London Community Foundation
Public foundation · London, Ontario · BN 107641953RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($13,325,217) as filed with the CRA.
London Community Foundation is a public foundation based in London, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $35M in revenue and $13.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations, 33% from other charities. In 2024, 24 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.7M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 50% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 324 qualified donees totalling $11.4M in 2024, the largest being $5.5M to Indwell Community Homes. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $14.7M in 2020 to $35M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
London community foundation strengthens its community by making grants to qualified donees in london and middlesex counties in the areas of arts and culture recreation education environment health & community services. Additionally london community foundation makes loans to community and non-profit groups providing access to funding typically not available from a bank focusing on the areas of affordable housing and social enterprise.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $35M | $13.3M | $392K | $510K | $11.4M | $147.2M |
| 2023 | $30.2M | $11.6M | $425K | $536K | $9.6M | $125.4M |
| 2022 | $3.6M | $6.2M | $332K | $500K | $4.5M | $106.7M |
| 2021 | $19.8M | $6.2M | $260K | $417K | $4.7M | $109.2M |
| 2020 | $14.7M | $5.8M | $268K | $429K | $4.3M | $95.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $11.4M to 324 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Indwell Community Homes$5.5M
- London Health Sciences Foundation$416K
- The Grand Theatre$370K
- London Humane Society$190K
- The University of Western Ontario$182K
- Thames Talbot Land Trust$179K
- Siloam United Church of the Siloam Pastoral Charge$154K
- London and Middlesex Heritage Museum$127K
- Sakeenah Canada$123K
- Low-Income Family Empowerment Sole-Support Parents Information Network$118K
- United Way Elgin Middlesex$115K
- London Cares Homeless Response Services$106K
- London Environmental Institute$104K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Thames Valley Addiction & Mental Health Services$103K
- Conservatory Canada$100K
- Unity Project for Relief of Homelessness in London$95K
- London Public Library Board$94K
- Residenza Affordable Housing$93K
- London Regional Children's Museum$87K
- YMCA of Southwestern Ontario$82K
- Changing Ways (london) Inc$75K
- Regional Hiv/aids Connection$67K
- Pillar Nonprofit Network$57K
- Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada$54K
- Anova: A Future Without Violence$54K
Received $1.7M from 24 charities:
- The Mitchell and Kathryn Baran Family Foundation$500K
- The Gray Foundation$500K
- Canadahelps Canadon$236K
- Canadahelps Canadon$236K
- The Cal and Angie Stiller Foundation Inc.$100K
- Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada$50K
- LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES (London)$25K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$15K
- United Way Elgin Middlesex$11K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$10K
- Woco Foundation$5,000
- Canada Gives$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,890
- The Rotary Club of London Foundation$2,500
- Sun Light Foundation$2,000
- The London Police Association Charity Fund$1,000
- Cambia Development Foundation$1,000
- The Lawson Foundation$1,000
- Community Foundations of Canada$1,000
- Smith Family Foundation$1,000
- Metropolitan United Church$500
- Toronto Foundation$200
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
James Alexander (chair); Mark Berry (director); Shane Butcher (director); DI Brita Joseph (director); Teresa Hollingworth (director); Jack Jung (director); Amy Lee (treasurer); Erin Naylor (past chair); John Prueter (director); Simpson Sheila (director); Karna Trentman (director); J. Peter Whatmore (director); Jerry White (director); Vijay Venkatesan (chief financial officer); Diane Silva (president and ceo).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from London Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107641953RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.