Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
Charitable organization · Montreal, Quebec · BN 103199196RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($22,918,626) as filed with the CRA.
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens is a charitable organization based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $23M in revenue and $22.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 16% from donations, 24% from government. In 2024, 31 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.3M.
Compared with 39 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 62% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 55 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 23 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $23M | $22.9M | $19.4M | $926K | — | $8.1M |
| 2023 | $20.2M | $20.3M | $17.5M | $400K | — | $8M |
| 2022 | $18.9M | $18.2M | $16M | $393K | — | $8.3M |
| 2021 | $15.2M | $12.6M | $10.3M | $267K | — | $7.6M |
| 2020 | $17.9M | $17.7M | $15.2M | $493K | — | $5.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3.3M from 31 charities:
- Le Fonds de Dotation de les Grands Ballets Canadiens/the Endowment Fund of les Grands Ballets Canadiens$2.8M
- The Foundation of Greater Montreal$87K
- Fondation Traçons un Chemin$80K
- The Azrieli Foundation$75K
- RBC Foundation$65K
- Fondation J. A. Desève$50K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$18K
- La Fondation Rossy The Rossy Foundation$15K
- Fondation Lorraine et Jean Turmel$10K
- La Fondation Brujavin$10K
- The JJJL Lee Foundation La Fondation JJJL Lee$10K
- The Jane Skoryna Foundation$10K
- La fondation Jacques Francoeur$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,232
- Fondation Famille le Blanc$5,000
- Fondation Ariane Riou & Réal Plourde$5,000
- Fondation Ariane Riou & Réal Plourde$5,000
- Fondation Jacques & Michel Auger$5,000
- Fondation Rene Malo$5,000
- Hylcan Foundation$5,000
- Amelia & Lino Saputo Foundation$5,000
- Protech Foundation/fondation Protech$3,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,562
- BenefAction Foundation$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions55
- Total compensation, all staff$8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Constance Pathy (présidente émérite); Maurice Côté (président); Marie Lynne Desrochers (vice-présidente); Ghislain Richter (trésorier); Johanne Blanchard (secrétaire); Abe Adham (administrateur); Lise-Anne Amyot (administrateur); Dyanne Carenza (administrateur); Carmine D'Argenio (administrateur); Magali Depras (administrateur); Grace DI Meo (administrateur); Nathalie Dubois (administrateur); Pascale Elharrar (administrateur); Sunny Handa (administrateur); Stéphanie Lavallée (administrateur); Laurence Levy (administrateur); Bjorn Martin (administrateur); Marcel Martin (administrateur); Dino Mazzone (administrateur); Debra Moses (administrateur); Mathieu Talbot (administrateur); Robert Trudeau (administrateur); Jeannie Vondjidis (administrateur).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Les Grands Ballets Canadiens’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 103199196RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.