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.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$4,260,433
- Other income$1,216,856
- Investment income$880,247
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 $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.