Nathan & Shani Bleeman Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 890643547RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($662,925) as filed with the CRA.
Nathan & Shani Bleeman Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.1M in revenue and $663K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 98% from donations. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $579K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 86% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 62 qualified donees totalling $656K in 2024, the largest being $165K to Moral Arc Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $192K in 2020 to $1.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Advancement of religious education and relief of poverty
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $663K | — | — | $656K | $503K |
| 2023 | $716K | $648K | — | — | $647K | $67K |
| 2022 | $942K | $964K | — | — | $959K | -$485 |
| 2021 | $287K | $255K | — | — | $246K | $21K |
| 2020 | $192K | $192K | — | — | $186K | -$12K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$1,075,940
- Investment income$22,568
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $656K to 62 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Moral Arc Foundation$165K
- Bais Yaakov Elementary School$106K
- Yeshiva Yesodei Hatorah$99K
- Ner Israel-Joseph (j.t.) Tanenbaum Yeshivah College of Toronto$53K
- Beth Jacob High School for Girls$40K
- Kav Shalom KHM$30K
- Canadian Friends of Neve Yerushalayim$20K
- Zichron Binyomin Charity Foundation$14K
- VMM Zichron Chaim Charity$11K
- B'Nai Zion Charity Fund$10K
- Beth Chabad Israeli Community Centre$10K
- Misaskim Canada$8,015
- The Toronto Lakewood Minyan$7,860
- The Toronto Lakewood Minyan$6,000
- Kollel Toras Moshe$5,000
- Kesher Outreach Organization$5,000
- Congregation MBG$5,000
- Halacha Institute of Toronto$5,000
- Yeshiva Mishkan Yosef$5,000
- The Institute of Torah Education$5,000
- Torah Umesorah Canada$5,000
- Canadian Foundation for the Education and Welfare of Jews Ofthe C I S$4,000
- Kollel Daf Yomi Institute$3,610
- Torath Emeth Jewish Centre$3,050
- Thornhill Torah Educational Centre$2,500
Received $579K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nathan Bleeman (president); Shani Bleeman (vice president); Aaron Bleeman (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nathan & Shani Bleeman Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890643547RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.