The Jarislowsky Foundation/la Fondation Jarislowsky
Public foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 894744036RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-30. Split of total expenditures ($14,615,535) as filed with the CRA.
The Jarislowsky Foundation/la Fondation Jarislowsky is a public foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 30, 2024, it reported $70.9M in revenue and $14.6M in expenditures.
Compared with 74 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 85% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 100 qualified donees totalling $14M in 2024, the largest being $3.3M to The Montreal General Hospital Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $13.6M in 2020 to $70.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The charity provides grants to qualified donees in order to promote and support the advancement of excellence in education medicine and arts
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $70.9M | $14.6M | $303K | — | $13.9M | $350.6M |
| 2023 | $21.4M | $8.9M | $357K | — | $8.3M | $294.3M |
| 2022 | $9.6M | $11.4M | $62K | — | $10.8M | $281.8M |
| 2021 | $51.9M | $9M | — | — | $8.5M | $283.6M |
| 2020 | $13.6M | $18M | — | — | $9.1M | $240.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, December 30, 2024
- Other income$61,553,968
- Investment income$10,361,703
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 $14M to 100 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Montreal General Hospital Foundation$3.3M
- University of Guelph$2M
- Institut sur la gouvernance d'organisations privées et publiques/ The Institute for the Governance of Private and Public Organisations.$1.1M
- Brown University$1M
- The Nature Trust of British Columbia$500K
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$500K
- Bishop's University Foundation$500K
- Fondation Bach - Académie de Montréal$270K
- Civix$250K
- Centre for Northern Conservation$235K
- Salal Foundation$185K
- The ClearWater Futures Foundation$183K
- Le Garde-Manger pour Tous$180K
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$136K
- The Earth Rangers Foundation$133K
- Neighbours United for Nature Society$125K
- Dalhousie University$125K
- Bard on the Beach Theatre Society$125K
- Windmill Microlending$120K
- Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montreal$114K
- Carleton University$100K
- The Foundation of Greater Montreal$100K
- SeedChange / Sème l'avenir$100K
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research$100K
- The University of British Columbia$96K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$502K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stephen Jarislowsky (president); Gail Merilees Jarislowsky (vice president); Frederick Lowy (director); Valerie Spalding (director); Tim Broadhead (director); Marika Ivert (director); Peter Trent (director); Cynthia Gordon Cundill (director); Sebastian Van Berkom (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Jarislowsky Foundation/la Fondation Jarislowsky’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 894744036RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.