The Lecluse Family Foundation
Private foundation · Brantford, Ontario · BN 838560787RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,739,880) as filed with the CRA.
The Lecluse Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Brantford, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.3M in revenue and $2.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% 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 81% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 15 qualified donees totalling $2.7M in 2024, the largest being $2.5M to The Good Shepherd Centre Hamilton. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The foundation received notification of registration on april 4 2016. The foundation has the following activities: -to receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time as selected by the trustees to registered charities and qualified donees as defined in the ita; and -to undertake activities ancillary and incidental to the attainment of the above charitable purposes
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.3M | $2.7M | — | — | $2.7M | $12.7M |
| 2023 | $5.2M | $131K | — | — | $105K | $10.1M |
| 2022 | $135K | $298K | — | — | $272K | $5M |
| 2021 | $299K | $185K | — | — | $153K | $5.1M |
| 2020 | $5M | — | — | — | — | $5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.7M to 15 qualified donees:
- The Good Shepherd Centre Hamilton$2.5M
- Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation$125K
- Mighty Oaks Global Initiatives$50K
- Hope Air$1,200
- Alzheimer Society of Canada$500
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$400
- Operation Smile Canada Foundation$400
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$400
- McMaster University$300
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada$300
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$300
- Mission Aviation Fellowship of Canada$300
- City Kidz Ministry$300
- Canadian Olympic Foundation/ Fondation Olympique Canadienne$300
- The Salvation Army Toronto Grace Health Centre$200
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jennifer Lecluse (trustee); Jocelyn Lecluse (trustee); John Lecluse (trustee); Trevor Lecluse (trustee); Robert Ban (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Lecluse Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 838560787RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.