The Langar Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 889107843RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($732,100) as filed with the CRA.
The Langar 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 $2.2M in revenue and $732K in expenditures.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 42% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 41 qualified donees totalling $614K in 2024, the largest being $75K to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Toronto. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $253K in 2020 to $2.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Donations to varied groups of registered charitabale organzations as set out on attached schedule t1236
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.2M | $732K | — | — | $614K | $13.7M |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $675K | — | — | $556K | $12.2M |
| 2022 | -$605K | $506K | — | — | $405K | $11.8M |
| 2021 | $2.4M | $467K | — | — | $365K | $12.9M |
| 2020 | $253K | $450K | — | — | $371K | $11M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $614K to 41 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Toronto$75K
- The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art$60K
- Greenwood College School$40K
- The University of British Columbia$40K
- The Walrus Foundation$30K
- Evergreen$30K
- Branksome Hall$25K
- Geneva Centre for Autism$20K
- Small Change Fund$20K
- Autism Speaks Canada$20K
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$20K
- My Friend's House Collingwood Crisis Centre$15K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$15K
- West Parry Sound Health Centre Foundation$14K
- Collingwood General & Marine Hospital Foundation$14K
- VGH & Ubc Hospital Foundation$10K
- BC Amateur Sport Fund$10K
- Georgian Bay Forever$10K
- McMichael Canadian Art Foundation$10K
- Ojibway Historical Preservation Society.$10K
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada$10K
- The Georgian Bay Trust Foundation Inc$10K
- The National Ballet of Canada/le Ballet National du Canada$10K
- Lakefield College School$10K
- Human Rights Watch Canada$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Helen Gail Regan (director/president); Rosemary Phelan (director/vice president); Holiday Phelan-Johnson (director); Honor Ireland (director); Gillian Elmitt (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Langar Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889107843RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.