Fondation Pierre Desmarais Belvedere
Private foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 848862678RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($172,197) as filed with the CRA.
Fondation Pierre Desmarais Belvedere is a private foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $970K in revenue and $172K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 46% from donations.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 32% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 35 qualified donees totalling $112K in 2023, the largest being $7,500 to HUMANITE Foundation Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $167K in 2020 to $970K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
La fondation a pour mission de promouvoir faire oeuvre d'éducation et aider financièrement l'excellence dans le domaine des arts et de la culture au canada et plus particulièrement dans les domaines théatre de la musique de l'architecture de la peinture et des arts plastiques en général.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $970K | $172K | — | — | $132K | $3.5M |
| 2023 | $987K | $13K | — | — | $112K | $2.7M |
| 2022 | $76K | $536K | — | — | $114K | $1.8M |
| 2021 | $957K | $105K | — | — | $85K | $2.3M |
| 2020 | $167K | $94K | — | — | $75K | $1.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Granted $112K to 35 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- HUMANITE Foundation Canada$7,500
- Les Grands Ballets Canadiens$5,000
- Bach - Académie de Montréal$5,000
- Fondation du Musee des Beaux- Arts de Montreal$5,000
- Festival Transameriques$5,000
- Festival International de Lanaudiere Inc.$5,000
- Orchestre Métropolitain$5,000
- Opéra de Montréal$5,000
- Ensemble Caprice$4,000
- Festival International du Film sur l'Art (fifa)$4,000
- The McCord Stewart Museum$3,500
- Centaur Foundation for the Performing Arts$3,000
- Concours Musical International de Montreal$3,000
- Musée d'art de Joliette$3,000
- Ensemble Arion$3,000
- Centre des Musiciens du Monde$2,500
- Société pour les arts en milieux de santé$2,500
- Le Domaine Forget de Charlevoix Inc.$2,500
- Mayday Danse$2,500
- OPCM (Orchestre Philharmonique et Choeur des Mélomanes)$2,500
- Fertival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur$2,500
- La fondation Jean Duceppe$2,500
- Théâtre Aux Écuries$2,500
- Le Theatre Denise-Pelletier Inc.$2,500
- Canadian International Organ Competition$2,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Pierre Desmarais (président/trésorier); Youssef Ibrahim (secrétaire); Charles Lapointe (vice-président); Danielle Sauvage (administratrice); Thomas Leslie (administrateur); Michel Levesque (administrateur).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Fondation Pierre Desmarais Belvedere’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 848862678RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.