West-island community shares
Public foundation · Pointe-Claire, Quebec · BN 870517992RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,001,628) as filed with the CRA.
West-island community shares is a public foundation based in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $2M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 28% from donations, 31% from other charities. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $474K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 29% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 46 qualified donees totalling $1.5M in 2024, the largest being $100K to L'Équipe Entreprise. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 18 names.
In its own words
Encourager les citoyens à s'impliquer dans le développement et le maintien du bien-être de leur communauté et ce par le biais de campagne de financement.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $2M | $86K | $213K | $1.5M | $1.6M |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $1.8M | $74K | $408K | $1.2M | $1.9M |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.1M | $57K | $266K | $635K | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $45K | $256K | $1.4M | $1M |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $1.8M | $57K | $455K | $1.3M | $1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.5M to 46 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- L'Équipe Entreprise$100K
- Ricochet (Hébergement/Homes)$80K
- Mission de l'Ouest de l'Île - West Island Mission$75K
- Projet Communautaire de Pierrefonds$56K
- Cloverdale Multi Ressources Inc.$51K
- Maison LI-Ber-T / LI-Ber-T House$50K
- On Rock Community Services Inc.$50K
- Anorexie et Boulimie Québec$50K
- Les Amis de la Santé Mentale (Banlieue Ouest)$50K
- West Island Youth Action (AJOI)$50K
- West Island Assistance Fund$50K
- La maison Caracol CPSC de Pierrefonds-Est$46K
- The YMCAS of Québec Inc.$41K
- Projet Jeunesse de l'Ouest de l'Ile-West Island Youth Project$40K
- Omega Community Resources$40K
- Accompagnement bénévole de l'ouest (ABO)$40K
- Centre d'Action Bénévole Ouest$37K
- Carrefour des 6-12 ans de Pierrefonds-Est Inc.$36K
- Centre des ressources communautaires de l'ouest de l'île/West Island Community Resource Centre$35K
- Fabzone$30K
- Perspective Communautiare en Sante Mentale (W I )$30K
- Maison des jeunes de Pierrefonds inc.$30K
- Breakfast Club of Canada$30K
- The Voboc Foundation$30K
- Corbeille de pain Lac-Saint-Louis / Bread Basket Lac-Saint-Louis$26K
Received $474K from 20 charities:
- Hewitt Foundation$155K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$100K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$26K
- RBC Foundation$25K
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$25K
- John Patrick Colfer Family Foundation$25K
- Gloria Baylis Foundation$22K
- Fondation Famille Bertrand$20K
- Fondation Famille Vachon$20K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$11K
- Canadahelps Canadon$10K
- Godin Family Foundation$10K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$10K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$8,798
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,000
- The Highwater Foundation$1,250
- Mohammed Kanwal Family Foundation/fondation Familiale Mohammed Kanwal$1,250
- The Fabrique of the Parish of Saint Luke-Archidiocese de Montreal$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$467
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$50
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
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$327K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michel Bèland (ancien-président); Chantal Carrier (trésorière); Nouha Fadlallah (directeur); Vincent Lamoureux (directeur); Roger Morin (membre hon & droit vote); Claude Papasian (membre hon & droit vote); Danielle Leggett (directrice); Peter Giakoumatos (directeur); Jacques Garceau (directeur); Frederica A. Jones (administrateur); Jean-René Paquette (administrateur); Ali Souini (administrateur); Teresa Broccolini (administrateur); Roberta Lacey (marketing director); Sara Lande (director); Xavier Lalonde (vice-président); Drew Wawin (director); Kamran Ghazian (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from West-island community shares’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 870517992RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.