Centre Pro Bono Québec
Publicly funded institution · Montréal, Quebec · BN 817084221RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,111,335) as filed with the CRA.
Centre Pro Bono Québec is a charitable organization based in Montréal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $1.1M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 73% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $16K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 1% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $655K in 2020 to $1.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 19 names.
In its own words
L'organisme constitué sous l'autorité de la partie iii de la « loi sur les compagnies du québec » est reconnu comme organisme de bienfaisance enregistré au sens de la « loi de l'impôt sur le revenu ». La mission première de justice pro bono est de mobiliser la communauté juridique à donner une expertise et du temps au bénéfice des individus et des organismes sans but lucratif québécois n'ayant pas les ressources nécessaires pour accéder à des services juridiques.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $74K | — | — | $443K |
| 2023 | $871K | $792K | $106K | — | — | $460K |
| 2022 | $591K | $555K | $424K | — | — | $381K |
| 2021 | $564K | $448K | $286K | — | — | $345K |
| 2020 | $655K | $635K | $475K | — | — | $229K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $16K from 3 charities:
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
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$676K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Marie Claude Armstrong (observatrice); Caroline Bélair (administrateur); Catherine Bélanger-Pâquet (secrétaire); Marie-Julie Caron-Gratton (administrateur); Vincent Cérat-Lagana (administrateur); Stéphane Davignon (observateur); Alexander De Zordo (administrateur); Éléonore Derome (administrateur); Mylène Forget (administrateur); Marie-Josée Hogue (observatrice); Nadine Koussa (administrateur); Benoît Lacoste-Bienvenue (vice-président); Bernard Larocque (président); Gilles Legault (vice-président); Richard Letendre (trésorier); Dina Raphaël (administrateur); Gabrielle Robert (administrateur); Fernando Belton (administrateur); Julie Mousseau (administrateur).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Centre Pro Bono Québec’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 817084221RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.