Lumenus Foundation
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 890358179RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,512,457) as filed with the CRA.
Lumenus Foundation is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 62% from donations, 31% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $820K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 31% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $1.2M in 2024, the largest being $1.2M to Lumenus Community Services. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
The lumenus foundation was established to receive and maintain a fund or funds and apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to support the mission and vision of lumenus community services (lumenus). The mission of lumenus is to create a seamless integrated and guided network of mental health development and community services to reduce systematic barriers close gaps between services and programs regardless of origin and as a direct results ease access for all. The vision of lumenus is to ensure every infant child youth and family in toronto gets pe…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.5M | — | $106K | $1.2M | $2.4M |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $1.2M | $184K | — | $892K | $2.4M |
| 2022 | $849K | $831K | $156K | — | $590K | $2.5M |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.4M | — | $146K | $1.2M | $2.5M |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $1.6M | — | $126K | $1.3M | $2.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.2M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $820K from 15 charities:
- The Lang Family Foundation$278K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$277K
- RBC Foundation$100K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$70K
- Loch Tay Foundation$50K
- The David J.D. Harris Foundation$12K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- Lumenus Community Services$8,362
- CHUM Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The BLG Foundation$2,500
- The Alex and Nelly Singer Family Foundation$2,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,191
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,804
- The Grenadier Foundation$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$20
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$213K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nidhi Chopra (chair); Jeremy De Stefanis (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 Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890358179RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.