The Mesora Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 848919635RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,076,527) as filed with the CRA.
The Mesora Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $1M in revenue and $2.1M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 31% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 38 qualified donees totalling $1.6M in 2024, the largest being $1.1M to Moral Arc Foundation. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $2.8M in 2020 to $1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $2.1M | — | — | $1.6M | -$1.8M |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $2.5M | — | — | $2M | -$712K |
| 2022 | $3.1M | $3.8M | — | — | $2.6M | $661K |
| 2021 | $8.2M | $5.6M | — | — | $4M | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $2.8M | $3.2M | $9,215 | — | $3.1M | -$1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, June 30, 2024
- Receipted donations$1,024,636
- Investment income$2,121
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 38 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Moral Arc Foundation$1.1M
- Institute for Advanced Talmudic and Halachic Studies$89K
- Toronto Care Fund$43K
- Congregation Kahal Avreichim$37K
- Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Shmayahu$35K
- The Toronto Sephardic Kollel$30K
- Beth Jacob High School for Girls$26K
- Bobever Yeshiva Bnei Zion Charitable Fund$24K
- Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies$23K
- Canadian Friends of Yeshiva Beth Hillel Bnai Brak$22K
- Bais Yaakov Elementary School$17K
- Ohr Chaya Charitable Organization$15K
- Yeshivat Yesodei Hatora$14K
- Bikur Cholim$13K
- Toronto Teachers' Centre of Torah Umesorah$10K
- Leket Canada$10K
- Dani Developing and Nurturing Independence$10K
- Bnei Akiva Schools$10K
- Kollel Daf Yomi Institute$8,494
- My Charity Fund$7,735
- Shaarei Zion Community Centre$6,000
- Yeshivas Nefesh Dovid$5,000
- Chai Lifeline (canada) Inc.$5,000
- Congregation Shoavei Mayim$4,750
- Aichron Binyomin Charity Foundation$4,085
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Anthony Heller (president); Evelyn Gestetner (vice-president); Freida Wolman (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Mesora Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 848919635RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.