Ottawa Torah Centre
Charitable organization · Nepean, Ontario · BN 839016771RR0001 · Judaism · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,552,133) as filed with the CRA.
Ottawa Torah Centre is a charitable organization based in Nepean, Ontario, classified by the CRA under judaism. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 40% from donations, 30% from government, 10% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $217K.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 0% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (7 positions in that band). The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $11K in 2024, the largest being $11K to CharityEx Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Organization is a learning centre and synagogue providing a varity of educational activities to strengthen jewish awareness and commitment.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.6M | — | — | $11K | $779K |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.3M | — | — | $11K | $540K |
| 2022 | $889K | $1.1M | — | — | $20K | $422K |
| 2021 | $834K | $1.1M | — | — | $267K | $153K |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $2.1M | — | — | $1.3M | $211K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $11K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $217K from 12 charities:
- Jewish Community of Ottawa Development Foundation$70K
- Adarsan Tzedakah Foundation$62K
- The Stephen and Jocelyne Greenberg Family Foundation$30K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- The Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation$14K
- WCPD Foundation$10K
- The Shabinsky Family Foundation$5,400
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,710
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$676
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$504
- Canadahelps Canadon$434
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$707K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Menachem Blum (vice president); Joshua Botnick (secretary); Steve Gordon (president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ottawa Torah Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 839016771RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.