Chevra Oseh Chesed Financial Assistance Organization
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 861508174RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($723,911) as filed with the CRA.
Chevra Oseh Chesed Financial Assistance Organization is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $889K in revenue and $724K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 84% from donations, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 53 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $557K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 85% of peers.
It reported gifts to 19 qualified donees totalling $211K in 2024, the largest being $60K to Yeshivat Yesodei Hatora. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The charity distributes money to needy individuals or families to meet their basic daily needs such as rent clothes & food. In addition the charity distributes money to needy individuals or families to assist with medical emergencies or conditions where insufficient financial means exist. This includes the provision of financial assistance to pay for the medical expenses of needy applicants from outside of canada who comes to toronto for urgent care.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $889K | $724K | $507K | — | $211K | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $878K | $717K | $554K | — | $155K | $1.5M |
| 2022 | $800K | $633K | $443K | — | $179K | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $973K | $821K | $624K | — | $186K | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $808K | $650K | $577K | — | $63K | $1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $211K to 19 qualified donees:
- Yeshivat Yesodei Hatora$60K
- Moral Arc Foundation$52K
- Bikur Cholim$19K
- Yeshivas Oholei Menachem Mendel Lubavitch$15K
- Bnos Bais Yaakov High School$14K
- Shmuel Zahavy Cheder Chabad School$12K
- Bnos Chaya$10K
- Caring Kindness Charitable Organization$6,000
- The Toronto Sephardic Kollel$5,000
- Congregation Tiferes Yaakov$5,000
- The Institute of Torah Education$4,000
- The Institute of Torah Education$2,500
- VMM Zichron Chaim Charity$1,700
- Agudath Israel Congregation of Toronto$1,680
- Tomchei Shabbos of Montreal$1,000
- Congregation Chasidei Bobov$1,000
- Torah V'Avodah Minyan$696
- Talmudical Academy Of Toronto Mishkan HaTorah Charitable Trust$180
- Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Shmayahu$100
Received $557K from 53 charities:
- The Almond Tree Foundation$102K
- The Burning Bush Foundation$70K
- Ruchama Fraidel Relief Organization$50K
- Fieldgate Cares Foundation$30K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$26K
- Heitner Charitable Foundation$20K
- Mitzvah Charity Fund$20K
- The Shtiebel$20K
- The Reiter Family Foundation$19K
- Silver Family Charitable Foundation$15K
- The B&C Zy Gezunt Charitable Foundation$13K
- Gemilas Chesed of Clanton Park$12K
- Social Services and Communal Matters Fund$10K
- Kav Shalom KHM$10K
- Maymor Foundation$10K
- The S. Sigler Family Charitable Foundation$9,000
- The Amayn Charitable Foundation$9,000
- The Marder Family Foundation$9,000
- The F&R Hauer Charitable Foundation$8,600
- The Ari and Osnat Nemetz Family Foundation$8,100
- The Meyer and Idelle Weinstock Charitable Foundation$7,200
- Mae Day Foundation$7,000
- Jack and Doris Bistricer Charitable Foundation$6,800
- My Charity Fund$6,441
- Congregation Ger of Toronto$6,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Benzion Zlotnick (president); Robert Reich (secretary); Sol Goldreich (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Chevra Oseh Chesed Financial Assistance Organization’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 861508174RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.