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.
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.