Sef Foundation
Private foundation · North York, Ontario · BN 887613156RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($4,200,937) as filed with the CRA.
Sef Foundation is a private foundation based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported $6.6M in revenue and $4.2M in expenditures.
In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $5,400.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 88% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 15 qualified donees totalling $1.2M in 2024, the largest being $355K to Sajjadiyya Trust. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Education support the running of schools in third world countries. Housing providing housing services for needy and poor. Social outreach to communities in ontario. Medical support various clinics in providing cure for eye ailments and blindness prediatric care and general health care to under privileged members of society. Welfare providing support for food to needy and poor.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.6M | $4.2M | $2.9M | — | $1.2M | $47.6M |
| 2023 | -$6M | $3.8M | $2.8M | — | $855K | $61.1M |
| 2022 | -$9M | $3.2M | $2.4M | — | $667K | $70.8M |
| 2021 | $37.7M | $3M | $1.6M | — | $567K | $83M |
| 2020 | $8.5M | $6.4M | $4.6M | — | $915K | $48.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.2M to 15 qualified donees:
- Sajjadiyya Trust$355K
- Indus Development Foundation$321K
- International Development and Relief Foundation$250K
- Columbia University$54K
- William Osler Health System Foundation$50K
- Max Scholarship Fund$41K
- Sanctuary Ministries of Toronto$25K
- IMAMIA Association of Regina Inc.$25K
- Toronto Metropolitan University$15K
- Islamic Relief - Ir Canada$10K
- Islamic Shia Ithna-Asheri Jamaat of Toronto$7,000
- Crescent Village Trust$6,200
- Reaching Out to Zanzibar International Development Organization$5,000
- Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation$2,500
- Organization for Islamic Learning$1,300
Received $5,400 from 1 charity:
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$5,400
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$9,691
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sajjad Ebrahim (president); Sarfaraz Haji (cfo director); Maryam Alibhai (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sef Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 887613156RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.