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.
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.