Garaga: Un rayon de soleil Garaga: A ray of sunshine
Private foundation · Saint-Georges, Quebec · BN 770657666RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($547,883) as filed with the CRA.
Garaga: Un rayon de soleil Garaga: A ray of sunshine is a private foundation based in Saint-Georges, Quebec, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $558K in revenue and $548K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 99% from other charities. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $555K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 65% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 54 qualified donees totalling $510K in 2024, the largest being $42K to Centraide Québec Chaudière-Appalaches et Bas-Saint laurent. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Ecole vision beauce: amasser des fonds pour le soutien de l'école pour l'achat de matériel scolaire pédagogique technologique scientifique sportif et artistique pour les élèves. Cependant peu d'activités on été réalisées au cours de l'année 2024.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2022–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $558K | $548K | — | — | $511K | $20K |
| 2023 | $643K | $705K | — | — | $673K | $10K |
| 2022 | $400K | $328K | — | — | $314K | $72K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $510K to 54 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Centraide Québec Chaudière-Appalaches et Bas-Saint laurent$42K
- Centre de pédiatrie sociale les Passerelles$26K
- Fondation Catherine de Longpré$25K
- La Fondation de l'Université Laval$25K
- Fondation du Musee de la Civilisation$25K
- Fondation du coeur Beauce-Etchemin$21K
- Fondation de l'Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec$20K
- La Fondation les Dragons Inc.$20K
- Fondation École Jésus-Marie de Beauceville$20K
- The Foundation ofthe 'Université de Sherbrooke'$20K
- La Fondation Moisson Beauce$20K
- Club Parentaide Beauce-Centre$20K
- Au Bercail de ST-Georges$17K
- Canadian Cancer Society$16K
- Carrefour Jeunesse-Emploi de Beauce-Sud$15K
- Le Domaine Forget de Charlevoix Inc.$15K
- Cultiver pour partager$15K
- The Portage Foundation$12K
- Blue Metropolis Foundation$11K
- Cybercap$10K
- Fondation du Centre Communautaire Jacques-Cartier$10K
- Beauce art: L'international de sculptures$9,500
- The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Foundation$8,000
- Société de Sclérose Systémique (Sclerodermie) du Québec Inc.$6,000
- Fondation Québec Philanthrope$6,000
Received $555K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Isabelle Gendreau (secrétaire); Michel Gendreau (président); Elen Morin (administrateur).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Garaga: Un rayon de soleil Garaga: A ray of sunshine’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 770657666RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.