Felicia and Arnold Aaron Foundation
Private foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 889180840RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,210,340) as filed with the CRA.
Felicia and Arnold Aaron Foundation is a private foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 45% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 66 qualified donees totalling $1M in 2024, the largest being $165K to Jewish General Hospital Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $867K in 2020 to $1.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
The organization acts as a charitable foundation to administer and employ its property assets and rights for the sole purpose of promoting aiding in the promotion of contributing and assisting charitable organizations and institions and for such purpose to receive funds and contributions without any public appeal.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.2M | — | — | $1M | $0 |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.2M | — | — | $1M | $0 |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.1M | — | — | $895K | $0 |
| 2021 | $666K | $1.1M | — | — | $973K | $0 |
| 2020 | $867K | $1.1M | — | — | $970K | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1M to 66 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Jewish General Hospital Foundation$165K
- Royal Victoria Hospital Foundation$60K
- B'Nai Brith of Canada Foundation$38K
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim$30K
- Ymha$25K
- $25K
- Maimonides$25K
- Alzheimer's Group$25K
- Canadian Association for Ben Gurion University$22K
- Just for Kids Foundation$21K
- JGH Auxiliary$20K
- Combined Jewish Appeal$20K
- United Federation of Greater Toronto$20K
- ST. Mary's Hospital$20K
- Montreal Neurological Institute & Hospital$20K
- Montreal Children's Hospital$20K
- Shaare Zione Congregation$20K
- Canadian Friends for Igdcb$20K
- Free Hebrew for Juniors$20K
- Friendship Circle$20K
- Israel Cancer Research Foundation$20K
- Shriners Hospital for Children$10K
- Montreal General Hospital Foundation$10K
- Habilitas Foundation$10K
- Foundation for Public Policy Dev (ngo)$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Linda Thompson (director); Carl Schlesinger (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Felicia and Arnold Aaron Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889180840RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.