The Gross Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 890504319RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,139,433) as filed with the CRA.
The Gross Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3M in revenue and $3.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $576K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 91% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 58 qualified donees totalling $3.1M in 2024, the largest being $1.1M to Moral Arc Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.6M in 2020 to $3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
Gifts to other registered charities within the meaning of the income tax act (canada). In support of religious education and advancement.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3M | $3.1M | — | — | $3.1M | $457K |
| 2023 | $3.8M | $3.5M | — | — | $3.5M | $640K |
| 2022 | $3.4M | $3.2M | — | — | $3.2M | $419K |
| 2021 | $875K | $854K | — | — | $849K | $215K |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $967K | — | — | $963K | $194K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$2,952,370
- Investment income$9,389
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.1M to 58 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Moral Arc Foundation$1.1M
- Kollel Daf Yomi Institute$1M
- Institute for Advanced Talmudic and Halachic Studies$100K
- Yeshivat Yesodei Hatora$81K
- Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Shmayahu$67K
- Toronto Care Fund$50K
- Achim Toronto$48K
- Canadian Friends of Mishon La'Choleh$46K
- Kav Shalom KHM$38K
- VMM Zichron Chaim Charity$35K
- Canadian Friends of Yeshiva Beth Hillel Bnai Brak$34K
- Bikur Cholim$30K
- The Toronto Sephardic Kollel$29K
- Canadian Friends of Yeshivat Aish Hatorah$27K
- Yeshivas Nefesh Dovid$25K
- Mosdos Bobov$25K
- The Toronto Mikvah Society$25K
- The Institute of Torah Education$25K
- Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin$25K
- My Charity Fund$20K
- Canadian Foundation for the Education and Welfare of Jews Ofthe C I S$20K
- Beis Hatavshil and Hachnosas Orchim of Toronto Charitable Fund$20K
- The 515 Charity Fund$18K
- Canadian Friends of Maor Gershon Scholarship Kollel$17K
- Yeshiva Torah Temimah$15K
Received $576K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Libby Gross (director); Shimshon Gross (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Gross Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890504319RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.