United for Literacy Foundation Fondation Littératie Ensemble
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 892549965RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,187,523) as filed with the CRA.
United for Literacy Foundation Fondation Littératie Ensemble is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $293K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 39% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $1M in 2024, the largest being $1M to United for Literacy. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The primary purpose of United for Literacy Foundation is to support the nation-wide literacy programs of United for Literacy.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2M | $1.2M | — | — | $1M | $20M |
| 2023 | $887K | $2.2M | — | — | $1.3M | $19.2M |
| 2022 | $1.9M | $2.6M | — | $32K | $1.4M | $20.5M |
| 2021 | $3.6M | $1M | — | — | $868K | $21.2M |
| 2020 | -$328K | $884K | — | — | $754K | $18.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $293K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lauren Manteuffel (vice chair); Anne Parker (director); Rayan Rafay (chair); Yassir Berbiche (director); Marija Finney (director); Meron Tecle (director); John Wiltshire (director); Suzanne Anton (director); Peter Levitt (chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from United for Literacy Foundation Fondation Littératie Ensemble’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892549965RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.