Brian Bronfman family foundation/ Fondation de la famille Brian Bronfman
Private foundation · Montréal, Quebec · BN 134112614RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($562,544) as filed with the CRA.
Brian Bronfman family foundation/ Fondation de la famille Brian Bronfman is a private foundation based in Montréal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported -$954K in revenue and $563K in expenditures.
Compared with 3,025 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 63 qualified donees totalling $474K in 2024, the largest being $80K to Peace Network for Social Harmony. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $685K in 2020 to -$954K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation receives and maintains fundds to be appllied for educational religious and other charitable purposes.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | -$954K | $563K | — | — | $474K | $4.9M |
| 2023 | $287K | $441K | — | — | $356K | $6.4M |
| 2022 | $278K | $632K | — | — | $547K | $6.6M |
| 2021 | $1M | $581K | $1,500 | — | $488K | $7M |
| 2020 | $685K | $536K | $1,708 | — | $444K | $6.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $474K to 63 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Peace Network for Social Harmony$80K
- Sacred Fire Productions$20K
- Réseau Outils de paix/Tools of Peace Network$20K
- Pledj$20K
- Conseil des arts de Montréal$20K
- Montreal Holocaust Museum$19K
- McGill University$15K
- Federation Cja$13K
- Fondation HEC Montréal$12K
- Côte des Neiges Black Community Association$10K
- YMCAS of Québec Foundation$10K
- Fondation Y des Femmes$10K
- Ensemble for the Respect of Diversity$10K
- Equitas - International Centre for Human Rights Education / Equitas - Centre International d'Education aux Droits Humains$10K
- Centraide Du Grand Montréal$10K
- Jewish General Hospital Foundation$9,000
- Khanawake Cultural Arts Centre$7,500
- Canadian Friends of Givat Haviva$7,500
- Patro Villeray$7,499
- Imago Theatre Inc.$6,950
- Indspirit$5,960
- Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom Montréal$5,300
- Jspace Canada$5,000
- Les Ateliers Speech$5,000
- Fonds Québécois pour le Développement International$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Brian Bronfman (president); Marcia Wetherup (vice president); Helen Antoniou (secretary- treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Brian Bronfman family foundation/ Fondation de la famille Brian Bronfman’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 134112614RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.