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London, ON · Private foundation

Bernard & Norton Wolf Family Foundation

To support charitable educational and cultural activities in North America.

C$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$499k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$22k
  • C$10k–50k13 grants · C$290k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$285k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$499k
C$20,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipientC$498,982
Vancouver General HospitalC$100,000
Georgian Bay Cancer Support CentreC$75,000
United Jewish Appeal Federation of Greater TorontoC$60,000
Fanshawe Norton Wolf School of AviationC$50,000
The Nature ConservancyC$45,000
Technion CanadaC$45,000
American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of ScienceC$35,000
The Land BetweenC$30,000
The Ocean FoundationC$25,000
B'Nai Brith of Canada FoundationC$20,000
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust StudiesC$20,000
Honest reporting CanadaC$20,000
United Hatzalah CanadaC$10,000
Save a Child's Heart FoundationC$10,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 73% of grant dollars (C$5.6M). The 27% that went abroad (C$2.1M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 27% of all-years giving (C$2.1M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$1.8M · 16 grants

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$7.1M · 28 repeat orgsC$561k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
18

Total granted

C$7.1M
C$374k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+31%

Still filing today

82%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$187k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • BA
    Boundless Adventures Association
    3× · 2017–2022 · C$1.1M · revenue +4% · 26% of their budget
  • BF
    BAYCREST FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2023 · C$1.0M · revenue +24%
  • UJ
    United Jewish Appeal Federation of Greater Toronto
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$535k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • MM
    MOTE MANNE LABORATORY INC.
    one grant, 2019 · C$133k
  • TC
    The Canadian Society for the Magen David Adom Israelgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$70k · revenue +214%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k

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

04Your 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
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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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 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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4
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation

The toronto rehabilitation institute foundation's mission is to raise grant and steward funds to support the mission of the toronto rehabilitation institute (which is part of the university health network) to develop solutions for people…

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5
Mount Sinai Hospital Otolaryngology Research Fund

Support of academic medical research education and health care in canada

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6
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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7
The Dr. Charles H. Best Foundation

Provides scholarship funds for medical research at the university of toronto.

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8
Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Medecine Research Fund

Medical research and education in medicine in canada.

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9
The Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University

The canadian friends of the hebrew university (cfhu) provided funding to the hebrew university of jerusalem which is a registered foreign university and a qualified donee to carry out post secondary educational & research activities as…

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10
London Health Sciences Centre Research Inc.

To carry on or promote medical scientific research and experimental development (including basic and clinical research to produce scientific knowledge that contributes to the alleviation and prevention of human disease) at or in…

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11
The Lynn and Brent Belzberg Foundation

The foundation makes donations to qualified charities. the largest donations in 2024 were to sinai health foundation queen's university united isreal appeal and forest hill jewish centre.

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12
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Israel Appeal of Canada Inc and the most unlike its peers is Holy Blossom Temple. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 55 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/48
Grantees still filing
31/48
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 budgetBoundless Adventures Association — C$1,050,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetBAYCREST FOUNDATION — C$1,049,999 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFANSHAWE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$584,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal Federation of Greater Toronto — C$535,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRICK HANSEN FOUNDATION — C$415,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetVancouver General Hospital — C$410,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTRE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES — C$209,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetEASTER SEALS ONTARIO — C$160,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWeizmann Institute of Science — C$115,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LAND BETWEEN — C$90,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetWCS CANADA — C$85,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetST JOSEPH'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — C$75,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGeorgian Bay Cancer Support Centre — C$75,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetThe Canadian Society for the Magen David Adom Israel — C$70,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetREGEN PARK SCHOOL OF MUSIC — C$56,250 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of Western Ontario — C$55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCampfire Circle — C$54,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLONDON PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTechnion Canada — C$45,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTRE OF YORK REGION — C$40,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART — C$40,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHonest reporting Canada — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetB'Nai Brith of Canada Foundation — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Island Compassion Dogs Society — C$20,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetLONDON UNITED JEWISH APPEAL — C$20,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetFriends of Wye Marsh — C$16,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND — C$11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Hatzalah Canada — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGORD DOWNIE & CHANIE WENJACK FUND — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOCEAN WISE CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOLY BLOSSOM TEMPLE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFund 0285, The Jill Wilcox Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALLANISH HEALING RETREAATS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAVE YOUR SKIN FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TORONTO JEWISH FILM FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLondon Health Sciences Foundation - LRCP Melanoma Disease — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Friends of the Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blin — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Guest House Shelter — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLONDON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgian Bay Food Network — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNelson Community Services Society — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN WILDLIFE FEDERATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOOK CLUBS FOR INMATES — C$2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Waterloo - Jon C. Bennett Travel Bursary of Ar — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONGREGATION OR SHALOM — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Toronto FoundationCanada GivesThe London Jewish Com…BenefAction FoundationThe Azrieli Foundatio…Conam Charitable Foun…The McLean FoundationJewish Foundation of …Private Giving Founda…Nicola Wealth Private…J.P. Bickell Foundati…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…
Toronto FoundationON11.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toronto Foundation · Canada Gives · The London Jewish Community Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · Conam Charitable Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Private Giving Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation

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 55 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 888667649:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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