United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119276723RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($222,528,573) as filed with the CRA.
United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $224.2M in revenue and $222.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 37% from donations, 54% from other charities. In 2024, 277 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $104.1M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 47% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 230 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 201 qualified donees totalling $170.4M in 2024, the largest being $86M to United Israel Appeal of Canada Inc. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $130.9M in 2020 to $224.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Raise funds for charitable purposes from the jewish community in the greater toronto area and abroad and distribute the funds to various agencies that promote education and other community related items assessing social educational and communal needs of the jewish community carrying out welfare educational cultural religious and other charitable activities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $224.2M | $222.5M | $22.1M | $10.8M | $170.4M | $49.6M |
| 2023 | $171.5M | $135.5M | $15.2M | $9.7M | $91.9M | $38.4M |
| 2022 | $119.2M | $122M | $11.5M | $9.2M | $87.7M | $25.9M |
| 2021 | $165.9M | $155.4M | $8.1M | $6.9M | $128.5M | $29.7M |
| 2020 | $130.9M | $105.8M | $8.4M | $8.2M | $76.5M | $7.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $170.4M to 201 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- United Israel Appeal of Canada Inc$86M
- Vaughan Jewish Community Campus$23.8M
- The Canadian Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitis m and Policy$7.6M
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$6.1M
- Jewish Family and Child Service of Greater Toronto$5.6M
- Sherman Campus$3.4M
- Hillel Ontario$2.3M
- Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto$2.1M
- Eitz Chaim Schools$1.9M
- Netivot Hatorah Day School$1.8M
- Bialik Hebrew Day School$1.7M
- Anne & Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto$1.5M
- Prosserman Jewish Community Centre$1.2M
- Schwartz / Reisman Centre$1.2M
- University of Waterloo$1.1M
- Scholarship Bursary & Education Committee Medical Alumni Association of University of Toronto$1.1M
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$1.1M
- Queen's University at Kingston$1.1M
- McMaster University$1.1M
- Circle of Home CARE Services (toronto)$935K
- The Joe Dwek Ohr Haemet Sephardic School$861K
- Jias (jewish Immigrant Aid Services) Toronto$841K
- The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation$700K
- The University of Western Ontario$660K
- The University of British Columbia$660K
Received $104.1M from 277 charities:
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$34.2M
- Binah Charitable Foundation$16.1M
- The Schulich Foundation$11M
- The Azrieli Foundation$3.3M
- The Schulich Foundation$3M
- Gerald Sheff & Shanitha Kachan Family Foundation$2.1M
- The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation$1.9M
- Daat Charitable Foundation$1.4M
- The Weisfeld Family Charitable Foundation$1.3M
- The Amayn Charitable Foundation$1.1M
- The Sharp Foundation$1.1M
- The Schulich Foundation$1M
- The Schulich Foundation$1M
- THE IRA GLUSKIN AND MAXINE GRANOVSKY GLUSKIN CHARITABLE FOUNdation$914K
- Conam Charitable Foundation$850K
- The Kavelman-Fonn Foundation$755K
- KNRS Charitable Foundation$730K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$698K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$692K
- The Koffler Foundation$675K
- The Lewis and Charlotte Steinberg Family Foundation$600K
- The Goodman Family Foundation$573K
- Israel Magen Fund of Canada$560K
- The Max and Beatrice Wolfe Charitable Foundation$502K
- The Warren and Debbie Kimel Family Foundation$500K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $300,000–349,9993 positions
- $250,000–299,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions230
- Total compensation, all staff$26.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jeffrey Rosenthal (chair); Kenneth Tanenbaum (vice chair); Glenys Lindenberg (treasurer); Errol Tenenbaum (director); Dahra Granovsky (director); Nurit Richulsky (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119276723RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.