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.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, March 31, 2024
- From other charities$544,148
- Receipted donations$489,988
- Investment income$10,323
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 $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.