The Montreal General Hospital Foundation
Public foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 119000974RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($24,914,284) as filed with the CRA.
The Montreal General Hospital Foundation is a public foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $25.9M in revenue and $24.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 42% from donations, 40% from other charities. In 2024, 83 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $10.4M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 27 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 7 qualified donees totalling $20.1M in 2024, the largest being $12.1M to McGill University Health Centre. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 19 names.
In its own words
Distribute funds to the benefit of the montreal general hospital mcgill university health centre and affiliated entities of mcgill university academic health centre and other organizations of the quebec health network for equipment research teaching renovations and program support.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $25.9M | $24.9M | — | $2.6M | $20.1M | $241.9M |
| 2023 | $29.3M | $16.7M | — | $2.2M | $12.7M | $212.2M |
| 2022 | $46.3M | $18M | — | $2M | $14.3M | $205.2M |
| 2021 | $27.1M | $17.2M | — | $2M | $13.7M | $196.2M |
| 2020 | $34.6M | $19.1M | — | $2M | $15.6M | $146M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, March 31, 2024
- From other charities$10,224,372
- Receipted donations$7,899,176
- Investment income$7,186,047
- Other gifts$2,983,928
- Other income$317,294
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 $20.1M to 7 qualified donees:
- McGill University Health Centre$12.1M
- L'Institut de Recherche du Centre Universitaire de Santé McGill The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre$6.2M
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$1.2M
- The Foundation ofthe 'Université de Sherbrooke'$525K
- The Cedars Cancer Foundation at the McGill University Health Centre$35K
- Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociaux du Centre-Ouest-de-L'Île-de-Montréal$7,000
- Concordia University-Universite Concordia$5,551
Received $10.4M from 83 charities:
- The Jarislowsky Foundation/la Fondation Jarislowsky$3.3M
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$2M
- Fondation Courtois$1M
- The Molson Foundation/fondation Molson$1M
- Fast Foundation$400K
- Colin J. Adair Charitable Foundation$300K
- Aqueduct Foundation$218K
- The Aune Foundation$215K
- Colin J. Adair Charitable Foundation$200K
- Doggone Foundation$150K
- Elina & Giuseppe Borsellino Family Foundation$150K
- M.s.h. Foundation$125K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$119K
- The Cedars Cancer Foundation at the McGill University Health Centre$109K
- The John Dobson Foundation$100K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$79K
- The Birks Family Foundation$70K
- Hewitt Foundation$62K
- The RDJ Fund$60K
- Rona and Irving Levitt Family Foundation$55K
- The Birks Family Foundation$52K
- The Mel Hoppenheim Family Foundation/La fondation familiale Mel Hoppenheim$50K
- Brodrum Family Foundation$50K
- The Norman Zavalkoff Family Foundation$50K
- The Foundation of Greater Montreal$42K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions27
- Total compensation, all staff$3.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jean-Christophe Bedos (chair); Elise Nesbitt (vice-chair); Jean-Guy Gourdeau (director); Adam Adamakakis (director); Gail Adelson-Marcovitz (director); Kim Anderson (director); Daniel Baer (director); Cristina Birks (director); Vincenzo Ciampi (director); Dominic Constantini (director); Sophie Cousineau (director); Liane Feldman (director); Jane Hope (director); Patrice Ouimet (director); Yvon Roy (director); Peter Trent (director); Ann Lynch (director); Judith Menard (director); Stephanie Riddell (president/ceo/director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Montreal General Hospital Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119000974RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.