Mesivta Thornhill
Publicly funded institution · Thornhill, Ontario · BN 779551506RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($636,864) as filed with the CRA.
Mesivta Thornhill 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $593K in revenue and $637K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 54% from donations, 38% from other charities. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $162K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 76% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $4,000 in 2024, the largest being $4,000 to Shmuel Zahavy Cheder Chabad School. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $888 in 2022 to $593K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
A. To advance religion by establishing and maintaining a religious school of instruction on the subject of judaism for youth. B. To advance education by establishing and operating a secondary school for jewish youth. C. To advance education by providing publicly available scholarships bursaries and other forms of financial assistance to students attending mesivta thornhill. D. To undertake activities ancillary and incidental to the attainment of the above charitable purposes. E. To receive and maintain a fund or fund and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from ti…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2022–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $593K | $637K | $603K | — | $4,000 | -$47K |
| 2023 | $601K | $605K | $605K | — | — | -$2,605 |
| 2022 | $888 | $26 | — | — | — | $862 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4,000 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $162K from 5 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
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$470K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Baruch Zaltzman (director); Larry Danzinger (director); Stephen Maizels (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mesivta Thornhill’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 779551506RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.