The Birks Family Foundation
Private foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 119216034RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,961,295) as filed with the CRA.
The Birks Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported $2.2M in revenue and $2M in expenditures.
In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $96.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 57% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 101 qualified donees totalling $1.6M in 2024, the largest being $70K to The Montreal General Hospital Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.4M in 2020 to $2.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Organization either primarily focused on quebec or those whose work is broadly national in nature. Public sector organizations including universities hospitals libraries and museums. Projects that demonstrate unique innovation in their and/or pioneer state-of-the-art technology long range projects designed to become self-sustaining and organizations that actively engage directly with their target group through programs and/or services. Environment fundingm exclusively to montreal area.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.2M | $2M | $116K | — | $1.6M | $40.2M |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.9M | $126K | — | $1.6M | $33.2M |
| 2022 | $4.1M | $1.8M | $120K | — | $1.5M | $30M |
| 2021 | $2.2M | $1.5M | $116K | — | $1.2M | $34.8M |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $1.5M | $122K | $0 | $1.2M | $29.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, November 30, 2024
- Investment income$494,010
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 $1.6M to 101 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Montreal General Hospital Foundation$70K
- Giant steps foundation$70K
- Centraide Du Grand Montréal$65K
- The Montreal General Hospital Foundation$52K
- The Foundation ofthe 'Université de Sherbrooke'$50K
- Fondation Québec Philanthrope$50K
- Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific and United World Colleges (canada) Inc.$50K
- La fondation de l'hôpital de montréal pour enfants/The Montréal Children's Hospital Foundation$50K
- Douglas mental health university institute foundation$50K
- Fondation Santé Urbaine$45K
- Concordia University-Universite Concordia$40K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$35K
- Fondation de l'Hopital Maisonneuve-Rosemont$35K
- The National Theatre School of Canada$30K
- Fondation Notre Home Foundation$30K
- Cedars Cancer Foundation$30K
- La Fondation du YWCA de Montreal/ywca Foundation of Montreal$25K
- Université Laval$25K
- Sickkids Charitable Giving Fund$25K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$25K
- Pier 21 CDN Museum of Immigration at Pier 21$25K
- Peri Operative Program (POP)$25K
- Nova Montreal Foundation Inc.$25K
- Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada$25K
- Montreal Holocaust Museum$25K
Received $96 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$65K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bradley Birks (trustee); H. Jonathan Birks (president); Sarah Bovaird (trustee); David Laidley (chairman); Jeffery Drummond (trustee); Katherine Sutherland (trustee); Jennifer Chadwick (trustee); Francine Lanctot (secretary treasurer); Rowan Bovaird (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Birks Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119216034RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.