The Cole foundation/La Fondation Cole
Private foundation · Westmount, Quebec · BN 890929557RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,416,694) as filed with the CRA.
The Cole foundation/La Fondation Cole is a private foundation based in Westmount, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.7M in revenue and $2.4M in expenditures.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 48% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 56 qualified donees totalling $1.8M in 2024, the largest being $331K to Fondation de l'Hopital Maisonneuve-Rosemont. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $69K in 2020 to $4.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The Cole Foundation supports research and care in pediatric and young adult leukemia and lymphoma in the Montreal area through the funding of doctoral and post-doctoral Fellowships Transition grants for early-career researchers and also through the funding of social services support for patients and their families at Montreal area pediatric hospitals. Other leukemia or young adult lymphoma research projects are occasionally funded. The Foundation also runs a program called 'Intercultural Conversations - conversations interculturelles' which offers funding to Montreal-based theatre compan…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.7M | $2.4M | $164K | — | $1.9M | $39.7M |
| 2023 | $4.3M | $2.7M | $152K | — | $2.2M | $37.4M |
| 2022 | -$3.6M | $2.4M | $140K | — | $2M | $35.7M |
| 2021 | $8.9M | $2.3M | $154K | — | $1.9M | $41.8M |
| 2020 | $69K | $2.2M | $193K | — | $1.8M | $35.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.8M to 56 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Fondation de l'Hopital Maisonneuve-Rosemont$331K
- Université de Montréal$315K
- Sainte-Justine UHC Foundation$270K
- The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Foundation$60K
- The Cedars Cancer Foundation at the McGill University Health Centre$50K
- Canadian Cancer Society$50K
- Infinitheatre$46K
- La fondation de l'hôpital de montréal pour enfants/The Montréal Children's Hospital Foundation$40K
- Leucan Inc.$40K
- Canadahelps Canadon$39K
- Orange Noyée$36K
- Festival Transameriques$35K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$34K
- Playwrights' Workshop Montreal$32K
- Imago Theatre Inc.$31K
- Centraide Du Grand Montréal$28K
- The National Theatre School of Canada$25K
- The Lighthouse Children andfamilies$25K
- Blue Metropolis Foundation$25K
- La Compagnie Jean Duceppe$21K
- La Messe Basse$20K
- Small Change Fund$19K
- Theatre de Quat'sous Inc.$18K
- Theatre la Chapelle Inc$18K
- Teesri Duniya Theatre$16K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Pierre Boyle (director); Pierre Chartrand (director); Barry Cole (president and chair); Gabrielle Cole (director); Viviane Cole (director); Charles Kaplan (director); David Laidley (director - treasurer); Anne Lewis (director); Evan Lewis (director); Bruce McNiven (director); Emma Tibaldo (director); Guy Rouleau (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Cole foundation/La Fondation Cole’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890929557RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.