Fondation de la Place des Arts
Public foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 856972963RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($735,711) as filed with the CRA.
Fondation de la Place des Arts is a public foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $2.2M in revenue and $736K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 16% from donations, 15% from government, 24% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $562K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 36% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $383K in 2024, the largest being $383K to Société de la place des arts de Montréal. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $921K in 2020 to $2.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Sa mission est d'accoître l'accessibilité aux arts et à la culture en soutenant des projets de sensibilisation d'éducation et de création initiés par la place des arts.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.2M | $736K | $202K | $76K | $383K | $8.1M |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $863K | $187K | $74K | $520K | $6.7M |
| 2022 | $787K | $460K | $159K | $70K | $169K | $5.8M |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $416K | $178K | $60K | $101K | $5.5M |
| 2020 | $921K | $323K | $164K | $7,602 | $97K | $4.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $383K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $562K from 15 charities:
- Sandra and Alain Bouchard Foundation$190K
- La Fondation Rossy The Rossy Foundation$60K
- Sandra and Alain Bouchard Foundation$50K
- BenefAction Foundation$50K
- The Azrieli Foundation$50K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$32K
- J. Armand Bombardier Foundation$25K
- RBC Foundation$25K
- Fondation Lorraine et Jean Turmel$20K
- Godin Family Foundation$15K
- Fondation Père Lindsay$10K
- The Foundation of Greater Montreal$10K
- The Jarislowsky Foundation/la Fondation Jarislowsky$10K
- Wicha Music Foundation$10K
- McCarthy Tetrault Foundation$5,000
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
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$203K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Fadel Chbihna (président intérim); Sandra Chartrand (vp); Éric Gosselin (vp- tréso intérim); Marie-Josée Desrochers (adm); Louise ST-Pierre (adm); Annie Derome (adm); Sylvie Chagnon (adm); Chevrier Chevrier (adm); Normand Laprise (adm); Nadine Proulx (adm); Barbara Seal (adm); Louise Sicuro (adm); Catherine Samson (adm).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Fondation de la Place des Arts’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 856972963RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.