The Buttercup Foundation/ La Fondation Buttercup
Private foundation · Mont-Royal, Quebec · BN 725115711RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,174,101) as filed with the CRA.
The Buttercup Foundation/ La Fondation Buttercup is a private foundation based in Mont-Royal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $7.4M in revenue and $8.2M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 57% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 85% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 32 qualified donees totalling $7.9M in 2024, the largest being $7.4M to Centre d'Art Battat. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2M in 2020 to $7.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.4M | $8.2M | — | — | $8.1M | $18.2M |
| 2023 | $9.6M | $385K | — | — | $320K | $18.9M |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $627K | — | — | $599K | $9.8M |
| 2021 | $6.1M | $411K | — | — | $405K | $7.8M |
| 2020 | $2M | $456K | — | — | $458K | $2.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $7.9M to 32 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Centre d'Art Battat$7.4M
- The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Foundation$173K
- Fondation De L'Ataxie Charlevoix-Saguenay$125K
- Crohn's and Colitis Canada / Crohn et Colite Canada$40K
- The Jaclyn Fisher Foundation La Fondation Jaclyn Fisher$20K
- Federation Cja$15K
- Native Women's Shelter of Montréal$10K
- Le Collectif juridique/The Legal Collective$10K
- Moisson Montréal Inc.$10K
- The David Suzuki Foundation$10K
- Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada$10K
- Fondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGill McGill University Health Centre Foundation$7,500
- Fondation du Musée McCord Stewart$6,000
- On Rock Community Services Inc.$5,000
- Refuge pour les Femmes de l'Ouest de l'Ile/west Island Women's Shelter$5,000
- Auberge Shalom pour femmes$5,000
- La maison du partage d'Youville Inc.$5,000
- Fondation la Rue des Femmes/ Herstreet Foundation$5,000
- Auberge Madeleine$5,000
- Femmes du Monde a Cote-Des-Neiges$5,000
- Le Parados Inc.$5,000
- Bread and Beyond Foundation$5,000
- Food Banks of Québec$5,000
- Rencontres-Cuisines$5,000
- Partageons l'espoir (Québec)$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Joseph Battat (president); Frances Westley (adminstrateur); Nicola Tedeshi (adminstrateur); Salvatore Guerrera (adminstrateur).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Buttercup Foundation/ La Fondation Buttercup’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 725115711RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.