Jewish Federation of British Columbia
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 118974278RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($32,619,080) as filed with the CRA.
Jewish Federation of British Columbia is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $48.7M in revenue and $32.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 33% from donations, 46% from other charities. In 2024, 76 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $15.4M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 19% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 35 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 165 qualified donees totalling $19.3M in 2024, the largest being $10.7M to United Israel Appeal of Canada Inc. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $8.9M in 2020 to $48.7M in 2024.
In its own words
1) Operation of Annual Jewish Federation Campaign 2) Allocation of campaign proceeds to beneficiary agencies 3) Planning activity related to local community services youth activities art and culture and community building 4) Development of community leadership 5) Ongoing development of community endowment funds 6) Cultural and educational programming related to Israel and Overseas Jewish Communities 7) Coordination of Jewish Services to support local schools.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $48.7M | $32.6M | $3.1M | $2.8M | $19.4M | $100.4M |
| 2023 | $26.9M | $22.6M | $1.2M | $2.7M | $11.2M | $83.3M |
| 2022 | $23.5M | $19.3M | $1.5M | $1.4M | $12M | $79.1M |
| 2021 | $30.3M | $15.1M | $1.5M | $2.2M | $10.5M | $74.9M |
| 2020 | $8.9M | $16.1M | — | — | $10M | $59.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $19.3M to 165 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- United Israel Appeal of Canada Inc$10.7M
- Jewish Family Services Agency of Vancouver$2.5M
- Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver$1.1M
- Maimonides School Society$557K
- Vancouver Talmud Torah Association$523K
- Hillel BC Society$358K
- VGH & Ubc Hospital Foundation$270K
- Canadian Friends of Kishorit$250K
- Vancouver Hebrew Academy Society$202K
- The Richmond Jewish Day School Society of British Columbia$183K
- Habonim Dror Camp Miriam Society$133K
- Tikva Housing Society$129K
- Congregation Beth Israel$123K
- JEWISH NATIONAL FUND of CANADA$114K
- Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society for Education and Remembrance$109K
- Temple Sholom$103K
- Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights$100K
- Encompass Support Services Society$99K
- Camp Hatikvah Foundation$93K
- The Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia$93K
- Louis Brier Jewish Aged Foundation$88K
- Jewish Seniors Alliance of British Columbia Society$77K
- Congregation Schara Tzedeck$72K
- Hadassah-Wizo Organization Of Canada$66K
- The Kehila Society of Richmond$52K
Received $15.4M from 76 charities:
- Ronald S. Roadburg Foundation$2.4M
- ZLC Foundation$1.7M
- Diamond Foundation$1.4M
- The Joseph Segal Family Foundation$1.1M
- Al Roadburg Foundation$1M
- The Dayhu Family Foundation$951K
- The Ruth E. and William H. Ross Foundation$682K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$529K
- The Transformation Foundation$500K
- Oasis Foundation$484K
- The Arnold and Anita Silber Family Foundation$399K
- WCPD Foundation$265K
- Conam Charitable Foundation$246K
- The Morris and Helen Belkin Foundation$245K
- United Way British Columbia$243K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$240K
- The Zacks Family Charitable Foundation$212K
- R & J Stern Family Foundation$211K
- Zalkow Foundation$200K
- ZLC Foundation$200K
- Aqueduct Foundation$176K
- Mel and Geri Davis Charitable Trust$150K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$148K
- Weinberg Foundation Inc.$125K
- Kahn Foundation$117K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions35
- Total compensation, all staff$4.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Jewish Federation of British Columbia’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118974278RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.