Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto Congregation
Charitable organization · Thornhill, Ontario · BN 106788342RR0001 · Judaism
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,970,708) as filed with the CRA.
Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto Congregation is a charitable organization based in Thornhill, Ontario, classified by the CRA under judaism. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.7M in revenue and $5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 61% from donations, 14% from other charities. In 2024, 40 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $312K.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 47% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 83% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 20 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 23 qualified donees totalling $226K in 2024, the largest being $98K to IDF Widows and Orphans Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3M in 2020 to $4.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 31 names.
In its own words
The synagogue provides for orthodox jewish prayer services as well as educational and social programming for the surrounding community.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.7M | $5M | $4.2M | $356K | $226K | $2.9M |
| 2023 | $3.7M | $4.3M | $3.6M | $313K | $189K | $3.2M |
| 2022 | $3.3M | $3.9M | — | — | $15K | $3.8M |
| 2021 | $2.5M | $3M | — | — | $13K | $4.4M |
| 2020 | $3M | $3.4M | $2.2M | $85K | $14K | $4.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $226K to 23 qualified donees:
- IDF Widows and Orphans Canada$98K
- Beit Halochem Canada /aid to Disabled Veterans of Israel (canada)$85K
- The Institute of Torah Education$18K
- The Canadian Friends of the Jerusalem College of Technology School of Applied Sciences$3,000
- Beit Midrash Zichron Dov$3,000
- Canadian Friends of Yad Eliezer$2,860
- Mizrachi Organization Of Canada$2,360
- Ruchama Fraidel Relief Organization$2,000
- Kav Shalom KHM$1,360
- Moral Arc Foundation$1,220
- Zichron Binyomin Charity Foundation$1,176
- Paths of Torah School$1,000
- the ChaBaD house$1,000
- Shomrim Toronto$1,000
- The Chassidus Learning Centre of Thornhill$1,000
- Jewish Free Loan Toronto$628
- Canadian Friends of Rambam Medical Centre$504
- Yeshivas Nefesh Dovid$500
- Ohr Chaya Charitable Organization$500
- Hillel Ontario$500
- Canadian Friends of Beit Midrash Elon Moreh$500
- B'Nai Zion Charity Fund$360
- Canadian Friends of Yeshivat Aish Hatorah$54
Received $312K from 40 charities:
- Famglas Foundation$52K
- The Jewish Legacy Charitable Foundation$24K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$23K
- Zichron Binyomin Charity Foundation$23K
- Rayjo Charitable Trust$22K
- BenefAction Foundation$20K
- The Marble Arch Foundation Corp.$17K
- My Charity Fund$12K
- The Chaim Yosef and Chana Zeifman Charitable Trust$11K
- Messorah Tzedakah Foundation$11K
- The Serruya Family Foundation$10K
- Jewish Literacy Foundation of Canada$8,796
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$8,100
- The Jewish Legacy Charitable Foundation$6,474
- Jack and Doris Bistricer Charitable Foundation$6,400
- The Amayn Charitable Foundation$5,400
- The Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Charitable Foundation$5,149
- The Kelman Charitable Foundation$4,600
- J.frankel Family Charitable Trust$4,410
- The Nusbaum Family Charitable Foundation$4,100
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,833
- Building a Jewish Tomorrow$3,200
- Achim Toronto$3,000
- Ohr Chaya Charitable Organization$2,800
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$2,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions20
- Total compensation, all staff$1.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Yaakov Adatto (president); Jeffrey Brown (director); Neil Cohen (director); Hilary Edelstein (secretary); David Elmeleh (director); Jessica Gilbert (director); Maury Gilman (director); Elie Goldberg (director); Tani Gordon (sisterhood representative); Yoel Gordon (director); Max Gruenfeld (director); Josh Gutenberg (treasurer); Craig Guttman (past president); Esther Berglas Guttman (director); Julia Guttman (director); Jonathan Hames (director); Eddie Jesin (parnas); Dov Klein (director); David Lithwick (second vice president); Etan Mazin (director); Steve Mendel (first vice president); Stephen Mortfield (director); Jesse Nathanson (brotherhood president); Rivky Nathanson (director); Roberta Newman (director); Dana Prutschi (director); Michael Salmon (director); Debborah Scharf (director); David Vodianoi (third vice president); Howard Wasserman (director); Fred Winegust (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto Congregation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106788342RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.