Groupe de recommandations et d'actions pour un meilleur environnement (GRAME)
Publicly funded institution · Lachine, Quebec · BN 135129237RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,784,696) as filed with the CRA.
Groupe de recommandations et d'actions pour un meilleur environnement (GRAME) is a charitable organization based in Lachine, Quebec, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $2.8M in revenue and $2.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 54% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $221K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 27% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 30 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.5M in 2020 to $2.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
1-participation aux audiences de la régie de l'énergie; 2-campagne climaction (campagne de sensibilisation à lachine); 3-porteur d'un programme de recherche sur le transport. 4- programme éducatif envers les jeunes (carbone scol'ere lecteurs en herbe cycliste averti défi gestes. 5-programme de verdissement(ici on verdit ensemble on verdit verdissement intégré participatif). 6-programme éco-quartier pour lachine 7-programmes de recherche et de développement en aménagement urbain durable. 8-programme pour la santé de l’eau et la réduction de la polution (allo ruisseaux vers u…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.8M | $2.8M | $2.3M | — | — | $330K |
| 2023 | $2.2M | $2.2M | $2M | — | — | $340K |
| 2022 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1.2M | — | — | $222K |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.4M | — | — | $141K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $221K from 13 charities:
- La Fondation Rossy The Rossy Foundation$75K
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$35K
- La Fondation Choquette-Legault$30K
- Greater Montreal Climate Fund$25K
- The Chawkers foundation$25K
- Societe de Developpement Communautaire de Montreal (sodecm)$12K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$6,500
- Fondation Prefontaine-Hushion$5,000
- Hylcan Foundation$4,000
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$2,000
- The Foundation of Greater Montreal$1,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$327
- Fondation Jeanne-Esther—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions30
- Total compensation, all staff$1.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Isabelle Morin (présidente); Juste Rajaonson (administrateur); Paul Bourque (secrétaire); Ginette ST-Louis (administrateur); Julien-Pierre Lacombe (vice président); Adèle Boucher (administratrice); Ariane Archambault (administrateur); Cédric Vincent (administrateur); Seynabou Ba (trésorier).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Groupe de recommandations et d'actions pour un meilleur environnement (GRAME)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 135129237RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.