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.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$562,200
- Investment income$17,000
- Other income$2,438
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
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.