Lumenus Community Services
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 887420990RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($93,782,769) as filed with the CRA.
Lumenus Community Services is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $93.9M in revenue and $93.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 84% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.2M.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $250,000–299,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 420 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $8,362 in 2024, the largest being $8,362 to Lumenus Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $44.7M in 2020 to $93.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
The mission of lumenus is to create a seamless integrated and guided network of mental health developmental and community services to reduce systemic barriers close gaps between services and programs regardless of origin and as a direct result ease access for all. Lumenus’ vision is to ensure that every infant child youth individual and family in toronto gets personalized guidance and the mental health developmental and community services expertise they need to be seen be heard and be well. Lumenus meets guides and serves over 16 000 clients and program participants per year and…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $93.9M | $93.8M | $84.1M | — | $8,362 | $10.1M |
| 2023 | $87.5M | $86.8M | $81.1M | — | $13K | $10M |
| 2022 | $82.5M | $82.5M | — | — | $109K | $9.3M |
| 2021 | $86.6M | $86.6M | $80.2M | — | $62K | $9.1M |
| 2020 | $44.7M | $44.6M | $41.3M | — | $88K | $2.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $8,362 to 1 qualified donee:
- Lumenus Foundation$8,362
Received $1.2M from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9992 positions
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9995 positions
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions420
- Total compensation, all staff$36.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nidhi Chopra (chair); Jeremy De Stafanis (vice chair system and strategy); David Guiney (vice chair governance); Henry Hyun-Jin Kim (treasurer); Herman NG (secretary); Brian Walsh (director); Jeffrey Goldfarb (director); Marilyn Monk (director); Veronique Henry (director); Nora Constas (director); Raza Husain (director); Teresa Briggs (director); Blair Witzel (director); Susan Waterfield (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lumenus Community Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 887420990RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.