Youth Employment Services Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Montreal, Quebec · BN 888729050RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,606,641) as filed with the CRA.
Youth Employment Services Foundation is a charitable organization based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.7M in revenue and $2.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 60% from government, 26% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $443K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 82% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 25 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Youth Employment Services (YES YES Employment & Entrepreneurship) provides job search and job preparation services to Quebecers in English through workshops one-on-one counselling networking opportunities events and mentorship. YES also provides entrepreneurship support to Quebecers in English through workshops individual and group coaching and networking events such as the 'Entrepreneurship Speaker Series'. YES also provides supports in English to artists in Quebec as they look for employment or to start their own arts based business through targeted services such as individual and gro…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.7M | $2.6M | $2.1M | $176K | $0 | $1M |
| 2023 | $2.6M | $2.6M | $2.1M | $155K | $0 | $937K |
| 2022 | $2.5M | $2.5M | $2.1M | $130K | $0 | $935K |
| 2021 | $2.7M | $2.7M | $2.3M | $126K | $0 | $930K |
| 2020 | $2.5M | $2.4M | $2.1M | $151K | $0 | $855K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $443K from 13 charities:
- La Fondation Rossy The Rossy Foundation$150K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$124K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- The Jarislowsky Foundation/la Fondation Jarislowsky$25K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$20K
- The Holt Foundation$20K
- The Peacock family foundation$20K
- Fondation de la famille Zeller$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$8,915
- Fondation SSQ Inc.$5,000
- The Hay Foundation/la Fondation Hay$4,000
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$1,250
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$100
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
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions25
- Total compensation, all staff$1.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Youth Employment Services Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888729050RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.