Louis Brier Jewish Aged Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 118974302RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,104,086) as filed with the CRA.
Louis Brier Jewish Aged Foundation 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 $1.6M in revenue and $2.1M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 38% from donations, 22% from other charities. In 2024, 25 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $393K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $1.7M in 2024, the largest being $1.6M to Jewish Home for the Aged of British Columbia. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $4M in 2020 to $1.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Solicit donations bequest endowments or other gofts in order to foster the well-being of the aged jewish community of british columbia and to accumulate property in accordance with the specific purpose for which permission was granted by the department.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $2.1M | $9,056 | — | $1.7M | $19.7M |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $1.5M | — | — | $1.1M | $18.9M |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $1.5M | — | — | $1.1M | $19M |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1.6M | — | — | $1.4M | $18.4M |
| 2020 | $4M | $1.9M | — | — | $1.6M | $16.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.7M to 2 qualified donees:
Received $393K from 25 charities:
- Diamond Foundation$60K
- Al Roadburg Foundation$50K
- Phyliss and Irving Snider Foundation$50K
- Aqueduct Foundation$45K
- Zalkow Foundation$30K
- Music Heals Charitable Foundation$22K
- The Joseph Segal Family Foundation$18K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$16K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$16K
- Vancouver Foundation$14K
- Mel and Geri Davis Charitable Trust$13K
- Canadahelps Canadon$11K
- B.C.Turf Foundation$10K
- Kahn Foundation$10K
- Lohn Foundation$7,500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$5,016
- Marsid Family Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,000
- United Way British Columbia$1,800
- Marsid Family Foundation$1,800
- The Arnold and Anita Silber Family Foundation$1,800
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$1,050
- The Pekarsky Family Foundation$1,000
- The Chaim Zbar Foundation$500
- Rick's Heart Foundation$229
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$229K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Richard Cohen (chair invest committee); Marie Doduck (director); Michelle Karby (director); Harry Lipetz (president); Melvin Mos (secretary); Bernard Pinsky (director); Lee Simpson (immediate past president); David Zacks (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Louis Brier Jewish Aged Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118974302RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.