The S & L Stern Foundation
Private foundation · Downsview, Ontario · BN 889090163RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($262,220) as filed with the CRA.
The S & L Stern Foundation is a private foundation based in Downsview, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $501K in revenue and $262K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 89% from donations.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 90% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 49 qualified donees totalling $234K in 2024, the largest being $51K to K'Hal Toras Chesed. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $133K in 2020 to $501K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
The selection and distribution of funds 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 | $501K | $262K | $27K | — | $234K | $447K |
| 2023 | $384K | $484K | $34K | — | $445K | $208K |
| 2022 | $291K | $151K | $5,672 | — | $144K | $308K |
| 2021 | $722K | $461K | $16K | — | $442K | $168K |
| 2020 | $133K | $185K | $12K | — | $171K | -$93K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$446,153
- Investment income$40,897
- Other income$14,085
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 $234K to 49 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- K'Hal Toras Chesed$51K
- Moral Arc Foundation$23K
- Moral Arc Foundation$23K
- Reb Mayer Baal Hanes - Chibas Jerusalem$18K
- Zichron Yisroel Congregation$14K
- Bais Yaakov Elementary School$14K
- Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies$10K
- Les Amis Canadiens du Seminaire Yeshivah Mirer de Jerusalem Inc./canadian Friends of the Seminary Yeshivah Mirer of Jerusalem Inc.$10K
- Yeshivat Yesodei Hatora$8,555
- Talmudical Academy Of Toronto Mishkan HaTorah Charitable Trust$7,500
- Yeshivas Nachalas Zvi$5,460
- Bais Yaakov Elementary School$5,200
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$4,000
- Tomchei Shabbos of Montreal$3,650
- Bikur Cholim$2,860
- Hachnosas Kallah$2,680
- Talmudical Academy Of Toronto Mishkan HaTorah Charitable Trust$2,080
- Yeshiva Ohr Israel$2,054
- Yeshivas Nefesh Dovid$2,000
- Achim Toronto$2,000
- Toronto Cheder$1,800
- Chevra Oseh Chesed Financial Assistance Organization$1,800
- Congregation Chasidei Bobov$1,800
- Rockwood Cares Torah$1,719
- KTL Kollel$1,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nicolos Stern (trustee); Leah Stern (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The S & L Stern Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889090163RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.