Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 108155797RR0002 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($76,423,074) as filed with the CRA.
Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $131.4M in revenue and $76.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 64% from donations, 10% from other charities. In 2024, 45 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $9.5M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 59% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 93% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 634 qualified donees totalling $69.6M in 2024, the largest being $34.2M to United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The jewish foundation of greater toronto receives manages and invests funds as well as disburses grants to qualified donees. Using a research-driven approach the jewish foundation of greater toronto strategically distributes to community organizations in order to nurture a thriving jewish community for today and generations to come. The foundation brings donors and families together with community leaders through educational programs that help them make the most of their charitable giving.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $131.4M | $76.4M | — | $1.3M | $69.6M | $751.4M |
| 2023 | $113.2M | $55.4M | — | $1M | $48.2M | $656.8M |
| 2022 | $84.3M | $59.4M | — | $1.1M | $52.1M | $585M |
| 2021 | $138.6M | $45.7M | — | $889K | $39.8M | $607.2M |
| 2020 | $90.4M | $45.9M | — | $788K | $41.7M | $453.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $69.6M to 634 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$34.2M
- Winograd Family Foundation$7.5M
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$1.3M
- United Israel Appeal of Canada Inc$1.2M
- Jewish Free Loan Toronto$1.1M
- Mizrachi Organization Of Canada$979K
- Sinai Health Foundation$941K
- Jewish Family and Child Service of Greater Toronto$759K
- One Family Fund Canada$510K
- The Holy Blossom Temple Foundation$502K
- The Baycrest Centre Foundation$470K
- The Canadian Zionist Cultural Association$463K
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$462K
- IDF Widows and Orphans Canada$460K
- United Hatzalah Canada$433K
- Anne & Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto$406K
- The Canadian Society for the Weizmann Institute of Science$383K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$339K
- Neshama Hospice$336K
- Ne'eman Foundation Canada$331K
- Canadian Magen David Adom for Israel/Magen David Adom Canadien pour Israel$329K
- Bialik Hebrew Day School$299K
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$286K
- UHN Foundation$278K
- Holy Blossom Temple$276K
Received $9.5M from 45 charities:
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$6.1M
- Shiff Family Charitable Foundation$1.1M
- Conam Charitable Foundation$400K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$303K
- WCPD Foundation$288K
- The Amayn Charitable Foundation$275K
- Daat Charitable Foundation$200K
- Binah Charitable Foundation$200K
- THE IRA GLUSKIN AND MAXINE GRANOVSKY GLUSKIN CHARITABLE FOUNdation$120K
- The Toronto Cantorial Trust Fund$95K
- United Israel Appeal of Canada Inc$54K
- The Willie and Mildred Fleischer Charitable Foundation$50K
- Rayjo Charitable Trust$50K
- Hyman Family Foundation$50K
- The Jay and Barbara Hennick Family Foundation$35K
- The Estaron Foundation$30K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$28K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$25K
- Larry And Judy Tanenbaum Family Foundation$18K
- Moses & Temara Tobe Foundation Inc.$18K
- The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba$16K
- Larry And Judy Tanenbaum Family Foundation$15K
- The Harold and Paul Chitel Charitable Foundation$11K
- The Tova and Alex Hartman Family Foundation$10K
- Larry And Judy Tanenbaum Family Foundation$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jeffrey Rosenthal (director); Jack Frieberg (director); Kenneth Tanenbaum (director); Michael Diamond (vice chair); Leonard Abramsky (director); Nurit Richulsky (secretary); Errol Tenebaum (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108155797RR0002), or read how we compute the receipt.