The Arthur and Margaret Weisz Family Foundation
Private foundation · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 894153584RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($766,951) as filed with the CRA.
The Arthur and Margaret Weisz Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Hamilton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $767K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 64% 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 82% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 31 qualified donees totalling $753K in 2024, the largest being $308K to Hamilton Jewish Federation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
Receive and maintain a fund apply from time to time all or part there from for charitable purposes
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $767K | — | — | $753K | $13.4M |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1.2M | — | — | $1.2M | $12.6M |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $600K | — | — | $589K | $12.1M |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $471K | — | — | $463K | $11.6M |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $629K | — | — | $623K | $10.9M |
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$1,000,000
- Investment income$561,076
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 $753K to 31 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Hamilton Jewish Federation$308K
- Jewish National Fund of Canada$57K
- Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies$50K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$40K
- ST. Joseph's Healthcare Foundation Hamilton$27K
- The Abraham Global Peace Initiative$25K
- Canadian Friends of Larger Than Life$25K
- Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation$22K
- UHN Foundation$18K
- True North Centre for Public Policy$18K
- The Hamilton Hebrew Academy Zichron Meir$18K
- Israel Cancer Research Fund (toronto)$16K
- Theatre Aquarius Incorporated$15K
- The Kehila Jewish Day School$15K
- Sinai Health Foundation$15K
- Liberty for Youth$12K
- Wellwood Resource Centre of Hamilton$10K
- Hillel Ontario$10K
- Chabad Lubavitch (Hamilton)$10K
- The Baycrest Centre Foundation$9,000
- Save a Child's Heart Foundation$5,000
- Israel Museums and Arts Canada$5,000
- Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21$5,000
- The Art Gallery of Hamilton$5,000
- Canadian Shaare Zedek Hospital Foundation/fondation Canadienne de l'Hopital Shaare Zedek$4,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Eric Weisz (director); Janet Asa (vice-pres/director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Arthur and Margaret Weisz Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 894153584RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.