Cancer Research Society
Public foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 119153229RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($32,732,345) as filed with the CRA.
Cancer Research Society is a public foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $40.7M in revenue and $32.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 71% from donations, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 141 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.9M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 5% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 80% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 32 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 45 qualified donees totalling $14.6M in 2024, the largest being $1.9M to University Health Network. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
The cancer research society's sole mission is to fund research on all types of cancer thereby contributing to the advancement of science aimed at preventing detecting and treating the disease.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $40.7M | $32.7M | $671K | $15.8M | $14.7M | $66.5M |
| 2023 | $37.4M | $29.6M | $593K | $14.7M | $12.7M | $58.5M |
| 2022 | $24.1M | $27.6M | $488K | $13.8M | $12M | $50.7M |
| 2021 | $36.7M | $23.8M | $599K | $12.8M | $9.2M | $54.2M |
| 2020 | $29.4M | $26.5M | $3M | $12.6M | $9.4M | $41.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $14.6M to 45 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- University Health Network$1.9M
- L'Hôpital Général Juif Sir Mortimer B. Davis$1.1M
- Fondation de l'Hopital Maisonneuve-Rosemont$1.1M
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$935K
- Provincial Health Services Authority$691K
- Université de Montréal$687K
- Université Laval$567K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$547K
- The Hospital for Sick Children$538K
- Montréal Cancer Institute$460K
- The University of British Columbia$424K
- Queen's University at Kingston$421K
- McGill University Health Centre$372K
- The University of Western Ontario$368K
- University of Ottawa$364K
- The Governors of the University of Alberta$347K
- McMaster University$321K
- Universite de Sherbrooke$311K
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$310K
- University of Guelph$284K
- University of Saskatchewan$233K
- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute/Institut de recherche de l'hopital d'Ottawa$231K
- Dalhousie University$211K
- Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montreal$209K
- Simon Fraser University$172K
Received $1.9M from 141 charities:
- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada/societe de Leucemie & Lymphome du Canada$455K
- La fondation du cancer du sein du Québec/Québec Breast Cancer Foundation$289K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$203K
- Canadahelps Canadon$153K
- Canadahelps Canadon$153K
- The Molson Foundation/fondation Molson$125K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$121K
- MTY Group Foundation$65K
- Canadian Cancer Society$31K
- Maud and Christina Duncan Charitable Foundation$30K
- CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund$28K
- Aqueduct Foundation$18K
- Norma McLean Charitable Fund$17K
- The Jane Skoryna Foundation$15K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$11K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$11K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- La Fondation Denise et Guy ST-Germain$10K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$9,922
- Fondation Hardyenvie$9,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$6,287
- The Tenaquip Foundation$6,000
- The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation$5,000
- The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation$5,000
- Fondation Famille Brière$4,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions32
- Total compensation, all staff$2.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Christian Paupe (chaiman); Heidi Lange (vice-president/secretary); Marie Valcourt (treasurer); Cghassan Deko (director); Benoît Durocher (director); Peter McCarthy (director); Sean O'Brien (director); François Painchaud (director); George Zogopoulos (director); Peter Clair (director); Carson Loh (director); Annie Marsolais (director); Alexandra Greenhill.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cancer Research Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119153229RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.