Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation
Public foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 788540110RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($8,852,457) as filed with the CRA.
Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation is a public foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $53.8M in revenue and $8.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 81% from donations. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4.2M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 60% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 623 qualified donees totalling $8.1M in 2024, the largest being $2M to Fondation Véro & Louis. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.2M in 2020 to $53.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $53.8M | $8.9M | — | — | $8.1M | $11.2M |
| 2023 | $20.8M | $5M | — | — | $4.4M | $1.5M |
| 2022 | $41.3M | $2.2M | — | — | $1.9M | -$4.2M |
| 2021 | $12.2M | $233K | — | — | $91K | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $196K | — | — | $125K | $149K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, June 30, 2024
- Receipted donations$34,581,131
- Other gifts$8,810,178
- Investment income$1,626,423
- Other income$121,148
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 $8.1M to 623 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Fondation Véro & Louis$2M
- Sainte-Justine UHC Foundation$500K
- Fondation des jeunes de la DPJ$400K
- The Ottawa Hospital Foundation/la Fondation de l'Hopital d'Ottawa$250K
- The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Foundation$220K
- University of Waterloo$200K
- University of Waterloo$200K
- Fondation de l'hôpital chinois de montréal (1972)$200K
- Fondation de l'hôpital chinois de montréal (1972)$200K
- Fondation de l'hôpital chinois de montréal (1972)$150K
- Jeunesse au Soleil / Sun Youth organization$125K
- Fondation Hôtel-Dieu de Sorel$100K
- Fondation de l'Université du Québec à Montréal$100K
- Chai Lifeline (canada) Inc.$100K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$75K
- Myriad Canada Foundation$69K
- Myriad Canada Foundation$60K
- Giant steps foundation$50K
- Golf Canada Foundation$50K
- Surrey Hospitals Foundation$50K
- Chai Lifeline (canada) Inc.$50K
- Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada$50K
- Red Deer Food Bank Society$50K
- The Central Alberta Women's Emergency Shelter Society$50K
- La Fondation du Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf$50K
Received $4.2M from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nathalie Bachand (administrateur); Isabelle Fecteau (présidente du ca); Delphine Pittet (administrateur); Jehan Vekemans (président vp di ca); Danièle Panneton (vice-président).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 788540110RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.