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.
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.