Bert & Karen Amato Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 775658909RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($114,397) as filed with the CRA.
Bert & Karen Amato Family 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 $100K in revenue and $114K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 3,025 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 56% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 18 qualified donees totalling $109K in 2024, the largest being $25K to United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $2M in 2021 to $100K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Funding other registered canadian charities
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $100K | $114K | — | — | $109K | $2M |
| 2023 | $110K | $88K | — | — | $80K | $2M |
| 2022 | $26K | $41K | — | — | $20K | $2M |
| 2021 | $2M | $4,500 | — | — | — | $2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $109K to 18 qualified donees:
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$25K
- CSRG Canadian Security Research Group$18K
- The Baycrest Centre Foundation$10K
- Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies$10K
- The Jerusalem Foundation of Canada Inc. la Fondation Jerusalem du Canada Inc.$7,000
- Neshama Hospice$5,000
- Jias (jewish Immigrant Aid Services) Toronto$5,000
- The Jerusalem Foundation of Canada Inc. la Fondation Jerusalem du Canada Inc.$5,000
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$5,000
- Sinai Health Foundation$5,000
- Hillel Ontario$4,000
- Big Life Foundation Canada$2,500
- The Abraham Global Peace Initiative$2,000
- CSRG Canadian Security Research Group$1,800
- Hillel Ontario$1,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,000
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$1,000
- Interval House$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Albert Amato (director); Karen Amato (director); Alec Amato (director); Lauren Amato (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bert & Karen Amato Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 775658909RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.