Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118969344RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($4,138,401) as filed with the CRA.
Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $4.7M in revenue and $4.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 28% from donations, 64% from other charities. In 2024, 74 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.9M.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 7% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $18K in 2024, the largest being $9,460 to Moral Arc Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Provide for training and education of rabbinical leaders and to provide for dissemination of religious learning in accordance to tenants of orthodox judaism. To accept donations gifts legacies and bequests.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.7M | $4.1M | $2.6M | $94K | $18K | $8.3M |
| 2023 | $5.6M | $5M | $2.8M | $449K | $151K | $7.7M |
| 2022 | $7M | $3.6M | $2.4M | $35K | $79K | $7.2M |
| 2021 | $4.2M | $3.1M | $2M | — | $27K | $3.8M |
| 2020 | $4.1M | $3.1M | $2.1M | — | $3,606 | $2.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $18K to 3 qualified donees:
Received $2.9M from 74 charities:
- The Meyer and Idelle Weinstock Charitable Foundation$590K
- Moral Arc Foundation$260K
- The Jewish Legacy Charitable Foundation$240K
- Fieldgate Cares Foundation$150K
- The B&C Zy Gezunt Charitable Foundation$145K
- Heitner Charitable Foundation$135K
- Zolty Charitable Foundation$129K
- J & H Feldman Charitable Foundation$127K
- The Chaim Moshe Friedman Memorial Fund$106K
- The Dan-Hytman Family Foundation$103K
- The F&R Hauer Charitable Foundation$98K
- The Matlow Family Charitable Trust$72K
- Jack and Doris Bistricer Charitable Foundation$61K
- The Weisfeld Family Charitable Foundation$50K
- Bierbrier Family Foundation$50K
- The Chaim Moshe Friedman Memorial Fund$41K
- Abarbanel Eiger Charitable Foundation$40K
- Ahavas Sholom Charitable Foundation$39K
- Abraham Bleeman Foundation$36K
- Chesed Charity Foundation$35K
- The George Hofstedter Family Foundation$32K
- My Charity Fund$30K
- The Toronto Lakewood Minyan$29K
- The Albert & Egosah Reichmann Family Foundation$25K
- The Mesora Charitable Foundation$23K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$762K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jacob Hirschman (executive director); Shlomo Miller (executive director); Yehuda Gestetner (director); Bentzion Friedman (director); Daniel Berkovits (director); Barry Reichmann (director); Nathan Walden (director); Frank Hauer (director); John Kaplan (director); Peter Moldaver (director); Jonathan Ostroff (director); Joseph Posen (director); Israel Schon (director); Seymour Shatz (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118969344RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.