Ari and Naomi Klein Charitable Trust
Private foundation · North York, Ontario · BN 785425497RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,850,648) as filed with the CRA.
Ari and Naomi Klein Charitable Trust is a private foundation based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.9M in revenue and $1.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 99% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 85% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 73 qualified donees totalling $1.8M in 2024, the largest being $644K to Kollel Daf Yomi. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1M in 2020 to $1.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
The organization is intended to operate as a private charitable foundation whose purpose is primarily to make donations in an orderly fashion 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 | $1.9M | $1.9M | — | — | $1.8M | $349K |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $1.7M | — | — | $1.6M | $312K |
| 2022 | $1M | $1.5M | $141K | — | $1.3M | $204K |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.2M | $110K | — | $1.1M | $613K |
| 2020 | $1M | $778K | $6,600 | — | $754K | $359K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.8M to 73 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Kollel Daf Yomi$644K
- Jewish Heritage Foundation$152K
- Kaylas Children Centre$136K
- Shoavei Mayim$106K
- Yeshiva Yesodei Hatorah$99K
- Bais Yakov Elementary School$85K
- Canadian Friends of Mirrer Yeshiva$75K
- Toronto Care Fund$67K
- Beth Jacob HS$46K
- Ner Israel Rabbinical College$37K
- Canadian Friends of the Seminary Yeshivah Mir$36K
- The Institute of Torah Education (thornhill Kollel$33K
- Bobov$30K
- Bnos Chaya Elementary School$22K
- Kav Shalom$20K
- Kollel Toronto/ Avreichim$20K
- Misaskin Canada$17K
- Eitz Chaim Schools$13K
- Chai Life Line$12K
- Achim Toronto$12K
- Yeshivas Nachlas Tzvi$11K
- Welfare of Jews in the Cis$10K
- VMM Zichron Chaim$10K
- Oholei Menachem Mendel$10K
- Beis Hatavshil and Hachnosos Orchim$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Yehuda Ari Klein (trustee); Naomi Zolty (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ari and Naomi Klein Charitable Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 785425497RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.