Jewish Community of Ottawa Development Foundation
Public foundation · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 883219768RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,698,941) as filed with the CRA.
Jewish Community of Ottawa Development Foundation is a public foundation based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.8M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 47% from other charities. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1,048.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 79% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 17 qualified donees totalling $1.5M in 2024, the largest being $370K to Moral Arc Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $595K in 2020 to $1.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Fundraising and allocation of investment income to support a school a community centre and a long-term care facility
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.8M | $1.7M | — | — | $1.7M | $5.9M |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.3M | — | — | $1.3M | $5.8M |
| 2022 | -$424K | $617K | — | — | $571K | $5.7M |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $997K | — | — | $947K | $6.8M |
| 2020 | $595K | $695K | — | — | $650K | $6.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- From other charities$858,836
- Investment income$824,085
- Receipted donations$2,207
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 $1.5M to 17 qualified donees:
- Moral Arc Foundation$370K
- Canadian Friends of Yad Sarah$250K
- Jewish Federation of Ottawa$189K
- Bnei Akiva Schools$150K
- The Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation$127K
- Netivot Hatorah Day School$75K
- Ottawa Torah Centre$70K
- Fondation des Instituts Juifs Orthodoxes$70K
- Hillel Lodge Long-Term CARE Foundation (ottawa) la Fondation des Soins de Longue Durée Hillel Lodge (ottawa)$51K
- Synagogue and Jewish Community Centre of Ottawa$32K
- Jewish Family Services of Ottawa$31K
- Camp B'Nai B'Rith of Ottawa Incorporated$23K
- Beit Midrash Zichron Dov$20K
- Chai Lifeline (canada) Inc.$15K
- Ten Yad of Ottawa/ Ten Yad d'Ottawa$1,980
- Congregation Beit Tikvah of Ottawa$1,800
- Chabad-Lubavitch of Ottawa$1,800
Received $1,048 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Danya Veered (treasurer); Bernard Dolansky (director); Roger Greenberg (chair); Stephen Victor (director); Stephen Greenberg (director); Adam Silver (ceo); Mark Gruner (cfo).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Jewish Community of Ottawa Development Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 883219768RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.