The Ottawa Jewish Community School
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 119071884RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($4,786,064) as filed with the CRA.
The Ottawa Jewish Community School is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $4.3M in revenue and $4.8M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 46% from donations, 32% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.5M.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 34 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Private school offering secular religious and hebrew education from senior kindergarten to grade 8.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.3M | $4.8M | $3.8M | $67K | — | -$545K |
| 2023 | $4.5M | $4.5M | $3.5M | $69K | — | -$17K |
| 2022 | $4M | $4.3M | $3.4M | $40K | — | -$30K |
| 2021 | $3.9M | $3.7M | $2.9M | $25K | — | $266K |
| 2020 | $3.7M | $3.8M | $2.9M | $39K | — | $68K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.5M from 9 charities:
- The Clematis Foundation$1.9M
- Jewish Federation of Ottawa$562K
- David & Rachel Epstein Foundation Trust Fund$59K
- Conam Charitable Foundation$15K
- WCPD Foundation$11K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,870
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,800
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,800
- Canadahelps Canadon$432
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions34
- Total compensation, all staff$3.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joseph (yossi) Bokhaut (treasurer); Lindsay Borovay (director); Jonathan Freedman (director); Howie Fremeth (director); Joanne Gorenstein (president); Jessica Greenberg (director); Miriam Vale Peters (vice president); Ron Prehogan (director); Neil Presner (director); Lorne Segal (director); Randi Sherman (director); Chuck Merovitz (director); Ian Sherman (director); Kate Bigney Wilner (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Ottawa Jewish Community School’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119071884RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.