Seamont Foundation-Fondation Seamont
Private foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 891326084RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,610,355) as filed with the CRA.
Seamont Foundation-Fondation Seamont is a private foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.5M in revenue and $5.6M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 99% from other charities. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $4.5M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 78% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 14 qualified donees totalling $5.5M in 2024, the largest being $830K to Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.2M in 2020 to $4.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The charity makes donations to the arts including the performing arts and to other charitable organizations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.5M | $5.6M | — | — | $5.5M | -$245K |
| 2023 | $2.6M | $3.8M | — | — | $3.7M | $842K |
| 2022 | $4M | $4.4M | — | — | $4.2M | $2.1M |
| 2021 | $2.5M | $413K | — | — | $325K | $2.5M |
| 2020 | $2.2M | $349K | — | — | $250K | $1.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $5.5M to 14 qualified donees:
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$830K
- Firelight Foundation$771K
- Free the Slaves$686K
- Equimundo Center for Masculinities and Social Justice$512K
- Refushe$481K
- Grand Challenges Canada Foundation$450K
- Centre de Developpement Communautaire Autochtone a$400K
- Global Fund for Children$395K
- Planet-Friendly Farming for Rural Communities in Kenya$355K
- Foxy$195K
- Goodweave$157K
- Social Innovation Canada$150K
- Reachout International Fellowship - Princeton University$55K
- Association Tasiutigiit pour Familles Inter Culturelles$20K
Received $4.5M from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$149K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Constance Pathy (president); Laurence Pathy (vice-president); Mark Pathy; Paul Pathy; John Peacock; Paul Setlakwe.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Seamont Foundation-Fondation Seamont’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891326084RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.