La Fondation Forces Avenir
Publicly funded institution · Quebec, Quebec · BN 760741884RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,227,637) as filed with the CRA.
La Fondation Forces Avenir is a public foundation based in Quebec, Quebec, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 $3.5M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 25% from donations. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $108K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 100% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $1.1M in 2024, the largest being $1.1M to Forces Avenir. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $11M in 2020 to $3.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Les principales activités de la fondation sont de procéder à une campagne de collecte de fonds auprès de grands donateurs privés de veiller à la gestion du capital amassé et de distribuer à forces avenir un minimun de 3.5% du capital à chaque année. Forces avenir vise à reconnaître à honorer et à promouvoir l'engagement étudiants dans des projets qui contribuent à la formation de citoyens conscients responsables actif et persévérants à la fois enracinés dans leur collectivité et ouverts sur le monde.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.5M | $1.2M | $1.1M | — | $1.1M | $26M |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $1.1M | $108K | — | $985K | $23.7M |
| 2022 | -$137K | $890K | — | — | $764K | $22.3M |
| 2021 | $3.6M | $790K | — | — | $668K | $23.4M |
| 2020 | $11M | $538K | — | — | $471K | $20.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.1M to 1 qualified donee:
- Forces Avenir$1.1M
Received $108K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Guy Cormier (administrateur); Hugo D'Amour (administrateur); Isabelle Grenier (administrateur); Richard Legault (administrateur); Pauline Marois (présidente); Claude Paquin (administrateur); Pierre Morin (administrateur); Donald Tremblay (administrateur); Bernard Labelle (administrateur); Alain Fortier (administrateur); Jade Doucet-Martineau (administrateur).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from La Fondation Forces Avenir’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 760741884RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.