Fondation Écho /echo Foundation
Private foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 130376270RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($13,784,101) as filed with the CRA.
Fondation Écho /echo Foundation is a private foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $42M in revenue and $13.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 13% from donations. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $29K.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 51% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 221 qualified donees totalling $12M in 2024, the largest being $1M to Environment Funders Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $20.9M in 2020 to $42M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Echo foundation (the 'foundation') incorporated under part ii of the canada corporations act and continued under the canada not-for-profit corporations act is a non-profit charitable organization whose philanthropic funding is directed at supporting (I) organizations providing frontline services to improve the quality of life of persons suffering from mental health problems and (ii) the protection of the environment.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $42M | $13.8M | — | — | $12.2M | $236M |
| 2023 | $31.4M | $13M | — | — | $11.5M | $207.8M |
| 2022 | -$12.7M | $11.6M | — | — | $10M | $188.9M |
| 2021 | $35.6M | $12.9M | — | — | $11.3M | $213.3M |
| 2020 | $20.9M | $10.3M | — | — | $8.8M | $190.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $12M to 221 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Environment Funders Canada$1M
- Right To Food$400K
- Appalachian Corridor / Corridor Appalachien$250K
- Citizens Environment Alliance of Southwestern Ontario$225K
- Kawartha Land Trust$200K
- Small Change Fund$200K
- Small Change Fund$200K
- Ecojustice Canada Society$200K
- Nature United/ Nature Unie$200K
- Environmental Defence Canada$200K
- Centre for Land Conservation$200K
- WCS Wildlife Conservation Society Canada$150K
- Équiterre$150K
- Centre for Environmental Leadership in Canada$125K
- Nature Canada / Canada Nature$120K
- Street Health Community Nursing Foundation$115K
- Green Communities Canada$105K
- Societe Quebecoise de la Schizophrenie$100K
- Le Bon Dieu dans la Rue Organisation pour Jeunes Adultes$100K
- Thousand Islands Watershed Land Trust$100K
- Community Forests International$100K
- Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada$100K
- WCS Wildlife Conservation Society Canada$100K
- Whistler Centre for Sustainability Institute Society$100K
- Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust$100K
Received $29K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$436K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Alain (president); Ann Parsons (vice president); Katherine Lewis (vice president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Fondation Écho /echo Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130376270RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.