Fondation et Alumni de Polytechnique Montreal
Public foundation · Montréal, Quebec · BN 101835502RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($8,314,464) as filed with the CRA.
Fondation et Alumni de Polytechnique Montreal is a public foundation based in Montréal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $13.4M in revenue and $8.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 28% from donations, 30% from other charities. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5M.
Compared with 74 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $5.6M in 2024, the largest being $5.5M to La Corporation de l'Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.4M in 2020 to $13.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Initier et entretenir des relations durables avec les donateurs et mécènes pour atteindre les objectifs philanthropiques d'appui au positionnement et à l'essor de polytechnique montréal. Rassembler et mobiliser le réseau de diplômés et futurs diplômés pour renforcer leur sentiment d'appartenance multiplier leurs relations élargir le rayonnement et soutenir le développement de polytechnique montréal.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $13.4M | $8.3M | — | $1M | $5.6M | $52.9M |
| 2023 | $9M | $8.4M | — | $874K | $5.8M | $47.8M |
| 2022 | $5.1M | $6.1M | — | $731K | $4.3M | $47.2M |
| 2021 | $20.1M | $6.9M | — | $713K | $5.3M | $48.3M |
| 2020 | $3.4M | $5.5M | — | $616K | $4.1M | $35.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $5.6M to 3 qualified donees:
Received $5M from 17 charities:
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$2.5M
- La Corporation de l'Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal$950K
- Fondation HEC Montréal$583K
- Clean Prosperity Foundation$288K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$205K
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$150K
- J. Armand Bombardier Foundation$100K
- Temerty Foundation$100K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$49K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$10K
- The Nissan Canada Foundation /la Fondation Nissan Canada$10K
- Rayjo Charitable Trust$5,000
- The University Women's Club of Montreal Public Foundation$2,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,006
- Céline & Jacques Lamarre Foundation$1,500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$400
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$72
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$1.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jean-Philippe Paradies (président); Geneviève Vigneault (vice-présidente); Pierre Anctil (vice-président); Marc Lorfils Milord (administrateur); Antoine Azar (trésorier); Isabelle Péan (secrétaire); Pierre Lassonde (membre délégué); Maud Cohen (membre d'office); Jean-François Lévesque (administrateur); Ménélika Bekolo Mekomba (administratrice); Harout Chitilian (administrateur); Marie-Claude Dumas (administratrice); Martin Thibault (administrateur); Nathalie De Marcellis-Warin (administratrice); Vincent Goineau (administrateur).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Fondation et Alumni de Polytechnique Montreal’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 101835502RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.