Maimonides School Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 886333194RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($8,411,315) as filed with the CRA.
Maimonides School Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, 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 $8.7M in revenue and $8.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 43% from donations, 19% from government, 18% from other charities. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3M.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 39 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 18 names.
In its own words
Operation of high school-religious studies and academic training
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.7M | $8.4M | $6M | $336K | — | $5.5M |
| 2023 | $8.1M | $7.8M | $5.6M | $313K | — | $3.9M |
| 2022 | $7.3M | $7.2M | $5M | — | — | $3.8M |
| 2021 | $7.1M | $6.6M | $4.8M | — | — | $4M |
| 2020 | $6.9M | $6.4M | $4.8M | $3,109 | — | $3.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3M from 23 charities:
- Aspen Foundation$2.1M
- Jewish Federation of British Columbia$557K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$123K
- ZLC Foundation$76K
- The Arnold and Anita Silber Family Foundation$37K
- Kahn Foundation$30K
- Phyliss and Irving Snider Foundation$25K
- The Dayhu Family Foundation$18K
- The Pekarsky Family Foundation$15K
- Keil Family Trust$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$10K
- Betty Averbach Foundation$8,000
- Vancouver Foundation$6,800
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$6,600
- Marsid Family Foundation$5,000
- Lohn Foundation$4,000
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$1,800
- Canada Gives$1,800
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,041
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$750
- The Zacks Family Charitable Foundation$750
- Mas Yukawa Foundation$250
- Vancouver Talmud Torah Foundation$200
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions39
- Total compensation, all staff$5.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ronit Berger (head of school support); Michael Berkson (representative on jwtb); Chana Charach (development committee); Jackie Cristall Morris (past president); Yaron David (finance & transition); Diane Friedman (co-president); Phil Gertsman (representative on jwtb); Roni Greif (treasurer); Alain Guez (co-president); Neville Israel (past president); Joel Kallner (finance committee); Joe Khalifa (house committee chair); Megan Laskin (development committee); Jonathan Leipsic (member at large); Brett Sandler (development & finance); Tracey Scher (secretary & chair: gov.); Joanna Wasel (development committee); Sherri Wise (development committee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Maimonides School Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 886333194RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.