The RDJ Fund
Private foundation · Montréal, Quebec · BN 818799033RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($444,524) as filed with the CRA.
The RDJ Fund is a private foundation based in Montréal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported $597K in revenue and $445K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 68% from donations.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 60% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 15 qualified donees totalling $409K in 2024, the largest being $80K to The Cedars Cancer Foundation at the McGill University Health Centre. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $336K in 2020 to $597K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply from time to time all or part thereof and the income derived therefrom to qualified donees in accordance with the income tax act ( canada ).
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $597K | $445K | — | — | $409K | $3.2M |
| 2023 | $742K | $553K | — | — | $520K | $3M |
| 2022 | $743K | $541K | — | — | $515K | $2.8M |
| 2021 | $614K | $365K | — | — | $340K | $2.6M |
| 2020 | $336K | $285K | — | — | $260K | $2.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, November 30, 2024
- Receipted donations$407,000
- Investment income$112,978
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 $409K to 15 qualified donees:
- The Cedars Cancer Foundation at the McGill University Health Centre$80K
- The Montreal General Hospital Foundation$60K
- The Veritas Fund$50K
- Royal Montreal Regiment Foundation/Fondation Royal Montréal Régiment$45K
- Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada$40K
- Fondation Tyndale St-Georges/Tyndale St-George's Foudation$25K
- Centre Communautaire Tyndale ST-Georges$25K
- Douglas mental health university institute foundation$25K
- Atwater Library and Computer Centre$25K
- Fondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGill McGill University Health Centre Foundation$10K
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts$5,000
- Les amis de la montagne (Mont-Royal) inc.$5,000
- Acadia University$5,000
- St. Mary's Hospital Foundation$5,000
- Trafalgar School for girls$4,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Johnson (president & secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The RDJ Fund’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 818799033RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.