The Jewish Legacy Charitable Foundation
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 851312082RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($22,345,037) as filed with the CRA.
The Jewish Legacy Charitable 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 $19.9M in revenue and $22.3M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 31% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 109 qualified donees totalling $17.4M in 2024, the largest being $4.6M to Moral Arc Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $6.6M in 2020 to $19.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to pay from time to time qualified donees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $19.9M | $22.3M | — | — | $17.4M | $110.8M |
| 2023 | $11.1M | $15M | — | — | $12.7M | $113.3M |
| 2022 | $7.2M | $32.3M | — | — | $15.4M | $117.2M |
| 2021 | $28.7M | $14.1M | — | — | $12.2M | $142.3M |
| 2020 | $6.6M | $13.8M | — | — | $11.6M | $127.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $17.4M to 109 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Moral Arc Foundation$4.6M
- The Institute of Torah Education$3.4M
- The Canadian Friends of Ohr Somayach - Tanenbaum Centre - College of Judaic Studies$3.2M
- Eitz Chaim Schools$1.3M
- Cfo - Beth Medrash Govoha$330K
- Kav Shalom KHM$328K
- Forest Hill Jewish Centre$260K
- Les Amis Canadiens du Seminaire Yeshivah Mirer de Jerusalem Inc./canadian Friends of the Seminary Yeshivah Mirer of Jerusalem Inc.$250K
- Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies$240K
- Mizrachi Organization Of Canada$238K
- Bais Yaakov Elementary School$215K
- Institute for Advanced Talmudic and Halachic Studies$215K
- Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Shmayahu$142K
- Building a Jewish Tomorrow$134K
- Sinai Health Foundation$125K
- Yeshivat Yesodei Hatora$120K
- Toronto Care Fund$115K
- Zichron Binyomin Charity Foundation$102K
- Cfo - Mesiva Yeshiva Chaim Berlin$100K
- Toronto Cheder$96K
- Lomdei Torah Programs$90K
- Ne'eman Foundation Canada$82K
- Bnei Akiva Schools$76K
- Ohr Chaya Charitable Organization$74K
- Bais Yaakov High School of Spring Valley Canadian Foundation$61K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$449K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Kaplan (director); Robert Benmergui (director); Albert Reichmann (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Jewish Legacy Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 851312082RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.