Centre Ligne de Vie / Lifeline Centre
Publicly funded institution · Montreal, Quebec · BN 876528605RR0001 · Core Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,415,544) as filed with the CRA.
Centre Ligne de Vie / Lifeline Centre is a charitable organization based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under core health care. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 33% from donations, 61% from other charities. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $674K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 29% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 8 qualified donees totalling $68K in 2024, the largest being $60K to Chabad Zichron Kedoshim Community. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $770K in 2020 to $1.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Education and prevention of substance abuse.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.4M | $1.1M | $51K | $68K | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1.2M | $13K | $60K | $946K |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $872K | $759K | — | $16K | $864K |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $805K | $785K | $6,137 | — | $655K |
| 2020 | $770K | $671K | $621K | $33K | — | $421K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $68K to 8 qualified donees:
- Chabad Zichron Kedoshim Community$60K
- Communauté Chabad de Dollard$3,000
- L'Académie Beth Rivkah pour filles$2,500
- Central Organization for Jewish Education Lubavitch Alberta$1,800
- Congrégation Anshei Yisroel/Anshei Yisroel Congregation$360
- Beit Halochem Canada /aid to Disabled Veterans of Israel (canada)$187
- Centre Chabad Rive Sud Chabad center South Shore$100
- Ben Weider Educational Centre - Chabad Seminary$18
Received $674K from 13 charities:
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$390K
- The Azrieli Foundation$125K
- Federation Cja$123K
- Fondation Mirella & Lino Saputo$20K
- Protech Foundation/fondation Protech$10K
- Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family Fondation$1,800
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$1,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,000
- The Norman Zavalkoff Family Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$525
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$500
- The Lewis C. Smith Foundation/la Fondation Lewis C. Smith$360
- Rose and Daniel Freedman Foundation Fondation Rose et DanielFreedman$200
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$779K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ronnie Fine (president); Berech Mockin (secretary-treasurer); Philip Nussbaum (vice-president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Centre Ligne de Vie / Lifeline Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 876528605RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.