Locking Arms Foundation
Private foundation · Waterloo, Ontario · BN 746485341RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($697,903) as filed with the CRA.
Locking Arms Foundation is a private foundation based in Waterloo, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $408K in revenue and $698K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 49% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 21 qualified donees totalling $607K in 2024, the largest being $100K to House of Friendship. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
Supporting registered charities mainly in the city of waterloo and surrounding area concentrating on charities dealing with health poverty education and municipal improvements.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2023–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $408K | $698K | — | — | $607K | $14M |
| 2023 | $14.7M | $429K | — | — | $385K | $14.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $607K to 21 qualified donees:
- House of Friendship$100K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$100K
- Epilepsy Ontario$50K
- Epilepsy South Central Ontario$50K
- Mennonite Central Committee Ontario$40K
- Community Foundations of Canada$30K
- International Fellowship of Christians and Jews of Canada$25K
- International Teams Canada Inc.$20K
- Friends of the Mennonite Centre in Ukraine Inc.$20K
- Mennohomes Inc.$20K
- The Toronto Humane Society$20K
- University of Waterloo$20K
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario$20K
- Autism Society Ontario$20K
- Supportive Housing of Waterloo$20K
- Millennium Relief and Development Services (canada)$15K
- Social Venture Partners Waterloo Region$10K
- Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region$10K
- Nutrition for Learning Inc.$10K
- Camino Wellbeing + Mental Health$5,000
- Red Rock Bible Camp Inc.$2,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michael Janzen (trustee); Sarah Janzen (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Locking Arms Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 746485341RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.