Le Chaînon Foundation
Public foundation · Montréal, Quebec · BN 822750030RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,869,490) as filed with the CRA.
Le Chaînon Foundation is a public foundation based in Montréal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $3.1M in revenue and $4.9M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 61% from donations, 15% from other charities. In 2024, 28 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.7M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 79% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $4M in 2024, the largest being $4M to Association d'entraide Le chaînon inc.. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Organisme ayant pour mission de solliciter des fonds au bénéfice de l'association d'entraide le chaînon inc.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.1M | $4.9M | $759K | — | $4M | $5.2M |
| 2023 | $2M | $1.9M | $592K | — | $1.1M | $6.7M |
| 2022 | $2.9M | $1.1M | $436K | — | $604K | $6.7M |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $817K | $109K | — | — | $4.9M |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $1M | $191K | — | — | $4.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $3.7M from 28 charities:
- Association d'entraide Le chaînon inc.$3.5M
- Fondation Famille Léger$155K
- Fondation Jacques & Michel Auger$20K
- Fondation Ariane Riou & Réal Plourde$10K
- Fondation Desjardins$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$8,182
- Fondation Luc Maurice$7,500
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$6,750
- Fondation Inter Echo$5,000
- The Cole foundation/La Fondation Cole$5,000
- The Tenaquip Foundation$5,000
- The Vartan and Lise Toroussian Foundation Fondation Vartan et Lise Toroussian$5,000
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$4,205
- Fondation St-Germain Kavanagh$4,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$3,503
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,000
- Roses of Hope Foundation$2,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,990
- Jeanniot Foundation$1,000
- Fondation Québec Philanthrope$1,000
- Comité des Oeuvres Charitables du Conseil Bois-Des-Filion No 5661$500
- Centraide Québec Chaudière-Appalaches et Bas-Saint laurent$419
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$338
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$174
- United Way of Greater Toronto$75
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$520K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Franziska Ruf (secrétaire); Ginette Maillé (présidente); Philippe Roberge (administrateur); Jessica Syms (administrateur); Olivier Coche (administrateur); Sylvie Bourbonnière (directrice); Élisabeth Deschênes (administrateur); Odile Poupart (administrateur); Louis Harpin (trésorier); Erik Bergeron (administrateur); Natalie McNeil (administrateur); Isabelle Ménard (administrateur); Jessica Syms (administrateur).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Le Chaînon Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 822750030RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.