Silver Family Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 890817851RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,616,095) as filed with the CRA.
Silver Family Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.6M in revenue and $2.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 95% from donations.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 92% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 51 qualified donees totalling $2.6M in 2024, the largest being $700K to Netivot Hatorah Day School. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.6M in 2020 to $2.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Gifts to other registered charities in order to allow them to carry out their activities promarily being the relief of poverty and promotion of education and religion.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.6M | $2.6M | — | — | $2.6M | $2M |
| 2023 | $4.7M | $3.9M | — | — | $3.9M | $1.9M |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.5M | — | — | $1.5M | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $2.4M | $2.4M | — | — | $2.4M | $1M |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $1.6M | — | — | $1.6M | $1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.6M to 51 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Netivot Hatorah Day School$700K
- Bnai Akiva Schools$379K
- Moral Arc Foundation$140K
- Mizrachi Organization Of Canada$134K
- Jewish Educational Services$134K
- Toronto Care Fund$100K
- Canadian Friends of Yeshivat Aish Hatorah$100K
- Caribbean Jewish Community$81K
- Hatzolah Air$67K
- Kayla's Children Centre$63K
- Chai Lifeline (canada) Inc.$60K
- Yeshivas Nefesh Dovid$50K
- Building a Jewish Tomorrow$50K
- Misaskim Canada$50K
- Eitz Chaim Schools$41K
- Jacs Toronto$36K
- Mishkan Avraham$35K
- Canadian Shaare Zedek Hospital Foundation/fondation Canadienne de l'Hopital Shaare Zedek$30K
- Agudath Israel of Toronto$30K
- Yeshivat Yesodei Hatora$28K
- Canadian Friends of Yad Eliezer$24K
- Building a Jewish Tomorrow$20K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$18K
- Save a Child's Heart Foundation$18K
- Kehilla Residential Programme$18K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bonny Silver (president); Jeremy Silver (director); Jeffery Silver (director); Sherri Silver (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Silver Family Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890817851RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.