Chabad of Midtown
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 879943611RR0001 · Judaism
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,142,595) as filed with the CRA.
Chabad of Midtown is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under judaism. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $7.3M in revenue and $6.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from donations, 59% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $208K.
Compared with 81 religious institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 36% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 56 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 36 qualified donees totalling $991K in 2024, the largest being $589K to CharityEx Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.6M in 2020 to $7.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Fosters the study of traditional judaism through programmes directed at adults and children.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.3M | $6.1M | $4.5M | — | $991K | $3.1M |
| 2023 | $5.8M | $5.7M | $3.4M | — | $1.8M | $1.9M |
| 2022 | $4.7M | $4.4M | $2.8M | — | $1.1M | $1.9M |
| 2021 | $4.3M | $4.7M | $2.8M | — | $1.5M | $1.6M |
| 2020 | $3.6M | $2.5M | $2.1M | — | $181K | $2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $991K to 36 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- CharityEx Foundation$589K
- The S. Clair Synagogue$180K
- Yeshivas Oholei Menachem Mendel Lubavitch$50K
- Chabad Lubavitch of Richmond Hill$35K
- Eitz Chaim Schools$25K
- Chabad of Danforth-Beaches$25K
- Bais Chaya Mushkah School for Girls$19K
- Mesivta Lubavitch Toronto$18K
- Institute for Lifelong Learning (ILL)$15K
- The Chai Centre$7,200
- Bais Chomesh High School for Girls$4,204
- Chabad Lubavitch of Southern Ontario$3,876
- Chabad Jewish Centre of Woodbridge$2,930
- Shmuel Zahavy Cheder Chabad School$2,048
- Chabad Lubavitch of the Waterloo Region$1,800
- Mosdos Bobov$1,550
- Mesivta Ohr Temimim Lubavitch$1,500
- Chabad Lubavitch of Downtown Toronto$1,500
- the ChaBaD house$1,111
- Chabad Student Network of Ottawa$1,000
- Chabad on the Avenue$1,000
- Chabad of Etobicoke$1,000
- Beth Chabad Israeli Community Centre$1,000
- Uptown CYP$500
- Chabad-Lubavitch of Regina Inc$500
Received $208K from 16 charities:
- The S. Clair Synagogue$123K
- 1-R32 Foundation$18K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$15K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$13K
- Chabad Lubavitch of Richmond Hill$5,950
- Conam Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Shainhouse Family Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The Edwin and Miriam Merkur Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Alexander E Grossman Foundation$5,000
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$3,600
- Toronto Foundation$3,600
- The Daniel and Vera Rubinstein Charitable Foundation$2,800
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,123
- Heitner Charitable Foundation$1,000
- My Charity Fund$585
- Maharam Tav Fund$180
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
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions56
- Total compensation, all staff$3.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Shmult Bernstein (treasurer); Nochum Sosover (secretary); Paul Solomons (president); Roman Nelman (director); Levi Yitzchok Altain (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Chabad of Midtown’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 879943611RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.