Yeshivas Nefesh Dovid
Publicly funded institution · North York, Ontario · BN 885172411RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,576,555) as filed with the CRA.
Yeshivas Nefesh Dovid 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 42% from donations, 10% from other charities. In 2024, 50 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $645K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 13% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 75% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $630K in 2020 to $1.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The organization operates a religious jewish high school for deaf and hearing impaired students who desire a religious jewish education and who are unable to attend or would have great difficulty attending a conventional religious jewish high school.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $1.2M | $322K | — | $1.6M |
| 2023 | $2.2M | $2.1M | $1.3M | $737K | — | $1.6M |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $826K | $401K | — | $1.4M |
| 2021 | $2M | $937K | $609K | $188K | — | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $630K | $637K | $499K | $67K | — | $332K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $645K from 50 charities:
- The Friedberg Charitable Foundation$100K
- The Chaim Moshe Friedman Memorial Fund$51K
- J & H Feldman Charitable Foundation$50K
- Silver Family Charitable Foundation$50K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$45K
- The Koenig Family Foundation$30K
- The Gross Family Foundation$25K
- Zolty Charitable Foundation$25K
- Fieldgate Cares Foundation$22K
- Heitner Charitable Foundation$22K
- The Jewish Legacy Charitable Foundation$20K
- The Meyer and Idelle Weinstock Charitable Foundation$18K
- The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation$15K
- Kav Shalom KHM$15K
- The Amayn Charitable Foundation$13K
- The B&C Zy Gezunt Charitable Foundation$12K
- Matan Bsayser Foundation$11K
- Jack and Doris Bistricer Charitable Foundation$11K
- Mashiyev Family Foundation$10K
- Abraham Bleeman Foundation$10K
- Philip and Hannah Reichmann Family Foundation$10K
- The George Hofstedter Family Foundation$8,583
- Nathan and Lily Silver Family Foundation$7,500
- The Daniel and Vera Rubinstein Charitable Foundation$7,500
- My Charity Fund$5,325
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$435K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ben Friedman (director); Jack Eisenberger (director); Ronald Rutman (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Yeshivas Nefesh Dovid’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 885172411RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.