Fondation pour la Langue Française
Publicly funded institution · Montreal, Quebec · BN 135311306RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($928,484) as filed with the CRA.
Fondation pour la Langue Française is a private foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $928K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations, 52% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $7,675.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 58% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $423K in 2020 to $1.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
La fondaiton comporte deux fonds qui ont la même vocation mais qui ne couvent par le même territoire. Pour le fonds langelier : les revenus générés par ce capital sont attribués exclusivement aux bénéfices des organismes qui soutiennent la même mission que la fondation pour des francophones hors québec. Pour le fonds pou la langue française : les revenus générés par ce capital sont attribués exclusivement aux bénéfices des organismes qui soutiennent la même mission que la fondation pour des francophones au canada.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $928K | $840K | — | — | $3.7M |
| 2023 | $949K | $619K | $562K | — | — | $3.3M |
| 2022 | $562K | $482K | $411K | — | — | $3M |
| 2021 | $705K | $391K | $305K | — | — | $3M |
| 2020 | $423K | $257K | $138K | — | — | $2.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $7,675 from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$129K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Marie-Anne Alepin (présidente); Thérèse David (administrateur); Julie Guénette (trésorier); Dany Laferrière (président d'honneur); Claudia Larochelle (administrateur); Élizabeth Lemay (secrétaire); John Parisella (co-président); Sophie Stanké (administrateur); Rachid Bandou (administrateur).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Fondation pour la Langue Française’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 135311306RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.