Hampstead, QC · Private foundation
Charlotte and Leo Karassik foundation/
Its purpose is to raise funds which once invested the income will be used to fund other qualified charitable organizations.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- C$50k–250k5 grants · C$540k
- C$250k+3 grants · C$22M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MONTREAL | C$21,307,577 |
| CUMMINGS JEWISH CENTER FOR SENIORS FOUNDATION | C$360,000 |
| THE SIR MORTIMER B DAVIS JGH FOUNDATION | C$300,000 |
| ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGILL UNI | C$180,000 |
| MAIMONIDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | C$120,000 |
| JEUNESSE AU SOLEIL/SUN YOUTH ORGANIZATION | C$120,000 |
| YM YWHA | C$60,000 |
| CAMP BNAI BRITH | C$60,000 |
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.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$22M 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
- CJCUMMINGS JEWISH CENTER FOR SENIORS FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · C$1.7M
- TSTHE SIR MORTIMER B DAVIS JGH FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · C$1.7M
- MUMCGILL UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · C$1.0M
Funded once
- CJCummings Jewish Centre for Seniors Foundationone grant, 2018 · C$300k
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.
The purpose of the maimonides medical research foundation is to solicit and obtain gifts legacies and endowment funds in order to promote research health education and cultural services and to make gifts grants contributions and donations…
B'nai brith hillel foundation of montreal inc.s' mission is to support jewish students on campus.
Providing funds for medical charitable and educational purposes by making gifts grants contributions and donations to or for the benefit of the mont sinai hospital centre montreal
Helps patients of the jewish general hospital by organizing fundraising activities to provide patients with information services social support and medical equipment in addition to actively contribute to the process of improving medical…
Raising funds for jewish education in the west island of montreal
Summer camp for youth (5-16) in a healthy outdoor environment continual with jewish & ethical education open to all regardless financial situation.
Receive and accumulate funds to offer a better quality of life to the residents of the jewish eldercare centre
The museum of jewish of montreal is an innovative place to connect with montreal's jewish life and identify share its diverse heritage and create new cultural experiences. the organization's activities include historical walking tours art…
The montreal children's hospital foundation is devoted to raising funds for health care research and teaching activities for children and pregnant women primarily for the benefit of the mcgill university health centre and qualified donees.
Distribute funds to the benefit of the montreal general hospital mcgill university health centre and affiliated entities of mcgill university academic health centre and other organizations of the quebec health network for equipment…
To receive and invest funds and apply them to health care activities research and the teaching mandate for the benefit of the mcgill university health centre it's related institutions and other qualified donees with a similar mission.
Provide the highest quality continuum of health care and social services throughout out network of institution provide compassionate care and services that are centered on the user and create an exceptional user experience develop and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal and the most unlike its peers is L'institution Royale Pour L'avancement Des Sciences / Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 14 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MONTREAL ↗
- Who funds MAIMONIDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP BNAI BRITH ↗
- Who funds CUMMINGS JEWISH CENTER FOR SENIORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SIR MORTIMER B DAVIS JGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGILL UNI ↗
- Who funds JEUNESSE AU SOLEIL/SUN YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds YM YWHA ↗
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: The Mireille and Murray Steinberg Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille Mireille et Muuray Steinberg · Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family Fondation · Rayjo Charitable Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon
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.