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North York, ON · Private foundation

Bessin Family Foundation

To recieve funds and contributions without any public appeal for fund and to contribute and assist charitable organizations and institutions

C$114k
Granted FY2023
65
Grants FY2023
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Regions reached
C$29k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k63 grants · C$69k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$44k
C$500
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIZRACHI ORGANIZATION OF CANADAC$29,410
NE-EMAN FOUNDATIONC$14,920
TORONTO CHEDERC$7,514
UNITED JEWISH APPEALC$7,380
RAYJO CHARITABLE TRUSTC$5,355
BIKUR CHOLIM OF TORONTOC$4,100
CAMP MOSHAVAC$3,600
JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATIONC$2,945
SHOMRAI SHABOTH CONGREGATIONC$2,800
BNEI AKIVA SCHOOLSC$2,800
BEIT MIDRASH ZICHRON DOVC$2,430
HAR ETZION YESHIVA C.F.O.C$2,000
EMUNAH WOMEN OF CANADAC$1,830
JEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER TORONTOC$1,800
SHAAREI SHOMAYIM CONGREGATIONC$1,800
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 — 67% of grant dollars (C$503k). The 33% that went abroad (C$253k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 33% of all-years giving (C$253k)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$459k · 62 repeat orgsC$44k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

62 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
18

Total granted

C$459k
C$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
0%

Still filing today

94%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23
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

  • MO
    MIZRACHI ORGANIZATION OF CANADA
    5× · 2018–2023 · C$80k · revenue +343%
  • CM
    Camp Moshava
    4× · 2018–2023 · C$27k · revenue +51%
  • TC
    TORONTO CHEDER
    4× · 2020–2023 · C$25k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • CF
    Canadian Friends of the Israel Museum
    one grant, 2018 · C$32k
  • CM
    CAMP MOSHAVA
    one grant, 2020 · C$3k
  • JN
    Jewish National Fund
    one grant, 2018 · C$2k

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
The Zahavy Family Foundation

Support of jewish education and institutions

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2
The Canadian Jewish Educational Fund

The charity provides scholarships and promotes the study of judaism carrying out educational programming both in and out of schools, intensive study workshops and teacher training in biblical studies.

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3
The Canadian Friends of Mercaz Hatorah

Funds provided for students desirous of studying advanced Talmudic and Torah law at Mercaz Hatorah Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem and other similar institutions.

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4
The Yeshivah Scholarship Fund of Israel

Provide scholarships to needy students persuing studies of higher education in israel.

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5
Canadian Friends of the Institute 0HOLEI Torah

The charity provides scholarship to needy students

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6
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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7
Jewish Heritage Foundation International

Provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses given at mosdos gur in jerusalem israel.

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8
Mishmeret

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.

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9
Canadian Friends of Yeshivat Lev Hatorah

To advance religion by providing financial assistance to jewish boys and men interested in pursuing high religious studies.

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10
Friends of Jnf

Promotion of israel's legal rights through publication and working with other registered charities and qualified donees.

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11
The Chabad Rehovot Fund
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12
Canadian Friends of Yeshiva Beth Hillel Bnai Brak

Scholarships granted to qualified applicants related to post-graduate studies

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto and the most unlike its peers is P.O.M. - United. 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

74 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. 74 of the 85 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/74
Grantees still filing
48/74
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 budgetMIZRACHI ORGANIZATION OF CANADA — C$80,200 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNE-EMAN FOUNDATION — C$49,350 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRAYO CHARITABLE TRUST — C$31,955 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATED HEBREW SCHOOLS — C$31,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Moshava — C$27,100 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTORONTO CHEDER — C$25,304 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF TORONTO — C$20,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEMUNAH WOMEN OF CANADA — C$19,548 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL — C$17,620 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOr Chaim Yeshivat Bnei Akiva — C$13,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSHOMRAI SHABOTH CONGREGATION — C$13,100 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNetivot HaTorah Day School — C$12,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetShaarei Shomayim Congregation — C$11,172 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYeshiva University c.f.o. — C$8,830 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBEIT MIDRASH ZICHRON DOV — C$7,910 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER TORONTO — C$7,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY C.F.O. — C$6,480 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTorath Emeth Congregation — C$6,032 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION — C$4,870 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAR ETZION YESHIVA C.F.O. — C$4,600 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetJERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY C.F. — C$3,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal — C$3,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetShaare Zedek Hospital foundation (Cdn) — C$3,360 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOUNDATIO — C$3,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRUCHAMA FRAIDEL RELIEF ORGANIZATION — C$3,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL - SOUTH — C$2,671 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHERZOG HOSPITAL C.F.O. — C$2,658 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDANI — C$2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYeshivas Nefesh Dovid — C$2,360 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetSMALL WONDERS — C$2,232 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$2,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBAR ILAN UNIVERSITY C.F.O. — C$2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJewish National Fund — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED CHESED OF TORONTO — C$1,460 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOne Family Fund — C$1,430 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKayla's Children Centre — C$1,374 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBAYCREST CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$1,260 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED HATZALAH CANADA — C$1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAT COMMUNITY HEBREW ACADEMY — C$1,203 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHATZOLOH TORONTO — C$1,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOREST HILL JEWISH CENTRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNESHAMA HOSPICE — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL SERVICES & COMMUNAL MATTERS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetECHO CANADA — C$972 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FREE LOAN TORONTO — C$970 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHURAT HADIN LETTER OF THE LAW — C$940 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBAT MELECH CANADA — C$870 over 5y, 0.4% 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.

Zichron Binyomin Char…Rayjo Charitable TrustThe Friedberg Charita…Jewish Foundation of …Mizrachi Organization…Mae Day FoundationFieldgate Cares Found…Israel Koschitzky Fam…Silver Family Charita…The S. Sigler Family …The Weitz Family Foun…Jack and Doris Bistri…
Zichron Binyomin Charity FoundationON30× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zichron Binyomin Charity Foundation · Rayjo Charitable Trust · The Friedberg Charitable Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Mizrachi Organization Of Canada · Mae Day Foundation · Fieldgate Cares Foundation · Israel Koschitzky Family Charitable Foundation · Silver Family Charitable Foundation · The S. Sigler Family Charitable Foundation · The Weitz Family Foundation · Jack and Doris Bistricer Charitable 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 85 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 2023-11-30, 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 100489897:2023-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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