Québec Religious Heritage Council
Publicly funded institution · Montreal, Quebec · BN 889369336RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Religion
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($24,748,956) as filed with the CRA.
Québec Religious Heritage Council is a public foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing religion. 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $24.8M in revenue and $24.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 99% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $96.
Compared with 29 religious institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 4% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 108 qualified donees totalling $14M in 2024, the largest being $1.1M to La Fabrique de la Paroisse de Sainte-Thérèse d'Avila. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $15.8M in 2020 to $24.8M in 2024.
In its own words
L'organisme gère les fonds du gouvernment qui lui sont octroyés afin de restaurer et maintenir divers lieux de culte. L'organisme redistribue les sommes reçues aux divers organismes et associations qui en font la demande.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $24.8M | $24.7M | $68K | — | $16.6M | $271K |
| 2023 | $27M | $26.6M | $43K | — | $19.9M | $237K |
| 2022 | $25.4M | $25.4M | $41K | — | $19.4M | $238K |
| 2021 | $18.6M | $18.6M | $44K | — | $12.4M | $247K |
| 2020 | $15.8M | $15.8M | $133K | — | $9.5M | $263K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $14M to 108 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- La Fabrique de la Paroisse de Sainte-Thérèse d'Avila$1.1M
- La fabrique de la paroisse de Saint-Jean-Baptiste$768K
- Basilique Sainte-Anne-De-Beaupre$735K
- Corporation of Christ Church Cathedral$717K
- La Fabrique de la Paroisse de Notre-Dame-De-Quebec$553K
- St. James United Church$457K
- Centre D'action Bénévole De Sutton/Sutton Volunteer Centre$451K
- Trinite/cathedral of the Holy Trinity Foundation$376K
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Ottawa-Cornwall$363K
- La fabrique de la paroisse de Saint-François d'Assise$359K
- La Fabrique de la Paroisse de Notre-Dame-Des-Neiges$340K
- La Fabrique de la Paroisse de Saint-Dominique$328K
- La Fabrique de la Paroisse Saint-Charles-Borromee$299K
- Fabrique de la Paroisse Notre Dame de l'Immaculée Conception$294K
- La Corporation Épiscopale Catholique Romaine de Mont-Laurier$278K
- La Fabrique de la paroisse de Saint-Jean-l'Évangéliste$249K
- Mission Saint-Irénée de Lyon$219K
- La Fabrique de la Paroisse de Notre-Dame-de-Pompei$209K
- La Fabrique de la paroisse de Sainte-Famille$206K
- La Fabrique de la paroisse de Sacré-Coeur-de-Jésus$205K
- Union Canadienne des Moniales de l'Ordre de Sainte-Ursule$193K
- La fabrique de la paroisse des Saints-Anges-Gardiens-de-Lachine$192K
- La Fabrique de la paroisse des Saints-Anges-de-Montmorency$192K
- La fabrique de la paroisse de Saint-Joseph-de-la-rivière-des-prairies$192K
- La fabrique de la paroisse de Saint-Edouard$174K
Received $96 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$492K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Québec Religious Heritage Council’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889369336RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.