Bnei Akiva Schools
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119306009RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,341,612) as filed with the CRA.
Bnei Akiva Schools is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $13.5M in revenue and $10.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 45% from donations, 48% from other charities. In 2024, 59 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 52% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 84% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 72 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $6.8M in 2020 to $13.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Bnei akiva schools is a not-for-profit organization. The objective of the school is to operate schools for religious instruction and education. The school is registered as a charitable organization for income tax purposes and therefore qualifies for tax-exempt status under paragraph 149 (1) (f) of the income tax act ( canada)
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $13.5M | $10.3M | $9.2M | $455K | — | $7.2M |
| 2023 | $10.3M | $10.1M | $9M | $457K | — | $4.2M |
| 2022 | $9.6M | $9M | $8.3M | $197K | — | $4.1M |
| 2021 | $7.7M | $6.9M | $6.8M | $84K | — | $3.7M |
| 2020 | $6.8M | $6.3M | $5.3M | $339K | — | $3.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $4M from 59 charities:
- Israel Koschitzky Family Charitable Foundation$1.4M
- The B.A.S. Charitable Foundation$617K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$471K
- Binah Charitable Foundation$253K
- Jewish Community of Ottawa Development Foundation$150K
- The Clyr Charitable Foundation$113K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$104K
- The Jewish Legacy Charitable Foundation$76K
- My Charity Fund$60K
- The Marble Arch Foundation Corp.$59K
- Rayjo Charitable Trust$55K
- The DR. Wolf Lebovic Charitable Foundation$50K
- The Yakar Charitable Foundation$50K
- The Bill and Judith Rubinstein Charitable Foundation$50K
- The Atid Charitable Foundation$47K
- Mizrachi Organization Of Canada$45K
- Jewish Russian Speaking Community of Toronto$38K
- The Aulis Charitable Foundation$28K
- Chabad Lubavitch of Richmond Hill$27K
- The Joseph Rubin Foundation$24K
- Abraham Bleeman Foundation$20K
- Abraham Bleeman Foundation$20K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$19K
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$18K
- The Goldberg Family Foundation$18K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9997 positions
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions72
- Total compensation, all staff$7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Aaron Ames (president); Ahuva Edell (director); Mordechai Katzman (vice president); Ezra Lauterpacht (treasurer); Devora Paskowitz (director); Hadassa Pertman (secretary); Dan Rabinovitch (director); Noam Samson (director); Aryeh Samuel (director); Jack Samuel (director); Chaim Sapirman (director); Daniella Silver (director); Jonathan Straus (vice president); Shana Strauss (director); Aliza Weiss (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bnei Akiva Schools’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119306009RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.