Fondation Famille Jean-Guy Desjardins
Private foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 857819049RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($446,337) as filed with the CRA.
Fondation Famille Jean-Guy Desjardins is a private foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $445K in revenue and $446K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from other charities. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $300K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 71% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 5 qualified donees totalling $430K in 2024, the largest being $200K to Lakefield College School Foundation. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $685K in 2020 to $445K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Verser des dons à des donataires reconnus
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $445K | $446K | — | — | $430K | $4,069 |
| 2023 | $401K | $418K | — | — | $400K | $5,406 |
| 2022 | $325K | $314K | — | — | $298K | $22K |
| 2021 | $117K | $107K | — | — | $90K | $11K |
| 2020 | $685K | $653K | — | — | $635K | $1,229 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, September 30, 2024
- From other charities$445,000
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $430K to 5 qualified donees:
Received $300K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$10K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jean-Guy Desjardins (président); Isabelle Desjardins (secretaire); Benoit Desjardins (trésorier).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Fondation Famille Jean-Guy Desjardins’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 857819049RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.