The Lillian and Norman Glowinsky Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 831572565RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,490,719) as filed with the CRA.
The Lillian and Norman Glowinsky Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported $884K in revenue and $2.5M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 78% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 22 qualified donees totalling $2.4M in 2024, the largest being $2M to Sinai Health Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $198K in 2020 to $884K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation makes donations to qualified donees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $884K | $2.5M | — | — | $2.4M | $16.4M |
| 2023 | $937K | $2M | — | — | $2M | $18M |
| 2022 | $5.2M | $1.1M | — | — | $1.1M | $19.1M |
| 2021 | $60K | $1.2M | — | — | $1.1M | $15M |
| 2020 | $198K | $2.6M | — | — | $2.6M | $16.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.4M to 22 qualified donees:
- Sinai Health Foundation$2M
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$202K
- Beth Sholom Synagogue$75K
- Antisemitism Must End Now (a.m.e.n.)$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$43K
- Neshama Hospice$20K
- Allied Voices for Israel$10K
- Kayla's Children Centre$10K
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$5,090
- Living Jewishly$5,000
- Israel Museums and Arts Canada$5,000
- Jewish Federation of Winnipeg/combined Jewish Appeal Inc$3,000
- The Canadian Zionist Cultural Association$2,500
- Canadian Associates of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev Inc.$2,500
- Jewish National Fund of Canada Inc$2,500
- Canadian Shaare Zedek Hospital Foundation/fondation Canadienne de l'Hopital Shaare Zedek$1,916
- Lincoln Centre for Human Rights Research$1,800
- Anne & Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto$1,800
- Bialik Hebrew Day School$1,800
- Mizrachi Organization Of Canada$1,500
- Building a Jewish Tomorrow$1,000
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$38K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lillian Glowinsky (president/director); Norman Glowinsky (secretary/director); Robert Schwartz (treasurer/director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Lillian and Norman Glowinsky Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 831572565RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.