The Warren and Debbie Kimel Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 887497923RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,392,406) as filed with the CRA.
The Warren and Debbie Kimel Family 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 $594K in revenue and $2.4M 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 82% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 18 qualified donees totalling $2.4M in 2024, the largest being $500K to United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $1.7M in 2020 to $594K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
To receive and maintain a fund and apply from time to time all or part of the income thereform for charitablepurposes. Gifts were made to charitable organizations during the fiscal year.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $594K | $2.4M | — | — | $2.4M | $5.2M |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $2.7M | — | — | $2.7M | $7M |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $2.6M | — | — | $2.2M | $7.9M |
| 2021 | $1M | $2.9M | — | — | $2.5M | $9.3M |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $2.4M | — | — | $2.4M | $11.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.4M to 18 qualified donees:
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$500K
- Sinai Health Foundation$450K
- Beth Sholom Synagogue$250K
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$200K
- The Baycrest Centre Foundation$200K
- The Shalem Foundation Canada$100K
- Reena Foundation$100K
- Neshama Hospice$100K
- Kayla's Children Centre$100K
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation$100K
- Caribou Torah Education Foundation$100K
- Canadian Shaare Zedek Hospital Foundation/fondation Canadienne de l'Hopital Shaare Zedek$44K
- David Foster Foundation$40K
- Mizrachi Organization Of Canada$37K
- Mackenzie Health Foundation$20K
- The Jewish Theological Society of Canada$17K
- Mesivta Lubavitch Toronto$5,000
- Camp Winston Foundation$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Warren Kimel (trustee); Debbie Kimel (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Warren and Debbie Kimel Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 887497923RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.