Shimon & Deena Smursz Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 893220764RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,830,090) as filed with the CRA.
Shimon & Deena Smursz 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 $1.9M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $526K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 90% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 50 qualified donees totalling $1.8M in 2024, the largest being $750K to Kollel Daf Yomi Institute. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $368K in 2020 to $1.9M 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 | $1.9M | $1.8M | — | — | $1.8M | $106K |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.4M | — | — | $1.4M | $18K |
| 2022 | $905K | $985K | — | — | $980K | $8,759 |
| 2021 | $593K | $501K | — | — | $496K | $89K |
| 2020 | $368K | $356K | — | — | $351K | -$2,892 |
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$1,905,667
- Investment income$6,865
- Other income$1,282
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 $1.8M to 50 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Kollel Daf Yomi Institute$750K
- Moral Arc Foundation$541K
- Yeshivas Nachalas Zvi$93K
- Kav Shalom KHM$71K
- Yeshiva Yesodei Hatorah$60K
- Bais Yaakov Elementary School$52K
- Congregation Kahal Avreichim$52K
- Bnos Bais Yaakov High School$44K
- KDY Institute$34K
- Institute for Advanced Talmudic and Halachic Studies$26K
- Candian Friends of Yeshiba Beth Hille$16K
- Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Shmayahu$11K
- Congregation Oholei Yom Tov Toronto$10K
- B'Nai Zion Charity Fund$8,990
- Shomrai Shaboth-Chevrah Mishnayoth Congregation$6,341
- Les Amis Canadiens du Seminaire Yeshivah Mirer de Jerusalem Inc./canadian Friends of the Seminary Yeshivah Mirer of Jerusalem Inc.$5,000
- Canadian Friends of Passaic Yeshiva$5,000
- Beth Medrash Govoha$5,000
- Bais Yaakov of Thornhill$5,000
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$3,300
- Torath Emeth Jewish Centre$3,000
- Torath Emeth Jewish Centre$3,000
- Yeshivas Keser Torah$2,970
- Kollel Toras Moshe$2,100
- Yeshiva Mishkan Yosef$2,000
Received $526K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Shimon Smursz (president); Deena Smursz (director); Nathan Bleeman (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Shimon & Deena Smursz Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 893220764RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.