The Irving Ludmer Foundation
Private foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 888854072RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,434,435) as filed with the CRA.
The Irving Ludmer Foundation is a private foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $6.6M in revenue and $2.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 75% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $100K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 80% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 29 qualified donees totalling $2.4M in 2024, the largest being $2.2M to Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $653K in 2020 to $6.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Th object of the foundation's main activities is to support the advancement of education fine arts and scientific research through gifts to other charitable organizations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.6M | $2.4M | — | — | $2.4M | $40.3M |
| 2023 | $6.1M | $3.3M | — | — | $3.2M | $36.2M |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $4.1M | — | — | $4.1M | $33.3M |
| 2021 | $4.3M | $2.1M | — | — | $2M | $35.7M |
| 2020 | $653K | $2.3M | — | — | $2.2M | $33.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.4M to 29 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$2.2M
- Federation Cja$150K
- Institut économique de montréal$5,000
- MADA Community Center Inc. - Centre communautaire MADA inc.$2,088
- Opéra de Montréal$2,000
- The Montreal General Hospital Foundation$2,000
- Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal/montreal Symphony Orchestra$2,000
- Cummings Jewish Centre for Seniors Foundation/fondation Centre Juif Cummings pour Aines$1,800
- The Hebrew Free Loan Association$1,500
- Centaur Foundation for the Performing Arts$1,500
- L'Association Hebraique des Jeunes Hommes Jeunes Femmes de Montréal/The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association of Montreal$1,260
- Friendship Circle of Québec$1,000
- The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Foundation$1,000
- Societe Bénévole de Propagation de l'Hébreu$720
- Old Brewery Mission Foundation / Fondation Mission Old Brewery$550
- Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation$500
- The Canadian Society for the Weizmann Institute of Science$500
- Segal Centre For Performing Arts$500
- Fondation de l'Hopital Maimonides/maimonides Hospital$500
- La Fondation de l'Academie Hebraique Inc.$500
- Les Grands Ballets Canadiens$500
- Israel Cancer Research Fund Fondation d'Israël pour la Recherche sur le Cancer$500
- Fondation de l'Institut de Cardiologie de Montreal/montreal Heart Institute Foundation$500
- Fondation de l'Hopital Maisonneuve-Rosemont$425
- Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies$254
Received $100K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Irving Ludmer (chairman and president); Mark Brender (secretary); Marc Steinberg (assistant secretary); Philip Nadler (assistant secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Irving Ludmer Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888854072RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.