Canadian Society for Yad Vashem
Charitable organization · North York, Ontario · BN 118836246RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,664,838) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Society for Yad Vashem is a charitable organization based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.4M in revenue and $3.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 63% from donations, 37% from other charities. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.5M.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 58% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.7M in 2020 to $3.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Holocaust education and public awareness programs by holding meetings receptions making of films and videos publications arranging for speakers monuments and other holocaust educations and remeberence
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.4M | $3.7M | $3.2M | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $2.8M | $2.2M | — | — | $2.1M |
| 2022 | — | — | $3.5M | — | — | — |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.9M | $1.4M | — | — | $2.4M |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.9M | $1.4M | $436K | — | $2.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.5M from 20 charities:
- The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation$677K
- The Asper Foundation$376K
- The Jay and Barbara Hennick Family Foundation$250K
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$100K
- The Willie and Mildred Fleischer Charitable Foundation$20K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$7,016
- Oasis Foundation$5,000
- Agudat Chasidei Chabad-Ontario$4,463
- Jewish Federation of British Columbia$3,600
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,291
- Shainhouse Family Charitable Foundation$1,000
- Sacks Family Foundation$1,000
- The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba$1,000
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$334
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$325
- United Way of Greater Toronto$322
- The Brown-Nusbaum Family Foundation$72
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$22
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
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$346K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Howard Sokolowski (director); Naomi Azeriel (director); Lou Greenbaum (director); Jeff Rubenstein (director); Fran Sonshine (director); Shael Rosenbaum (director); Israel Mida (director); Miguel Singer (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Society for Yad Vashem’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118836246RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.