UJA Federation of Greater Toronto
Legal name: United Jewish Welfare Fund of Toronto
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 980335432
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2014
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014
- Location
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Phone
- 416.635.2883
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Foundations
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,822,120
- Expenses
- $61,823,674
- Assets
- $251,539,581
- Liabilities
- $43,786,082
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MORRIS ZBAR (CEO (EFFECTIVE 9/1/14))
- TED SOKOLSKY (CEO (7/1/14 - 9/1/14))
- RICHARD NELSON (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT)
- MURRAY KANE (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT)
- JEFF SPRINGER (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT)
- ADAM MINSKY (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- TED SOKOLSKY (CEO (7/1/14 - 9/1/14)): $505,551 total reported compensation
- RON EILATH (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $359,255 total reported compensation
- MORRIS ZBAR (CEO (EFFECTIVE 9/1/14)): $270,714 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
UJA Federation's mission is to preserve and strengthen the quality of Jewish life in Greater Toronto, Canada, Israel and around the world through philanthropic, volunteer and professional leadership. UJA Federation's mission is to **preserve and strengthen** the quality of Jewish life in Greater Toronto, Canada, Israel and around the world through **philanthropic****,****volunteer** and **professional leadership****.** Year after year, UJA’s Annual Campaign - which raises approximately $60 million annually - allows UJA to care for our most vulnerable; build and strengthen Jewish identity and education, invest in Israel and overseas, and promote Jewish/Israel advocacy, while also creating infrastructure throughout the GTA that serves not only the Jewish community, but the community-at-large. Our vision.
What it reported doing in 2014
Expenses incurred in providing supplemental financial assistance for social welfare and financial needs cases, subsidies for immigrant support, and grants to healthcare institutions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 90% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 84.8%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $56.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Limited
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 92.4%; rating input score 92; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 28.8%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.07; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.6%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 68% of revenue deployed · 84.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $52.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $506K · 17 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.4M reported
- Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.