Godin Family Foundation
Private foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 892007212RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,989,416) as filed with the CRA.
Godin Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $29.9M in revenue and $3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 84% from donations.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 71% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 109 qualified donees totalling $2.9M in 2024, the largest being $155K to La fondation de l'hôpital de montréal pour enfants/The Montréal Children's Hospital Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.6M in 2020 to $29.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Aide aux personnes démunies par des dons à des donataires reconnus dont les objets et les activités visent : - l'aide alimentaire pour écoliers ou les familles dans le besoin. - aide financière ou matérielle aux personnes démunies. - bourses d'étude de creation de chaires éducatives ou scientifiques de séminaires ou de prix d'études qui contribuent à l'avancement de l'éducation des enfants et adolescents. - achat de matériel et fournitures scolaires et de technologies à des fins éducatives. - achat d'équipement et fournitures médicales destinés aux soins médicaux pour enfants et adolesc…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $29.9M | $3M | — | — | $2.9M | $77.6M |
| 2023 | $6.3M | $3.3M | — | — | $3.2M | $50.7M |
| 2022 | $550K | $3.3M | — | — | $3.2M | $47.8M |
| 2021 | $12.5M | $3.2M | — | — | $3.1M | $50.5M |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $3.6M | — | — | $3.5M | $41.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.9M to 109 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- La fondation de l'hôpital de montréal pour enfants/The Montréal Children's Hospital Foundation$155K
- Fondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGill McGill University Health Centre Foundation$150K
- Women's College Hospital Foundation$100K
- Kids Help Phone / Jeunesse J' Ecoute$100K
- Fondation du Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal$100K
- Fondation HEC Montréal$75K
- Fondation Sablon$69K
- Fondation de l'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal$60K
- Fondation Marie-Vincent$51K
- Canadian Unicef Committee$50K
- The University of New Brunswick$50K
- The Governors of ST. Francis Xavier University$50K
- Old Brewery Mission Foundation / Fondation Mission Old Brewery$50K
- Food Banks of Québec$50K
- The Portage Foundation$50K
- La Fondation du YWCA de Montreal/ywca Foundation of Montreal$50K
- Fondation de la Maison Michel Sarrazin$50K
- Fondation la Rue des Femmes/ Herstreet Foundation$50K
- La Fondation Forces Avenir$50K
- Fondation des jeunes de la DPJ$50K
- La Fondation de l'Université Laval$50K
- Fondation de l'Institut de Cardiologie de Montreal/montreal Heart Institute Foundation$50K
- Fondation La Clé$40K
- Fondation du Musee de la Civilisation$40K
- The Foundation ofthe 'Université de Sherbrooke'$40K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$70K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Serge Godin (président); Julie Godin (administrateur); Annie Nguyen (secrétaire).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Godin Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892007212RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.