The Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University
Public foundation · North York, Ontario · BN 124355363RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($18,868,520) as filed with the CRA.
The Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University is a public foundation based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $27.4M in revenue and $18.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 28% from other charities. In 2024, 45 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4M.
Compared with 74 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $13.8M in 2024, the largest being $13.7M to Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $14M in 2020 to $27.4M in 2024.
In its own words
The canadian friends of the hebrew university (cfhu) provided funding to the hebrew university of jerusalem which is a registered foreign university and a qualified donee to carry out post secondary educational & research activities as well as providing scholarships and research grants. Cfhu also recruited students from canada to study at the hebrew university of jerusalem.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $27.4M | $18.9M | — | $2.7M | $13.8M | $98.5M |
| 2023 | $17.8M | $10.9M | — | $1.4M | $10.4M | $90M |
| 2022 | $6M | $13.3M | — | $1.1M | $9.1M | $83.1M |
| 2021 | $21.4M | $9.2M | — | $1.2M | $7.3M | $90.6M |
| 2020 | $14M | $11.5M | — | $3.7M | $8.1M | $79.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $13.8M to 3 qualified donees:
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem$13.7M
- University of Ottawa$60K
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Foundation$1,400
Received $4M from 45 charities:
- Al Roadburg Foundation$1.4M
- The Asper Foundation$578K
- The Tauba and Solomon Spiro Family Foundation$560K
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$275K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$199K
- Benjamin Wintrob Berglerian Foundation$185K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$137K
- The DR. Wolf Lebovic Charitable Foundation$125K
- Ronald S. Roadburg Foundation$105K
- THE BRETTLER/Mintz Foundation$100K
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$60K
- The Koffler Foundation$59K
- The DR. Wolf Lebovic Charitable Foundation$50K
- The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba$28K
- Jewish Federation of British Columbia$28K
- The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation$20K
- Adolph Isaac Cosiner Estate$18K
- Larry And Judy Tanenbaum Family Foundation$18K
- Vancouver Foundation$16K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$14K
- The DH Gales Family Charitable Foundation of Toronto$13K
- Alpha Omega Foundation of Canada$9,841
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$7,500
- Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary$6,500
- Mitzi & Mel Dobrin Family Foundation/fondation Familiale Mitzi & Mel Dobrin$6,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$2.1M
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 Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 124355363RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.