Montreal, QC · Private foundation
Fondation Pierre Desmarais Belvedere
La fondation a pour mission de promouvoir faire oeuvre d'éducation et aider financièrement l'excellence dans le domaine des arts et de la culture au canada et plus particulièrement dans les domaines théatre de la musique de l'architecture de la peinture et des arts plastiques en général.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k1 grant · C$7k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FESTIVAL DE LANAUDIÈRE | C$10,000 |
| THÉATRE DENISE PELLETIER | C$6,500 |
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$17k went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”
Backed again, and grew
- LFLE FESTIVAL DE LANAUDIÈRE7× · 2017–2023 · C$45k · revenue +45%
- OMORCHESTRE MÉTROPOLITAIN DU GRAND MONTRÉAL7× · 2017–2023 · C$33k · revenue +88%
- LFLA FONDATION DU MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE MONTRÉAL7× · 2017–2023 · C$31k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- BUBALLETS UKRAINIENS AU CANADAone grant, 2023 · C$8k
- MDMAYDAY DANSEone grant, 2023 · C$3k · revenue -10%
- SPSOCIÉTÉ POUR LES ARTS EN MILIEU URBAINone grant, 2023 · C$3k · revenue -9%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Promouvoir l'art lyrique en présentent des oeuvres du répertoire de l'opérette classique.
Production et présentation de pièces de théâtre à la place des arts
Production de concerts de musique classique
Cours de théâtres et spectacles
Production de concerts de musique traditionnelle et contemporaine. promouvoir la musique contemporaine chez les jeunes compositeurs canadiens.
Créer produire et diffuser des oeuvres chorégraphiques
Festivals groupe d'artiste de spectacles etc.
Contribuer à l’appréciation des arts par le public en produisant et en présentant des spectacles pluridisciplinaires de haute qualité centrés sur des œuvres de musique classique et contemporaine.
Prix décernés aux lauréats des activités suivantes: la semaine de la musique canadienne festival de musique classique de montréal
Créations et diffusions de spectacles d'Opéra contemporain
Promotion musique de chambre
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montréal Baroque inc. and the most unlike its peers is Stanstead Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LE FESTIVAL DE LANAUDIÈRE ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRE MÉTROPOLITAIN DU GRAND MONTRÉAL ↗
- Who funds LA FONDATION DU MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE MONTRÉAL ↗
- Who funds OPÉRA DE MONTRÉAL ↗
- Who funds FESTIVAL BACH MONTRÉAL ↗
- Who funds FESTIVALS TRANSAMERIQUES ↗
- Who funds LES GRANDS BALLETS CANADIENS ↗
- Who funds ARION ↗
- Who funds MESÉE MCCORD ↗
- Who funds FESTIVALS DU FILM SUR L'ART ↗
- Who funds FONDATION CENTAUR POUR LES ARTS D'INTERPRÉTATION ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE CAPRICE ↗
- Who funds CENTRE D'ARTS D'ORFORD ↗
- Who funds THÉATRE DENISE PELLETIER ↗
- Who funds MUSÉE D'ART DE JOLIETTE ↗
- Who funds CONCOURS INTERNATIONAL DE MUSIQUE DE MONTRÉAL ↗
- Who funds THÉÂTRE PORTE PAROLE ↗
- Who funds VIOLONS DU ROY ↗
- Who funds HÉRITAGE MONTRÉAL ↗
- Who funds THÉÂTRE DU RIDEAU VERT ↗
- Who funds THÉÂTRE DE QUAT'SOUS ↗
- Who funds CONCOURS INTERNATIONAL D'ORGUE DU CANADA ↗
- Who funds MÉTROPOLIS BLUE ↗
- Who funds FONDERIE DARLING ↗
- Who funds LA SCENA MUSICALE ↗
- Who funds FONDATION LES 7 DOIGTS DE LA MAIN ↗
- Who funds BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE NORTH HATLEY ↗
- Who funds FONDSATION POINTE-À-CALLIÈRE ↗
- Who funds BALLETS UKRAINIENS AU CANADA ↗
- Who funds FESTIVAL DE MUSIQUE MONTRÉAL BAROQUE VIEUX-MONTRÉAL ↗
- Who funds THÉÂTRE DE L'ESCAOUETTE ↗
- Who funds SOCIÉTÉ HISTORIQUE STANSTEAD (COLBY-CURTIS) ↗
- Who funds IMAGE ET NATION ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRE PHILHARMONIQUE ET CHOEUR DES MÉLOMANES ↗
- Who funds THÉÂTRE AUX ÉCURIES ↗
- Who funds THÉÂTRE JEAN DUCUEPPE ↗
- Who funds FESTIVAL DES ARTS DE ST-SAUVEUR ↗
- Who funds THÉÂTRE D'AUJOURD'HUI ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Conseil des arts de Montréal · Fondation Sandra et Alain Bouchard · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · La Fondation du Grand Montréal - The Foundation of Greater Montreal · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · The Cole foundation/La Fondation Cole · Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation · The Phyllis Lambert Foundation/La Fondation Phyllis Lambert · Fondation Sibylla Hesse · Fondation de la famille Zeller · The Jarislowsky Foundation/La Fondation Jarislowsky · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.