Toronto, ON · Private foundation
Abraham Bleeman Foundation
Promotion of religious education and relief of poverty
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k68 grants · C$179k
- C$10k–50k38 grants · C$719k
- C$50k–250k12 grants · C$1.3M
- C$250k+5 grants · C$2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINAS TZEDEK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | C$646,000 |
| JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL | C$584,570 |
| NATHAN & SHANI BLEEMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | C$577,500 |
| SHIMON & DEENA SMURZ CHARITABLE FDN | C$525,500 |
| JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL | C$390,450 |
| EITZ CHAIM SCHOOLS | C$200,000 |
| BETH JACOB HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | C$144,000 |
| JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADA | C$136,160 |
| JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADA | C$135,500 |
| TORONTO CARE FUND | C$100,000 |
| JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADA | C$100,000 |
| JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADA | C$95,000 |
| YESHIVAT YESODEI HATORA | C$93,000 |
| JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADA | C$90,052 |
| JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADA | C$68,500 |
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
124 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$25k went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”
Backed again, and grew
- JHJEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADA5× · 2020–2024 · C$1.5M · revenue +68%
- JHJEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.5M · revenue +191% · 48% of their budget
- DHDavid Hofstedter Family Foundation5× · 2017–2022 · C$1.2M · revenue +140%
Funded once
- NINER ISRAEL RABBINICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · C$26k
- LALES AMIS CANADIENS DU SEMINAIRE YESHIVAH MIRER DE JERUSALEMone grant, 2018 · C$20k
- ZBZICHRON BINYOMIN CHARITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · C$15k · revenue +6%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Support of jewish education and institutions
Provide scholarships to needy students persuing studies of higher education in israel.
To provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses at belz yeshiva
The charity provides scholarships and assistance to needy students to enable them to study at yeshiva toras chalm
The charity advances education and religion by operating a school for post graduate talmudic students as well as providing scholarships and bursaries.
The organization has been set up to provide religious education.
The charity provides scholarship to needy students
To provide scholarship and assistance to needy students to enable them to follow religious courses at yeshiva toldos aharon for the furtherance of religious study
To advance and teach the religious tenets doctrines and observances associated with the jewish faith. to advance education by providing scholarships for talmudic scholars; and to undertake activities ancillary and incidental to the…
Provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses given at yeshivat wiznitz.
Funds provided for students desirous of studying advanced Talmudic and Torah law at Mercaz Hatorah Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem and other similar institutions.
During the fiscal period, the organization accepted funds which were dispersed as scholarships to deserving students and to sholars doing research to be used in the study of judaism.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Friends of Yeshivath Meor Hatalmud and the most unlike its peers is Palace Theatre Arts Commons. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
166 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 166 of the 184 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds David Hofstedter Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds LINAS TZEDEK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATHAN & SHANI BLEEMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE EDUCATION AND WELFARE OF ↗
- Who funds CARIBOU TORAH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT YESODEI HATORA ↗
- Who funds SHIMON & DEENA SMURZ CHARITABLE FDN ↗
- Who funds BAIS YAAKOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EITZ CHAIM SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds TORONTO CARE FUND ↗
- Who funds BETH JACOB HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED TALMUDIC AND HALACHIC STUDIES ↗
- Who funds KESHER EMPLOYMENT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PILLAR ↗
- Who funds Beth Oloth Charitable Organization ↗
- Who funds TORONTO CHEDER ↗
- Who funds BNOS BAIS YAAKOV HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto ↗
- Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED JUDIAC STUDIES ↗
- Who funds HACHNOSAS KALLAH ↗
- Who funds LES AMIS CANADIENS DU SEMINAIRE YESHIVAH MIRER DE JERUSA ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA GEDOLAH ZICHRON SHMAYAHU ↗
- Who funds NER ISRAEL-JOSEPH (J.T.) TANENBAUM YESHIVAH COLLEGE OF TOR ↗
- Who funds Torath Emeth Jewish Centre ↗
- Who funds Ner Israel Rabbinical College ↗
- Who funds Lomdei torah Programs ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF TORAH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds TORAH SCHOOLS FOR ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds THE CANADIAN FRIENDS OF OHR SOMAYACH - TANEBAUM ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAS NACHALAS ZVI ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA B'NEI ZION OF TORONTO ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT AISH HATORAH ↗
- Who funds Kesher Outreach Organization ↗
- Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF TORONTO ↗
- Who funds BNEI AKIVA SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAS NEFESH DOVID ↗
- Who funds CHASIEDAI GER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The George Hofstedter Family Foundation · The F&R Hauer Charitable Foundation · Zolty Charitable Foundation · Heitner Charitable Foundation · Zichron Binyomin Charity Foundation · The Chaim Moshe Friedman Memorial Fund · Moral Arc Foundation · The S. Sigler Family Charitable Foundation · The Friedberg Charitable Foundation · The Weitz Family Foundation · Jack and Doris Bistricer Charitable Foundation · Fieldgate Cares Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.