Canadian Irish Studies Foundation
Public foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 118829050RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($546,429) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Irish Studies Foundation is a public foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $731K in revenue and $546K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 22% from donations, 32% from other charities. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $38K.
Compared with 1,764 education 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 1 qualified donee totalling $478K in 2024, the largest being $478K to Concordia University-Universite Concordia. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $196K in 2020 to $731K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 17 names.
In its own words
Advance promote and support post-secondary irish and irish-canadian studies principally through donations to educational institutions
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $731K | $546K | — | — | $478K | $8.7M |
| 2023 | $583K | $382K | — | — | $319K | $7.7M |
| 2022 | $315K | $308K | — | — | $250K | $6.6M |
| 2021 | $427K | $293K | — | — | $247K | $7.5M |
| 2020 | $196K | $339K | — | — | $305K | $6.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $478K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $38K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ken Anderson (treasurer); James Barriere (trustee); Christopher Deehy (trustee); Mary Gallery (vice-chair); Richard Hart (trustee); Michael Kenneally (trustee); Patrick Lynch (trustee); Pamela McGovern (trustee); Peter McGovern (trustee); Kate Molson (trustee); Eoin O Hogàin (vice-chair); Camille O'Carroll (trustee); Donald Regan (trustee); Michael Shannon (trustee); Patrick Shea (chair); Desiree McGraw (trustee); Mark Mulroney (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Irish Studies Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118829050RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.