Chabad on the Avenue
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 813983012RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,377,666) as filed with the CRA.
Chabad on the Avenue is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $6M in revenue and $3.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 82% from donations, 17% from government. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.1M.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 99% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 8 qualified donees totalling $200K in 2024, the largest being $122K to Agudat Chasidei Chabad-Ontario. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.2M in 2020 to $6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Gan Shalom Day Camp; Gan Shalom Nursery School; Club Monday for Children with Special Needs; Alef Champ Hebrew School; Jewish Learning Institute; Family synagogue.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6M | $3.4M | $3.3M | $71K | $200K | $15M |
| 2023 | $3.7M | $3.1M | $2.6M | $82K | $26K | $12.2M |
| 2022 | $3.7M | $2.6M | $1.4M | $40K | — | $11.6M |
| 2021 | $3.4M | $1.8M | $759K | $25K | — | $10.5M |
| 2020 | $3.2M | $1.1M | $513K | $19K | — | $9.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $200K to 8 qualified donees:
- Agudat Chasidei Chabad-Ontario$122K
- Bais Chaya Mushkah School for Girls$31K
- Mesivta Lubavitch$14K
- Chabad of Great Neck$10K
- Camp Gan Israel Ontario$7,842
- Shmuel Zahavy Cheder Chabad School$7,269
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,380
- Chabad Lubavitch of Southern Ontario$1,909
Received $2.1M from 21 charities:
- The Ernest and Helen Singer Family Foundation$1.5M
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$200K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$164K
- Brookfield Partners Foundation$118K
- The Sonshine Family Foundation$25K
- Brookfield Partners Foundation$18K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$12K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$8,055
- Canada Gives$4,000
- My Charity Fund$2,600
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$2,500
- The George Hofstedter Family Foundation$1,800
- Chabad Lubavitch of Richmond Hill$1,360
- Shainhouse Family Charitable Foundation$1,000
- Chabad Lubavitch of Richmond Hill$1,000
- Chabad of Midtown$1,000
- Chabad Lubavitch On The East Side$492
- Zichron Binyomin Charity Foundation$228
- Chabad Lubavitch of the Waterloo Region$100
- Jewish Russian Speaking Community of Toronto$100
- Canadahelps Canadon$48
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$993K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Menachem Gansburg (director); Yosef Reinitz (director); Sholom Eizicovitz (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Chabad on the Avenue’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 813983012RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.