Italam Org
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 981722351
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Montreal, QC, CA
- Phone
- 5143381818
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,784,664
- Expenses
- $2,565,457
- Assets
- $1,026,320
- Liabilities
- $198,926
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ARI RUDOLPH (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ARI RUDOLPH (CEO): $240,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To meet the needs of the reform, conservative and orthodox communities all at once. To become a bridge between the various approaches in jewish education and to create a unified language that makes room for multiple unique voices. Italam is a new digital blended learning environment based on the successful tal am program, a hebrew language and jewish heritage curriculum.
What it reported doing in 2024
ITALAM develops online and print based curriculum. IT includes infrastructure for the schools and teachers and students as well as dev ops. The platform also has a backup of digital and print materials. ITALAM also have internal IT for all workers in Canada and around the world as well as support services. The IT is used for ONLINE COURSES, CONTENT UPGRADING, LIASING WITH THE SCHOOLS, COURSES, AND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPING LEARNING CONTENTS ARE THE CORE OF THE PROGRAM SERVICES.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 47
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 50.6%; rating input score 51
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.4%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -13.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 50.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $240K · 8 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $114K reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.