LUSO Community Services
Publicly funded institution · London, Ontario · BN 133897207RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,517,599) as filed with the CRA.
LUSO Community Services is a charitable organization based in London, 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 $2.6M in revenue and $2.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 79% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $151K.
Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 30 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.4M in 2020 to $2.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Charitable purpose is to assist and support the community in london and the surrounding area. All programs are carried on in and around london. Programs include employment support afterschool tutoring youth development settlement services for immigrants and refugees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.6M | $2.5M | — | — | — | $340K |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $2.2M | $1.9M | — | — | $239K |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $1.4M | — | — | $147K |
| 2021 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $1.3M | — | — | $100K |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $1.1M | — | — | $90K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $151K from 13 charities:
- United Way Elgin Middlesex$80K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$20K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$20K
- ST Aidan's Anglican Church$13K
- The May Court Club of London$4,000
- WCPD Foundation$3,950
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,916
- United Way Elgin Middlesex$2,263
- BenefAction Foundation$2,000
- Valleyview Mennonite Church$1,650
- Rowntree Memorial United Church$400
- Kiwanis Club of Forest City - London$250
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$26
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions30
- Total compensation, all staff$1.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Elisabete Rodrigues (executive director); Kasha MC-Ewen-Doan (chairperson); Christine Wilde (past chair); Tyler Gillespie (treasurer); Ryan Parsons (vice-chair); Alicia Lawrance (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from LUSO Community Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 133897207RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.