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.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- From other charities$4,498,265
- Investment income$19,462
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
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.