The Welcome Collective/Le collectif bienvenue
Charitable organization · Montreal, Quebec · BN 765247515RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-02-28. Split of total expenditures ($1,524,007) as filed with the CRA.
The Welcome Collective/Le collectif bienvenue is a charitable organization based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending February 28, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 35% from donations, 8% from government, 47% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.7M.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $369K in 2020 to $1.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Welcome collective's mission is to reduce the stress and isolation of resettlement by providing material and psychosocial support to newly arrived refugee claimants and other disadvantaged newcomers in montreal. Welcome collective's essential goods programme redistributes household items and furniture to recently arrived refugee claimant families. We collect items from donors across the montreal metropolitan area and deliver complete apartment kits to families' homes including furniture basic kitchen supplies baby supplies and children's toys mattresses and kitchen appliances. Welcome co…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.5M | $1.2M | $108K | — | $431K |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1M | $816K | $39K | — | $310K |
| 2022 | $840K | $791K | $648K | $12K | — | $155K |
| 2021 | $798K | $627K | $618K | $2,323 | — | $105K |
| 2020 | $369K | $298K | $294K | $435 | — | $79K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.7M from 18 charities:
- Centraide Du Grand Montréal$399K
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$300K
- Canadahelps Canadon$235K
- Canadahelps Canadon$235K
- Pathy Family Foundation$200K
- La Fondation Rossy The Rossy Foundation$100K
- The Foundation of Greater Montreal$67K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$65K
- La Fondation Choquette-Legault$50K
- J. Armand Bombardier Foundation$20K
- Brian Bronfman family foundation/ Fondation de la famille Brian Bronfman$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,795
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$3,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,080
- The Sam Sorbara Charitable Foundation$1,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$599
- United Way of Greater Toronto$187
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$19
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
- $40,000–79,99912 positions
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$992K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Yasser Adam (administrateur); Philippe Bélanger (administrateur); Nancy Dossus (administratrice); Ingrid Enriquez-Donissaint (administratrice); Maxime Gobeil (trésorier); Niamh Leonard (administrateur); Prosper Mabvuva (administrateur); Luc Morin (administrateur); Nandini Ramanujam (administrateur); Noëlle Sorbara (administratrice); Sarah Stapleton (administratrice); Claire Trottier (présidente).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Welcome Collective/Le collectif bienvenue’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 765247515RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.