Tel-Écoute
Publicly funded institution · Montreal, Quebec · BN 131543738RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($334,515) as filed with the CRA.
Tel-Écoute is a charitable organization based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $319K in revenue and $335K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 89% from government, 9% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2,085.
Compared with 1,890 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 20% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Services d'écoute pour les personnes en difficulté
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $319K | $335K | $242K | — | — | $708K |
| 2023 | $383K | $283K | $239K | — | — | $723K |
| 2022 | $559K | $320K | $283K | — | — | $624K |
| 2021 | $607K | $359K | $324K | — | — | $385K |
| 2020 | $413K | $384K | $344K | — | — | $138K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2,085 from 3 charities:
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
- $1–39,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$159K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Hervé Leduc (président); Robert Champagne (vice président); Marie Anne Bazerghi (trésorier); Mariam Elkhalili (administrateur); Luc Lavoie (admin); Jean-René Marcoux (admin); Lucie Brais (directrice générale).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Tel-Écoute’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131543738RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.