Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 108167313RR0001 · Public Amenities
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($11,287,677) as filed with the CRA.
Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $9.8M in revenue and $11.3M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 9% from other charities. In 2024, 35 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.6M.
Compared with 414 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 25% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 47 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 18 names.
In its own words
Programming includes cultural recreational ecucational and social services for children youth teens adults seniors and families. Activities include preschool daycare after school care & children programs fitness aquatics sports health & welness centre cultural & educational programs a jewish public library live theatre art gallery performing arts school and musical school
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.8M | $11.3M | $7.6M | $872K | — | $53.3M |
| 2023 | $37.3M | $13.5M | $7.1M | $931K | — | $56M |
| 2022 | $31M | $14.5M | $6.9M | $771K | — | $31.3M |
| 2021 | $12.9M | $9.4M | $7.1M | $556K | — | $14.9M |
| 2020 | $8.6M | $9.5M | $7.1M | $673K | — | $11.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.6M from 35 charities:
- Jewish Federation of British Columbia$1.1M
- Ronald S. Roadburg Foundation$377K
- Lohn Foundation$205K
- ZLC Foundation$196K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$190K
- Vancouver Foundation$181K
- Graham Lee Family Foundation$75K
- Spevakow Family Foundation Inc.$50K
- Aqueduct Foundation$43K
- Diamond Foundation$30K
- Phyliss and Irving Snider Foundation$30K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$24K
- Belzberg Family Foundation$20K
- April 1 Foundation$10K
- WCPD Foundation$9,000
- Betty Averbach Foundation$7,500
- JT Charitable Trust$7,500
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$6,650
- Al Roadburg Foundation$5,000
- P.A.I.D. Family Foundation$5,000
- The Dayhu Family Foundation$5,000
- Betty Averbach Foundation$5,000
- GMR Foundation$3,500
- Lutsky Family Foundation$2,800
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,580
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions47
- Total compensation, all staff$5.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lisa Averbach; Salomon Casseres; Cobi Dayan; Larry Garfinkel; Josh Gibbons; Jeffrey Goldberg; Jessica Hayden; Jacob Kojfman; Hartley Odwak; Lionel Raber; Alissa Segal; Zev Shafran; Jill Shore; Nancy Stern; Alvin Wasserman; Jonathan Weisman; Rebecca Winestock; Lawrence Zimmering.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108167313RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.