Lucan and Area Heritage Society
Publicly funded institution · Lucan, Ontario · BN 894034594RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($122,844) as filed with the CRA.
Lucan and Area Heritage Society is a charitable organization based in Lucan, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $98K in revenue and $123K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 52% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2021, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $48.
Compared with 521 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 15% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 96% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $37K in 2020 to $98K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
The lucan and area heritage society (aka lucan area heritage and donnelly museum) operates a community museum in lucan on dedicated to preserving and presenting the history of lucan and the surrounding area. We have a museum building built-to-purpose as well as a historic barn and log cabin moved onto our property as interpretative tools. We cover a variety of elements of local history including major events the story of the black donnellys one of canada's earliest black settlements in wilberforce as well as a myriad of social and sports history subjects. We have a research library with…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $98K | $123K | $29K | $27K | — | $251K |
| 2023 | $140K | $141K | $37K | $7,576 | — | $271K |
| 2022 | $192K | $166K | $19K | $59K | — | $244K |
| 2021 | $108K | $75K | $37K | $9,680 | — | $243K |
| 2020 | $37K | $32K | — | — | — | $203K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2021
Received $48 from 1 charity:
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
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$67K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Thomas Levesque (museum manager curator).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lucan and Area Heritage Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 894034594RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.