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.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Investment income$1,450,895
- Receipted donations$1,000,000
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
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.