CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund
Public foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 118866383RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,272,738) as filed with the CRA.
CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund is a public foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.3M in revenue and $2.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $200K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 95% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 481 qualified donees totalling $2.3M in 2024, the largest being $331K to Centraide Du Grand Montréal. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The cn employee' and pensioners' community fund ( caisse de bienfaisance des employés et retraités du cn) riases funds from employees and pensioners of cn railway co. Who are located across canada and distributes these donations subsequent to approval by committees representing the donors to various community and organizations who are involved in charity registration number. Amount received from fund raising events during the year are attributed to the following years campaigns and accordingly are deferred and presented on the balance sheet as contribution received in advance other contributi…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.3M | $2.3M | — | — | $2.3M | $37K |
| 2023 | $2.6M | $2.6M | — | — | $2.2M | $24K |
| 2022 | $2M | $2M | — | — | $1.5M | -$4,694 |
| 2021 | $3M | $3M | — | — | $2.1M | $9,423 |
| 2020 | $3.2M | $3.2M | — | — | $2.1M | -$3.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.3M to 481 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Centraide Du Grand Montréal$331K
- L'appart à moi$87K
- Fitspirit Community Organization$75K
- Northwest Indiana Cancer Kids Foundation$67K
- Youth Villages Inc$67K
- Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Greater Flint and G$67K
- Fondation Source Bleue$52K
- La Fabrique de la Paroisse de Saint-Michel$50K
- New Pathways Foundation$50K
- Dr Clown Foundation$50K
- G.R.I.S.-- Montréal$50K
- La fondation de l'hôpital de montréal pour enfants/The Montréal Children's Hospital Foundation$47K
- Procure Alliance / Alliance Procure$38K
- Fondation Coeur Invincible Invincible Heard Foundation$35K
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Foundation$31K
- Cancer Research Society$28K
- Fondation Quebecoise du Cancer Inc.$28K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$26K
- Free Play for Kids Inc.$23K
- Fondation MOSD/MOSD foundation$21K
- The Cedars Cancer Foundation at the McGill University Health Centre$21K
- Mental Illness Foundation$20K
- Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada$19K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$19K
- Jasper Community Team Society$18K
Received $200K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Denis Latreille (director); Claude Rainville (director); Yves Bourton (director); Olivier Chouc (chairman of the board); Francois Boucher (director); May Dong (director); Jamie Lockwood (director); Charlotte Macfarlane (director); Xianan Zhou (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118866383RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.