Jewish Vocational Service of Metropolitan Toronto
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 107535015RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($17,894,451) as filed with the CRA.
Jewish Vocational Service of Metropolitan Toronto is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $18.6M in revenue and $17.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 88% from government, 6% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 114 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $11K in 2024, the largest being $11K to Children's Aid Foundation of Canada.
In its own words
JVS Toronto plays a vital role in Toronto and York Region ensuring that jobseekers reach their potential at work and employers build the workforce they need to be successful. Programs and services include a mix of general and specialized services to job seekers from all backgrounds and situations and employers from all sectors. JVS Toronto has extensive experience providing career exploration job search support employment recruitment mentoring job coaching and retention as well as vocational assessments delivered across nine locations. A team comprised of multi-disciplinary professionals …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $18.6M | $17.9M | $15.6M | $38K | $11K | $3.7M |
| 2023 | $18.2M | $17.3M | $15.3M | $41K | — | $2.6M |
| 2022 | $17.1M | $16.9M | $14.9M | $43K | $11K | $2.1M |
| 2021 | $16.2M | $15.8M | $13.9M | $37K | $0 | $1.9M |
| 2020 | $16.5M | $16.4M | $14.5M | $41K | $22K | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $11K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $1.1M from 14 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$558K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$352K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$75K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$33K
- Wagner Green Family Trust$25K
- Holdbest Foundation$15K
- Gary & Maxie Bluestein Charitable Foundation$9,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,343
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,435
- The Benjamin Foundation$3,489
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,876
- The Audrey Loeb and David Ross Foundation$1,500
- Kids Up Front Foundation (toronto)$40
- My Charity Fund$18
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
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions114
- Total compensation, all staff$10.5M
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 Vocational Service of Metropolitan Toronto’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107535015RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.