Hamilton Jewish Federation
Public foundation · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 119276764RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($3,454,362) as filed with the CRA.
Hamilton Jewish Federation is a public foundation based in Hamilton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $3M in revenue and $3.5M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from donations. In 2024, 24 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 52% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 11 qualified donees totalling $1.3M in 2024, the largest being $618K to The Hamilton Hebrew Academy Zichron Meir. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.5M in 2020 to $3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Raise and distribute charitable funds to registered non-profit service providers (ie. Food banks social service providers community centers and education providers)
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3M | $3.5M | $1.7M | — | $1.3M | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $1.9M | $2.4M | $1.1M | — | $894K | $1.7M |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $1.9M | $760K | — | $833K | $2M |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.5M | — | $975K | $2M |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $493K | — | $823K | $1.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.3M to 11 qualified donees:
- The Hamilton Hebrew Academy Zichron Meir$618K
- The Jewish Social Services of Hamilton Inc.$395K
- The Kehila Jewish Day School$113K
- United Israel Appeal of Canada Inc$76K
- Temple Anshe Sholom$39K
- B'nai B'rith Youth Organization of Canada$20K
- Adas Israel Synogogue$20K
- Shalom Village Foundation$19K
- Hillel Ontario$11K
- Yeshiva of Hamilton$8,460
- Beth Jacob Synagogue$3,050
Received $1.1M from 24 charities:
- Hamilton Jewish Communal Projects$350K
- The Arthur and Margaret Weisz Family Foundation$308K
- The Allen and Milli Gould Family Foundation$126K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$100K
- United Israel Appeal of Canada Inc$68K
- Canada Gives$66K
- The Azrieli Foundation$23K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$7,500
- The Herb and Cece Schreiber Family Foundation$7,000
- The Max and Larry Enkin Family Foundation$6,000
- The Kavelman-Fonn Foundation$5,400
- BenefAction Foundation$5,118
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,922
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,433
- The Albert Abrum Lager Foundation$2,100
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,000
- Moses & Temara Tobe Foundation Inc.$1,800
- Klass Foundation$1,800
- Alexander E Grossman Foundation$1,000
- The Jeremy & Judith Freedman Family Foundation$360
- The Edwin and Miriam Merkur Charitable Foundation$180
- Andrew and Leslie Hoffman Family Foundation$100
- Moshe & Guta Szenicer Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$622K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Howard Brown (board member); Howard Eisenberg (past president); Romy Friedman (board member); Jackie Levin (board member); Adam Norris (board member); Joshua Rauchwerger (vice president); Jamie Richter (board member); Lorne Rochwerg (treasurer); Ben Shefter (rabbi); Jason Waxman (president); Laura Wolfson (board member); Inbal Chaimovitz (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hamilton Jewish Federation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119276764RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.