Cummings Jewish Centre for Seniors Foundation/fondation Centre Juif Cummings pour Aines
Public foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 860061274RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,477,541) as filed with the CRA.
Cummings Jewish Centre for Seniors Foundation/fondation Centre Juif Cummings pour Aines is a public foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.6M in revenue and $3.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 59% from donations. In 2024, 28 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.6M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 40% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 88% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $2.9M in 2024, the largest being $2.9M to Centre Juif Cummings pour Ainés/ Cummings Jewish Centre For Seniors. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.1M in 2020 to $4.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 34 names.
In its own words
The cummins jewish centre for seniors foundation was created to meet the philanthropic challenges and needs of the 50+ population. The goals are: to encourage and facilitate the creation and growth of endowment funds to create innovative opportunities for new philanthropic initiatives to distribute grants that reflect the donors` wishes and agency priorities
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.6M | $3.5M | — | $72K | $2.9M | $10.6M |
| 2023 | $3.3M | $2.6M | — | $92K | $2M | $9.4M |
| 2022 | $2.8M | $2.1M | — | $4,116 | $1.6M | $8.8M |
| 2021 | $4M | $1.8M | — | $19K | $1.4M | $8.1M |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $2.3M | — | $77K | $1.7M | $5.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.9M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $1.6M from 28 charities:
- The Azrieli Foundation$650K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$526K
- Charlotte and Leo Karassik Foundation$360K
- Adler & Lipkus Foundation$25K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$20K
- The Mireille and Murray Steinberg Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille Mireille et Muuray Steinberg$5,400
- Caldwell Foundation$5,000
- Nellie Philanthropy Foundation$3,050
- Ike Nizam Foundation of Canada$2,500
- Fondation de la famille Zeller$2,000
- Apricus Foundation/Fondation Apricus$2,000
- The Fesa Foundation$1,800
- The Irving Ludmer Foundation$1,800
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,143
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,000
- Fondation Eldee-Eldee Foundation$660
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$625
- Maxwell Cummings Family Foundation$612
- Saul S. Abracen & Family Foundation$500
- Leo and Shirley Goldfarb Foundation/fondation Leo and Shirley Goldfarb$500
- Leo and Shirley Goldfarb Foundation/fondation Leo and Shirley Goldfarb$500
- Joseph Neufeld Family Foundation/ Fondation Familiale Joseph Neufeld$372
- Gurman Foundation/fondation Gurman$300
- Rose and Daniel Freedman Foundation Fondation Rose et DanielFreedman$300
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$397K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Philip Abbey (past president); Diane Altman; Hy Beraznik (past president); Mark Bercuvitz (past president); Bram Besner (past president); Evelyn Bloomfield Schacter; Allan Chandler (immediate past president/co-pr); Avner Cobrin (secretary); Lewis Cooper; Nancy Cooperberg (centre president); Michael Corber; Steven Cummings C.M. (hon. president); Rona Davis; Ronna Ellen; Janie Etinson; Joseph Koback; Steven Kramer; Nan Lassner; Cookie Lazarus; Arnold Ludwick; Joanne Marco; Sandy Martz; Morton Minc (vice-president); David Novek; Joseph Paperman; Dorothy Reitman; Mitchell Rosen; Henry Rosenhek (treasurer); Melvin Schloss; Cathy Simons (executive director); Gloria Steinberg; Richard Vineberg; Mike Wagen (past-president); Roslyn Wiener (co-president).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cummings Jewish Centre for Seniors Foundation/fondation Centre Juif Cummings pour Aines’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 860061274RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.