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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

BAM Foundation

Charitable activities through qualidied donees

C$263k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k32 grants · C$80k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$183k
C$2,572
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UJA FEDERATIONC$30,000
NORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$30,000
SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATIONC$27,500
UJA FEDERATIONC$25,000
UJA FEDERATIONC$25,000
UJA FEDERATIONC$25,000
BIALIK HEBREW DAY SCHOOLC$10,000
AGOC$10,000
FRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIESC$9,250
UNITED ISREAL APPEAL OF CANADA RE:JEWISH FED OF PBC$7,500
SOCIAL GIVING NETWORKC$5,005
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILD FOUNDATIONC$5,000
DALIY BREAD FOOD BANKC$5,000
UJA FEDERATIONC$5,000
CANADA CHARITY PARTNERSC$5,000
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$423k · 15 repeat orgsC$256k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
22

Total granted

C$423k
C$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+20%

Still filing today

87%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$119k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
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

  • U
    UJA
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$282k · revenue +88%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$31k · revenue +22%
  • A
    AGO
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$20k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • U
    UJA
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k
  • CI
    CDN INSTITUTE FOR ANTISEMITISM
    one grant, 2023 · C$13k
  • CI
    CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF ANTISEMITISM CISAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$13k · revenue +29%

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
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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2
Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto

The jewish foundation of greater toronto receives manages and invests funds as well as disburses grants to qualified donees. using a research-driven approach the jewish foundation of greater toronto strategically distributes to community…

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3
Israel Cancer Research Fund (Toronto)

The israel cancer research fund (toronto) provides funds to aid in the research of cancer in all phases: causes detection diagnosis treatment cure and care.

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4
Sunnybrook Research Institute

Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The vision of SRI is to invent the future of health care. Our main…

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5
Israel Cancer Research Fund Fondation D'israËL Pour La Recherche Sur Le Cancer

To provide funds to aid the cause of cancer research in canada and israel.

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6
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…

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7
Israel Magen Fund of Canada

The mission of the Israel Magen Fund of Canada is to identify and support projects for qualified institutions in Israel and globally that require humanitarian aid medical assistance and physical and mental health care.

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8
The Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…

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9
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Institut canadien des recherches avancées

CIFAR’s research programs are at the heart of its operations designed to push the boundaries of knowledge and create long-term societal impact. Currently CIFAR supports 15 research programs across diverse fields from artificial…

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10
Mount Sinai Hospital Otolaryngology Research Fund

Support of academic medical research education and health care in canada

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11
Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Medecine Research Fund

Medical research and education in medicine in canada.

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12
Canadian Cancer Society - SociÉTÉ Canadienne Du Cancer

The Canadian Cancer Society works tirelessly to save and improve lives. We raise funds to fuel the brightest minds in cancer research. We provide a compassionate support system for all those affected by cancer across Canada and for all…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jewish Family and Child Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The York School. 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

29 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. 29 of the 58 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUJA — C$281,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSICK KIDS — C$40,001 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER — C$31,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$27,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGO — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILD FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF ANTISEMITISM CISA — C$12,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetYORK SCHOOL — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIALICK HEBREW DAY SCHOOL — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTECHNICIAN CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADA CHARITY PARTNERS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION CANADA — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFINCA — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY - MUSIC SCHOOLS OF TORONTO — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOLY BLOSSOM — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART AND STROKE — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH YORK HARVEST FOOD BANK — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE SIMCO CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHAI LIFETIME — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUMBER RIVER HOSPITAL — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCNIB — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMERS SOCIETY — C$700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES TORONTO — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMS CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds UJA ↗
  • Who funds SICK KIDS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AGO ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF ANTISEMITISM CISA ↗
  • Who funds YORK SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds DAILY BREAD FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds BIALICK HEBREW DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds TECHNICIAN CANADA ↗
  • Who funds CANADA CHARITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN RED CROSS ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION CANADA ↗
  • Who funds FINCA ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY - MUSIC SCHOOLS OF TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds HOLY BLOSSOM ↗
  • Who funds HEART AND STROKE ↗

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.

Jewish Foundation of …Conam Charitable Foun…The Sharp FoundationThe Dh Gales Family C…The Benjamin Foundati…The Asper FoundationAqueduct FoundationCanada GivesJewish Community Foun…Giftpact Foundation I…Toronto FoundationBenefAction Foundation
Jewish Foundation of Greater TorontoON10.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Conam Charitable Foundation · The Sharp Foundation · The Dh Gales Family Charitable Foundation of Toronto · The Benjamin Foundation · The Asper Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Canada Gives · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Giftpact Foundation Inc. · Toronto Foundation · BenefAction 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 58 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 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 780152807:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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