The Joe Dwek Ohr Haemet Sephardic School
Publicly funded institution · Thornhill, Ontario · BN 107803421RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,464,274) as filed with the CRA.
The Joe Dwek Ohr Haemet Sephardic School is a charitable organization based in Thornhill, 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 July 31, 2024, it reported $3.3M in revenue and $3.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 52% from donations, 11% from government, 28% from other charities. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.4M.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 26% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 45 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The primary purpose of the charity is to raise funds in order to develop and maintain an educational institution.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.3M | $3.5M | $2.8M | $174K | — | $2.2M |
| 2023 | $3.5M | $3.5M | $2.9M | $131K | — | $2.4M |
| 2022 | $3.8M | $3.7M | $2.8M | $253K | — | $2.4M |
| 2021 | $5M | $3.7M | $3M | $230K | — | $2.2M |
| 2020 | $4.3M | $3.6M | $2.9M | $103K | — | $941K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.4M from 19 charities:
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$861K
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$275K
- The DR. Wolf Lebovic Charitable Foundation$72K
- Canadahelps Canadon$53K
- Canadahelps Canadon$53K
- Maimonides Educational Foundation$23K
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$18K
- J & J Bitton Family Charitable Foundation$16K
- Abraham Bleeman Foundation$10K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$6,800
- The George Hofstedter Family Foundation$5,000
- The F&R Hauer Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Michoel and Sara Goldie Kleiner Charitable Trust$1,800
- Beth Jacob Vianshei Drildz Congregation$1,300
- My Charity Fund$1,206
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$555
- The Weitz Family Foundation$500
- The GRA Charitable Trust$360
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$0
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions45
- Total compensation, all staff$2.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Azulay (treasurer); Victor Arrobas; David Bitton (director); Rachel Keslassy (director); Alon Barda (director); Adam Ohayon (director); Dalton Amos-Wells (president); Sabrina Cantkier (director); Viola Mirlas (secretary); Mordechai Rothman (vice-president); Menahem Azulay (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Joe Dwek Ohr Haemet Sephardic School’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107803421RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.