The Sydney and Florence Cooper Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119207736RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($691,178) as filed with the CRA.
The Sydney and Florence Cooper Charitable 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 $676K in revenue and $691K 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 54% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 29 qualified donees totalling $619K in 2024, the largest being $255K to United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The sydney and florence cooper foundation continued to provide financial support via donations to various charitable organizations (29 in 2024) that provided medical research and hospital/medical services education and community programs (e.g. United health network/toronto general and western hospital foundation and the united jewish appeal of greater toronto). In particular the foundation donated $100 000 in 2024 to toronto general and western hospital foundation to support the lung metasteses program. In addition to financial support certain directors of the foundation provide volunteer…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $676K | $691K | — | — | $619K | $58K |
| 2023 | $672K | $723K | — | — | $720K | $73K |
| 2022 | $585K | $570K | — | — | $567K | $124K |
| 2021 | $826K | $754K | — | — | $754K | $128K |
| 2020 | $726K | $893K | — | — | $893K | $96K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $619K to 29 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$255K
- UHN Foundation$100K
- Sinai Health Foundation$50K
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$25K
- Sick Kids Foundation$25K
- The Canadian Mental Health Association$25K
- Beth Sholom Synagogue$25K
- Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee$15K
- Chabad Lubavitch of Southern Ontario$14K
- The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation$13K
- Save a Child's Heart Foundation$10K
- Reena Foundation$7,200
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$5,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$5,000
- The Thompson T. Egbo-Egbo Arts Foundation$5,000
- Pencils For Kids/Des Crayons Pour Les Enfants$5,000
- North York General Hospital Foundation$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,000
- Birthright Israel Foundation of Canada$5,000
- Stella's Place Assessment and Treatment Centre$3,600
- Ve'Ahavta$2,500
- UHN Foundation$2,500
- The Toronto Jewish Film Foundation$2,500
- Campfire Circle Autour du Feu$2,500
- The Leo Baeck Day School$1,800
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tobie Bekhor (president); Richard Cooper (vice president); Lynda Latner (treasurer); Adam Bekhor (member); Jonathan Cooper (member); Lily Latner Otis (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Sydney and Florence Cooper Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119207736RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.