The Mount Royal Cemetery Company
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 980058740
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Outremont, Quebec, CA
- Phone
- 5149310841
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,536,414
- Expenses
- $7,898,250
- Assets
- $49,404,650
- Liabilities
- $6,996,538
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MAXIME JACQUES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- BONNYMAN KEITH (VICE PRESIDENT & TRUSTEE)
- FYFE ROBERT A (PRESIDENT & TRUSTEE)
Highest reported compensation
- MAXIME JACQUES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $126,896 total reported compensation
- Marie-Eve Bouthillier (Chief Financial & Acct Officer): $118,318 total reported compensation
- Annick Labrie (Sales Manager): $114,256 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The cemetery sells individual or family lots of land crypts and niches. At the owner's option, they may install their or the cemetery's memorialization. The monies received for burial fees foundation and memorials are used to pay operating expenses and the excess space is invested to ensure perpetual care of the cemetery once all the land is sold. By its charter the company is a non-profit organization and none of its reserves can be distributed.
What it reported doing in 2025
The cemetery sells individual or family lots of land crypts and niches. At the owner's option, they may install their or the cemetery's memorialization. The monies received for burial fees, foundation and memorials are used to pay operating expenses and the excess space is invested to ensure perpetual care of the cemetery once all the land is sold. By its charter the company is a non-profit organization and none of its reserves can be distributed. There is no issued share capital therefore no dividends can or will ever be paid.The company has been servicing the public's needs with respect to burial services on a for profit" basis since 1847. The company is exempt from income tax under section 501(c)(13) of the internal revenue code.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 93% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
REVIEW - Most voting board members are independent and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 50
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Scored; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.26; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $127K · 24 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 13 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes foreign activity and related organizations
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.