Jewish Literacy Foundation of Canada
Publicly funded institution · Thornhill, Ontario · BN 839400744RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,714,011) as filed with the CRA.
Jewish Literacy Foundation of Canada is a charitable organization based in Thornhill, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $728K in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 48% from donations, 42% from other charities. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $69K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 19% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 5 qualified donees totalling $561K in 2024, the largest being $550K to Building a Jewish Tomorrow. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $1.3M in 2020 to $728K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Teaching hebrew to those who wish to learn it.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $728K | $1.7M | $616K | $314K | $561K | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1.3M | $568K | $233K | $6,833 | $2.1M |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $1M | $821K | $133K | $3,092 | $1.8M |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $772K | $674K | $41K | $7,928 | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.1M | $76K | $4,992 | $814K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $561K to 5 qualified donees:
Received $69K from 4 charities:
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
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$597K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Moishe Posner (director); Glenn Black (director); Jack Eisenberger (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Jewish Literacy Foundation of Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 839400744RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.