Bibliothèque des Jeunes de Montréal / Montréal Children's Library
Charitable organization · Montreal, Quebec · BN 107718793RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($214,628) as filed with the CRA.
Bibliothèque des Jeunes de Montréal / Montréal Children's Library is a charitable organization based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $308K in revenue and $215K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 25% from donations, 17% from government, 57% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $152K.
Compared with 1,296 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 8% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 88% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 18 names.
In its own words
The montreal children's library mission is to develop literacy foster imagination and to connect children and parents to their communities by equipping them with the building blocks of life-long learning. The montreal children' library presently operates in one location in the saint michel district in montreal north (all our activities are offered in english and french). The library provides programs for pre-schoolers and school age children. Other services that are offered include story times for visiting daycares activities for visiting school classes. The branch has multilingual book col…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $308K | $215K | $43K | $967 | — | $338K |
| 2023 | $293K | $245K | $98K | $570 | — | $244K |
| 2022 | $234K | $220K | $85K | — | — | $196K |
| 2021 | $194K | $174K | $74K | $845 | — | $182K |
| 2020 | $216K | $155K | $71K | $400 | — | $204K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $152K from 18 charities:
- Doggone Foundation$50K
- Chamandy Foundation$26K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$25K
- La Fondation Rossy The Rossy Foundation$25K
- Fondation de la famille Zeller$5,000
- Hylcan Foundation$5,000
- The Hay Foundation/la Fondation Hay$3,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,719
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,550
- Hewitt Foundation$2,500
- The Church of ST Andrew and ST Paul$1,300
- La Fondation Rossy The Rossy Foundation$1,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$1,000
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$750
- Howick Foundation /fondation Howick$600
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$202
- Leo and Shirley Goldfarb Foundation/fondation Leo and Shirley Goldfarb$100
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$25
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$172K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bailey Anne Levine (vice-president); Tiffany Belliardo (director); Vincent Lamarche (treasurer); Olive Bailey (secretary); Alexandra D'Arrisso (director); Amanda Fritz (chair external committee); Alyssa Wiseman (president chair int com); Cora Macdonald (director); Martine Massarelli (governance committee); Carol Levinson (director); Angela Crowly (director); Peggy Killeen (director); Ian Turpin (director); Farzin Davari (director); Gabriela Navarrete Rolls (director); Indra Kubicek (director); Tara Sandler (director); Deryn Ollivier (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bibliothèque des Jeunes de Montréal / Montréal Children's Library’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107718793RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.