Breakfast Club of Canada
Public foundation · Boucherville, Quebec · BN 866073133RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($41,718,919) as filed with the CRA.
Breakfast Club of Canada is a public foundation based in Boucherville, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $40.5M in revenue and $41.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 33% from government, 13% from other charities. In 2024, 98 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4.6M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 30% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 97% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $160,000–199,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 99 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 53 qualified donees totalling $4.8M in 2024, the largest being $878K to La cantine pour tous. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
Le club aide les enfants à réaliser pleinement leur potentiel un petit déjeuner à la fois. Chaque jour leurs programmes permettent de servir des petits déjeuners nutritifs dans des écoles partout au canada offrant ainsi une chance égale d'apprendre à de nombreux enfants. Des dons en nature (jus yogourt etc.) sont également remis à certaines écoles. The club helps children reach their potential one breakfast at a time. Serving nutritious breakfasts daily in schools throughout canada the programs make sure children have an equal chance to learn. Donations in kind (juice yogurt etc.) are…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $40.5M | $41.7M | $27.3M | $6.7M | $4.8M | $17.5M |
| 2023 | $40.9M | $40.1M | $28.2M | $4.4M | $4.7M | $18.7M |
| 2022 | $68.7M | $65.7M | $39.8M | $3.9M | $19.6M | $18M |
| 2021 | $53.5M | $46.7M | $28.6M | $3.2M | $13.6M | $15M |
| 2020 | $34.5M | $33M | $22.3M | $2.7M | $6.8M | $8.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4.8M to 53 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- La cantine pour tous$878K
- Toronto Foundation for Student Success$695K
- Victorian Order of Nurses Windsor-Essex County Community Corporation$259K
- YMCA of Three Rivers (midwestern Ontario)$253K
- Service d'Intervention de Proximité Domaine-Du-Roy$253K
- Peterborough Child and Family Centres$239K
- Nourish Nova Scotia Society$190K
- Le relais populaire inc.$162K
- Kids Eat Smart Foundation Newfoundland and Labrador Inc.$156K
- Groupe d'Entraide en Toute Amitie$142K
- Food Depot Alimentaire Inc.$135K
- Haldimand-Norfolk Resource Education and Counselling Help$127K
- Sudbury Better Beginnings Educational Fund$98K
- Ottawa Network for Education$97K
- Grande Prairie and District Catholic Schools Education Foundation$94K
- The Hastings and Prince Edward Learning Foundation$86K
- Upper Canada Leger Centre for Education and Training$84K
- Les Complices Alimentaires$72K
- Récup. Alimentaire Haute-Gaspésile$68K
- Alliance Alimentaire Papineau$53K
- Nanaimo-Ladysmith Schools Foundation$51K
- Sagkeeng Education Authority$49K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$47K
- Harris Meats and Groceries Inc.$44K
- Community Living North Bay$43K
Received $4.6M from 98 charities:
- The Charitable Foundation of the Ontario Grocery Industry$1.7M
- The Sprott Foundation$340K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$244K
- Air Canada Foundation$194K
- The Schad Foundation$185K
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$150K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$125K
- The McCain Foundation$115K
- The Nissan Canada Foundation /la Fondation Nissan Canada$100K
- Fondation DAmours$100K
- The Sprott Foundation$100K
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$100K
- Fondation l'Aubainerie$100K
- Sodexo Foundation Inc/fondation Sodexo Inc$100K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$94K
- Fondation-Antoine-Turmel /antoine Turmel Foundation$75K
- Air Canada Foundation$69K
- Canadahelps Canadon$58K
- Canadahelps Canadon$58K
- Altru Foundation Inc.$45K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$40K
- West-island community shares$30K
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$26K
- Liuna Local 183 Charitable Foundation$25K
- BenefAction Foundation$25K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions99
- Total compensation, all staff$8.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Louis Frenette (administrateur); Tommy Kulczyk (president & ceo).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Breakfast Club of Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 866073133RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.