Binah Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 131462871RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($19,433,856) as filed with the CRA.
Binah Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported $92.3M in revenue and $19.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 70% from donations.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 80% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 37 qualified donees totalling $19M in 2024, the largest being $16.1M to United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $7.9M in 2020 to $92.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Provide funding to other qualified donees. Co-own (with two other registered charities) and operate a house that accommodates families visiting patients at a nearby hospital at no charge. The house is operated consistent with the religious tenets doctrines and observances associated with the jewish faith.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $92.3M | $19.4M | $24K | — | $19M | $174.9M |
| 2023 | $11.3M | $7M | $11K | — | $6.6M | $102M |
| 2022 | $14M | $7.7M | $25K | — | $4.3M | $97.7M |
| 2021 | $18M | $19.6M | $24K | — | $19.3M | $91.5M |
| 2020 | $7.9M | $6M | $45K | — | $5.7M | $93.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $19M to 37 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$16.1M
- United Israel Appeal of Canada Inc$829K
- Israel Koschitzky Family Charitable Foundation$392K
- Leket Canada$320K
- Bnei Akiva Schools$253K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$200K
- Netivot Hatorah Day School$167K
- The University of Manitoba$125K
- Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation$113K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$100K
- The Jerusalem Foundation of Canada Inc. la Fondation Jerusalem du Canada Inc.$75K
- The Baycrest Centre Foundation$58K
- Kayla's Children's Centre$50K
- Jacs Toronto$50K
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$33K
- Mizrachi Organization Of Canada$20K
- Canadian Shaare Zedek Hospital Foundation/fondation Canadienne de l'Hopital Shaare Zedek$20K
- The Canadian Friends of the Jerusalem College of Technology School of Applied Sciences$18K
- Limmud FSU Canada$10K
- Kehilla Residential Programme$10K
- Canadian Friends of Bar-Ilan University$10K
- Yachad the Canadian Jewish Council for Disabilities$9,000
- Les Amis Canadiens de l'Université de Tel Aviv Inc. CanadianFriends of Tel Aviv University Inc.$8,333
- Amis Canadiens du Centre Medical Sheba / Canadian Friends of Sheba Medical Center$8,333
- Yeshivas Nefesh Dovid$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sarena Koschitzky (trustee); Hartley Koschitzky (trustee); Jonthan Koschitzky (trustee); Leelah Koschitzky (trustee); Henry Koschitzky (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Binah Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131462871RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.