Gary & Maxie Bluestein Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · North York, Ontario · BN 131014136RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($893,478) as filed with the CRA.
Gary & Maxie Bluestein Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.5M in revenue and $893K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 41% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 82% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 196 qualified donees totalling $881K in 2024, the largest being $43K to The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Grants awarded to other qualified donees for religious charitable and educational purposes.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.5M | $893K | — | — | $876K | $21.3M |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $605K | — | — | $596K | $19.6M |
| 2022 | $2.1M | $555K | — | — | $551K | $17.9M |
| 2021 | $2.3M | $482K | — | — | $477K | $16.4M |
| 2020 | $3.1M | $450K | — | — | $445K | $14.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $881K to 196 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$43K
- Sinai Health Foundation$39K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$38K
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$36K
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$33K
- UHN Foundation$31K
- The Baycrest Centre Foundation$28K
- North York General Hospital Foundation$27K
- Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies$27K
- ST. Michael's and Providence Foundation$25K
- Canadian Shaare Zedek Hospital Foundation/fondation Canadienne de l'Hopital Shaare Zedek$22K
- The War Amputations of Canada$19K
- Israel Cancer Research Fund Fondation d'Israël pour la Recherche sur le Cancer$16K
- The Interactive Jewish Education Centre$15K
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$10K
- Canadian Shaare Zedek Hospital Foundation/fondation Canadienne de l'Hopital Shaare Zedek$10K
- ST. Michael's and Providence Foundation$10K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$10K
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$10K
- North York General Hospital Foundation$10K
- Israel Cancer Research Fund Fondation d'Israël pour la Recherche sur le Cancer$10K
- Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies$10K
- The Baycrest Centre Foundation$10K
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$10K
- The War Amputations of Canada$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gary Bluestein (president); Gordon Davidsen (secretary); Dennis Saxon (executive director); Madison Bluestein (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Gary & Maxie Bluestein Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131014136RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.