The Lisa and Allan Brown Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 890703143RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($98,394) as filed with the CRA.
The Lisa and Allan Brown Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported $77K in revenue and $98K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 98% from donations.
Compared with 3,025 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 59% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 9 qualified donees totalling $95K in 2024, the largest being $40K to Neshama Hospice. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $120K in 2020 to $77K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Receive and maintain a fund and apply from time to time all or part thereof and/or income therefrom for religious charitable or educational purposes.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $77K | $98K | — | — | $95K | $21K |
| 2023 | $87K | $82K | — | — | $78K | $43K |
| 2022 | $90K | $91K | $3,180 | — | $88K | $37K |
| 2021 | $80K | $90K | — | — | $90K | $38K |
| 2020 | $120K | $84K | — | — | $84K | $48K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $95K to 9 qualified donees:
- Neshama Hospice$40K
- Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies$35K
- Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto$11K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$7,654
- The Baycrest Centre Foundation$360
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$330
- Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre Foundation$250
- Canadian Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro$180
- One Family Fund Canada$180
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Allan Brown (director); Lisa Brown (director); Sharon Brown (director); Jody Richardson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Lisa and Allan Brown Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890703143RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.