BAM Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 780152807RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($268,626) as filed with the CRA.
BAM Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $364K in revenue and $269K in expenditures.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 76% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 40 qualified donees totalling $263K in 2024, the largest being $30K to United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $5.2M in 2021 to $364K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
Charitable activities through qualidied donees
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $364K | $269K | — | — | $263K | $5.6M |
| 2023 | $494K | $237K | — | — | $232K | $5.5M |
| 2022 | $197K | $196K | $6,559 | — | $184K | $5.2M |
| 2021 | $5.2M | — | — | — | — | $5.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $263K to 40 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$30K
- North York General Hospital Foundation$30K
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$28K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$25K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$25K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$25K
- Bialik Hebrew Day School$10K
- Art Gallery of Ontario$10K
- Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies$9,250
- United Isreal Appeal of Canada Re:jewish Fed of PB$7,500
- Social Giving Network$5,005
- UJA Federation$5,000
- Canada Charity Partners$5,000
- Technion Canada$5,000
- The Jewish Family and Child Foundation$5,000
- Daily Bread Food Bank$5,000
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$5,000
- Ben-Gurion University$4,625
- The Toronto Symphony$4,000
- Eath Island$2,572
- Coral Reef Alliance$2,566
- Save a Child's Heart Foundation$2,000
- Baycrest Foundation$1,000
- Covenant House$1,000
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sharon Herman (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from BAM Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 780152807RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.