Mehaduras Friedman Foundation
Private foundation · Outremont, Quebec · BN 888386414RR0001 · Support of Religion
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,124,393) as filed with the CRA.
Mehaduras Friedman Foundation is a private foundation based in Outremont, Quebec, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $9.7M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 39% from donations.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 33 qualified donees totalling $1.1M in 2024, the largest being $559K to Yeshiva Gadola. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $16.7M in 2020 to $9.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
To print and publish religious books. To assist in the printing of the talmud code of jewish law and other religious texts.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.7M | $1.1M | — | — | $1.1M | $108M |
| 2023 | $16.4M | $1.4M | — | — | $528K | $99.4M |
| 2022 | $18.1M | -$1.9M | — | — | — | $84.5M |
| 2021 | $18.3M | $4.3M | — | — | $4.1M | $64.5M |
| 2020 | $16.7M | $1.5M | — | — | $774K | $50.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$3,812,967
- Investment income$3,413,603
- Other income$2,482,968
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 $1.1M to 33 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Yeshiva Gadola$559K
- VMM Zichron Chaim Charity$68K
- Canadian Friends of Tashbar$68K
- Congregation Yetev Lev D'Satmar$68K
- Congregation Sheves Achim$68K
- Ecole Beth Jacob$64K
- Bikur Cholim$31K
- Arizal$31K
- Chai Lifeline (canada) Inc.$20K
- Mifalei Chaim Bechesed (MCB)$16K
- Hatzolas Yisroel D'Arizal$16K
- Moral Arc Foundation$15K
- Congregation Eitz Chaim$15K
- VMM Zichron Chaim Charity$14K
- Congregation Reshith Chochma First Mesifta of Canada$10K
- Canadian Friends of Toldos Aharon$10K
- Bais Medrash Gvoha$10K
- Menucha Vesimcha$6,500
- Kollel Toldos Yakov Yosef$5,000
- Congrégation Imray Chaim D'Chasidai Wiznitz/Mosdoth Wiznitz du Canada$5,000
- Chasdei Levy Yitzcok$2,680
- College Rabbinique de Québec qui soutient les Loyaux Étudiants du Rabbin Ménachem$1,800
- Mifalei Chaim Bechesed$1,750
- Jewish Heritage Foundation International$1,180
- Maison Shalom House$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Hershery Friedman (president); Rita Friedman (vice president); Michael Friedman (secretary-treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mehaduras Friedman Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888386414RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.