Canadian Friends of Bar-Ilan University
Charitable organization · North York, Ontario · BN 106846520RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,504,370) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Friends of Bar-Ilan University is a charitable organization based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $2.7M in revenue and $2.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 36% from donations, 64% from other charities. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $988K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 87% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $2M in 2024, the largest being $2M to Bar-Ilan University. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $8.2M in 2020 to $2.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Direct mail campaigns pledge collections solicitations and bequests
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.7M | $2.5M | — | $20K | $2M | $670K |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1.5M | — | — | $1.1M | $500K |
| 2022 | $5.3M | $5.5M | $5.5M | — | — | $275K |
| 2021 | $4.7M | $4.8M | $4.8M | — | — | $476K |
| 2020 | $8.2M | $8.4M | $8.2M | — | — | $368K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2M to 1 qualified donee:
- Bar-Ilan University$2M
Received $988K from 23 charities:
- The Weisfeld Family Charitable Foundation$500K
- Daat Charitable Foundation$130K
- Vancouver Foundation$75K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$71K
- The Goldberg Family Foundation$36K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$35K
- Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family Fondation$25K
- Mizrachi Organization Of Canada$21K
- Nathan and Lily Silver Family Foundation$20K
- The Harold and Paul Chitel Charitable Foundation$18K
- Lohn Foundation$15K
- Binah Charitable Foundation$10K
- Jewish Federation of British Columbia$7,588
- The Calgary Foundation$5,600
- The Reiter Family Foundation$5,000
- The Mireille and Murray Steinberg Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille Mireille et Muuray Steinberg$4,000
- The Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation$3,858
- Canada Gives$3,000
- The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba$1,225
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$1,103
- The George Hofstedter Family Foundation$500
- Canadahelps Canadon$390
- My Charity Fund$250
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$326K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Harold Spring (chair); David Walerstein (director); Israel Koschitzky (director); Joseph Shier (director); Norman Sternthal (director); Jonathan Ostro (treasurer); Natty Nashman (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Friends of Bar-Ilan University’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106846520RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.