Richard and Edith Strauss Foundation
Private foundation · Westmount, Quebec · BN 119118529RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,978,342) as filed with the CRA.
Richard and Edith Strauss Foundation is a private foundation based in Westmount, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.5M in revenue and $2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 60% 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 66% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 10 qualified donees totalling $1.8M in 2024, the largest being $400K to Université de Montréal. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.6M in 2020 to $2.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The foundation makes donations to registered charitable organizations hospital foundations and universities primarily in support of medical research.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.5M | $2M | — | — | $1.8M | $11.3M |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $1.8M | — | — | $1.6M | $10.8M |
| 2022 | $2.1M | $1.7M | — | — | $1.6M | $11.5M |
| 2021 | $3M | $1.8M | — | — | $1.7M | $11.1M |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $2.2M | — | — | $2.1M | $10M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.8M to 10 qualified donees:
- Université de Montréal$400K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$345K
- Fondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGill McGill University Health Centre Foundation$335K
- Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montreal$200K
- The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Foundation$200K
- La fondation de l'hôpital de montréal pour enfants/The Montréal Children's Hospital Foundation$101K
- Concordia University-Universite Concordia$100K
- Fondation de l'Hopital Maisonneuve-Rosemont$100K
- UHN Foundation$50K
- Habilitas Foundation$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$101K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Cowling (chairman of the board); Luc Villeneuve (president); Serge Labelle (vice president); Jules Charette (director); Nancy Wells (director); Joanne Chouinard (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Richard and Edith Strauss Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119118529RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.