Dalfen Family Foundation
Private foundation · Westmount, Quebec · BN 878417823RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,839,586) as filed with the CRA.
Dalfen Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Westmount, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.3M in revenue and $2.8M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 87% 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 91% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 64 qualified donees totalling $2.8M in 2024, the largest being $1.1M to Chabad of Westmount. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.3M in 2020 to $2.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.3M | $2.8M | — | — | $2.8M | $4.5M |
| 2023 | $4.1M | $1.6M | — | — | $1.6M | $5M |
| 2022 | $2.5M | $2M | — | — | $2M | $2.5M |
| 2021 | $3.3M | $1.4M | — | — | $1.4M | $2M |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $1.3M | — | — | $1.3M | $99K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.8M to 64 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Chabad of Westmount$1.1M
- Combined Jewish Appeal$336K
- Jewish General Hospital (jghfou)$240K
- Motreal Heart Institute Foundation$213K
- Mada Community Centre$135K
- Leket Canada$125K
- Second Harvest Food Support Committee$100K
- The Montreal Children's Hospital$50K
- Technion Society$50K
- Mission Bon Acueil$50K
- Fondation Old Brewery Mission$50K
- Beth Rivkah Academy ( Bethr2)$50K
- Moisson Montreal$35K
- Donald Berman Yaldei Developmental Center$35K
- Rabbinical College of Canada$33K
- The Family Store$28K
- House of Israel Congregation$28K
- Montreal Economic Institute (mei)$15K
- Canadian Magen David Adom for Israel$11K
- United Hatzalah Canada ( Unihatca)$10K
- Sun Youth Organization$10K
- Segal Centre for Performing Arts$10K
- Montreal Symphony Orchestra$10K
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts$10K
- Kehilla Montreal Residential Programs ( Kehilla)$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Murray Dalfen (president); Karen Dalfen (vice-president); Jordana Dalfen (director); Sean Dalfen (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Dalfen Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 878417823RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.