Looking Glass Foundation for Eating Disorders
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 863814042RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,704,673) as filed with the CRA.
Looking Glass Foundation for Eating Disorders is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.8M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 29% from donations, 28% from government, 8% from other charities. In 2024, 24 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $610K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 27% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 81% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $888K in 2020 to $1.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
1) fundraising for and provision of outreach support recovery and relapse prevention programming for people who suffer from eating disorders 2) fundraising for and provision of community engagement activities to prevent or provide early intervention against eating disorders 3) fundraising for and provision of initiatives to advance awareness and action around eating disorders amongst key stakeholder groups and the public
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.1M | $368K | — | $2M |
| 2023 | $1.6M | $1.5M | $1.1M | $363K | — | $1.8M |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $481K | $276K | — | $1.8M |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $586K | $253K | — | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $888K | $743K | $446K | $55K | — | $1.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $610K from 24 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$185K
- Canadahelps Canadon$185K
- RBC Foundation$40K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$37K
- Beedie Foundation$25K
- Vancouver Foundation$23K
- The Peterson Group Foundation$20K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$20K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$12K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$10K
- Senft Family Foundation$10K
- A Dollar A Day Foundation$10K
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$6,759
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,110
- The Calgary Foundation$5,000
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$5,000
- Spence Family Foundation$3,000
- The Hamber Foundation$2,000
- The Andrew Mahon Foundation$2,000
- Providence Health CARE Society$1,850
- BenefAction Foundation$1,500
- Y.P. Heung Foundation$1,140
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$664
- GivingForce Foundation Canada$400
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$692K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Denise Karkkainen (vice chair); Cheryl Tobias (chair); Caroline Kenning (treasurer); Christina Huber (secretary); Julie Potter (director); Anne Nickerson (member at large); Denise Elliott (member at large); Poonam Jasi (member at large); Andrew Fullerton (member at large); Tony Tse (director); Delayne Sartison (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Looking Glass Foundation for Eating Disorders’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 863814042RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.