Eitz Chaim Schools
Publicly funded institution · Thornhill, Ontario · BN 129799599RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($14,355,666) as filed with the CRA.
Eitz Chaim Schools is a charitable organization based in Thornhill, Ontario, 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $15.1M in revenue and $14.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 34% from donations, 10% from government, 42% from other charities. In 2024, 73 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5.8M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 25% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 88% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 163 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $11K in 2024, the largest being $11K to Social Services and Communal Matters Fund. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Eitz chaim operates schools for religious instruction and education of children from nursery school to grade eight for the purpose of their advancement in the jewish religion.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $15.1M | $14.4M | $11.4M | $265K | $11K | $11.9M |
| 2023 | $12.9M | $14.2M | $11.9M | $559K | — | $11.2M |
| 2022 | $12.6M | $13.9M | $11.5M | $440K | — | $12.5M |
| 2021 | $13.5M | $13M | $11.2M | $428K | — | $13.8M |
| 2020 | $12M | $13M | $11.1M | $715K | $13K | $13.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $11K to 2 qualified donees:
Received $5.8M from 73 charities:
- The Jewish Legacy Charitable Foundation$1.3M
- The Meyer and Idelle Weinstock Charitable Foundation$1.2M
- The Burning Bush Foundation$1M
- The Clyr Charitable Foundation$228K
- Abraham Bleeman Foundation$200K
- Heitner Charitable Foundation$175K
- My Charity Fund$160K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$128K
- Fieldgate Cares Foundation$122K
- Rayjo Charitable Trust$107K
- The Chaim Moshe Friedman Memorial Fund$95K
- The Almond Tree Foundation$94K
- Zolty Charitable Foundation$80K
- Loch Tay Foundation$75K
- Moral Arc Foundation$59K
- The Rothfam Foundation$51K
- The Dan-Hytman Family Foundation$50K
- The Albert & Egosah Reichmann Family Foundation$50K
- The George Hofstedter Family Foundation$48K
- Silver Family Charitable Foundation$41K
- The F&R Hauer Charitable Foundation$40K
- Miriam And Larry Robbins Foundation$36K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$25K
- Chabad of Midtown$25K
- Mashiyev Family Foundation$24K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9996 positions
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions163
- Total compensation, all staff$10.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Abe Gottesman (director); Joseph Rutman (director); Yehuda Belzberg (director); Raphael Alter (vice president); Moyshe Marder (director); Netanel Litchtenstein (director); David Posner (director); Aharon Lautepacht (director); Pace Goldman (director); Yosef Kurtz; Udi Grunwald (director); Eric Benofsky (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Eitz Chaim Schools’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129799599RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.