Thornhill Torah Educational Centre
Charitable organization · Thornhill, Ontario · BN 857698492RR0001 · Judaism
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($509,128) as filed with the CRA.
Thornhill Torah Educational Centre is a charitable organization based in Thornhill, Ontario, classified by the CRA under judaism. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $478K in revenue and $509K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 53% from donations, 47% from other charities. In 2024, 29 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $232K.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 76% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 6 qualified donees totalling $63K in 2024, the largest being $26K to Yeshivas Kesser Torah. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $142K in 2020 to $478K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Preaching and advancing the teachings of the orthodox jewish faith. This was done by maintaining premises for religious services torah programs and religious counselling.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $478K | $509K | $435K | — | $63K | -$23K |
| 2023 | $384K | $406K | $371K | — | $20K | $8,505 |
| 2022 | $360K | $350K | $333K | — | $11K | $31K |
| 2021 | $335K | $294K | $248K | — | $39K | $21K |
| 2020 | $142K | $159K | $131K | — | $17K | -$20K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $63K to 6 qualified donees:
- Yeshivas Kesser Torah$26K
- The Institute of Torah Education$22K
- Torath Emeth Jewish Centre$9,000
- Thornhill Jewish Fund$3,030
- Achim Toronto$1,978
- Aguath Israel$1,000
Received $232K from 29 charities:
- Rayjo Charitable Trust$39K
- The Jewish Legacy Charitable Foundation$27K
- Fieldgate Cares Foundation$19K
- The Meyer and Idelle Weinstock Charitable Foundation$18K
- My Charity Fund$16K
- The Chaim Moshe Friedman Memorial Fund$14K
- Zolty Charitable Foundation$12K
- The Dan-Hytman Family Foundation$10K
- Abraham Bleeman Foundation$10K
- The B&C Zy Gezunt Charitable Foundation$10K
- The Jewish Legacy Charitable Foundation$10K
- J.frankel Family Charitable Trust$9,360
- The Burning Bush Foundation$7,000
- J & H Feldman Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Heitner Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The F&R Hauer Charitable Foundation$3,600
- Linas Tzedek Charitable Foundation$3,000
- The Friedberg Charitable Foundation$3,000
- The George Hofstedter Family Foundation$2,800
- The S. Sigler Family Charitable Foundation$2,500
- Nathan & Shani Bleeman Charitable Foundation$2,500
- Schofam Charitable Foundation$1,000
- The Weitz Family Foundation$1,000
- The Allan and Susan Seidenfeld Charitable Foundation$1,000
- The Chaim Moshe Friedman Memorial Fund$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$214K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Abraham Oberstein (director); Moshe Posner (director); Israel Zlotnick (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Thornhill Torah Educational Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 857698492RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.