J. Armand Bombardier Foundation
Private foundation · Valcourt, Quebec · BN 118923440RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($10,060,982) as filed with the CRA.
J. Armand Bombardier Foundation is a private foundation based in Valcourt, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $11.8M in revenue and $10.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from government. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $13K.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 49% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 36 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 122 qualified donees totalling $3.7M in 2024, the largest being $140K to Sainte-Justine UHC Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
1er secteur d'activité: Fondation privée. Organisme de bienfaisance. Appuyant financièrement les organismes de bienfaisance enregistrés auprès de l'Agence du Revenu du Canada pour fins de charité dans les secteurs de l'Éducation de la santé du développement social et des arts. Versements de bourses d'études. 2e secteur d'activité: Maintient du Musée de l'ingéniosité J Armand Bombardier (héritage de J Armand Bombardier) ainsi que la Bibliothèque Yvonne L Bombardier et le Centre d'exposition Yvonne L Bombardier (diffuse démocratise et étudie la production d'artistes Québécois spéciali…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11.8M | $10.1M | $5.1M | — | $3.7M | $177.8M |
| 2023 | $12.2M | $9.6M | $4.9M | — | $3.5M | $176.1M |
| 2022 | $3.8M | $9.5M | $4.7M | — | $3.7M | $173.5M |
| 2021 | $25.5M | $9.3M | $4.7M | — | $3.6M | $178.3M |
| 2020 | -$3.4M | $9.8M | $5.2M | — | $3.6M | $162.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.7M to 122 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Sainte-Justine UHC Foundation$140K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$100K
- Université de Montréal$100K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$100K
- The Foundation ofthe 'Université de Sherbrooke'$100K
- Fondation HEC Montréal$100K
- Fondation et Alumni de Polytechnique Montreal$100K
- Fiducie de dotation du Centre Besrour$100K
- Imagine Canada$90K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$75K
- Fusion Jeunesse / Youth Fusion$75K
- Centraide Du Grand Montréal$75K
- Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Foundation$60K
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$60K
- Fondation du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke Inc.$60K
- Montréal Sacré-Coeur Hospital Foundation$60K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$50K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$50K
- Oxfam-Quebec$50K
- Société Canadienne du Cancer (division du Québec) (SCC)$50K
- Relief - The path of mental health$50K
- Queen's University at Kingston$50K
- Old Brewery Mission Foundation / Fondation Mission Old Brewery$50K
- Fondation du cégep Édouard-Montpetit$50K
- Fondation du Musee National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec$50K
Received $13K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions36
- Total compensation, all staff$3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nicole Beaudoin (présidente); Isabelle Bombardier (vice-présidente); Sonia Labrecque (secrétaire); France Bissonnette (administrateur); Louis-Armand Bombardier (administrateur); Élaine Beaudoin (administrateur); Nathalie Bissonnette (administrateur); Maxime Codère (trésorier); Paule Fontaine (administrateur); Marc Fontaine (administrateur); Alain Auclair (administrateur); Pierre Sein Pyun (administrateur); Sylvie Archambault (administrateur); Sébastien Roy (administrateur).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from J. Armand Bombardier Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118923440RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.