Boisbriand, QC · Private foundation
Ezer Lanefesh Foundation / E.L.F.
Relief of poverty through tangible disbursements and providing food and shelter to the needy.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k14 grants · C$83k
- C$10k–50k17 grants · C$410k
- C$50k–250k7 grants · C$790k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BNEI LEVY FOUNDATION | C$200,303 |
| CENTRAL TZEDAKAH INC. | C$177,520 |
| EIZER MESHILEM FEISH | C$112,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$103,798 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$83,133 |
| CONG. KHAL YEREIM YESHIVA BAIS HILLEL | C$60,304 |
| CONGREGATION SHIMIE DVAR HASHEM | C$52,649 |
| CONGREGATION TORAS EMES. | C$43,481 |
| BAIS TZIREL | C$38,742 |
| CONGREGATION BNAI YOEL | C$33,137 |
| REFUGE | C$33,026 |
| BEER MIRIAM | C$31,479 |
| YESHIVA TIFERES MESHILEM D'TOSH | C$30,777 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$29,312 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$26,661 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 22% of grant dollars (C$457k). The 78% that went abroad (C$1.6M) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 78% of all-years giving (C$1.6M)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 31 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$831k 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
- BLBNEI LEVY FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · C$204k · revenue -7%
- CTCENTRAL TZEDAKAH INC.2× · 2023–2024 · C$192k
- CTCONGREGATION TORAS EMES.2× · 2023–2024 · C$50k
Funded once
- CKCONGREGATION KHAL YEREIM YESHIVA BAIS HILLELone grant, 2023 · C$369k
- CRCONGREGATION RIBNITZ INCone grant, 2023 · C$189k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · C$38k
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.
To provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses at belz yeshiva
To carry on a school for religious studies and to pursue the advancement of religion and rituals of jewish interest.
To establish an orthodox jewish high school for boys devoted to the study of the laws tenets and doctrines of the jewish faith.
The charity provides religious education for underpriveleged children in israel
The charity operates a religious high school of instruction for jewish girls
Issued scholarships for religious education
Maintained a religious school for the training and instruction of religious scholars maintained a house of worship in compliance with the requirements and practices of the jewish faith in the orthodox tradition.
Operating a postsecondary institution for educating boys in orthodox jewish faith.
To relieve poverty by providing reasonable financial means for food shelter and other supplies or services to needy persons in israel
Solicit recieve and maintain funds to provide charitable community programs and religious education for the purpose of advancing jewish culture and instilling a reverence for the spiritual ethical and moral values and traditions of the…
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…
Provide scholarships to students operates torah study learning
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centre Communautaire Bnois Yisroel and the most unlike its peers is Chevrah Msamchei Lev. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 53 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 BNEI LEVY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EIZER MESHILEM FEISH ↗
- Who funds BAIS TZIREL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds REB MAYER BAAL HANES - CHIBAS JERUALEM ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN FRIENDS OF YETEV LEV ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COMMUNAUTAIRE BNOIS YISROEL ↗
- Who funds RABBINICAL COLLEGE ↗
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: Maharam Tav Fund · Charité Tzedakah Montréal Charity Tzedakah Montreal · Hatzolas Yisroel D'Arizal · Mifalei Chaim Bechesed (McB) · Fondation B'NAI LEVY / B'NAI LEVY Foundation · Menucha Vesimcha · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Institut Kollel Noam Eliezer · Congregation Sheves Achim · The Shrage Zimmerman Memorial Fund · Fondation de la Famille Fischman Fischman Family Foundation · VMM Zichron Chaim Charity
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.