Yeshivas Keser Torah
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 891007015RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($758,785) as filed with the CRA.
Yeshivas Keser Torah is a charitable organization based in Toronto, 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $720K in revenue and $759K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 27% from donations, 72% from other charities. In 2024, 48 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $446K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 66% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
It reported gifts to 5 qualified donees totalling $51K in 2024, the largest being $22K to Moral Arc Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The charity maintained an educational program to assist students in enhancing their knowledge and expertise in various areas pertaining to judaic studies.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $720K | $759K | $646K | — | $51K | -$19K |
| 2023 | $889K | $871K | $800K | — | $38K | $19K |
| 2022 | $748K | $749K | $675K | — | $18K | $1,577 |
| 2021 | $668K | $669K | $563K | — | $28K | $2,583 |
| 2020 | $729K | $689K | $603K | — | — | $3,511 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $51K to 5 qualified donees:
Received $446K from 48 charities:
- The B&C Zy Gezunt Charitable Foundation$64K
- Fieldgate Cares Foundation$47K
- Shaarei Zion Community Centre$46K
- Matan Bsayser Foundation$43K
- Moral Arc Foundation$26K
- The Ryf Charitable Trust$24K
- Zolty Charitable Foundation$21K
- The Meyer and Idelle Weinstock Charitable Foundation$20K
- The F&R Hauer Charitable Foundation$19K
- The Chaim Moshe Friedman Memorial Fund$14K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$10K
- The Almond Tree Foundation$10K
- The Gross Family Foundation$10K
- Tom and Annie Kohn Charitable Foundation$10K
- The Sharing Foundation$8,500
- Philip and Hannah Reichmann Family Foundation$8,500
- J & H Feldman Charitable Foundation$7,000
- Heitner Charitable Foundation$6,250
- Canadian Foundation for the Education and Welfare of Jews Ofthe C I S$5,000
- The Jewish Legacy Charitable Foundation$5,000
- My Charity Fund$4,810
- The Esquire Charitable Foundation$4,000
- Rayjo Charitable Trust$3,600
- Shimon & Deena Smursz Charitable Foundation$2,970
- Schofam Charitable Foundation$2,550
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$62K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Abraham Kahn (president); Bentzion Friedman (secretary); Yisroel Muller (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Yeshivas Keser Torah’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891007015RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.