Initiative Communautaire de Yaldei
Charitable organization · Montreal, Quebec · BN 829786821RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,310,686) as filed with the CRA.
Initiative Communautaire de Yaldei is a charitable organization based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $8.1M in revenue and $6.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 22% from donations, 71% from other charities. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $815K.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 65% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $2.1M in 2024, the largest being $1.1M to Centre de Developpement Yaldei Shashuim/yaldei Shashuim Develpmental Center. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.1M in 2020 to $8.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The charity provides comprehensive support to individuals with special needs and their families by offering information education advocacy and referral services. It promotes the integration of children into all aspects of the jewish community including schools camps synagogues and recreational activities. In addition the charity delivers specialized programs and therapies for children with learning disabilities or physical and mental challenges and allocates funding agencies and registered charities that provide these essential services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.1M | $6.3M | $3.5M | $202K | $2.1M | $3.9M |
| 2023 | $3M | $3.3M | $884K | — | $1.7M | $2.1M |
| 2022 | $3.5M | $3.9M | $697K | — | $2.1M | $2.6M |
| 2021 | $3.6M | $2.1M | $314K | — | $1.4M | $3M |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $618K | $162K | — | $440K | $1.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.1M to 3 qualified donees:
Received $815K from 10 charities:
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$732K
- Gad and Sandra Bitton Family Foundation$43K
- Community Foundations of Canada$29K
- The Mireille and Murray Steinberg Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille Mireille et Muuray Steinberg$3,600
- Keren Yecheskel Foundation$2,600
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$1,800
- Crowe BGK Foundation$1,000
- My Charity Fund$500
- Sabel Family Foundation$360
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$325
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$567K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joel Weber (administrateur); Harshel Lowy (secrétaire); Menachem Leifer (directeur général); Jack Dym (administrator); Devorah Halpern (administrator); Martin Schwartz (président); Robert Zimmerman (administrator); Michael Rosenberg (administrator); Leckner Federick (administrateur); Shlomo Drazin (administrateur); David Ades (administrateur).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Initiative Communautaire de Yaldei’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 829786821RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.