Bishop Denis Croteau Development Foundation
Private foundation · Yellowknife, Northwest Territories · BN 865405500RR0001 · Support of Religion
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($288,707) as filed with the CRA.
Bishop Denis Croteau Development Foundation is a private foundation based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $430K in revenue and $289K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 47% from donations, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $16K.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 85% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $232K in 2024, the largest being $232K to Change for Children Association (cfca). Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $241K in 2020 to $430K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
1. Support to the registered charity change for children on projects in central america. 2. Support the operation of a school in the cunen region of guatemala 3. Project in kenya: support for abandoned elders in the hill country of machakos and the slums of nairobi.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $430K | $289K | — | — | $288K | $3.4M |
| 2023 | $296K | $379K | $378K | — | $228K | $3.3M |
| 2022 | $274K | $152K | $54K | — | $94K | $363K |
| 2021 | $422K | $439K | $437K | — | — | $3.2M |
| 2020 | $241K | $243K | $243K | — | — | $3.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $232K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $16K from 10 charities:
- Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada$5,000
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Mackenzie-Fort Smith$3,384
- Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada$2,500
- Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada$2,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,467
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$972
- My Charity Fund$482
- The Generalate of the Sisters of the Precious Blood$150
- Les Filles de la Providence—
- Les Filles de la Providence—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Denis Croteau (president); Gilles Paquin (treasurer); Gail Paquin (secretary); Suzette Montreuil (director); Don Savich (director); Diane Naud (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bishop Denis Croteau Development Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 865405500RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.