The Toronto Cantorial Trust Fund
Public foundation · Downsview, Ontario · BN 119259356RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-10-31. Split of total expenditures ($97,564) as filed with the CRA.
The Toronto Cantorial Trust Fund is a public foundation based in Downsview, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending October 31, 2024, it reported $65K in revenue and $98K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from other charities. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $172.
Compared with 3,624 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 74% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $95K in 2024, the largest being $95K to Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Raises funds through music concerts publishes jewish music provides educational seminars and assists others in music studies and provides scholarships to canadian cantorial students
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $65K | $98K | $1,500 | — | $95K | $1,985 |
| 2023 | — | $5,240 | $5,000 | — | $180 | $34K |
| 2022 | — | $898 | — | — | — | $39K |
| 2021 | $7,000 | $1,739 | — | — | — | $40K |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — | — | $35K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $95K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $172 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Eliezer Kirshblum (chairman); Marshal Loomer (vice-chairman); Eric Moses (vice-chairman); Samuel Cohen (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Toronto Cantorial Trust Fund’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119259356RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.