Lohn Foundation
Private foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 891585390RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,129,770) as filed with the CRA.
Lohn Foundation is a private foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $96.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 153 qualified donees totalling $904K in 2024, the largest being $205K to Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The foundation made donations to qualified donee's during the year
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.1M | — | — | $904K | $16.6M |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1M | — | — | $802K | $16.2M |
| 2022 | $987K | $981K | — | — | $762K | $16.1M |
| 2021 | $1M | $909K | $1,500 | — | $692K | $16.1M |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $884K | $3,500 | — | $669K | $16M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, April 30, 2024
- Investment income$1,500,559
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 $904K to 153 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver$205K
- Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society$100K
- Jewish Federation of British Columbia$75K
- The Arthritis Research Centre Society of Canada$30K
- Congregation Schara Tzedeck$25K
- Vancouver Hebrew Academy Society$18K
- Canadian Friends of Bar-Ilan University$15K
- Thompson Rivers University Foundation$10K
- Jewish National Fund of Canada$10K
- Chabad of Downtown Vancouver$10K
- BC Cancer Foundation$10K
- Ne'eman Foundation Canada$9,000
- Canadian Friends of Mirrer Yeshiva - USA$9,000
- Louis Brier Jewish Aged Foundation$7,500
- Jewish Family Services Agency of Vancouver$7,000
- Jewish Educational Services$6,000
- Central Organization for Jewish Education Lubavitch British Columbia$6,000
- Camp Gan Israel Ontario$6,000
- British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation$6,000
- YWCA British Columbia$5,000
- Whistler Lakes Conservation Foundation$5,000
- Victoria Hospitals Foundation$5,000
- Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society for Education and Remembrance$5,000
- Surrey Hospitals Foundation$5,000
- Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation$5,000
Received $96 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jack Kowarsky (vice president/treasurer); Richard Ritson (director); Alan Bass (director); Ziv Kowarsky (director); Ori Kowarsky (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lohn Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891585390RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.