Hashomer Hatzair ('young Guard')
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118954205RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-10-31. Split of total expenditures ($769,836) as filed with the CRA.
Hashomer Hatzair ('young Guard') is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending October 31, 2024, it reported $818K in revenue and $770K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 33% from donations, 5% from government, 19% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $238K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 26% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 76% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $35K in 2024, the largest being $35K to N I F Canadian Charitable Trust. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $372K in 2020 to $818K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Summer camp winter camp march break camp year round educational activities community events and the heart to heart program
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $818K | $770K | $544K | $98K | $35K | $323K |
| 2023 | $853K | $879K | $599K | $138K | — | $275K |
| 2022 | $701K | $746K | $531K | $79K | — | $301K |
| 2021 | $849K | $615K | $430K | $70K | — | $345K |
| 2020 | $372K | $343K | $194K | $59K | — | $111K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $35K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $238K from 12 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$75K
- Canadahelps Canadon$75K
- Aqueduct Foundation$50K
- The Azrieli Foundation$11K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$10K
- Shawna Goodman & Todd Sone Family Foundation$4,880
- United Way of Greater Toronto$3,375
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$2,740
- Federation Cja$2,600
- Saul S. Abracen & Family Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Foundation for Pioneering Israel$1,000
- BenefAction Foundation$300
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$277K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mattan Lustgarten (member); Tal Stramer (member); Joseph Kates Rose (member); Maya Biderman (member); Miriam Schachter (board president); Stephen Skryzdlo (member); Lauren Schreiber Sasaki (member); Hannah Cohen (member); Josh Martow (member); Dahlia Benedikt (member); Kevin Sachs (member); Omer Holzinger (member); Rose Levenson (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hashomer Hatzair ('young Guard')’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118954205RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.