Colin J. Adair Charitable Foundation
Public foundation · Pierrefonds, Quebec · BN 712017532RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,811,240) as filed with the CRA.
Colin J. Adair Charitable Foundation is a public foundation based in Pierrefonds, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $7.7M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 78% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 57% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 20 qualified donees totalling $1.6M in 2024, the largest being $300K to The Montreal General Hospital Foundation. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $21.7M in 2020 to $7.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation makes contribution to other canadian charitable organizations registered with the canada revenue agency.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.7M | $1.8M | — | — | $1.6M | $38.3M |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.7M | — | — | $1.5M | $32.4M |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.3M | — | — | $1.2M | $32.6M |
| 2021 | $13.4M | $2.6M | — | — | $2.6M | $32.5M |
| 2020 | $21.7M | $3,681 | — | — | — | $21.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.6M to 20 qualified donees:
- The Montreal General Hospital Foundation$300K
- La fondation de l'hôpital de montréal pour enfants/The Montréal Children's Hospital Foundation$200K
- The Montreal General Hospital Foundation$200K
- Old Brewery Mission Foundation / Fondation Mission Old Brewery$100K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$100K
- Lakeshore General Hospital Foundation$100K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$100K
- Atwater Library and Computer Centre$100K
- Jeunesse au Soleil / Sun Youth organization$50K
- Lakeshore General Hospital Foundation$50K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$50K
- L'Abri en Ville$50K
- Fondation Habilitas Habilitas Foundation$50K
- Shriners Hospitals for Children$25K
- The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Foundation$25K
- La fondation de l'hôpital de montréal pour enfants/The Montréal Children's Hospital Foundation$25K
- Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada$25K
- The Cedars Cancer Foundation at the McGill University Health Centre$25K
- The Allegra Foundation-Fondation Allegra$25K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$25K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Richard W. Pound (director/president); John W. Bennett (director); Pierre-Louis Le Saunier (director/secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Colin J. Adair Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 712017532RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.