The Toronto Jewish Film Foundation
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 135226793RR0001 · Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($922,648) as filed with the CRA.
The Toronto Jewish Film Foundation is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $958K in revenue and $923K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 47% from donations, 9% from government, 20% from other charities. In 2024, 33 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $444K.
Compared with 724 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 54% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
The charity stages a large film festival and educates the public through this fesitval discussion and lectures as to the jewish history language society culture and religion.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $958K | $923K | $765K | $99K | — | $224K |
| 2023 | $806K | $873K | $689K | $121K | — | $192K |
| 2022 | $711K | $744K | $584K | $102K | — | $334K |
| 2021 | $797K | $770K | $618K | $98K | — | $368K |
| 2020 | $816K | $609K | $264K | $73K | — | $341K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $444K from 33 charities:
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$134K
- Zukerman Family Foundation$107K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$50K
- Gerald Sheff & Shanitha Kachan Family Foundation$38K
- Leonard Wolinsky Foundation$18K
- The Micki Moore Foundation$12K
- The Asper Foundation$7,500
- Toronto Workmen's Circle Foundation$5,000
- Nathan and Lily Silver Family Foundation$5,000
- Bernard & Norton Wolf Family Foundation$5,000
- The Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The Leonard Simpson Family Foundation$5,000
- Israel Koschitzky Family Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The Delaney Family Foundation$5,000
- The Izzy and Betty Kirshenbaum Foundation$5,000
- The Azrieli Foundation$5,000
- Wagner Green Family Trust$5,000
- Moses & Temara Tobe Foundation Inc.$3,600
- Abundance Canada$3,250
- THE BRETTLER/Mintz Foundation$2,800
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$2,500
- The Sydney and Florence Cooper Charitable Foundation$2,500
- Conam Charitable Foundation$2,000
- Larry And Judy Tanenbaum Family Foundation$2,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,800
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Cooper (director); Betty Eisenstadt (director); Karen Leitner (director); Talia Rovinski (director); Ed Segalowitz (director); Paula Zivot (director); Phyllis Angel Greenberg (past chair); Allison Weiss Martin (chair); Andrew Wolinsky (director); Sharon Kroft (director); Matthew Shoychet (director); Caroline Elias (director); Dinah Kutner (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Toronto Jewish Film Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 135226793RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.