Montreal, QC · Private foundation
Dubrofsky Foundation /
Donations for various charitable organizations
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under C$10k17 grants · C$34k
- C$10k–50k5 grants · C$107k
- C$50k–250k1 grant · C$105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BELZ COMMUNITY CENTER | C$105,000 |
| CONGREGATION TOLDOS YAKOV YOSEF | C$25,000 |
| UNITED HATZALAH | C$24,396 |
| JAMIE SHEAR TORAH PROJECT | C$19,984 |
| MONTREAL TORAH CENTER | C$19,465 |
| FEDERATION CJA | C$18,000 |
| REFUAH V'CHESED | C$5,180 |
| AIDE DE SANTÉ/HELP TO HEALTH/EZER L'REFUAH - EZRAS CHOLIM | C$5,000 |
| ALZHEIMER GROUPE | C$5,000 |
| MADA COMMUNITY CENTER | C$5,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND OF CANADA | C$2,600 |
| YALDEI | C$2,300 |
| CHABAD UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL | C$2,000 |
| CONGREGATION TBDJ | C$1,650 |
| MONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | C$1,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2023, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$39k 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
- RMRBC Mtl Torah Center6× · 2017–2023 · C$337k · revenue +30%
- CTCongregation TBDJ.org5× · 2017–2023 · C$291k · revenue +9%
- RFRBC Family Store4× · 2017–2022 · C$236k · revenue +263%
Funded once
- VVMMone grant, 2017 · C$287k
- CBCommunity Belz Buildingone grant, 2017 · C$187k · revenue +17% · 33% of their budget
- MMAVERICHone grant, 2022 · C$130k
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.
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.
Provide scholarships to students operates torah study learning
Promotion of jewish culture and religion engage jewish students learning of culture
The organization provides kosher certification services to the jewish community in montreal the organization offers religious courts adjudicating cases undert religious laws and the organization provides job training and assistance programs
The charity opertes a school for jewish children
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.
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.
To carry on a school for religious studies and to pursue the advancement of religion and rituals of jewish interest.
Raising funds for jewish education in the west island of montreal
To provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses at belz yeshiva
Support of jewish education and institutions
The Torah Study Centre of Montreal Inc provides religious education and services
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 Atelier Jem Inc./Jem Workshop Inc.. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
58 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. 58 of the 88 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 RBC Mtl Torah Center ↗
- Who funds Congregation TBDJ.org ↗
- Who funds RBC Family Store ↗
- Who funds Canadian Friends of Yad ↗
- Who funds Community Belz Building ↗
- Who funds BELZ COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Yaldei ↗
- Who funds Chabad Chai Center ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Appeal ↗
- Who funds Chabad of Ottawa ↗
- Who funds Noam Jewish Center ↗
- Who funds Beth Jacob ↗
- Who funds Jem Workshop Inc. ↗
- Who funds Centre Comm Bnois Yisroel ↗
- Who funds Madacenter ↗
- Who funds Ezras Cholim ↗
- Who funds Congregation Shmrim Labo ↗
- Who funds UNITED HATZALAH ↗
- Who funds Visa Fondation M-Rosemont ↗
- Who funds Crohn's & Colitis Can ↗
- Who funds RBC CEJF Montreal ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION TOLDOS YAKOV YOSEF ↗
- Who funds Tomchei Shabbos ↗
- Who funds HATZOLOH ↗
- Who funds OR MENACHEM ↗
- Who funds SIR MORTIMER JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Maison Israelite Co. ↗
- Who funds REFUAH V'CHESED ↗
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: Federation Cja · Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family Fondation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Rayjo Charitable Trust · Hatzolas Yisroel D'Arizal · Aaron and Susan Lieberman Foundation · Mifalei Chaim Bechesed (McB) · Congregation de L'Aide Fraternelle Ezras Achim · Congregation Bais Menachem Chabad-Lubavitch · Zolfam Matan Bceter Foundation · VMM Zichron Chaim Charity · Zichron David and Pesie Grunberger Fund
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.