Nathan and Lily Silver Family Foundation
Private foundation · North York, Ontario · BN 119051340RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,165,202) as filed with the CRA.
Nathan and Lily Silver Family Foundation is a private foundation based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $4.4M in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 57% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 72% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 143 qualified donees totalling $2.1M in 2024, the largest being $409K to United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2M in 2020 to $4.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The Foundation through its activities of receiving managing & disbursing funds supports other qualified donees involved in a variety of charitable activities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.4M | $2.2M | — | — | $2.1M | $15M |
| 2023 | $3.1M | $1.9M | — | — | $1.8M | $12.8M |
| 2022 | $2.8M | $2M | — | — | $1.9M | $11.6M |
| 2021 | $2.1M | $2M | — | — | $1.9M | $15.2M |
| 2020 | $2M | $2.1M | — | — | $2M | $15.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.1M to 143 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$409K
- Moral Arc Foundation$274K
- Mizrachi Organization Of Canada$155K
- United Israel Appeal of Canada Inc$94K
- The Jerusalem Foundation of Canada Inc. la Fondation Jerusalem du Canada Inc.$59K
- Canada Charity Partners$50K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$50K
- The Jewish Theological Society of Canada$44K
- Canadian Friends of Alin Beit Noam Society$40K
- Jewish Free Loan Toronto$30K
- Canadian Friends of the Menachem Begin Heritage Foundation$26K
- Save a Child's Heart Foundation$25K
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation$25K
- Kav Shalom KHM$23K
- Ne'eman Foundation$22K
- Kehilla Residential Programme$21K
- Leket Canada$21K
- VMM Zichron Chaim Charity$20K
- The Canadian Friends of Ezrath Nashim Herzog Hospital$20K
- United Way of Halton & Hamilton$20K
- Ve'Ahavta$20K
- Canadian Friends of Bar-Ilan University$20K
- Canadian Friends of the Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind$18K
- North York Harvest Food Bank$17K
- Lincoln Centre for Human Rights Research$17K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lawrence Lubin (vp secretary & director); Eileen Silver (vp asst secretary & director); Shoel Silver (president & director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nathan and Lily Silver Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119051340RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.