Nonprofit Establishments

Our Montreal nonprofit establishments refer to the nonprofit and social services offered to Montrealers who, for one reason or another, require special assistance, special services or special care.

City nonprofit organizations that mainly work at a local level, instead of a regional or a national level, and that provide services directly to the general public, especially children, youth and seniors.

Nonprofit and Social Services

According to a rather recent survey by the Université du Québec (UQAM), our city nonprofit organizations are mostly composed of individuals that are mostly active in Sports and Recreation and in Social Services. 

Our large number of charities and nonprofit organizations is partly explained by our strong contingent of Sports and Recreation organizations, whose creation has been strongly encouraged by the Government of Quebec since the 1970s.

Our nonprofits are engaged in nonprofit and social services and in activities that are altruistic, moral, cultural, social, philanthropic, national, patriotic, religious, charitable, scientific, artistic, professional, athletic, sporting and educational. 

Montreal City Nonprofit Organizations

According to our Registraire des entreprises Québec, our nonprofit establishments are groups of individuals who do not intend to make pecuniary gains or to distribute pecuniary gains among the members of their organization. 

A nonprofit organization (NPO) has an existence separate from that of its members. Nonprofits own property in their own name, acquire rights and assume obligations and liabilities, sign contacts through its directors and may sue or be sued in the same way as natural persons. 

Non Profit Government Grants

In terms of financial resources, our charities and nonprofit organizations have to make do with less financial resources than nonprofits in other provinces. 

The greater proportion of revenues of our nonprofit establishments comes from goverment sources (mostly from the Quebec government). Very little comes from government payments for goods and services and gifts and donations are inadequate.

As a result, a majority of nonprofits report problems with cuts in government funding, with obtaining funding from organizations and with an overreliance on project‐ based funding and on self‐funding revenues.

Nonprofit Volunteer Jobs

Our nonprofits are managed and run by individual members that mostly work in their neighbourhood at a local level and that offer direct services to a general public often composed  of children, youth and seniors. 

More than half of our nonprofits cannot rely on a significant paid workforce and many of our charities and nonprofit organizations must rely on volunteers to operate. A number of nonprofit volunteer jobs that fluctuates based on the number of activity areas of the nonprofits. 

Nonprofit Establishments by Rachel Louise Barry