Forest Hill Jewish Centre
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 815349311RR0001 · Judaism
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,527,296) as filed with the CRA.
Forest Hill Jewish Centre is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under judaism. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $3.1M in revenue and $2.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 81% from donations, 18% from other charities. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $756K.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 21% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 78% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $40K in 2024, the largest being $38K to Moral Arc Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The charity maintains a religious place of worship and educational facility promoting the study of judaism.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.1M | $2.5M | $1.8M | $244K | $40K | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $2.2M | $2.3M | $1.5M | $223K | $117K | $609K |
| 2022 | $7.4M | $6.8M | $1.6M | $94K | $4.8M | $720K |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.4M | $1.3M | $44K | $818 | $120K |
| 2020 | $2.2M | $2M | $1.7M | $59K | $88K | -$208K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $40K to 2 qualified donees:
Received $756K from 26 charities:
- The Jewish Legacy Charitable Foundation$260K
- Albert and Temmy Latner Family Foundation$199K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$86K
- The Tauba and Solomon Spiro Family Foundation$60K
- The Lynn and Brent Belzberg Foundation$38K
- Conam Charitable Foundation$20K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$18K
- Wise Family Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$14K
- BenefAction Foundation$10K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$10K
- Heitner Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$3,600
- My Charity Fund$3,494
- The SMDL Charitable Foundation$2,540
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$2,500
- The Lawrence Pollack Foundation$2,500
- Dor2Dor Charitable Foundation$1,800
- Canada Gives$1,500
- The Beverley and Samuel H. Cohen Family Foundation$1,000
- The Armisa Family Foundation$979
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$362
- Zichron Binyomin Charity Foundation$323
- SDV Family Foundation$200
- Messorah Tzedakah Foundation$150
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$692K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Kaplan (chairman); Jack Feintuch (director); Menachem Grauman (president); Jack Vidal (treasurer); Ron Somogyi (secretary); Michelle Friedman (director); Jack Eisenberger (director); Bernard Friedman (director); Glenn Black (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Forest Hill Jewish Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 815349311RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.