Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family Fondation
Private foundation · Ile des Soeurs, Quebec · BN 890372089RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,784,732) as filed with the CRA.
Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family Fondation is a private foundation based in Ile des Soeurs, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $2.8M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% 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 98% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 100 qualified donees totalling $2.8M in 2024, the largest being $1M to Chabad Loubavitch Youth Organization. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
Donations to other organizations: charitable educational hospitals etc...
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $2.8M | — | — | $2.8M | $16.6M |
| 2023 | $7.3M | $2.3M | — | — | $2M | $17.7M |
| 2022 | $3.7M | $2.8M | — | — | $2.7M | $12.7M |
| 2021 | $3.1M | $3.5M | — | — | $3.2M | $11.7M |
| 2020 | $2.3M | $1.2M | — | — | $1.3M | $12.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Investment income$1,469,133
- Receipted donations$206,868
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.8M to 100 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Chabad Loubavitch Youth Organization$1M
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$342K
- Montreal Holocaust Museum$302K
- Organisation CHABAD Westmount / Westmount CHABAD Organization$181K
- Chabad Loubavitch Youth Organization$150K
- Canadian Friends of Yeshiva University$117K
- Yeshiva Gedola-Merkaz Hatorah Tiferes$100K
- Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights$100K
- Congrégation Tifereth Beth David Jerusalem/Tifereth Beth David Jerusalem Synagogue$65K
- Les Maisons Kehilla$36K
- Les Amis Canadiens de l'Université de Tel Aviv Inc. CanadianFriends of Tel Aviv University Inc.$36K
- Centre Communautaire Juif Des Laurentides Laurentian Jewish Community Centre$25K
- Canadian Friends of Bar-Ilan University$25K
- Centraide Du Grand Montréal$22K
- Academie Hebraique Inc./ Hebrew Academy Inc.$19K
- Congr. Shaar Hashomayim$18K
- Camps Massad of Canada$16K
- The Jewish Theological Society of Canada$16K
- Building a Jewish Tomorrow$15K
- The Museum of Jewish Montreal$15K
- Jewish Public Library$13K
- Mizrachi Organization Of Canada$13K
- United Israel Appeal of Canada Inc$10K
- Save the Children Canada/aide À l'Enfance Canada$10K
- Leket Canada$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Zev Gewurz (vice-president); Ilan Gewurz (president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family Fondation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890372089RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.