Yismah Moshe Hevraj Pinto Charitable Society of Ontario
Charitable organization · North York, Ontario · BN 881342919RR0001 · Judaism
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,283,692) as filed with the CRA.
Yismah Moshe Hevraj Pinto Charitable Society of Ontario is a charitable organization based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under judaism. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $2.5M in revenue and $2.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 65% from donations, 35% from other charities. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $992K.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 71% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000.
It reported gifts to 4 qualified donees totalling $137K in 2024, the largest being $62K to Hatzoloh Toronto. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.5M in 2020 to $2.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
Sponsoring of rabbis for advanced talmudical studies and rabinical ordination and offering schollarships to talmudical students support and maintain a synagogue as a place of worship seminars to the public for the awareness of the religious customs based on shpharadi jewish cultures of the middle east and north africa.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.5M | $2.3M | $2M | — | $137K | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $2.3M | $2M | — | $241K | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.5M | — | $138K | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $2M | $2M | $1.9M | — | $52K | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.4M | — | $53K | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $137K to 4 qualified donees:
Received $992K from 13 charities:
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$758K
- J & J Bitton Family Charitable Foundation$130K
- Gad and Sandra Bitton Family Foundation$61K
- The Aulis Charitable Foundation$19K
- J & J Bitton Family Charitable Foundation$10K
- Zolty Charitable Foundation$5,000
- My Charity Fund$2,329
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$2,000
- Groupement Sepharade Kol Yehouda Inc.$1,500
- Conam Charitable Foundation$1,000
- The Weitz Family Foundation$1,000
- The Chaim Moshe Friedman Memorial Fund$720
- Institut Yavne$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9999 positions
- Total compensation, all staff$145K
Schedule 3 of its 2021 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Prosper Lugassy (president); Joseph Bitton (vice-president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Yismah Moshe Hevraj Pinto Charitable Society of Ontario’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 881342919RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.