of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary$500
- Immanual United Church$350
- Westworth United Church$250
- United Way of Greater Toronto$122
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$126K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Molly Dunbar (chair); Eric Grabner (director); Paul Tascona (director); Apajok Ajak (director); Scott Park (treasurer); Rayat Tanjyot (secretary); Rodrigue Buledi (director); Kara Passey (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Local Investment Toward Employment (l.i.t.e.) Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 868999558RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.