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Toronto, ON · Public foundation

Circle of Life Charitable Foundation

Solicit donations and disburse for: - welfare; - education ; - poverty in the community; - donate to sister charities to carry out the mandate

C$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$20k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$109k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$2.9M
C$12,575
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW HORIZONS CANADIAN CHARITYC$1,507,005
KAV SHALOMC$1,050,250
KOLLEL DAF YOMI INSTITUTEC$350,000
JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$25,500
AGUDAT CHASIDEI CHABADC$18,000
ASSOCIATED HEBREW SCHOOLS OF TORONTOC$17,913
BIALIK HEBREW DAY SCHOOLC$13,600
KAYLA'S CHILDREN CENTREC$12,575
CANADIAN FRIENDS OF CUBAN JEWRYC$11,100
JEWISH RUSSIN COMMUNITY CENTREC$10,000
BAIS MENACHEMC$7,500
BAIS CHAYA MUSHKAH SCHOOL FOR GIRLSC$5,500
SHMUEL ZAHAVY CHEDER CHABADC$5,175
GMILAT CHESSEDC$1,080
CHABAD OF WOODBRIDGEC$360
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$11M · 13 repeat orgsC$1.8M to everyone else

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.

13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
9

Total granted

C$11M
C$250k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
-25%

Still filing today

85%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24
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

  • KS
    KAV SHALOM
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$2.9M · revenue ×20
  • AI
    ANIYEI IRCHO
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$816k · revenue +47%
  • KD
    KOLLEL DAF YOMI INSTITUTE
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$555k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • CF
    CANADIAN FRIENDS OF MISHON LA'CHOLEH
    one grant, 2022 · C$115k · revenue -26%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF KIRYAT HAYELED JERUSALEM
    one grant, 2022 · C$40k · revenue -43%
  • BT
    BAIS TEFILLOH FRANKLIN
    one grant, 2023 · C$35k · revenue -64%

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
Association Merkaz Hachinuch

To provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses at belz yeshiva

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2
Chesed L'avraham

The charity provides religious education for underpriveleged children in israel

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3
Tiferes Bais Yaakov

The charity operates a religious high school of instruction for jewish girls

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4
Reb Mayer Baal Hanes - Chibas Jerusalem

Providing scholarships to poor and low income students in israel.

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5
The Zahavy Family Foundation

Support of jewish education and institutions

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6
Kollel Menachem

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…

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7
The Yeshivah Scholarship Fund of Israel

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

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8
Kolel of Congregation Chaside Belz Umachzike Hadasz / Kolel de congrégation Chaside Belz Umachzike Hadasz

Provide scholarships to students operates torah study learning

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9
Eitz Chaim Schools

Eitz chaim operates schools for religious instruction and education of children from nursery school to grade eight for the purpose of their advancement in the jewish religion.

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10
Yeshivas Oholei Menachem Mendel Lubavitch

To establish an orthodox jewish high school for boys devoted to the study of the laws tenets and doctrines of the jewish faith.

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11
Kollel Tosh

The charity advances education and religion by operating a school for post graduate talmudic students as well as providing scholarships and bursaries.

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12
Torah Schools for Israel

To provide scholarships to deserving students to enable them to study the bible and other jewish courses to subsidize bus transportation for needy students to pay for tutors to provide supplemental hours of education and ensure the…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shmuel Zahavy Cheder Chabad School and the most unlike its peers is Hatzoloh Toronto. 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

30 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/30
Grantees still filing
13/30
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 budgetKAV SHALOM — C$2,900,250 over 3y, 13% of budgetNEW HORIZONS CANADIAN CHARITY — C$1,507,005 over 1y, 60% of budgetANIYEI IRCHO — C$815,700 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetTZIVOS HASHEM CANADA INC. — C$768,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetKOLLEL DAF YOMI INSTITUTE — C$555,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF MISHON LA'CHOLEH — C$115,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBIALIK HEBREW DAY SCHOOL — C$72,796 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROBBINS HEBREW ACADEMY — C$67,790 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHABAD MONTREAL WEST — C$65,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetFRIENDS OF KIRYAT HAYELED JERUSALEM — C$40,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBAIS CHAYA MUSHKAH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS — C$35,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBAIS TEFILLOH FRANKLIN — C$35,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCHASDEI LEVY YITZCOK — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetASSOCIATED HEBREW SCHOOLS OF TORONTO — C$31,413 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$25,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAGUDAT CHASIDEI CHABAD — C$18,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetKAYLA'S CHILDREN CENTRE — C$14,075 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH YOUTH NETWORK — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH RUSSIN COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$9,999 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHMUEL ZAHAVY CHEDER CHABAD — C$5,175 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHATZOLOH TORONTO — C$3,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGMILAT CHESED ANSHEI LUBAVITCH — C$2,251 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetTHE CANADIAN ZIONIST CULTURAL ASSOCIATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHABAD OF WOODBRIDGE — C$360 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetB'NAI ZION CHARITY FUND — C$180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH RIVKAH — C$180 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.

Rayjo Charitable TrustMy Charity FundZichron Binyomin Char…Bais Tefilloh Frankl…Toronto Chesed Founda…CharityEx FoundationJewish Community Foun…Hatzolas Yisroel D'Ar…The Gitta Nishuma Fou…Moral Arc FoundationFieldgate Cares Found…Friends Kiryat Hyaele…
Rayjo Charitable TrustON20× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rayjo Charitable Trust · My Charity Fund · Zichron Binyomin Charity Foundation · Bais Tefilloh Franklin · Toronto Chesed Foundation · CharityEx Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Hatzolas Yisroel D'Arizal · The Gitta Nishuma Foundation · Moral Arc Foundation · Fieldgate Cares Foundation · Friends Kiryat Hyaeled Jerusalem

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 30 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 788776094:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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