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Montreal, QC · Private foundation

Alvin Segal Family Foundation

The promotion of charitable undertakings for the funding of registered charities.

C$4.5M
Granted FY2023
103
Grants FY2023
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Regions reached
C$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 103 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k69 grants · C$178k
  • C$10k–50k20 grants · C$374k
  • C$50k–250k10 grants · C$950k
  • C$250k+4 grants · C$3.0M
C$3,800
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$64M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jewish Community Foundation of Greater MontrealC$1,000,000
Federation CJAC$945,000
Canadian Friends of Shalom Hartman InstituteC$544,800
Canadian Friends of Hebrew UniversityC$500,000
Jewish General Hospital FoundationC$200,000
McGill UniversityC$200,000
Federation CJAC$150,000
Congregation Shaar HashomayimC$100,000
St. Francis Xavier UniversityC$50,000
United Talmud Torahs of MontrealC$50,000
Centraide of Greater MontrealC$50,000
Hope & CopeC$50,000
Universite de MontrealC$50,000
Montreal Holocaust MuseumC$50,000
Jewish Community Foundation of Greater MontrealC$35,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$27M · 84 repeat orgsC$283k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

84 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2023, 30 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
47

Total granted

C$27M
C$281k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+29%

Still filing today

92%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MONTREAL
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$10M · revenue +129%
  • FC
    Federation CJA
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$6.6M · revenue +69%
  • CF
    Canadian Friends of Hebrew University
    4× · 2019–2023 · C$2.0M · revenue +176%

Funded once

  • CH
    Centre Hospitalier De L'Universite De Montrealgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$100k · revenue +128%
  • JD
    Juvenile Diabetes Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$12k · revenue +6%
  • IC
    Institut Canadien d'Art Vocal
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Your field

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.

1
Fondation de l'Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal

Accumuler des fonds pour financier la recherche effectuée par l'institut de recherches cliniques de montréal

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2
Fondation de l'Université du Québec à Montréal

La fondation utilise ses revenus pour favoriser et soutenir le développement et l'avancement de l'enseignement à l'université due québec à montréal

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3
La Fondation De L'ecole De Formation Hebraique

Raising funds for jewish education in the west island of montreal

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4
Fondation Hec Montréal

Financement de plusieurs projets de recherche reliés à la gestion de hec montréal et contributions à des programmes de bourses à hec montréal

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5
Fondation du Centre des Sciences de Montréal / Montreal Science Centre Foundation

La fondaiton a pour but de promouvoir une meilleure connaissance et compréhension de la science des technologies et de leur histoire.

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6
Fondation du Chu de Québec

Organisme qui a comme mission de financier et subventionner la recherche l'enseignement l'équipement médical spécialisé et de haute technologie nécessaire à l'avancement scientifique et clinique et toutes les activités liées à…

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7
Fondation universitaire de l'école des hautes études commerciales de Montréal
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8
Fondation de Recherche Medicale Maimonides / Maimonides Medical Research Foundation

The purpose of the maimonides medical research foundation is to solicit and obtain gifts legacies and endowment funds in order to promote research health education and cultural services and to make gifts grants contributions and donations…

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9
La Fondation de l'Université Laval
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10
La Fondation De L'hÔPital GÉNÉRal De MontrÉAl the MontrÉAl General Hospital Foundation

Distribute funds to the benefit of the montreal general hospital mcgill university health centre and affiliated entities of mcgill university academic health centre and other organizations of the quebec health network for equipment…

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11
BNai BRith Hillel Foundation of Montreal Inc./La Fondation B'Nai B'Rith Hillel de Montréal Inc.

B'nai brith hillel foundation of montreal inc.s' mission is to support jewish students on campus.

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12
Fondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGill McGill University Health Centre Foundation

To receive and invest funds and apply them to health care activities research and the teaching mandate for the benefit of the mcgill university health centre it's related institutions and other qualified donees with a similar mission.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Reconstructionist Judaism. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

125 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. 125 of the 135 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
119/125
Grantees still filing
103/125
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MONTREAL — C$10,226,723 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetFederation CJA — C$6,605,172 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCanadian Friends of Hebrew University — C$2,000,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetCanadian Friends of Shalom Hartman Institute — C$1,842,220 over 4y, 52% of budgetJEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,838,926 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMcGill University — C$942,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM — C$581,070 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetCENTRAIDE OF GREATER MONTREAL — C$300,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY — C$250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED TALMUD TORAHS OF MONTREAL — C$201,238 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND OF CANADA — C$178,833 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSegal Centre for Performing Arts — C$166,964 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S & WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — C$166,030 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL — C$150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPERA DE MONTRAL — C$136,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMontreal Holocaust Museum — C$100,360 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMONTREAL CANCER INSTITUTE — C$100,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCentre Hospitalier De L'Universite De Montreal — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Donald Berman Yaldei Development Centre — C$71,166 over 5y, 14% of budgetBRAIN CANADA FOUNDATIUON — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMontreal Children's Hospital Foundation — C$45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ARTS CENTER — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation of Canada — C$36,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCamp Kinneret-Biluim — C$32,400 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLifeline (Project Pride) — C$30,180 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCHAVA MUSHKA SEMINARY — C$30,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetGolden Age Association — C$28,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMaimonides Hospital Foundation — C$27,700 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSinai Health Foundation — C$26,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFondation de l'institut de Cardiologie de Montreal — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBISHOP'S UNIVERSITY — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMADA — C$23,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetORT Montreal — C$21,160 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM — C$20,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetOrchestre Symphonique De Montreal — C$19,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCamp B'Nai Brith — C$19,400 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCanada Charity Partners — C$19,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetIsrael Cancer Research Fund — C$16,100 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetYeshiva Gedola-Merkaz Hatorah of Montreal — C$16,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTEAMSTERS CANADA FOUNDATION — C$15,599 over 3y, 12% of budgetCanadian Friends of Jaffa Institute — C$15,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetFoundation du YMCA du Quebec — C$13,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFoundation Jean Duceppe — C$13,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCONGREGATION BETH ORA — C$12,940 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPEACE NETWORK FOR SOCIAL HARMONY — C$12,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBladder Cancer Canada — C$12,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budget7730616 CANADA ASSOCIATION (TRAILS OF SUMMER) — C$12,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budget
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.

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.

Morris and Rosalind G…Fondation Familiale G…Maxwell Cummings Fami…The Azrieli Foundatio…Federation CjaThe Mireille and Murr…Jewish Community Foun…Mitzi & Mel Dobrin Fa…Claudine and Stephen …Rayjo Charitable TrustNellie Philanthropy F…The Henry and Berenic…
Morris and Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation / Fondation de la Famille Morris Et Rosalind GoodmanQC41.2× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morris and Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation / Fondation de la Famille Morris Et Rosalind Goodman · Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family Fondation · Maxwell Cummings Family Foundation - Fondation de la Famille Maxwell Cummings · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · Federation Cja · The Mireille and Murray Steinberg Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille Mireille et Muuray Steinberg · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Mitzi & Mel Dobrin Family Foundation · Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Family Foundation / Fondation de la Famille Claudine et Stephen Bronfman · Rayjo Charitable Trust · Nellie Philanthropy Foundation · The Henry and Berenice Kaufmann 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 135 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2023-09-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 899357644:2023-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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