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Hamilton, ON · Private foundation

Donald Berman Foundation

To distribute its income to registered charities and qualified donees.

C$100k
Granted FY2020
3
Grants FY2020
1
Regions reached
C$70k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$30k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$70k
C$20,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$70,000
AUBERGE SHALOM POUR FEMMESC$20,000
BETH JACOB TEACHER'S COLLEGE INC.C$10,000
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$17M · 33 repeat orgsC$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2020, 30 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
31

Total granted

C$17M
C$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+11%

Still filing today

94%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
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

  • TM
    THE MONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2020 · C$5.1M · revenue +54%
  • MH
    MAIMONIDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$3.5M · revenue +9% · 96% of their budget
  • CL
    CHAI LIFELINE (CANADA) INC.
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$945k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • GO
    GATES OF MERCY
    one grant, 2018 · C$513k
  • NF
    NE'EMAN FOUNDATION CANADA
    one grant, 2018 · C$449k · revenue -27%
  • CF
    CANADIAN FRIENDS OF BENE BEREQ HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2018 · C$321k · revenue -87% · 98% of their budget

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
La Fondation De L'ecole De Formation Hebraique

Raising funds for jewish education in the west island of montreal

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2
Les Amis Canadiens Du Seminaire Yeshivah Mirer De Jerusalem Inc./Canadian Friends of the Seminary Yeshivah Mirer of Jerusalem

The charity furthered the practice of judaism by funding programs in mir yerushalayim including scholarships to deserving students to enable them to pursue religious studies at mir yerushalayim in jerusalem.

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3
BNai BRith Hillel Foundation of Montreal Inc./La Fondation B'Nai B'Rith Hillel de Montréal Inc.

B'nai brith hillel foundation of montreal inc.s' mission is to support jewish students on campus.

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4
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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5
L'École Beth Tziporah

The charity operates an elementary and high school for jewish girls

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6
Treitel Foundation / Fondation Treitel

Supporting institutions that provides religious jewish education. the organization provides funds to ensure that poor families are able to provide their children with a quality education. providing funds to synagogues so that jewish…

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7
The Zahavy Family Foundation

Support of jewish education and institutions

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8
Association Merkaz Hachinuch

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

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9
Canadian Friends of Beit Midrash Elon Moreh

To advance the education of students attending yeshivat beit midrash elon moreh by providing bursaries and scholarships.

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10
Canadian Friends of Mosdos Be'er Yitzchak/

To provide scholarships to needy students to allow them to study at mosdos beer yitzchak in israel.

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11
Canadian Friends of Maor Gershon Scholarship Kollel

Grant and Scholarship Programs for post-graduate students based on scholastic achievement and financial needs

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12
Canadian Friends of the Institute 0HOLEI Torah

The charity provides scholarship to needy students

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agudath Israel of Montreal Inc and the most unlike its peers is Segal Centre for Performing Arts / Centre Segal des Arts de la Scène. 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

62 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. 62 of the 64 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/62
Grantees still filing
48/62
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 budgetTHE MONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,102,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetMAIMONIDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$3,500,000 over 2y, 96% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE (CANADA) INC. — C$945,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetBETH OLOTH CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION — C$650,000 over 2y, 91% of budgetZICHRON CHAIM CHARITY — C$591,235 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGATES OF MERCY — C$513,320 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNE'EMAN FOUNDATION CANADA — C$448,830 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF BENE BEREQ HOSPITAL — C$321,425 over 1y, 98% of budgetCENTRE DE DEVELOPPEMENT YALDEI SHASHUIM/YALDEI SHASHUIM DEVE — C$200,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetEZER MIZION — C$190,920 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ASSOCIATION OF CANADA — C$120,500 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMigdal Orh Institutions — C$100,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetCanadian Friends of Yad Eliezer — C$95,256 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetALEH REHABILITATION OF CANADA — C$75,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetBETH JACOB TEACHERS' COLLEGE INC. — C$61,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetAgence Ometz — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFOUNDATION DE L'HOPITAL ST. MARY'S / ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL FOU — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTOMCHEI SHABBOS OF MONTREAL — C$40,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTRE — C$38,607 over 1y, 29% of budgetROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGILL UNI — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEGAL CENTRE FOR PERFORMING ARTS — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAUBERGE SHALOM POUR FEMMES — C$30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF WINNIPEG/COMBINED JEWISH APPEAL, INC. — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPEACE BRIGADES INTERNATIONAL, CANADA — C$24,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetMAISON SHALOM INC. — C$21,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHABAD CHAI CENTRE — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS NOVOMINSK — C$20,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetMiriam Home Foundation — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTIKVA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetCanadian Friends of Dental Volunteers for Israel — C$20,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF QUEBEC — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Foundation — C$16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP B'NAI BRITH OF MONTREAL FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF KIRYAS BUNOS — C$12,728 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetThe McGill Chamber Orchestra — C$12,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetToronto Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends — C$12,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTorah Academy of Ottawa — C$11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF PASSAIC YESHIVA — C$10,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetCONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEMPLE EMANU-EL-BETH SHOLOM, MONTREAL — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTORONTO JEWISH ACADEMY OHR MENACHEM — C$10,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetBeth Jacob School — C$8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYESSHIVA GEDOLAH THE SCHOOL OF HIGHER LEARNING OF MONTREAL — C$8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIZRACHI ORGANIZATION OF CANADA — C$6,481 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKESHER OUTREACH ORGANIZATION — C$6,438 over 1y, 12% of budgetZAKA FOUNDATION — C$6,431 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetMADA Community Center Inc. — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAFOUNDATION DE L'HOPITAL GENERAL DE MONTREAL-THE MONTREAL — C$5,000 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.

Fondation Familiale G…Federation CjaJewish Community Foun…Rayjo Charitable TrustMorris and Rosalind G…Alvin Segal Family Fo…The Mireille and Murr…Zichron David and Pes…Hatzolas Yisroel D'Ar…Vinegar Family Founda…Mitzi & Mel Dobrin Fa…Maxwell Cummings Fami…
Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family FondationQC24.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family Fondation · Federation Cja · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Rayjo Charitable Trust · Morris and Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation / Fondation de la Famille Morris Et Rosalind Goodman · Alvin Segal Family Foundation · The Mireille and Murray Steinberg Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille Mireille et Muuray Steinberg · Zichron David and Pesie Grunberger Fund · Hatzolas Yisroel D'Arizal · Vinegar Family Foundation · Mitzi & Mel Dobrin Family Foundation · Maxwell Cummings Family Foundation - Fondation de la Famille Maxwell Cummings

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 64 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 2020-08-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2020. 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 FY2020, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 889046678:2020-08-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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