Sabel Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 853104461RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($293,987) as filed with the CRA.
Sabel Family 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 $1.5M in revenue and $294K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 87% 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 81% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 28 qualified donees totalling $288K in 2024, the largest being $93K to VMM Zichron Chaim Charity. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to charitable organizations that are also registered under the canadian income tax act.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $294K | — | — | $288K | $4.4M |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $595K | — | — | $585K | $3.2M |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $274K | — | — | $270K | $2.5M |
| 2021 | $413K | $64K | — | — | $55K | $1.3M |
| 2020 | -$22K | $98K | — | — | $90K | $954K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $288K to 28 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- VMM Zichron Chaim Charity$93K
- Maharam Tav Fund$51K
- Chevrah Mesamchei Lev$41K
- Canadian Friends of Mishon La'Choleh$28K
- Moral Arc Foundation$18K
- CTM$13K
- Les Amis Canadiens de la Communaute des Gardiens des Murs de Jerusalem$10K
- Académie Yeshiva Toras Moshe de Montréal$9,100
- Canadian Friends of Mesivta Torah V'Yirah of U T a$5,136
- Canadian Friends of Shekel Hatuhor$5,134
- Kav Shalom KHM$2,600
- Ezras Cholim Organization$2,400
- Refuah V'Chesed$1,800
- Rabbinical College Mesifta Yoel Moshe of Canada$1,800
- Hatzoloh Toronto$1,000
- Canadian Friends of Keren Hatzoloh$1,000
- Bikur Cholim$1,000
- Congregation Yetev Lev D'Satmar$940
- Beth Esther Academy Inc.$600
- Initiative Communautaire de Yaldei$360
- Canadian Friends of Toldos Aharon$300
- The Canadian Friends of Ezrath Nashim Herzog Hospital$250
- The Toronto Sephardic Kollel$180
- Tomchei Shabbos of Montreal$180
- Congregation Skver Montreal$180
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Hershel Lowy (treasurer); Saul Sabel (president); Ronald Rutman (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sabel Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 853104461RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.