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.
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.