Lindsay Memorial Foundation
Public foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 890212178RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($373,501) as filed with the CRA.
Lindsay Memorial Foundation is a public foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $763K in revenue and $374K in expenditures.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 40% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 22 qualified donees totalling $305K in 2024, the largest being $45K to Saint-Antoine 50+ Community Centre / Centre Communautaire Saint-Antoine 50+. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $154K in 2020 to $763K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The purposes of the foundation are as follows: (a) to operate exclusively as a charitable organization to administer and employ its property assets and rights for the sole purposes of providing funding to organizations or programs that focus on relieving poverty advancing education promoting health lessening isolation and loneliness and improving the quality of life of the elderly population in montreal and surrounding areas; and (b) to furnish funds for the care treatment and support of any such persons to any charitable organization that is a qualified donee as described in subsect…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $763K | $374K | — | — | $305K | $5.3M |
| 2023 | $710K | $295K | — | — | $233K | $4.9M |
| 2022 | -$699K | $270K | — | — | $207K | $4.5M |
| 2021 | $403K | $248K | — | — | $188K | $5.5M |
| 2020 | $154K | $215K | — | — | $160K | $5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $305K to 22 qualified donees:
- Saint-Antoine 50+ Community Centre / Centre Communautaire Saint-Antoine 50+$45K
- Centre Eva Marsden pour la Justice Sociale et le Vieillissement/eva Marsden Centre for Social Justice and Aging$25K
- Ressources Troisieme Age Lachine Inc./ Lachine Senior Citizens Resources Inc.$25K
- Le Pas de la Rue$20K
- Dr Clown Foundation$20K
- Maison Saint-Columba / Saint Columba House$19K
- La Porte Jaune the Yellow Door$17K
- Centre LaSalle D&D 50+ / LaSalle D&D 50+ Centre$15K
- Alzheimer Groupe (a.g.i.) Inc.$15K
- Le centre de ressources et d'action communautaire de la petite Patrie$10K
- Entraide bénévole métro inc.$10K
- The Council for Black Aging Community of Montreal$10K
- Le Centre Almage Communautaire-Pour Personnes Agees$10K
- Resto Plateau$10K
- Centre des Aînés Côte-des-Neiges$10K
- Nova West Island$10K
- Dr Clown Foundation$10K
- ARCG - Aînés et retraités de la communauté gaie$6,000
- Centre des Femmes West Island$5,000
- Mission Communautaire Mile-End / Mile-End Community Mission$5,000
- Accompagnement bénévole de l'ouest (ABO)$5,000
- MADA Community Center Inc. - Centre communautaire MADA inc.$3,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$3,735
Schedule 3 of its 2023 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Janet Cholette (director); Anna Kamateros (director); Janice Lariviere (president); Jean McLaughlin (director); Jennifer Hawke (director); Joanne Casey (secretary); Patricia O'Connor (vice president); Mandy Novak-Leonard (director); Dale Macdonald (director); Lesley Wright (treasurer); Tara Flanagan (director); Bonnie Auger (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lindsay Memorial Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890212178RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.