Canadian Associates of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev Inc.
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 106869183RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($34,252,834) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Associates of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev Inc. is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $36.2M in revenue and $34.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 28% from donations, 58% from other charities. In 2024, 67 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $30.3M.
Compared with 74 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 78% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $18.2M in 2020 to $36.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 37 names.
In its own words
Public fundraising functions; face to face canvassing; public education functions; and contact with public through publications
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $36.2M | $34.3M | $1M | $947K | $31.4M | $21.6M |
| 2023 | $25M | $25.5M | $1.4M | $833K | $22.4M | $18.3M |
| 2022 | $18.1M | $18.7M | $1.1M | $730K | $16.3M | $18.8M |
| 2021 | $22.6M | $22.6M | $1M | $367K | $20.5M | $19.4M |
| 2020 | $18.2M | $18.2M | $959K | $613K | $16.2M | $16.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, September 30, 2024
- From other charities$20,985,471
- Other gifts$9,777,850
- Investment income$3,011,577
- Other income$2,039,996
- Receipted donations$396,772
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $30.3M from 67 charities:
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$21.3M
- The DR. Wolf Lebovic Charitable Foundation$5.3M
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$2.1M
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$250K
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$200K
- The Gerda Frieberg Charitable Foundation$150K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$137K
- Vancouver Foundation$129K
- Ronpro Foundation$100K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$87K
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$50K
- The Ruth E. and William H. Ross Foundation$45K
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$40K
- The David and Stacey Cynamon Family Foundation$36K
- The Azrieli Foundation$36K
- The George and Golda Fine Family Foundation$34K
- Jewish Federation of British Columbia$28K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$27K
- The Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Charitable Foundation$25K
- Abundance Canada$20K
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$20K
- Larry And Judy Tanenbaum Family Foundation$20K
- Shawna Goodman & Todd Sone Family Foundation$18K
- Israel Koschitzky Family Charitable Foundation$18K
- The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba$15K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Sylvain Abitbol (director/member); Robert Elman (vice president); Gordon Echenberg (director/member); Larry Nachshen (secretary); Toby Morantz (director/member); Janis Levine (director/member); Elliot Kohn (director/member); Susannah Dalfen (director/member); Eric Beutel (treasurer); Michael Spigelman (director/member); Gary Fine (director/member); Ralph Shepherd (director/member); Annette Oelbaum (director/member); Mitchell Oelbaum (national president); Regina Boxer (director/member); Victor Elias (director/member); Sidney Chelsky (director/member); Reuben Croll (quebec region chairman); Nechemia Cohen (director/member); Jack Altman (director/member); Sidney Brown (director/member); Barry Lipson (director/member); Morty Lober (director/member); Peggi Cohen Rabinovitch (director/member); Gail Palevsky (director/member); Debbie Estein (director/member); Jay Eidelman (director/member); Adam Korbin (director/member); David Dulberg (director/member); Diandra Etkin (director/member); Aaron Migie (director/member); Howard Morry (director/member); Natalie Stern (director/member); Larry Vickar (director/member); Thomas Hecht (director/member); Mark Zlotnik (director/member); Andrea Freedman (chief operating officer).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Associates of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106869183RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.