Jack and Doris Bistricer Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 896069689RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,660,348) as filed with the CRA.
Jack and Doris Bistricer Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.7M in revenue and $3.7M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $900K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 93% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 127 qualified donees totalling $3.7M in 2024, the largest being $1M to Canadian Friends of Yad Eliezer. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.7M | $3.7M | $6,763 | — | $3.7M | -$46.8M |
| 2023 | $2M | $17M | $7,106 | — | $16.9M | -$45.9M |
| 2022 | $4.2M | $16.3M | $81K | — | $16.1M | -$31.5M |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $10.4M | — | — | $10.4M | -$18.8M |
| 2020 | $2.3M | $6.3M | — | — | $6.3M | -$9.5M |
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$2,511,109
- Investment income$120,226
- Other income$38,235
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 $3.7M to 127 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Canadian Friends of Yad Eliezer$1M
- Institute for Advanced Talmudic and Halachic Studies$286K
- Zion Centre for Higher Education$205K
- Yeshivat Yesodei Hatora$202K
- Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Shmayahu$143K
- Kollel Daf Yomi Institute$136K
- Fieldgate Cares Foundation$107K
- Agudas Shomrei Hadas Jewish Community Services Inc$105K
- Canadian Friends of Igud Wiznitz$100K
- Yeshivah Toras Chaim$87K
- The Village Shul and Learning Center of Toronto$82K
- Moral Arc Foundation$79K
- Kayla's Children Centre$65K
- Kav Shalom KHM$63K
- Canadian Friends of Yeshiva Beth Hillel Bnai Brak$62K
- Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies$61K
- Chasdei Rivka$50K
- Torath Emeth Jewish Centre$45K
- Bais Yaakov Elementary School$41K
- Les Amis Canadiens du Seminaire Yeshivah Mirer de Jerusalem Inc./canadian Friends of the Seminary Yeshivah Mirer of Jerusalem Inc.$34K
- Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin$34K
- Canadian Friends of Yeshivat Aish Hatorah$34K
- Canadian Friends of Yad Eliezer$29K
- Hatzoloh Toronto$25K
- Canadian Jewish Social Services (CJSS)$25K
Received $900K from 1 charity:
- The Shtiebel$900K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Doris Bistricer (director); Jack Bistricer (director); Asher Bistricer (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Jack and Doris Bistricer Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 896069689RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.