Centraide Estrie (conseil Régional de Bien-Être de Sherbrooke)
Public foundation · Sherbrooke, Quebec · BN 118842467RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,716,635) as filed with the CRA.
Centraide Estrie (conseil Régional de Bien-Être de Sherbrooke) is a public foundation based in Sherbrooke, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $3.7M in revenue and $3.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 60% from donations, 26% from government, 11% from other charities. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $478K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 44% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 169 qualified donees totalling $2.4M in 2024, the largest being $100K to Famille Espoir. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.9M in 2020 to $3.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Campagne de souscription annuelle dans la région de l'estrie. Nous avons répartis les fonds recueillis à des donataires reconnus. Nous assurons le soutien technique à ces organismes par des visites de la consultation. Programme d'aide aux organismes programme bâtisseurs communautaires réseau urgence énergie tout compte fait opérations septembre délégués sociaux camps d'été etc...
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.7M | $3.7M | $315K | $510K | $2.8M | $903K |
| 2023 | $2.6M | $785K | $199K | $380K | — | $910K |
| 2022 | $2.7M | $628K | $173K | $327K | — | $910K |
| 2021 | $4M | $3.8M | $162K | $308K | $3.2M | $779K |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $2M | $187K | $255K | $1.4M | $594K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, March 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$2,208,173
- From other charities$410,252
- Investment income$94,488
- Other income$16,356
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.4M to 169 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Famille Espoir$100K
- Phelps Aide / Phelps Helps$100K
- Regroupement québécois des maladies orphelines$90K
- TDA/H Estrie$84K
- L'Action Plus de L'Estrie Inc.$61K
- Autisme Estrie$61K
- S.o.s. Grossesse$60K
- Cuisine collective «Le Blé d'Or» de Sherbrooke$53K
- Centre d'Action Benevole de la Missisquoi-Nord Inc.$53K
- Soutien aux familles réfugiées et immigrantes de l'Estrie (SAFRIE)$41K
- Chaudronnée de l'Estrie (La)$38K
- La Réplique Estrie$33K
- Dagobert et Cie$32K
- Cuisine Collective le Ble d'Or de Sherbrooke$32K
- Association (ACTE) des accidentés cérébro-vasculaire et$29K
- Partage Saint-François$27K
- Association coopérative d'économie familiale de l'Estrie$27K
- Solution budget plus$26K
- Villa Pierrot$25K
- Centre d'action bénévole du Haut-Saint-François$25K
- Maison Jeunes-Est$25K
- Centre de Services Educatifs Populaires du Haut St-Francois$25K
- Maison de la famille de Sherbrooke$25K
- La Fabrique de la Paroisse de Sainte-Agnes$24K
- Élixir ou l'Assuétude d'Ève$24K
Received $478K from 19 charities:
- Comite Entraide - Secteurs Public et Parapublic$163K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$54K
- Fondation Marcelle et Jean Coutu$50K
- J. Armand Bombardier Foundation$50K
- Oeuvres Regis-Vernet$50K
- Fondation Famille François et Monique Bourgeo$30K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$22K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$10K
- Fondation Familles Lauzon et Provencher$10K
- RBC Foundation$8,000
- La Fondation Communautaire de l'Estrie$6,765
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,093
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,698
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$48
- Les Petites Soeurs de la Sainte-Famille—
- Fonds Marie-François—
- Soeurs Missionnaires de Notre-Dame des Anges—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$550K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Richard Bourret-Beauregard (administrateur); David Forest (administrateur); Christèle Gran-Villeneuve (présidente); Julie Laplante (administrateur); Janick Savard (administrateur); Julie ST-Cyr Larkin (secrétaire); Laurence Marchand (trésorière); Joey Dubreuil (administrateur).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Centraide Estrie (conseil Régional de Bien-Être de Sherbrooke)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118842467RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.