ORT Canada
Public foundation · North York, Ontario · BN 118834910RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,084,646) as filed with the CRA.
ORT Canada is a public foundation based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 61% from other charities. In 2024, 24 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.3M.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 2% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 95% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $952K in 2020 to $2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Ort canada was created to raise funds and to promote vocational technical agricultural training and education amongst children and adults throughout the world. Donation were made to qualified donees supporting the areas noted above.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2M | $1.1M | $264K | $557K | — | $3.6M |
| 2023 | $1.9M | $1.2M | $236K | $723K | — | $2.7M |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $54K | $905K | — | $2M |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $54K | $394K | $856K | $2M |
| 2020 | $952K | $1.9M | $66K | $370K | $1.2M | $1.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.3M from 24 charities:
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$275K
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$275K
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$275K
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$175K
- The DR. Wolf Lebovic Charitable Foundation$100K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$81K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$21K
- Shawna Goodman & Todd Sone Family Foundation$10K
- De Fehr Foundation Inc.$10K
- Michael and Libby Goldgrub Foundation$10K
- Gary & Maxie Bluestein Charitable Foundation$9,700
- Maxwell Cummings Family Foundation$3,600
- Marsid Family Foundation$2,500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$2,358
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,250
- The Richter Charitable Foundation/la Fondation Charitable Richter$1,800
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$1,110
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
- Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family Fondation$860
- The Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation$846
- The Arnold and Anita Silber Family Foundation$500
- The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba$375
- ZLC Foundation$360
- Vancouver Foundation$180
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
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$369K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jacob Kincler (president); Michael Wasserman (director); Jeff Moness (director); Lorne Wiseman (director); Greg Wise (director); Jillian Chandler (director); Jonathan Goodman (director); Pavlo Reich (director); Marilyn Krelenbaum (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from ORT Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118834910RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.