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.
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.