The Jewish Family and Child Foundation
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 851300301RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,744,247) as filed with the CRA.
The Jewish Family and Child Foundation is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.7M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 28% from donations. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $70K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 52% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 79% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 6 qualified donees totalling $1.5M in 2024, the largest being $1.5M to Jewish Family and Child Service of Greater Toronto. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.2M in 2020 to $2.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The purpose of the foundation is to receive and maintain funds and apply all or part there of and/or the income thereform to fund registered charitable organizations in the greater toronto area ('gta') that engage in charitable activities supporting the healthy development of individuals children and communities in the gta through prevention protection counselling education and outreach all within the contect of jewish values
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.7M | $1.7M | — | $37K | $1.5M | $10.8M |
| 2023 | $2.4M | $1.5M | — | $27K | $1.3M | $9.9M |
| 2022 | $387K | $979K | — | $28K | $773K | $8.9M |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $2M | — | $31K | $1.8M | $9.5M |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $1.2M | — | $30K | $1M | $9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.5M to 6 qualified donees:
Received $70K from 16 charities:
- The Emmet Foundation$18K
- Conam Charitable Foundation$12K
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$10K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$6,560
- The Barbara and Harvey Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- BAM Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,961
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,800
- The Minett Foundation$1,800
- Yaflo Charitable Trust$1,540
- The Jack Rose Family Foundation$1,000
- BenefAction Foundation$500
- Canadahelps Canadon$205
- The Grubner Family Charitable Trust$50
- My Charity Fund$50
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joy Shuchat (treasurer); David Barkin (director); Nancy Stitt (director); Richard Orzy (president); Merle Rosenhek (director); Susan Maldoff (director); Alan Levine (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Jewish Family and Child Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 851300301RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.