Fondation Bourgie-Bovet
Private foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 889905196RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($259,321) as filed with the CRA.
Fondation Bourgie-Bovet is a private foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.3M in revenue and $259K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 59% from donations.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 43% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 8 qualified donees totalling $144K in 2021, the largest being $35K to Réseau intercollégial des activités socioculturelles du Québec. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $267K in 2020 to $2.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
La fondation a pour objextif s'accorder des bourses d'études d'encourager et de financer des project éducatifs ayant trait à l'éducation ou à la recherche auprés d'autres organismes sans but lucratif
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.3M | $259K | $2,500 | — | $211K | $7M |
| 2023 | $948K | $286K | $2,500 | — | $200K | $5.1M |
| 2022 | $164K | $184K | $2,500 | — | $152K | $4.1M |
| 2021 | $574K | $326K | $147K | — | $144K | $4.7M |
| 2020 | $267K | $152K | $124K | — | — | $4.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2021
Granted $144K to 8 qualified donees:
- Réseau intercollégial des activités socioculturelles du Québec$35K
- Fondation de l'Université du Québec à Montréal$35K
- Fondation du Musee des Beaux- Arts de Montreal$25K
- Fondation de l'Ecole Nationale de Cirque /the National Circus School Foundation$20K
- The Foundation ofthe 'Université de Sherbrooke'$10K
- Centraide Du Grand Montréal$10K
- La Fondation de l'École Buissonnière Inc.$6,000
- Le Theatre Denise-Pelletier Inc.$3,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Claude Bourgie Bovet (président); Syvlie Bovet (secrétaire); François Bovet (administrateur); Alain Bovet (administrateur).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Fondation Bourgie-Bovet’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889905196RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.