The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Foundation
Public foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 104872304RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($53,937,478) as filed with the CRA.
The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish 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 $74.3M in revenue and $53.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 46% from donations, 19% from other charities. In 2024, 160 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $22.7M.
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 fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 86% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 60 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 6 qualified donees totalling $43.7M in 2024, the largest being $42.8M to L'Hôpital Général Juif Sir Mortimer B. Davis. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $32.7M in 2020 to $74.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 25 names.
In its own words
To raise funds for hospital research and development in the fields of medecine surgery and related hospital activities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $74.3M | $53.9M | $123K | $1.3M | $43.7M | $320M |
| 2023 | $52.3M | $44.2M | $181K | $1.8M | $34.8M | $299.6M |
| 2022 | $55M | $35M | — | $1.7M | $26.3M | $278M |
| 2021 | $70.7M | $36.4M | — | $2.2M | $27.1M | $257.9M |
| 2020 | $32.7M | $34.4M | — | $4.1M | $24.6M | $223.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $43.7M to 6 qualified donees:
- L'Hôpital Général Juif Sir Mortimer B. Davis$42.8M
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$409K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$304K
- The Auxiliairy of the Sir Mortimer B. Davis - Jewish General Hospital$113K
- La Fondation Pomerantz/The Pomerantz Foundation$22K
- Fondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGill McGill University Health Centre Foundation$922
Received $22.7M from 160 charities:
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$10.1M
- La Fondation Rossy The Rossy Foundation$3.1M
- The Molson Foundation/fondation Molson$1M
- The Alan & Roula Rossy Family Foundation$858K
- The Azrieli Foundation$572K
- The Jim Pattison Foundation$500K
- Aqueduct Foundation$406K
- Elina & Giuseppe Borsellino Family Foundation$357K
- Charlotte and Leo Karassik Foundation$300K
- The Abe and Sophie Bronfman Charitable Foundation$300K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$264K
- The Sandra and Leo Kolber Foundation$250K
- The Mireille and Murray Steinberg Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille Mireille et Muuray Steinberg$243K
- Israel Cancer Research Fund Fondation d'Israël pour la Recherche sur le Cancer$240K
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$220K
- Richard and Edith Strauss Foundation$200K
- The Amiel Foundation$200K
- Mierins Family Foundation La Fondation de la Famille Mierins$200K
- Warren Y. Soper Charitable Trust$200K
- The Buttercup Foundation/ La Fondation Buttercup$173K
- The Jaclyn Fisher Foundation La Fondation Jaclyn Fisher$171K
- Doggone Foundation$150K
- Fondation Famille Léger$150K
- Federation Cja$137K
- RBC Foundation$130K
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
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions60
- Total compensation, all staff$5.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Heather Adelson (director); David Amiel (chair); Anne-Marie Bélanger (director); Pierre Brosseau (secretary); Clare Chiu (director); Sylvie Demers (director - executive); Nancy El-Sayegh (director); Orly Fayer (director); Lloyd Feldman (director); Aaron Fima (director); Bram Freedman (president and ceo); Kenneth Harris (director); Lindsay Hollinger (director); Gerald Issenman (vice chair); George Itzkovitz (director); Paul Lavallée (director); Harvey Levenson (immediate past chair); Howard Levine (director); Grace Lutfy (director); Vanessa Pendenza (director); Jean-François Prince (director); Brenda Rosenberg (director - executive); Alan Rossy (director); Mark Sherman (director - executive); Ronny Steinberg (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 104872304RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.