Toronto Cheder
Publicly funded institution · North York, Ontario · BN 893910380RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,430,233) as filed with the CRA.
Toronto Cheder is a charitable organization based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $6.9M in revenue and $7.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 54% from donations, 41% from other charities. In 2024, 76 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.9M.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 96% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 63 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 7 qualified donees totalling $125K in 2024, the largest being $51K to Yeshiva Gedola Bridgeport of Canada Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Religious school for training religious students
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.9M | $7.4M | $7.3M | — | $125K | $11.6M |
| 2023 | $6.6M | $7.6M | $7.5M | — | $70K | $12.1M |
| 2022 | $7.1M | $7M | $6.9M | — | $65K | $13.1M |
| 2021 | $5.2M | $5.5M | $5.4M | — | $52K | $13M |
| 2020 | $6M | $5.6M | $4.6M | — | $42K | $13.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $125K to 7 qualified donees:
- Yeshiva Gedola Bridgeport of Canada Foundation$51K
- Moral Arc Foundation$28K
- Thornhill Jewish Fund$25K
- Bais Yaakov of Thornhill$8,830
- Bais Yaakov Elementary School$5,000
- Ohr Chaya Charitable Organization$4,300
- Yeshivas Nachalas Zvi$3,500
Received $2.9M from 76 charities:
- The Meyer and Idelle Weinstock Charitable Foundation$640K
- The Chaim Moshe Friedman Memorial Fund$533K
- Zolty Charitable Foundation$303K
- Moral Arc Foundation$192K
- The George Hofstedter Family Foundation$145K
- The Marder Family Foundation$110K
- The B&C Zy Gezunt Charitable Foundation$100K
- The Jewish Legacy Charitable Foundation$96K
- Fieldgate Cares Foundation$91K
- The Daniel and Vera Rubinstein Charitable Foundation$58K
- The Thomas Hofstedter Family Foundation$55K
- The S. Sigler Family Charitable Foundation$50K
- Philip and Hannah Reichmann Family Foundation$50K
- The Dana Charitable Foundation$46K
- Canada Gives$42K
- My Charity Fund$37K
- Heitner Charitable Foundation$28K
- Abraham Bleeman Foundation$25K
- The Goldberg Family Foundation$25K
- Jack and Doris Bistricer Charitable Foundation$23K
- Schofam Charitable Foundation$21K
- The F&R Hauer Charitable Foundation$20K
- The David Kutner Family Foundation$15K
- J & H Feldman Charitable Foundation$15K
- The Friedberg Charitable Foundation$15K
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
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions63
- Total compensation, all staff$4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
George Hofstedter (president); Kalman Lowenthal (secretary); Neil Sigler (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Toronto Cheder’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 893910380RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.