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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Bertrand Gerstein Family Foundation

Earn investment income to distribute to registered charities (primarily but not restricted to the health and education field)

C$98k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$42k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$93k
C$10,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$514k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED ISRAEL APPEAL CANADAC$42,000
HOLY BLOSSOM TEMPLEC$31,222
TERRY FOX FOUNDATIONSC$10,000
GERSTEIN CRISIS CENTREC$10,000
ONE FAMILY FEUDC$4,000
SUPPORT OUR TROOPSC$1,000
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$658k · 10 repeat orgsC$34k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
21

Total granted

C$658k
C$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+22%

Still filing today

90%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$11k 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

  • GC
    GERSTEIN CRISIS CENTRE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$84k · revenue +104%
  • AG
    ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$7k · revenue +3%
  • BC
    BLADDER CANCER CANADA
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$5k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • CO
    CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue -8%
  • UF
    UJA FEDERATION NEW YORK
    one grant, 2017 · C$3k
  • BC
    BRAIN CANADA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue -4%

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
Toronto Arts Foundation

Provides finanical support to artists and arts organizations in toronto. offers awards ad commissions recognizing artistic excellence. administers donor-directed funds and special initiatives supporting public engagement artist recognition…

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3
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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4
Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation

To educate and increase the public's understanding and appreciation of the arts by conserving and exhibiting works of art and otherwise making them available to the public; to educate and increase canadians' israelis' and the public's…

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5
National Gallery of Canada Foundation

Assisting the national gallery of canada in the areas of education curatorial research acquisitions and public programs.

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6
Canadian Opera Foundation

Canadian Opera Foundation acquires holds and applies funds to assist in the development of the Canadian Opera Company and any successor organization as determined by the Board of Directors.

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7
Royal Ontario Museum

Opened in 1914 the royal ontario museum showcases art culture and nature from around the world and across the ages. among the top 10 cultural institutions in north america canada's largest and most comprehensive museum is home to a…

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8
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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9
The Terry Fox Research Institute

The Terry Fox Research Institute ('TFRI') operates as a virtual institute bringing together multi-disciplinary teams of cancer researchers to work on integrated translational research projects. TFRI manages its research granting programs…

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10
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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11
Canadian Dermatology Foundation

The canadian dermatology foundation is a registered charity dedicated to excellence in disease research of the skin hair and nails. it promotes advanced research in the dermatology field. it does that through funding researches with the…

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12
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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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.

02the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 33 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
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 budgetUNITED ISRAEL APPEAL CANADA — C$326,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHOLY BLOSSOM TEMPLE — C$225,950 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGERSTEIN CRISIS CENTRE — C$84,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTERRY FOX FOUNDATIONS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONE FAMILY FEUD — C$5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLADDER CANCER CANADA — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN OPERA COMPANY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAIN CANADA FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALHOUSE UNIVERSITY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Royal Regiment of Canada Fdn — C$2,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFALL FOR DANCE NORTH FESTIVAL INC. — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND WITH US CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACOBS LADDER — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEARTH RANGERS FOUNDATION — C$600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESENTATION MANOR — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSEY COLLEGE — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANCE COLLECTION DANCE — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ARTS CENTRE FDN — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISREAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALVARY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100 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.

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.

The Linda Frum & Howa…Jewish Foundation of …Toronto FoundationJackman FoundationConam Charitable Foun…Wcpd FoundationGiftpact Foundation I…The Asper FoundationThe George Cedric Met…The Azrieli Foundatio…Aqueduct FoundationJewish Community Foun…
The Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Charitable FoundationON9.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Charitable Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Toronto Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · Giftpact Foundation Inc. · The Asper Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · Aqueduct Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal

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 33 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 892325580:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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