Zakuta family foundation
Private foundation · Pointe-Claire, Quebec · BN 835170168RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($260,675) as filed with the CRA.
Zakuta family foundation is a private foundation based in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $510K in revenue and $261K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 69% 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 71% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 22 qualified donees totalling $251K in 2024, the largest being $50K to Foundation Neuro-Efficiency Québec. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $197K in 2020 to $510K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
Providing funds to qualified donees and registered charities
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $510K | $261K | $1,200 | — | $251K | $2.1M |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $195K | — | — | $186K | $1.9M |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $534K | — | — | $531K | $944K |
| 2021 | $105K | $182K | — | — | $181K | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $197K | $125K | — | — | $123K | $1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $251K to 22 qualified donees:
- Foundation Neuro-Efficiency Québec$50K
- Federation Cja$27K
- Lower Canada College$25K
- Montreal Holocaust Museum$20K
- Giant steps foundation$20K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$18K
- Concordia University-Universite Concordia$17K
- Lise Watier Foundation$15K
- Centraide Du Grand Montréal$12K
- Douglas mental health university institute foundation$10K
- The Centennial Foundation$10K
- Catholic Christian Outreach of Canada Inc$8,000
- Old Brewery Mission Foundation / Fondation Mission Old Brewery$5,000
- Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada$5,000
- Breakthrough T1D Canada/Percée DT1 Canada$5,000
- The Terry Fox Foundation$1,000
- Sainte-Justine UHC Foundation$1,000
- The Cure Foundation$950
- Phelps Aide / Phelps Helps$500
- Fondation Hôpital Charles Lemoyne$500
- Adaptive Sports Foundation$500
- Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation$250
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michael Zakuta (president/secretary/dire).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Zakuta family foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 835170168RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.