Rencontres-Cuisines
Charitable organization · Montreal, Quebec · BN 890292188RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,834,008) as filed with the CRA.
Rencontres-Cuisines is a charitable organization based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 39% from government, 19% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $487K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 74% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (7 positions in that band). The charity reported 23 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $390K in 2020 to $1.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Améliorer l'accès à une saine alimentation pour la population du quartier centre-sud de montréal en particulier pour les personnes défavorisées au niveau social ou économique; soutenir ces personnes dans l'aquisition de connaissances et le développement d'habilités individuelles ou collectives permettant de mieux s'alimenter; mobiliser les acteurs de la communauté sur les enjeux liés à la saine alimentation.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $1.8M | $1.7M | — | — | $338K |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $1.4M | — | — | $471K |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.1M | $1M | — | — | $469K |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $881K | $763K | — | — | $277K |
| 2020 | $390K | $384K | $334K | — | — | $96K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $487K from 18 charities:
- Right To Food$133K
- Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Security$103K
- The Medavie Foundation Inc.$95K
- Fondation Famille Léger$40K
- Chamandy Foundation$25K
- Fondation J. A. Desève$25K
- Fondation Famille Léger$15K
- Fondation Dufresne & Gauthier$10K
- Godin Family Foundation$10K
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$10K
- The Buttercup Foundation/ La Fondation Buttercup$5,000
- Mazon Canada$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,704
- Vancouver Foundation$3,000
- FCR Thriving Neighbourhoods Foundation$2,500
- Makeway Foundation$1,000
- Fondation Ellipse$500
- Fondation Jeanne-Esther—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions23
- Total compensation, all staff$850K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Florence Bouchard (présidente); Michaela Leuprecht (vp); Jacynthe McCabe (trésoriere); Gabriel Salathe (sec); Elizabeth Slattery (adm); Paul Hanson (adm); Pierrette Rayle (adm).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Rencontres-Cuisines’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890292188RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.