The Village Shul and Learning Center of Toronto
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 130842099RR0001 · Judaism · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($3,074,339) as filed with the CRA.
The Village Shul and Learning Center of Toronto is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under judaism. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $3.1M in revenue and $3.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 47% from donations, 12% from government, 23% from other charities. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $492K.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 84% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $217K in 2024, the largest being $217K to Canadian Friends of Yeshivat Aish Hatorah. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.6M in 2020 to $3.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The charity is a synagogue and learning centre that conducts religious services daily at its premises at 1072 eglinton ave w in toronto. There is also a preschool facility available to the community. The charity also runs cultural and religious classes for both children and adults.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.1M | $3.1M | $1.8M | $4,533 | $217K | $195K |
| 2023 | $2.8M | $2.8M | $1.7M | $39K | — | $160K |
| 2022 | $2.4M | $2.1M | — | — | — | $140K |
| 2021 | $2.1M | $1.8M | — | — | — | -$178K |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $1.8M | — | — | — | -$413K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $217K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $492K from 23 charities:
- The Goldberg Family Foundation$100K
- Zolty Charitable Foundation$85K
- Jack and Doris Bistricer Charitable Foundation$82K
- The Sonshine Family Foundation$75K
- Fieldgate Cares Foundation$36K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$30K
- The Dan-Hytman Family Foundation$18K
- Philip and Hannah Reichmann Family Foundation$18K
- The Amayn Charitable Foundation$11K
- The Jacobs Family Foundation$9,000
- Wise Family Foundation$5,000
- My Charity Fund$4,737
- The Joseph B. Lubotta Charitable Foundation$4,500
- Sacks Family Foundation$3,005
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$2,500
- Isaac & Evelyn Grubner Charitable Trust$2,500
- The Rebecca and Alan Simpson Family Foundation$2,300
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,800
- Zichron Binyomin Charity Foundation$1,257
- Canadahelps Canadon$499
- The Rothschild Charitable Trust$360
- The Sam and Lola Faivish Charitable Foundation$56
- Prime Quadrant Foundation$50
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$1.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Berger (president); Arthur Stern (secretary); Anton Benjamin (director); William Tencer (director); Aryeh Pamensky (director); Nancy Weisbord (director); Matthew Friedberg (treasurer); Elana Carr (director); Allen Corber (director); Aubrey Freedman (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Village Shul and Learning Center of Toronto’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130842099RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.