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.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, September 30, 2024
- Other income$6,142,528
- Investment income$1,803,092
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
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.