The Bernard Betel Centre for Creative Living
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119215697RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,108,411) as filed with the CRA.
The Bernard Betel Centre for Creative Living is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.1M in revenue and $4.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from government, 21% from other charities. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.4M.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 36% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 82% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 38 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
The Bernard Betel Centre for Creative Living empowers seniors to lead active creative and healthy lifestyles in a Jewish environment. The Centre serves approximately 5 600 seniors annually of whom approximately 2 200 are paid Centre members. The agency operates 6 days a week primarily from its single site facility. Approximately 120 programs are offered weekly and are comprised of a variety of recreational educational wellness and community support services offered on site and also virtually. Additionally we have a Food Services Department which operates a 'Meals on Wheels' program Cafete…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.1M | $4.1M | $3.4M | $50K | $0 | $2.8M |
| 2023 | $4.1M | $4.1M | $3.1M | $29K | $0 | $2.8M |
| 2022 | $3.8M | $3.3M | $2.9M | $5,238 | $0 | $2.8M |
| 2021 | $3.7M | $2.7M | $2.5M | $8,455 | $0 | $2.3M |
| 2020 | $3.2M | $3.5M | $2.7M | $30K | $0 | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.4M from 20 charities:
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$640K
- The Azrieli Foundation$200K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$189K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$104K
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$100K
- New Century Charitable Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$40K
- Canadahelps Canadon$40K
- The Brown-Nusbaum Family Foundation$13K
- BenefAction Foundation$10K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$10K
- Cidel Foundation$10K
- Mazon Canada$2,500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,223
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$300
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$268
- Kehillat Chaverim$180
- La Fondation Goldstein$100
- Sacks Family Foundation$50
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,99918 positions
- $1–39,99912 positions
- Permanent full-time positions38
- Total compensation, all staff$2.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Bernard Betel Centre for Creative Living’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119215697RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.