Riviere Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 833789167RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,801,280) as filed with the CRA.
Riviere Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.3M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 41% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 89% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 7 qualified donees totalling $1.8M in 2024, the largest being $1.5M to University of Guelph. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Grants awarded to other qualified donees for religious charitable and educational purposes.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.3M | $1.8M | — | — | $1.8M | $26.4M |
| 2023 | $4.4M | $992K | — | — | $986K | $23.8M |
| 2022 | $3.4M | $375K | — | — | $369K | $20.4M |
| 2021 | $3.4M | $363K | — | — | $357K | $17.4M |
| 2020 | $3.5M | $222K | — | — | $216K | $14.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.8M to 7 qualified donees:
- University of Guelph$1.5M
- Doctors Without Borders$100K
- Education Without Borders$100K
- Churchill College - Univeristy of Cambridge$51K
- Makeway Foundation$25K
- Sleeping Children Around the World$10K
- Hot Docs$7,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lydia Luckevich (president); Karen Pinchin (director); Veronica Pinchin (director); Pinchin Graham (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Riviere Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 833789167RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.