Montreal, QC · Charitable organization
Canadian Friends of Kneset Bnei Hagola
To advance religion to adherents of the faith by establishing maintaining and supporting houses of worship with services held in accordance with the tenents and doctrines of the faith.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under C$10k3 grants · C$16k
- C$10k–50k3 grants · C$86k
- C$50k–250k1 grant · C$62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KOLLOL OF CONGREGATION CHASIDEI BELZ | C$61,760 |
| ZICHRON CHAIM | C$35,140 |
| CONGREGATION OHR SOMAYACH | C$30,000 |
| BETH JACOB TEACHERS COLLEGE | C$21,319 |
| BETH HAMEDRASH L'HORAAH | C$9,900 |
| CONGREGATION AND YESHIVA ZERA KODESH | C$3,750 |
| AGUDATH ISREAL MONTREAL | C$1,940 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$67k went to new ones.
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
- BJBETH JACOB SEMINARY6× · 2017–2022 · C$401k · revenue +43%
- KOKOLLOL OF CONGREGATION CHASIDEI BELZ2× · 2021–2022 · C$80k · revenue +106%
- CZCONGREGATION ZERA KODISH2× · 2021–2022 · C$19k · revenue +366%
Funded once
- YUYESHIVA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · C$35k
- CCCANADIAN COUNCIL FOR ISRAELone grant, 2018 · C$28k · revenue -27% · 36% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · C$12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
To provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses at belz yeshiva
To carry on a school for religious studies and to pursue the advancement of religion and rituals of jewish interest.
To advance and teach the religious tenets doctrines and observances associated with the jewish faith. to advance education by providing scholarships for talmudic scholars; and to undertake activities ancillary and incidental to the…
Solicit receive and maintain funds to provide a religious education for the purpose of advancing jewish culture and of instilling a reverence for the spiritual ethical and moral values of jewish faith.
École dont la vocation est la promotion de l'éducation religieuse
Solicit receive and maintain funds to provide religious education for the purpose of advancing jewish culture and instilling a reverence for the spiritual ethical and moral values and traditions of the jewish faith.
The charity advances education and religion by operating a school for post graduate talmudic students as well as providing scholarships and bursaries.
To establish jewish courses for men of all ages. to print religious literature. to establish a library of jewish religious books. enhancement of the jewish religion.
Funding for seminaries and other religious colleges.
Provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses given at mosdos gur in jerusalem israel.
Provide interest free benevolent loans to needy and to qualified donees
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agudath Israel of Montreal Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fondation Des Instituts Juifs Orthodoxes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 31 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 BETH JACOB SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds KOLLOL OF CONGREGATION CHASIDEI BELZ ↗
- Who funds ZICHRON CHAIM ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION OHR SOMAYACH ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN COUNCIL FOR ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION ZERA KODISH ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA GEDOLAH OF MONTREAL ↗
- Who funds Congregation Zichrom Moshe ↗
- Who funds ECOLE PREMIERE MESIFTA ↗
- Who funds AGUDATH ISREAL MONTREAL ↗
- Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE JUIF ↗
- Who funds CTM ↗
- Who funds ARIZAL ↗
- Who funds MENUCHA VESIMCHA ↗
- Who funds M.C.B. ↗
- Who funds MONTREAL COMMUNITY MIKVA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hatzolas Yisroel D'Arizal · College Beth Jacob Pour Les Enseignants Inc · Seminary Loan Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Fondation Famille Neuhaus Neuhaus Family Foundation · Zichron David and Pesie Grunberger Fund · Charité Tzedakah Montréal Charity Tzedakah Montreal · Mifalei Chaim Bechesed (McB) · Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family Fondation · Vinegar Family Foundation · The Shrage Zimmerman Memorial Fund · The Friedman Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Friedman
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.