College Beth Jacob pour les Enseignants Inc./beth Jacob Teachers' College Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Montreal, Quebec · BN 119145019RR0002 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,876,789) as filed with the CRA.
College Beth Jacob pour les Enseignants Inc./beth Jacob Teachers' College Inc. is a charitable organization based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 $2M in revenue and $1.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $255K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 74% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 13 qualified donees totalling $442K in 2024, the largest being $137K to VMM Zichron Chaim Charity. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to distribute food and aid to the needy sponsor lectures and courses make loans available to students provide courses to prepare jewish teachers to teach in jewish schools
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2M | $1.9M | $1.3M | — | $442K | $3.6M |
| 2023 | $2M | $2M | $1.3M | — | $673K | $3.5M |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.7M | $1.1M | — | $469K | $3.6M |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.2M | — | $408K | $3.7M |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $1.3M | $1.1M | — | $305K | $3.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $442K to 13 qualified donees:
- VMM Zichron Chaim Charity$137K
- Seminary Loan Fund$96K
- Avreichim Torah Institute$80K
- Kolel of Congregation Chaside Belz Umachzike Hadasz$80K
- Yeshiva Gedolah l'Ecole d'Etudes Superieures de Montreal/yesshiva Gedolah the School of Higher Learning of Montreal$19K
- Ezrath Torah Fund$18K
- Beth Jacob de Rav Hirschprung School$6,180
- Gruen Ohr Somayach congregation$1,940
- Toronto Cheder$1,446
- Be'Ad Ameinu$1,408
- Montréal Community Mikva / Mikva communautaire de montréal$360
- Beth Hamedrash l'Horaah$315
- Synagogue Keser Torah inc. / Keser Torah Synagogue inc.$200
Received $255K from 12 charities:
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$128K
- VMM Zichron Chaim Charity$68K
- Seminary Loan Fund$34K
- Agudath Israel of Montreal Inc$4,500
- Jack and Doris Bistricer Charitable Foundation$4,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,615
- Salzberg Family Foundation$3,000
- Zichron David and Pesie Grunberger Fund$2,870
- Fondation El Hashoresh Canada$2,600
- Hatzolas Yisroel D'Arizal$2,130
- The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba$1,154
- My Charity Fund$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$538K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jacob Abramczyk (vice-president); Sydney Aisenstark (president); David Muller (vice-president); Fred Pfeiffer (secretary-treasurer); Joseph Treisser (other).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from College Beth Jacob pour les Enseignants Inc./beth Jacob Teachers' College Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119145019RR0002), or read how we compute the receipt.