Montreal Holocaust Museum
Charitable organization · Montreal, Quebec · BN 890837941RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,284,603) as filed with the CRA.
Montreal Holocaust Museum is a charitable organization based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $22.9M in revenue and $2.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 88% from other charities. In 2024, 40 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $20.2M.
Compared with 46 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 33% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 88% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $160,000–199,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 19 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4.2M in 2020 to $22.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 19 names.
In its own words
Special programs: holocaust eduation series educational events yom hashoah kristallnacht educational projects and tools for teachers museum school and individual visits to raise holocaust awareness maintaining a colletion of artifacts and archiving video testimonies of holocaust survivors for educational and remembrance purposes; survivor testimony to schools and organizations
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $22.9M | $2.3M | $1.8M | $140K | — | $0 |
| 2023 | $9.2M | $2.3M | $1.8M | $172K | — | $2.6M |
| 2022 | $4.5M | $2M | $1.6M | $150K | — | $2.7M |
| 2021 | $3.6M | $1.4M | $1.1M | $150K | — | $2.6M |
| 2020 | $4.2M | $1.8M | $1.2M | $140K | — | $1.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $20.2M from 40 charities:
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$17.6M
- Federation Cja$993K
- Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family Fondation$302K
- Sandra and Alain Bouchard Foundation$250K
- The Molson Foundation/fondation Molson$100K
- The Abe and Sophie Bronfman Charitable Foundation$100K
- Apricus Foundation/Fondation Apricus$100K
- The Asper Foundation$100K
- Canadahelps Canadon$71K
- Canadahelps Canadon$71K
- The Mireille and Murray Steinberg Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille Mireille et Muuray Steinberg$55K
- The Mel Hoppenheim Family Foundation/La fondation familiale Mel Hoppenheim$50K
- Fondation Lorraine et Jean Turmel$50K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- The Flanagan Foundation$50K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$50K
- The Azrieli Foundation$50K
- The Birks Family Foundation$25K
- Fondation Eldee-Eldee Foundation$25K
- Crowe BGK Foundation$25K
- Zakuta family foundation$20K
- Brian Bronfman family foundation/ Fondation de la famille Brian Bronfman$19K
- Vancity Community Foundation$10K
- Protech Foundation/fondation Protech$10K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,99914 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions19
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Yasmine Abdelfaddel (administrator); Judy Gardos-Bergman (secretary); Daniel Rabinowicz (administrator); Richard Schnurbach (past president); Dorothy Zalcman-Howard (administrator); Gwendolyn Owens (administrator); Eva Kuper (administrator); Rachel Gropper (administrator); Allison Jaskolka (administrator); Sherry Luger (administrator); Jean-Guy Gourdeau (treasurer); Jacques Saada (president); Adam Atlas (administrator); Denis Marion (administrator); Brian Bronfman (administrator); Brandon Knecht (administrator); Philippe Dubé (administrateur); Arlene Abitan (administrateur); Isabelle Perras (administrateur).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Montreal Holocaust Museum’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890837941RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.