The Dana Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 890415193RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Religion
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($451,442) as filed with the CRA.
The Dana Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing religion. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $444K in revenue and $451K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 84% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 29 qualified donees totalling $444K in 2024, the largest being $78K to Kav Shalom KHM. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $816K in 2020 to $444K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
To receive and maintain a fund and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to charitable organizations that are also registered charities under the income tax act. Relief of poverty by aid to individuals and families.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $444K | $451K | $5,000 | — | $444K | $11K |
| 2023 | $567K | $572K | — | — | $570K | $18K |
| 2022 | $323K | $346K | — | — | $345K | $24K |
| 2021 | $201K | $230K | — | — | $227K | $47K |
| 2020 | $816K | $894K | $448K | — | $440K | $76K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $444K to 29 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Kav Shalom KHM$78K
- Beis Meir$69K
- Toronto Cheder$46K
- B'Nai Zion Charity Fund$34K
- Bikur Cholim$30K
- Achim Toronto$27K
- Congregation Shoavei Mayim$25K
- B'Nai Zion Charity Fund$20K
- Kayla's Children Centre$18K
- Kollel Daf Yomi Institute$17K
- Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Shmayahu$10K
- Bnos Bais Yaakov High School$9,250
- Bais Yaakov Elementary School$8,900
- Sinai Child CARE Services$7,980
- The Institute of Torah Education$6,715
- Yeshiva Torah Temimah$5,125
- Ohr Chaya Charitable Organization$3,960
- The Lamplighter Foundation$3,945
- Yeshiva Mishkan Yosef$3,935
- The Tzaddik Foundation$3,760
- Ezer Mizion$3,600
- Yeshivas Nachalas Zvi$3,500
- Jewish Education Program Charitable Foundation$2,735
- Yeshivas Nefesh Dovid$1,800
- Canadian Friends of Yeshiva Lomza$1,800
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Engel Yacov (director); Boruch Horowitz (trustee); Hennie Tepler (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Dana Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890415193RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.