Wicha Music Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Montreal, Quebec · BN 832905665RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($228,838) as filed with the CRA.
Wicha Music Foundation is a private foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $234K in revenue and $229K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 36% from donations, 64% from other charities. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $184K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 90% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $62K in 2024, the largest being $47K to Opéra de Montréal. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation supported the following events and festivals throughout the year: festival stradivaria festival stella musica benefit event for the future stars benefit event for concourse musical international de montreal concourse musical international de montreal piano streaming sponsorship opera de montreal operastar sponsorship opera de montreal tucker gala support for performance les souliers de felix
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $234K | $229K | $141K | — | $87K | $188K |
| 2023 | $256K | $201K | $140K | — | $60K | $183K |
| 2022 | $141K | $268K | $268K | — | $51K | $128K |
| 2021 | $173K | $58K | $58K | — | $5,000 | $275K |
| 2020 | $184K | $182K | $182K | — | $5,000 | $161K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $62K to 3 qualified donees:
Received $184K from 13 charities:
- Conam Charitable Foundation$40K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$40K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$25K
- Fondation Famille le Blanc$25K
- The Sharon Azrieli Foundation For The Arts La Fondation Sharon Azrieli Pour Les Arts$25K
- Sandra and Alain Bouchard Foundation$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$10K
- Oeuvres Marie-Anne-Lavallée$4,000
- WCPD Foundation$2,500
- Fondation Eulalie-Rose$2,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$2
- Fondation des Soeurs de Saint-Joseph de Saint-Hyacinthe—
- Congrégation De Notre-Dame Du Québec—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Miroslav Wicha (chairman president); J. Colleen Hudson Wicha (vp secretary); Claude Jodoin (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Wicha Music Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 832905665RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.