Lutherwood Child and Family Foundation
Charitable organization · Waterloo, Ontario · BN 107650194RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($11,020,827) as filed with the CRA.
Lutherwood Child and Family Foundation is a charitable organization based in Waterloo, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $17M in revenue and $11M in expenditures.
In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $310K.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 83% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 86% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $1.3M in 2024, the largest being $1.3M to Lutherwood. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $8.8M in 2020 to $17M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Lutherwood child and family foundation o/a starling child and family foundation raises money and awareness to strengthen the lives of families served by lutherwood; a registered charity organization that offers a range of social serivce programs to children youth adults and seniors to relieve conditions attributable to being aged by providing specially adapted residential accommodation incidental facilities and support to person with health conditions social isolation and mobility issues attributable to age
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $17M | $11M | $9.5M | $235K | $1.3M | $30.9M |
| 2023 | $19.9M | $11.3M | $5.9M | $177K | $3.5M | $25M |
| 2022 | $11.7M | $9.6M | $5.4M | $199K | $2.6M | $16.3M |
| 2021 | $10.9M | $8.8M | $4.9M | $206K | $2.4M | $14.3M |
| 2020 | $8.8M | $8.2M | $4.8M | $199K | $2M | $12.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.3M to 1 qualified donee:
- Lutherwood$1.3M
Received $310K from 22 charities:
- RBC Foundation$100K
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/hockey Aide les Sans-Abri$50K
- Astley Family Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$40K
- Canadahelps Canadon$40K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$12K
- Bloomingdale United Church$5,000
- Abundance Canada$3,900
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,934
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$1,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,010
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$1,000
- Emmanuel Lutheran Church$985
- ST George's of Forest Hill Anglican Church$750
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$435
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$340
- Trillium United Church$250
- ST Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church$200
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario$100
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
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
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$383K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kevin Donovan (chair); Trent Robinson (director); Scott Uffelman (secretary-treasurer); Richard Steinmann (vice-chair); David Fitzpatrick (director); Omar McLean (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lutherwood Child and Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107650194RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.