The Chai Centre
Charitable organization · Thornhill, Ontario · BN 809568033RR0001 · Christianity
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,738) as filed with the CRA.
The Chai Centre is a charitable organization based in Thornhill, Ontario, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $63K in revenue and $6,738 in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 44% from donations, 24% from government, 33% from other charities. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $31K.
Compared with 13,471 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 18% of peers.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $7,200 in 2024, the largest being $7,200 to Mesivta Lubavitch Toronto. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $32K in 2020 to $63K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Lectures religious events and programming yiddish language program religious articles provisions and services
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $63K | $6,738 | $2,742 | — | — | — |
| 2023 | $32K | $3,321 | — | — | — | — |
| 2022 | $8,841 | $3,472 | $1,854 | — | — | — |
| 2021 | $3,868 | $8,730 | $3,500 | $975 | $2,755 | — |
| 2020 | $32K | $6,396 | $450 | — | — | — |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $7,200 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $31K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$43K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Boruch Landa (dirctor & president); Jacob Gryn (director); Yakov Goldstein (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Chai Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 809568033RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.