The Thomas Hofstedter Family Foundation
Private foundation · Downsview, Ontario · BN 119258903RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($932,948) as filed with the CRA.
The Thomas Hofstedter Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Downsview, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $388K in revenue and $933K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 84% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 66 qualified donees totalling $925K in 2024, the largest being $250K to Amudim Canada. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $1M in 2020 to $388K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Selection of and disbursements 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 | $388K | $933K | — | — | $925K | $14.2M |
| 2023 | $636K | $794K | — | — | $780K | $14.7M |
| 2022 | $817K | $586K | — | — | $570K | $14.9M |
| 2021 | $568K | $455K | — | — | $441K | $14.6M |
| 2020 | $1M | $774K | — | — | $742K | $14.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $925K to 66 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Amudim Canada$250K
- Moral Arc Foundation$198K
- Bais Yaakov Elementary School$81K
- Toronto Cheder$55K
- Yeshivat Yesodei Hatora$54K
- Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Shmayahu$39K
- Toronto Care Fund$30K
- Paths of Torah School$26K
- Bais Chaya Mushkah School for Girls$20K
- My Charity Fund$19K
- Jewish Education Program Charitable Foundation$16K
- Bnos Bais Yaakov High School$15K
- Agudath Israel Congregation of Toronto$12K
- Institute for Advanced Talmudic and Halachic Studies$10K
- Canadian Friends of Yad Lachim Organization$8,000
- Peylim of Canada$7,500
- Kollel Daf Yomi Institute$6,313
- Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies$6,000
- Bikur Cholim$5,000
- Torah Umesorah Canada$5,000
- Agudath Israel of Toronto$5,000
- Les Amis Canadiens du Seminaire Yeshivah Mirer de Jerusalem Inc./canadian Friends of the Seminary Yeshivah Mirer of Jerusalem Inc.$5,000
- Toronto Teachers' Centre of Torah Umesorah$5,000
- Rockwood Cares Torah$4,615
- Congregation MBG$3,600
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Thomas Hofstedter (director); David Hofstedter (director); George Hofstedter (director); Mark Mandelbaum (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Thomas Hofstedter Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119258903RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.