Bnos Chaya
Publicly funded institution · North York, Ontario · BN 754936490RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,206,242) as filed with the CRA.
Bnos Chaya is a charitable organization based in North York, 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 July 31, 2024, it reported $2.2M in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 63% from donations, 6% from government, 29% from other charities. In 2024, 36 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $859K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 90% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 8 qualified donees totalling $73K in 2024, the largest being $22K to Mosdos Bobov. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
To advance education by establishing and operating an elementary school for girls that provides secular education and also teaches the culture associated with judaism. To advance religion by establishing and operating an elementary school for girls that teaches the religious tenets doctrines and observances associated with judaism.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.2M | $2.2M | $2.1M | — | $73K | $2.3M |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $1.9M | $1.8M | — | $37K | $2.3M |
| 2022 | $2.2M | $1.7M | $1.6M | — | $18K | $2M |
| 2021 | $2.4M | $1.5M | $1.5M | — | $15K | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $1.6M | $1.2M | $5,001 | $283K | $598K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $73K to 8 qualified donees:
Received $859K from 36 charities:
- Heitner Charitable Foundation$153K
- The Eugene and Eva Kohn Family Foundation$100K
- Congregation Chasidei Bobov$93K
- The Albert & Egosah Reichmann Family Foundation$50K
- The Nexgen Charitable Foundation$41K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$40K
- Torah Umesorah Canada$40K
- The Chaim Moshe Friedman Memorial Fund$38K
- Zolty Charitable Foundation$38K
- The F&R Hauer Charitable Foundation$35K
- The Daniel and Vera Rubinstein Charitable Foundation$31K
- Moral Arc Foundation$28K
- The George Hofstedter Family Foundation$21K
- The B&C Zy Gezunt Charitable Foundation$18K
- Maimonides Educational Foundation$15K
- The Reta & Max Merkur Foundation$15K
- The Bluewater Benevolence Foundation$12K
- The Koenig Family Foundation$10K
- The Rothschild Charitable Foundation$10K
- The Jewish Legacy Charitable Foundation$10K
- Chevra Oseh Chesed Financial Assistance Organization$10K
- Zichron Binyomin Charity Foundation$8,832
- Matan Bsayser Foundation$7,800
- A.M. Foundation$5,415
- K'Hal Toras Chesed$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Yehoshua Fuhrer (rabbi); Samuel Lemel (treasurer); Leibel Schaya (secretary); Bernard Heitner (president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bnos Chaya’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 754936490RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.