J & J Bitton Family Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Concord, Ontario · BN 769616079RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Religion
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($758,848) as filed with the CRA.
J & J Bitton Family Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Concord, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $582K in revenue and $759K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from donations.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 24 qualified donees totalling $529K in 2024, the largest being $178K to The Toronto Sephardic Kollel. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $300K in 2020 to $582K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $582K | $759K | $491 | — | $758K | $4.1M |
| 2023 | $4M | $50K | — | — | $50K | $4.4M |
| 2022 | — | $30K | — | — | $30K | $437K |
| 2021 | $228K | $61K | $811 | — | $60K | $467K |
| 2020 | $300K | — | — | — | — | $300K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $529K to 24 qualified donees:
- The Toronto Sephardic Kollel$178K
- Yismah Moshe Hevraj Pinto Charitable Society of Ontario$130K
- Magen David Sephardic Congregation$67K
- Paths of Torah School$48K
- Kollel Yad Yosef$26K
- Toronto Chesed Foundation$21K
- The Joe Dwek Ohr Haemet Sephardic School$16K
- Yismah Moshe Hevraj Pinto Charitable Society of Ontario$10K
- Mesivta Ohr Temimim Lubavitch$7,404
- Bais Yaakov of Thornhill$5,000
- Nahar Shalom$4,000
- Ohr Chaya Charitable Organization$2,600
- Mizrachi Organization Of Canada$2,600
- Sephardic Educational Foundation of Toronto$1,800
- The Tower of Light Children's Foundation Inc /la Fondation pour les Enfants Tour de Lumiere Inc.$1,800
- Canadian Friends of Yeshiva University$1,800
- Moral Arc Foundation$1,420
- Kav Shalom KHM$1,080
- Toronto Care Fund$1,000
- Communaute Juive Marocaine de Toronto$1,000
- Menucha Vesimcha$720
- B'Nai Zion Charity Fund$720
- Mosdos Bobov$540
- Rishone le Zion$180
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joseph Bitton (director); Jacques Bitton (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from J & J Bitton Family Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 769616079RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.