The Phyllis Lambert Foundation/la Fondation Phyllis Lambert
Private foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 119004414RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($253,522) as filed with the CRA.
The Phyllis Lambert Foundation/la Fondation Phyllis Lambert is a private foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $348K in revenue and $254K in expenditures.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 27 qualified donees totalling $130K in 2024, the largest being $80K to Arthur Erickson Foundation. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $15.1M in 2020 to $348K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Donations made to qualified donees in the areas of arts heritage health educational and cultural fields.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $348K | $254K | — | — | $130K | $24.2M |
| 2023 | $104K | $209K | — | — | $97K | $20.9M |
| 2022 | $533K | $211K | — | — | $106K | $21.4M |
| 2021 | $4.9M | $186K | — | — | $71K | $23.4M |
| 2020 | $15.1M | $2.9M | — | — | $2.6M | $18.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Investment income$337,600
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 $130K to 27 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Arthur Erickson Foundation$80K
- Heritage Montréal Foundation$12K
- Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d'Architecture$10K
- The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Foundation$5,000
- Quartier Ephemere Centre d'Arts Visuels$5,000
- Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides/fondation des Lions du Canada Chien-Guides$3,000
- Festival International du Film sur l'Art (fifa)$2,500
- Société pour les arts en milieux de santé$2,500
- Peace Network for Social Harmony$2,000
- Jeunesse au Soleil / Sun Youth organization$1,500
- National Trust for Canada$1,000
- Montréal Baroque inc.$1,000
- The David Suzuki Foundation$1,000
- Fondation du Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal$500
- Les Violons du Roy$500
- Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal/montreal Symphony Orchestra$500
- Fondation des offices jeunesse internationaux du Québec$350
- Quatuor Molinari$300
- Greenpeace Canada Education Fund$250
- Old Brewery Mission Foundation / Fondation Mission Old Brewery$100
- Acadia University$100
- Fondation Tyndale St-Georges/Tyndale St-George's Foudation$100
- Fondation du Musée McCord Stewart$100
- World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial pour la Nature Can Ada$100
- Emily Carr University of Art and Design Trust Fund$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Phyllis Lambert (president); Stephen Bronfman (director); Pierre-Andre Themens (secretary); Charles Bronfman (director); Lortie Murielle (treasurer); Andrea Orsini (assistant secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Phyllis Lambert Foundation/la Fondation Phyllis Lambert’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119004414RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.