The Lewitt Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 872691092RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,271,988) as filed with the CRA.
The Lewitt Family 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 $5.9M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 84% 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 55% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 25 qualified donees totalling $1.1M in 2024, the largest being $240K to Art Gallery of Ontario. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $245K in 2020 to $5.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation's activities have primarily been focused on providing support for education and music programs for those less fortunate
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.9M | $1.3M | — | — | $1.1M | $13M |
| 2023 | $505K | $934K | — | — | $810K | $8.4M |
| 2022 | $897K | $801K | — | — | $678K | $8.8M |
| 2021 | $534K | $728K | — | — | $602K | $8.7M |
| 2020 | $245K | $380K | — | — | $280K | $8.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.1M to 25 qualified donees:
- Art Gallery of Ontario$240K
- Music Education Charity of Canada$125K
- Doane Music School$125K
- Songwriters Association of Canada$75K
- The Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall$50K
- OrKidstra - Sistema Ottawa$50K
- Let's Talk Science/parlons Science$50K
- Malvern Family Resource Centre$49K
- Avenue Road Music and Permormance Academy$43K
- The Children's Bookbankand Literacy Foundation$40K
- Lifted Literacy and Leadership$30K
- Visions of Science Network for Learning$30K
- The Royal Conservatory of Music$30K
- Zamar Music Inc.$25K
- Marsh Street Community Centre$22K
- Community Music Schools of Toronto$20K
- Toronto Live Foundation$20K
- Rainbow Songs Foundation$20K
- Lotus Centre for Special Music Education$17K
- Holiday Helpers Canada$15K
- Prince Edward County Arts Council$15K
- Toronto Biennial of Art$15K
- Harbourfront Corporation (1990)$13K
- Canadian Children's Opera Company$7,500
- Canadian Opera Company$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Anne Lewitt (chair); Jane Lewitt Taylor (director); John Lewitt (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Lewitt Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 872691092RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.