The Reta & Max Merkur Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 823347406RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($165,884) as filed with the CRA.
The Reta & Max Merkur Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $172K in revenue and $166K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 76% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 14 qualified donees totalling $162K in 2024, the largest being $101K to Moral Arc Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Qualfying distributions that that the foundation makes through gifts 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 | $172K | $166K | — | — | $162K | $270 |
| 2023 | $244K | $272K | — | — | $269K | -$5,752 |
| 2022 | $454K | $424K | — | — | $423K | $22K |
| 2021 | $102K | $105K | — | — | $102K | -$7,874 |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — | $62K | -$4,469 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $162K to 14 qualified donees:
- Moral Arc Foundation$101K
- Bnos Chaya$15K
- Talmudical Academy Of Toronto Mishkan HaTorah Charitable Trust$14K
- Toronto Cheder$8,600
- Bnos Bais Yaakov High School$6,500
- Bobever Yeshiva Bnei Zion Charitable Fund$4,000
- Congregation Chasidei Bobov$3,000
- Mosdos Bobov$2,200
- Talmudical Academy Of Toronto Mishkan HaTorah Charitable Trust$1,800
- Yeshivas Nachalas Zvi$1,800
- Bais Chaya Mushkah School for Girls$1,800
- Les Amis Canadiens du Seminaire Yeshivah Mirer de Jerusalem Inc./canadian Friends of the Seminary Yeshivah Mirer of Jerusalem Inc.$1,000
- Machson Tzvi Hersh Jewish Charity Organization$1,000
- Bais Yaakov Elementary School$360
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ephry Merkur (director & president); Zev Zlotnick (director & treasurer); Sorelle Simmons (vice pres. & secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Reta & Max Merkur Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 823347406RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.