The Jay and Barbara Hennick Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 840790950RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,681,689) as filed with the CRA.
The Jay and Barbara Hennick 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 $18.4M in revenue and $10.7M in expenditures.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 89% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 35 qualified donees totalling $10.6M in 2024, the largest being $5M to The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $42.1M in 2020 to $18.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $18.4M | $10.7M | — | — | $10.6M | $194.9M |
| 2023 | $35.1M | $9.2M | — | — | $9.2M | $187.2M |
| 2022 | -$77.4M | $22.5M | — | — | $22.5M | $161.3M |
| 2021 | $100.6M | $12.8M | $20K | $9,026 | $12.8M | $261.2M |
| 2020 | $42.1M | $2.7M | — | — | $2.7M | $173.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $10.6M to 35 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation$5M
- Sinai Health Foundation$4.4M
- York University$400K
- Canadian Society for Yad Vashem$250K
- The Horatio Alger Association of Canada$175K
- The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation$75K
- United Israel Appeal of Canada Inc$50K
- Neshama Hospice$50K
- Junior Achievement of Canada$50K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$35K
- David Goodman Youth Community Trust$30K
- Jewish Federation of British Columbia$25K
- Lassonde Art Trail Foundation$20K
- Hadassah-Wizo Organization Of Canada$10K
- Hot Docs$10K
- Jewish Family and Child Service of Greater Toronto$10K
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$5,000
- Shalom Village Foundation$5,000
- Israel Museums and Arts Canada$5,000
- The Canadian Society for the Weizmann Institute of Science$3,600
- Beit Halochem Canada /aid to Disabled Veterans of Israel (canada)$3,180
- Kehilla Residential Programme$1,800
- Canadian Shaare Zedek Hospital Foundation/fondation Canadienne de l'Hopital Shaare Zedek$1,800
- The Governors of ST. Francis Xavier University$1,800
- Windsor Regional Hospital Foundation$1,800
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jay Hennick (director and president); Barbara Hennick (director and secretary); Bradley Hrnnick (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Jay and Barbara Hennick Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 840790950RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.