Festival international de jardins / International Garden Festival
Publicly funded institution · Grand-Metis, Quebec · BN 876542671RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-10-31. Split of total expenditures ($786,960) as filed with the CRA.
Festival international de jardins / International Garden Festival is a charitable organization based in Grand-Metis, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. 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 October 31, 2024, it reported $808K in revenue and $787K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 55% from government, 10% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $93K.
Compared with 54 grantmaking institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 60% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
L'organisme opère le festival international de jardins sur le site des amis des jardins de mètis inc.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $808K | $787K | $723K | — | — | $105K |
| 2023 | $622K | $696K | $578K | — | — | $84K |
| 2022 | $849K | $919K | $659K | — | $150K | $158K |
| 2021 | $787K | $775K | $613K | — | $100K | $227K |
| 2020 | $674K | $553K | $500K | — | — | $216K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $93K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$373K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Line Gagné (présidente); Ludovic Langlois-Therien (vice-président); Lydia Brown (secrètaire); Ruby Thélot (trésorier); François Côté (administrateur); Nicolas Demers-Stoddart (administrateur); Marie-Claude Massicotte (administratrice); Vincent Dumais (administrateur); Lucie ST-Pierre (administrateur).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Festival international de jardins / International Garden Festival’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 876542671RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.