The London Jewish Community Foundation
Private foundation · London, Ontario · BN 888005840RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,666,987) as filed with the CRA.
The London Jewish Community Foundation is a private foundation based in London, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $1.9M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 75% from donations. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $10K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 74% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 89% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 41 qualified donees totalling $1.6M in 2024, the largest being $1.2M to United Jewish Appeal. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $32K in 2020 to $1.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
We provide grants to london synagogues for programs and capital improvements. We provide grants to the london jewish federation and various other charities such as the united jewish appeal to support activities in the london jewish community. These activities include social outreach and cultural educational and social programs for adults children and youth. We provide grants for the betterment of the broader london community and provide gifts/transfers 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 | $1.9M | $1.7M | $9,780 | $20K | $1.6M | $5.6M |
| 2023 | $557K | $529K | $9,570 | — | $461K | $5.4M |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $394K | $17K | — | $316K | $5.3M |
| 2021 | $889K | $382K | $14K | — | $309K | $4.2M |
| 2020 | $32K | $334K | $32K | — | $254K | $3.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, April 30, 2024
- Receipted donations$1,445,380
- Investment income$456,817
- Other income$1,017
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.6M to 41 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- United Jewish Appeal$1.2M
- Congregation Or Shalom at London Ontario$94K
- Temple Israel (of London)$60K
- Jewish National Fund$50K
- Congregation Beth Tefilah$42K
- London Jewish Community Centre$37K
- The Grand Theatre$21K
- Federation Cja$11K
- London Symphonia$8,520
- Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School$8,000
- Chabad at Western$7,180
- Technion-Israel Institute of Technology$7,141
- CharityEx Foundation$6,200
- United Hatzalah Canada$5,000
- Aeolian Hall Musical Arts Association$5,000
- Hadassah-Wizo Organization Of Canada$4,225
- London Community Hebrew Day School$3,211
- The Canadian Friends of Ezrath Nashim Herzog Hospital$2,987
- ST. Thomas Elgin General Hospital Foundation$1,360
- ST Joseph's Health CARE Foundation of London$1,250
- MADA Community Center Inc. - Centre communautaire MADA inc.$1,080
- HR Canada Charitable Organization$1,000
- London Health Sciences Foundation$750
- Le Bon Dieu dans la Rue Organisation pour Jeunes Adultes$720
- Canadian Magen David Adom for Israel/Magen David Adom Canadien pour Israel$720
Received $10K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lawrence Burden; Kenneth Cossoy; Adam Fremeth; Manfred Friedman (grants); Joseph Gilbert; Sandy Levin (chair); Jason Mandlowitz (vice-chair); Debbie Medzon (grants); Ted Medzon; Sandra Safran (ex officio); Keith Samitt (ex officio); Alon Shatil (member at large); Jeff Shavzin (secretary); Judy Silver (member at large); Stephen Taran (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The London Jewish Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888005840RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.