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Thornhill, ON · Private foundation

Edward and Fern Cohen Foundation

To make gifts to other charities from time to time as the trustees in their absolute discretion decides giving regard to the availability of funds.

C$45k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$27k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$18k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$27k
C$3,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$470k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OTTAWA JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$26,500
CHABAD OF GUELFC$7,350
ALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY OF TORONTOC$4,000
FRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER FOR HOLOCAUSTC$3,000
HILLEL ONTARIOC$2,000
BEIT RAYIM SYNAGOGUEC$1,945
CHAI LIFELINE CANADAC$180
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$281k · 6 repeat orgsC$23k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

C$281k
C$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+105%

Still filing today

83%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • OJ
    OTTAWA JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$203k · revenue +92%
  • AS
    ALZHEIMER SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$29k · revenue +10%
  • DN
    DARCHEI NOAM - CONGREGATION DARCHEI NOAM
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$14k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • SC
    Skylark - Children Youth Familiesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +153%
  • NC
    NA'AMAT CANADA TORONTOgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$4k · revenue +114%
  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF OTTAWAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$3k · revenue +39%

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
Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (Jlic) Canada

Programs in which primarily university students are able to acquire and cultivate jewish learning wisdom throught and culture

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2
Chabad Lubavitch of Downtown Toronto

THE ORGANIZATION CARRIES OUT RELIGIOUS SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN DOWNTOWN TORONTO Chabad runs a vibrant lineup of community programs including adult education classes Hebrew school for youth…

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3
The Toronto Jewish Film Foundation

The charity stages a large film festival and educates the public through this fesitval discussion and lectures as to the jewish history language society culture and religion.

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4
Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto

The jewish foundation of greater toronto receives manages and invests funds as well as disburses grants to qualified donees. using a research-driven approach the jewish foundation of greater toronto strategically distributes to community…

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5
Ottawa Torah Centre

Organization is a learning centre and synagogue providing a varity of educational activities to strengthen jewish awareness and commitment.

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6
Toronto Holocaust Museum
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7
Jewish Music Week

Jewish Music Week is an exciting week of concerts recitals and musical events throughout the Greater Toronto Area. Founded in 2011 the festival celebrates all styles of Jewish music as well as the Jewish contribution to mainstream genres…

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8
Limmud Canada Foundation
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9
Halacha Institute of Toronto

1. to provide courses seminars and workshops to explain and identify the principals of jewish law 2. telephone helpline 3. consulting the jewish business owners to ensure that their businesses adhere to jewish law 4. ongoing study group…

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10
Friends of Yiddish in Toronto

Cultural programs for yiddish speakers and others

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11
Chabad on Campus Canada

To advance the teachings and religious tenets of the jewish faith by developing educational outreach and spiritual activities and events both locally and nationally.

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12
Kollel of Ottawa and Centre for Jewish Education

To create and use technological and other creative means and to operate and maintain an educational centre to develop and deliver to students and to the public programs relating to jewish values history and religion.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chabad of Guelph and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies. 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

14 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. 14 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOTTAWA JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$203,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY — C$28,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHABAD OF GUELF — C$16,150 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES — C$14,550 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDARCHEI NOAM - CONGREGATION DARCHEI NOAM — C$13,607 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSkylark - Children Youth Families — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNA'AMAT CANADA TORONTO — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF OTTAWA — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASSULTED WOMENS HELPLINE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL ONTARIO — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEIT RAYIM SYNAGOGUE — C$1,945 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHABAD LUBAVITCH — C$600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE CANADA — 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.

Jewish Foundation of …Conam Charitable Foun…The Azrieli Foundatio…Giftpact Foundation I…Nicola Wealth Private…Private Giving Founda…Charitable Gift Funds…Canada GivesJewish Community Foun…My Charity FundAqueduct FoundationBenefAction Foundation
Jewish Foundation of Greater TorontoON11.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Conam Charitable Foundation · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · Giftpact Foundation Inc. · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Canada Gives · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · My Charity Fund · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation

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 18 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 893349761:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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