La Tour de Garde Société de Bibles et de Traités du Québec
Charitable organization · Georgetown, Ontario · BN 870817384RR0001 · Christianity
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,544,062) as filed with the CRA.
La Tour de Garde Société de Bibles et de Traités du Québec is a charitable organization based in Georgetown, Ontario, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $3.2M in revenue and $5.5M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 76% from other charities. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.9M.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 92% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $2.3M in 2024, the largest being $2.3M to Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.1M in 2020 to $3.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
La Tour de Garde Société de Bibles et de Traités du Québec manages maintains and constructs places of worship for Jehovah's Witnesses in the province of Québec. The corporation also submits authorization requests to the Directeur de l’état civil to allow certain religious ministers of Jehovah’s Witnesses to officiate marriages in the province of Quebec.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.2M | $5.5M | $3.2M | — | $2.3M | $127.5M |
| 2023 | $4M | $4.7M | $2.7M | — | $1.9M | $129.9M |
| 2022 | $822K | $2.6M | — | — | $80K | $130.5M |
| 2021 | $22.4M | $3.8M | — | — | $1.5M | $132.2M |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $2.4M | $1.9M | — | $577K | $113.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.3M to 3 qualified donees:
Received $1.9M from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alain Beauchemin (director); Alain Beauchemin (vice-president); Alain Boucher (director); Pietro DiPietrantonio (director); Eugene Pothier (director); Robert Pringle (director); Sylvain Bellerive (director); Gabriel Deschênes (director); Alain Boucher (secretary-treasurer); Gabriel Deschênes (president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from La Tour de Garde Société de Bibles et de Traités du Québec’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 870817384RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.