Birthright Israel Foundation of Canada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 879358612RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,259,975) as filed with the CRA.
Birthright Israel Foundation of Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $6M in revenue and $4.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 89% from other charities. In 2024, 34 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.5M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 42% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 91% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.8M in 2020 to $6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Founded in 1999 by a group of committed jewish philanthropists birthright israel began with a bold idea: offer every jewish young adult especially the less connected the gift of a fully subsidized educational and experiential peer trip to israel to build strong and proud jewish identities connections to israel solidarity with the jewish communities and strengthen the jewish future. Birthright israel trips offer participants an educational experience to better understand jewish history culture religion and the state of israel. The goal of these trips is to help create a new mode of think…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6M | $4.3M | $3.6M | $652K | — | $2.6M |
| 2023 | $4M | $5.4M | $4.5M | $543K | — | $841K |
| 2022 | $6.5M | $6.1M | $5.4M | $488K | — | $2.2M |
| 2021 | $4.5M | $3.1M | $2.6M | $286K | — | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $3.8M | $3.5M | $3M | — | $179K | $329K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3.5M from 34 charities:
- The CRB Foundation/La fondation CRB$1.5M
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$493K
- Federation Cja$328K
- Ronald S. Roadburg Foundation$200K
- The Asper Foundation$200K
- The Serruya Family Foundation$100K
- Diamond Foundation$100K
- The Ben and Hilda Katz Charitable Foundation$100K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$65K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$65K
- The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation$50K
- New Century Charitable Foundation$50K
- Jewish Federation of British Columbia$41K
- Israel Koschitzky Family Charitable Foundation$33K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary$30K
- The David and Stacey Cynamon Family Foundation$30K
- THE IRA GLUSKIN AND MAXINE GRANOVSKY GLUSKIN CHARITABLE FOUNdation$30K
- The Blidner Family Foundation$15K
- Michael and Libby Goldgrub Foundation$10K
- The Sharp Foundation$10K
- Wagner Green Family Trust$10K
- R-FFLOW Foundation$6,000
- The Sydney and Florence Cooper Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Gary Segal Family Foundation$5,000
- Gussie and Thomas Dale Foundation$4,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$658K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Engel (past chair); Charles Bronfman (honorary chairman); Lori Rosenthal (chair); Anthony Cohen (director); Elizabeth Sokolsky (director); Ariel Koshitzky (director); Leonid Kotov (director); Chaia Berkowitz (director); William Jegher (director); Lissy Kates (director); Shira Silverstein (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Birthright Israel Foundation of Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 879358612RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.