Uptown Chabad
Charitable organization · Thornhill, Ontario · BN 823164751RR0001 · Judaism
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,890,399) as filed with the CRA.
Uptown Chabad is a charitable organization based in Thornhill, Ontario, classified by the CRA under judaism. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $1.9M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 42% from donations, 31% from government. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $168K.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 64% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 4 qualified donees totalling $17K in 2024, the largest being $8,550 to Kav Shalom KHM. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $997K in 2020 to $1.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Ongoing programs uptown chabad family shul gan chabad preschool kinder sports day care & summer camp mini mench tot classes youth programs womens circle holiday programs adult educations bar-bat mitzvah hebrew school
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $1.9M | $1.7M | — | $17K | $970K |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $1.5M | $1.4M | — | $81K | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $1.3M | $1.2M | — | $6,165 | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $159K | — | $27K | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $997K | $1M | $102K | — | $23K | $1.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $17K to 4 qualified donees:
Received $168K from 12 charities:
- The Jonathan and Ethan Lax Foundation$100K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$24K
- The Finkler-Friedland Family Foundation$15K
- Miriam And Larry Robbins Foundation$9,000
- Abraham Bleeman Foundation$5,000
- Chabad Lubavitch of Richmond Hill$5,000
- Mizrachi Organization Of Canada$3,720
- The Benjamin Foundation$2,829
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$1,440
- Shainhouse Family Charitable Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$994
- My Charity Fund$90
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$679K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Leo Steiner (director); Lionel Gerber (director); Moshe Steiner (officier); Yehudis Steiner (officier); Sid Wellman (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Uptown Chabad’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 823164751RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.