Adarsan Tzedakah Foundation
Private foundation · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 894761030RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($284,968) as filed with the CRA.
Adarsan Tzedakah Foundation is a private foundation based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $338K in revenue and $285K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 65% from other charities. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $13K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 65% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 29 qualified donees totalling $269K in 2024, the largest being $62K to Ottawa Torah Centre. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $90K in 2020 to $338K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation makes donations to qualified donees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $338K | $285K | — | — | $269K | $2.8M |
| 2023 | $307K | $116K | — | — | $112K | $2.7M |
| 2022 | $92K | $91K | — | — | $87K | $2.5M |
| 2021 | $87K | $90K | — | — | $87K | $2.5M |
| 2020 | $90K | $85K | — | — | $78K | $2.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $269K to 29 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Ottawa Torah Centre$62K
- Netivot Hatorah Day School$50K
- Shaarei Tefillah Congregation$41K
- Kav Shalom KHM$25K
- Moral Arc Foundation$19K
- Young Israel of Ottawa$11K
- Mizrachi Organization Of Canada$10K
- University of Ottawa Heart Institute/l'institut de Cardiologie de l'Universite d'Ottawa$10K
- Shorefast Foundation$10K
- Congregation Beit Tikvah of Ottawa$10K
- Chabad-Lubavitch of Ottawa$3,660
- The Tzaddik Foundation$3,600
- Tent City Jewish Congregation$2,080
- Torah Academy of Ottawa$1,800
- Ten Yad of Ottawa/ Ten Yad d'Ottawa$1,800
- Jewish Federation of Ottawa$1,800
- Shaarei Shomayim Congregation$1,320
- MADA Community Center Inc. - Centre communautaire MADA inc.$1,000
- Chabad Student Network of Ottawa$776
- Mishkan Avraham$600
- Jewish Federation of Ottawa$360
- Canadian Magen David Adom for Israel/Magen David Adom Canadien pour Israel$180
- Breakthrough T1D Canada/Percée DT1 Canada$180
- Canadian Centre for Men and Families$180
- Art Gallery of Ontario$180
Received $13K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jozef Straus (president); Issie Scarowsky (vice-president); Jonathan Straus (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Adarsan Tzedakah Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 894761030RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.