Jewish Federation of Ottawa
Public foundation · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 833229743RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($8,309,245) as filed with the CRA.
Jewish Federation of Ottawa is a public foundation based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $9.6M in revenue and $8.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 41% from donations, 54% from other charities. In 2024, 28 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5.2M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 15% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 27 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 27 qualified donees totalling $4.8M in 2024, the largest being $2.4M to Uia of Canada Inc.. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Conduct an annual fundraising campaign and distribute funds for charitable educational cultural recreational and religious purpose in the jewish community in ottawa and certain organization through a planning budgeting and education process.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.6M | $8.3M | — | $283K | $5.2M | $6.7M |
| 2023 | $7.6M | $7.2M | $2.3M | $376K | $3.9M | $6.3M |
| 2022 | $7.6M | $6.9M | $2M | $358K | $4M | $6M |
| 2021 | $8.7M | $7.6M | $1.3M | $343K | $5.5M | $5.2M |
| 2020 | $6.9M | $6.7M | $1.4M | $206K | $4.3M | $4.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4.8M to 27 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Uia of Canada Inc.$2.4M
- The Ottawa Jewish Community School$562K
- Synagogue and Jewish Community Centre of Ottawa$386K
- Jewish Family Services$384K
- Jewish Community Campus of Ottawa Inc.$310K
- Hillel Lodge Long-Term CARE Foundation (ottawa) la Fondation des Soins de Longue Durée Hillel Lodge (ottawa)$240K
- Torah Academy of Ottawa (day School of Ottawa)$139K
- Tamir$89K
- Building a Jewish Tomorrow$57K
- The Jewish Reform Congregation of Ottawa-Temple Israel$48K
- Camp B'Nai B'Rith of Ottawa Incorporated$28K
- Jewish Education Through Torah (jet)$27K
- Ottawa Modern Jewish School$22K
- Ottawa Torah Centre Chabad$21K
- Chabad Student Network of Ottawa$21K
- Leket Canada$18K
- Kehillat Beth Israel Congregation$15K
- Active Jewish Adults (AJA) 50+$13K
- Congregation Machzikei Hadas$13K
- The Jewish Youth Library of Ottawa$7,400
- Ne'Eman Foundation Canada$7,000
- Congregation Beit Tikvah of Ottawa$5,387
- Canadian Friends of Alyn$3,000
- The Canadian Friends of Ezrath Nashim Herzog Hospital$3,000
- Sephardi Association of Ottawa/association Sepharade d'Ottawa$2,000
Received $5.2M from 28 charities:
- The Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation$1.6M
- Danbe Foundation Inc.$914K
- The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation$556K
- Conam Charitable Foundation$504K
- The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation$464K
- The Stephen and Jocelyne Greenberg Family Foundation$231K
- Jewish Community of Ottawa Development Foundation$189K
- WCPD Foundation$164K
- The Clematis Foundation$151K
- The Shabinsky Family Foundation$100K
- Steven and Linda Kerzner Family Foundation$82K
- The Azrieli Foundation$58K
- BenefAction Foundation$54K
- Federation Cja$46K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$22K
- Aqueduct Foundation$20K
- United Israel Appeal of Canada Inc$13K
- Trust Under the Will of Jacob Freedman Charitable Foundation$10K
- Polisuk Family Foundation$9,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$8,760
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$7,500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$6,413
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,309
- Gelmont Foundation/Fondation Gelmont$5,000
- Adarsan Tzedakah Foundation$1,800
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
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions27
- Total compensation, all staff$2.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2023 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Adam Silver (president & ceo); Karen Palayew (chair); Danya Vered (vice chair); Kevin Barwin (secretary); Adam Zaret (treasurer); Tal Scher (board member); Jeff Laks (board member); Leila Ages (board member); Gillian Presner (board member); Samatha Sigler (board member); Marci Surkes (board member); Alice Retik (board member); Marina Milyavskaya (board member); Joelle Assaraf (board member); Ian Sherman (past chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Jewish Federation of Ottawa’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 833229743RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.