The Canadian Zionist Cultural Association
Charitable organization · North York, Ontario · BN 108075748RR0001 · Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,798,591) as filed with the CRA.
The Canadian Zionist Cultural Association is a charitable organization based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.5M in revenue and $3.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 42% from donations, 44% from other charities. In 2024, 58 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2M.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Run bereavement family camp provide scholarships provide food vouchers run ski and kayak programs
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.5M | $3.8M | $2.5M | $633K | — | $9.3M |
| 2023 | $4.7M | $2.4M | $1.6M | $174K | — | $9.5M |
| 2022 | $5.8M | $2.5M | $1.4M | $573K | — | $7.2M |
| 2021 | $2.5M | $2.5M | $1.8M | $197K | — | $3.8M |
| 2020 | $2.6M | $2.6M | $2M | $132K | — | $3.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2M from 58 charities:
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$500K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$463K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$201K
- Israel Koschitzky Family Charitable Foundation$100K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$95K
- The Minett Foundation$95K
- Rayjo Charitable Trust$75K
- Ray Nissan Family Foundation$72K
- The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation$60K
- Canadahelps Canadon$44K
- Canadahelps Canadon$44K
- Wagner Green Family Trust$30K
- The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation$25K
- The Tova and Alex Hartman Family Foundation$20K
- The Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Charitable Foundation$20K
- The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation$20K
- The Minett Foundation$18K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$14K
- The Atid Charitable Foundation$11K
- The Reiter Family Foundation$10K
- Allan and Susan Fenwick Charitable Foundation$9,600
- Gary & Maxie Bluestein Charitable Foundation$9,500
- Salomon Robinson Family Foundation$9,000
- The Alex and Nelly Singer Family Foundation$8,400
- Nathan and Lily Silver Family Foundation$7,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$451K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Wilf Goldlust (treasurer); Wilf Shiff (president); Katy Korman (vice president); Barry Zagdanski (director); Peter Tanenbaum (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Canadian Zionist Cultural Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108075748RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.