The Harold and Paul Chitel Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 889809190RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-01-31. Split of total expenditures ($36,731) as filed with the CRA.
The Harold and Paul Chitel Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending January 31, 2024, it reported $203K in revenue and $37K in expenditures.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 61% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $34K in 2024, the largest being $18K to Canadian Friends of Bar-Ilan University. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4 in 2020 to $203K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The harold & paul charitable foundation is a private charitable foundation and is exempt from taxation in canada. Accordingly it follows the accounting procedures or such organizations. The purpose of the foundation is to benefit exclusively registered charities and qualified donees under the income tax act that have charitable purposes under canadian law
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $203K | $37K | — | — | $34K | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $202K | $55K | — | — | $31K | $1M |
| 2022 | $47K | $31K | — | — | $31K | $897K |
| 2021 | $1 | — | — | — | — | $881K |
| 2020 | $4 | — | — | — | — | $881K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $34K to 3 qualified donees:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Sheldon Plener (president); Maxwell Gotlieb (secretary); Lorne Silver (assistant secretary).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Harold and Paul Chitel Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889809190RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.