Jewish Family Services
Charitable organization · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 107534802RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($4,648,425) as filed with the CRA.
Jewish Family Services is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $5M in revenue and $4.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 10% from government, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $274K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 71% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 50 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The organizations provides therapeutic and bereavement counselling employment support senior advocy services newcomer services volunteer support community development short term financial support and provision of local cultural resource information.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5M | $4.6M | $4.4M | — | — | $706K |
| 2023 | $4.3M | $4.6M | $4.3M | — | — | $397K |
| 2022 | $3.9M | $4M | $3.6M | — | $11K | $730K |
| 2021 | $4M | $3.8M | $3.2M | $8 | — | $759K |
| 2020 | $3.8M | $3.4M | $3.1M | $7 | — | $602K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $274K from 13 charities:
- The Azrieli Foundation$116K
- Jewish Federation of Edmonton$70K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$20K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$11K
- Hadassah-Wizo Organization Of Canada$4,000
- The Edmonton Jewish Community Charitable Foundation$3,500
- Na'Amat Canada Inc.$3,300
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$1,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$500
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$255
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions50
- Total compensation, all staff$3.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Toby Rabinovitz (president); Linda Hartum (secretary); Barry Rosof (director); George Abrams (treasurer); Jeannette Hoffman (director); Ron Middleton (director); Ruth Coppens (director); Sarah Amato (director); Peter Silverstone (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Jewish Family Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107534802RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.