Kracauer Family Foundation/fondation Familiale Kracauer
Private foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 891418147RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,509,621) as filed with the CRA.
Kracauer Family Foundation/fondation Familiale Kracauer is a private foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $867K in revenue and $2.5M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 90% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 9 qualified donees totalling $2.2M in 2023, the largest being $2M to Congregation Shaar Hashomayim. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
The foundation raises and manages funds for the purpose of making gifts to other registered charities or organizations that are qualified donees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $867K | $2.5M | — | — | $2.5M | $18.9M |
| 2023 | $21.8M | $2.2M | — | — | $2.2M | $19.8M |
| 2022 | — | $31K | — | — | $31K | $231K |
| 2021 | — | $30K | — | — | $30K | $263K |
| 2020 | — | $39K | — | — | $38K | $293K |
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$866,507
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, 2023
Granted $2.2M to 9 qualified donees:
- Congregation Shaar Hashomayim$2M
- Federation Cja$100K
- Jewish National Fund of Canada Inc$60K
- Canadian Centre for Archltecture$5,000
- Rabbinical College of Canada$1,000
- Societe Alzheimer Rive-Sud$1,000
- Benjamin and Vanda Treiser Maison Shalom Inc$1,000
- Rabbinical College of Canada$1,000
- Fondation Ressources pour les Enfants Diabetiques$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Benjamin Kracauer (president); Ionel Gabriel Stefan (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Kracauer Family Foundation/fondation Familiale Kracauer’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891418147RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.