Institute for Advanced Talmudic and Halachic Studies
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 824305551RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,386,091) as filed with the CRA.
Institute for Advanced Talmudic and Halachic 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $2.2M in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 29% from donations, 69% from other charities. In 2024, 64 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.6M.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 56% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $9,871 in 2024, the largest being $8,026 to Achim Toronto. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.2M in 2020 to $2.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Established and operated as an institution of jewish training and education particularly in the fields of rabbinic talmudic halachic studies.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.2M | $1.4M | $1.2M | — | $9,871 | $7.4M |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $1.3M | $988K | — | $41K | $6.6M |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $1.2M | $869K | — | $7,746 | $5.8M |
| 2021 | $4.3M | $1.1M | $735K | — | $11K | $4.5M |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $736K | — | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $9,871 to 2 qualified donees:
Received $1.6M from 64 charities:
- Jack and Doris Bistricer Charitable Foundation$286K
- The Jewish Legacy Charitable Foundation$215K
- The Dan-Hytman Family Foundation$115K
- The Gross Family Foundation$100K
- The Mesora Charitable Foundation$89K
- The Allan and Susan Seidenfeld Charitable Foundation$72K
- The Rothfam Foundation$50K
- The E Foundation$39K
- The Daniel and Vera Rubinstein Charitable Foundation$36K
- The Chaim Moshe Friedman Memorial Fund$36K
- Zolty Charitable Foundation$35K
- The Almond Tree Foundation$35K
- Linas Tzedek Charitable Foundation$33K
- Fieldgate Cares Foundation$30K
- The F&R Hauer Charitable Foundation$28K
- Shimon & Deena Smursz Charitable Foundation$26K
- The Almond Tree Foundation$25K
- The B&C Zy Gezunt Charitable Foundation$24K
- S & Y Foundation$23K
- The 200 Foundation$18K
- Abraham Bleeman Foundation$18K
- Rachel Bitton Charitable Foundation$17K
- The George Hofstedter Family Foundation$16K
- Heitner Charitable Foundation$15K
- J & H Feldman Charitable Foundation$15K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$80K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Barry Reichmann (director); Ben Friedman (director); Ezriel Yehuda Gestetner (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Institute for Advanced Talmudic and Halachic Studies’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 824305551RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.