The Janice Lewis and Mitchell Cohen Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 761731801RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($139,259) as filed with the CRA.
The Janice Lewis and Mitchell Cohen 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 $131K in revenue and $139K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 75% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 24 qualified donees totalling $136K in 2024, the largest being $15K to Doane Music School. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
The foundation donates funds to qualified donees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2023–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $131K | $139K | — | — | $136K | $95K |
| 2023 | $196K | $93K | — | — | $91K | $103K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $136K to 24 qualified donees:
- Doane Music School$15K
- Covenant House Toronto$11K
- Museum of Comptemporary Art Toronto Canada$10K
- Microbank of Canada/Microbanque du Canada$10K
- Right To Food$10K
- Thrive Youth Development Canada$10K
- The Walrus Foundation$10K
- Artheart Community Art Centre$10K
- Art Gallery of Ontario$5,000
- Save a Child's Heart Foundation$5,000
- Community Music Schools of Toronto$5,000
- Israel Cancer Research Fund (toronto)$5,000
- Toronto International Film Festival Inc.$5,000
- Partners in Art$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,000
- Fall for Dance North Festival Inc.$4,156
- Fondation Cirque du Soleil$3,000
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$2,525
- Chabad of Mississauga$1,800
- The Royal Conservatory of Music$1,000
- Breakthrough T1D Canada/Percée DT1 Canada$1,000
- Heritage Toronto$511
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$500
- Na'Amat Canada Inc.$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mitchell Cohen (director); Janice Lewis (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Janice Lewis and Mitchell Cohen Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 761731801RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.