The Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation
Public foundation · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 136729142RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,402,820) as filed with the CRA.
The Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $14.5M in revenue and $6.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from donations, 24% from other charities. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.6M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 78% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 92% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 131 qualified donees totalling $5.7M in 2024, the largest being $1.6M to Jewish Federation of Ottawa. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4.1M in 2020 to $14.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Receive legacies grants settlements bequests & donations from endowment earnings & income distribute annually for charitable & educational purposes.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $14.5M | $6.4M | $539K | $48K | $5.7M | $65.2M |
| 2023 | $9.9M | $5.4M | $612K | — | $4.7M | $57.1M |
| 2022 | -$3.3M | $3.4M | $559K | — | $2.7M | $52.4M |
| 2021 | $8.5M | $3.9M | $608K | — | $3.2M | $59.1M |
| 2020 | $4.1M | $2.9M | $480K | — | $2.3M | $54.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $5.7M to 131 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Jewish Federation of Ottawa$1.6M
- Ottawa Jewish Community School$1.1M
- Torah Academy of Ottawa$761K
- Synagogue and Jewish Community Centre of Ottawa$599K
- Jewish Family Services of Ottawa$228K
- Hillel Lodge Long-Term CARE Home of Ottawa$217K
- Tamir$164K
- The Jewish Reform Congregation of Ottawa-Temple Israel$134K
- Jewish Memorial Gardens$121K
- Moral Arc Foundation$111K
- Kehillat Beth Israel Congregation$97K
- Jewish Community Campus of Ottawa Inc.$75K
- The Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation$42K
- Camp B'Nai Brith of Ottawa$37K
- Active Jewish Adults (AJA) 50+$24K
- Maccabi Canada$22K
- The Tower of Light Children's Foundation Inc /la Fondation pour les Enfants Tour de Lumiere Inc.$18K
- The Jewish Youth Library of Ottawa$16K
- Congregation Machzikei Hadas$14K
- Ottawa Torah Centre$14K
- Jewish Education Through Torah (jet)$14K
- Congregation Beit Tikvah of Ottawa$13K
- Ottawa Modern Jewish School$11K
- Bnei Akiva Schools$11K
- Interval House of Ottawa-Maison Interval d'Ottawa$9,785
Received $1.6M from 13 charities:
- The Stephen and Jocelyne Greenberg Family Foundation$599K
- Danbe Foundation Inc.$500K
- The Clematis Foundation$150K
- Jewish Community of Ottawa Development Foundation$127K
- The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation$120K
- David & Rachel Epstein Foundation Trust Fund$45K
- The Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation$42K
- Edward and Fern Cohen Foundation$27K
- Conam Charitable Foundation$25K
- The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation$800
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$530
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$325
- Canadahelps Canadon$317
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$428K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lawrence Soloway; Sandy Pollack (chair); Adina Libin (treasurer); Jonathan Freedman (director); Sharon Appotive (director); Erin Zipes (director); Susan Viner Vered (director); Debra Viner (director); Tamara Fathi (director); Sabina Wasserlauf (director); Steven Gordon (director); Aaron Smith (director); Brent Taylor (director); Adam Silver (ceo); Mark Gruner (cfo).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 136729142RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.