Building a Jewish Tomorrow
Charitable organization · Thornhill, Ontario · BN 896717352RR0001 · Support of Religion
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($6,047,107) as filed with the CRA.
Building a Jewish Tomorrow is a charitable organization based in Thornhill, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $6.7M in revenue and $6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 69% from donations, 31% from other charities. In 2024, 84 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.7M.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 14% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 93% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $250,000–299,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 27 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 7 qualified donees totalling $17K in 2024, the largest being $12K to Canadian Friends of Yeshivat Aish Hatorah. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.5M in 2020 to $6.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Youth groups independent schools and boards cultural programs and place of worship.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.7M | $6M | $3.6M | $1.5M | $17K | $2.7M |
| 2023 | $4.9M | $4.9M | $4.3M | $394K | $1,000 | $2.1M |
| 2022 | $4.4M | $4.5M | $3.9M | $439K | $19K | $2M |
| 2021 | $3.9M | $2.1M | $1.9M | $154K | $11K | $2.1M |
| 2020 | $3.5M | $3.2M | $3M | $8,346 | $700 | $403K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $17K to 7 qualified donees:
- Canadian Friends of Yeshivat Aish Hatorah$12K
- Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto Congregation$3,200
- Canadian Magen David Adom for Israel/Magen David Adom Canadien pour Israel$1,015
- Priority-1 Outreach Program Foundation for Judaism$250
- Bikur Cholim$130
- The Toronto Sephardic Kollel$120
- Yeshivas Keser Torah$120
Received $2.7M from 84 charities:
- Jewish Literacy Foundation of Canada$550K
- The Friedberg Charitable Foundation$298K
- Federation Cja$284K
- The DR. Wolf Lebovic Charitable Foundation$200K
- The Jewish Legacy Charitable Foundation$134K
- The Meyer and Idelle Weinstock Charitable Foundation$125K
- The Dan-Hytman Family Foundation$100K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$95K
- The Daniel and Vera Rubinstein Charitable Foundation$72K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$61K
- Jewish Federation of Ottawa$57K
- Diamond Foundation$50K
- Silver Family Charitable Foundation$50K
- Heitner Charitable Foundation$41K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$31K
- The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation$30K
- My Charity Fund$29K
- Ohr Chaya Charitable Organization$28K
- The Burning Bush Foundation$25K
- Fieldgate Cares Foundation$25K
- The Chaim Moshe Friedman Memorial Fund$24K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$22K
- The George Hofstedter Family Foundation$20K
- The Sharing Foundation$20K
- The Serruya Family Foundation$18K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions27
- Total compensation, all staff$3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Zale Newman (director); Laurence Zeifman (chairman); Glenn Black (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Building a Jewish Tomorrow’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 896717352RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.