The Hamilton Hebrew Academy Zichron Meir
Publicly funded institution · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 107463077RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,983,645) as filed with the CRA.
The Hamilton Hebrew Academy Zichron Meir is a charitable organization based in Hamilton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.2M in revenue and $4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 51% from donations, 24% from government, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 24 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 73% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 45 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.8M in 2020 to $4.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.2M | $4M | $3.7M | $81K | — | -$27K |
| 2023 | $1.6M | $1.3M | $1.2M | $7,978 | — | -$236K |
| 2022 | $2.7M | $2.7M | $2.6M | $3,649 | — | -$676K |
| 2021 | $2.1M | $2.3M | $2.2M | — | — | -$726K |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $1.9M | $1.9M | $2,442 | — | -$530K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.1M from 24 charities:
- Hamilton Jewish Federation$618K
- Maimonides Schools for Jewish Studies$100K
- Miriam And Larry Robbins Foundation$90K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$54K
- Moshe & Guta Szenicer Foundation$46K
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$36K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$18K
- The Arthur and Margaret Weisz Family Foundation$18K
- Fieldgate Cares Foundation$13K
- My Charity Fund$12K
- The Herb and Cece Schreiber Family Foundation$10K
- The Jewish Legacy Charitable Foundation$10K
- Discount Car And Truck Rentals Charitable Foundation$6,017
- The Altree Charitable Trust$5,000
- Chabad of Guelph$3,564
- Jewish Niagara$2,270
- The Albert Abrum Lager Foundation$2,100
- The Rubin-Hoffman Foundation$2,000
- The Albert Abrum Lager Foundation$1,100
- S & Y Foundation$1,000
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$720
- Canadahelps Canadon$209
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$174
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions45
- Total compensation, all staff$2.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Daniel Green (president); Lester Krames (secretary); Aaron Selevan (director); Mayer Michalowicz (director); Amy Katz (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Hamilton Hebrew Academy Zichron Meir’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107463077RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.