Action Cancer du Sein du Québec - Breast Cancer Actio n Québec
Charitable organization · Montreal, Quebec · BN 899915268RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($312,035) as filed with the CRA.
Action Cancer du Sein du Québec - Breast Cancer Actio n Québec is a charitable organization based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $343K in revenue and $312K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 56% from donations, 39% from government, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $194K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 52% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 81% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
In all our public education work we educate about environmental toxins linked to breast cancer; widespread exposures to cancer hazards; current cancer research treatment and services. We advocate policies that would decrease the amount of toxins in our environment; allocate more research money to help find the environmental causes of breast cancer. We organize campaigns encouraging other health organizations and communities to join the fight for prevention of the disease. Our staff and volunteers give interactive workshops focusing on the risk of environmental exposures and primacy of prev…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $343K | $312K | $261K | $5,179 | — | $154K |
| 2023 | $289K | $290K | $246K | $6,206 | — | $122K |
| 2022 | $296K | $278K | $243K | $6,022 | — | $123K |
| 2021 | $237K | $215K | $176K | $5,513 | — | $105K |
| 2020 | $293K | $269K | $227K | $8,840 | $100 | $82K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $194K from 12 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$62K
- Makeway Charitable Society$44K
- The Dragonfly Fund$40K
- The Dragonfly Fund$32K
- Canadahelps Canadon$10K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$3,002
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,528
- The Calgary Foundation$571
- The Foundation of Greater Montreal$570
- Centraide Estrie (conseil Régional de Bien-Être de Sherbrooke)$341
- Centraide Québec Chaudière-Appalaches et Bas-Saint laurent$251
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$3
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$220K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Amira Bensahli (vice-president); Catherine Poitras (director); Marie Nikette Lorméus (director); Nancy Guberman (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Action Cancer du Sein du Québec - Breast Cancer Actio n Québec’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 899915268RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.