Alvin Segal Family Foundation/fondation de Famille Alvin Segal
Private foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 899357644RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($23,390,004) as filed with the CRA.
Alvin Segal Family Foundation/fondation de Famille Alvin Segal is a private foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $7.9M in revenue and $23.4M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 98% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 103 qualified donees totalling $4.5M in 2023, the largest being $1M to Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4.8M in 2020 to $7.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The promotion of charitable undertakings for the funding of registered charities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.9M | $23.4M | — | — | $23.6M | $63.7M |
| 2023 | $9.3M | $4.9M | — | — | $4.5M | $78.8M |
| 2022 | $2M | $7M | — | — | $6.8M | $74.4M |
| 2021 | $12.9M | $6.6M | — | — | $7.5M | $79.4M |
| 2020 | $4.8M | $6.6M | — | — | $5.6M | $73.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Granted $4.5M to 103 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$1M
- Federation Cja$945K
- Shalom Hartman Institute of Canada$545K
- The Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University$500K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$200K
- The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Foundation$200K
- Federation Cja$150K
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim$100K
- Montreal Holocaust Museum$50K
- The Governors of ST. Francis Xavier University$50K
- The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Foundation$50K
- Centraide Du Grand Montréal$50K
- United Talmud Torahs of Montreal Incorporated$50K
- Université de Montréal$50K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$35K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$30K
- Brain Canada Foundation$25K
- Opéra de Montréal$25K
- Maccabi Canada$24K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$20K
- Jewish National Fund of Canada$20K
- Segal Centre For Performing Arts$20K
- The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Foundation$20K
- Montréal Cancer Institute$20K
- Federation Cja$18K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Barbara Segal (director); Joel Segel (director); Renee Segal (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Alvin Segal Family Foundation/fondation de Famille Alvin Segal’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 899357644RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.