Montreal, QC · Public foundation
Federation Cja
FEDERATION CJA leads in promoting a vibrant inclusive and thriving montreal jewish community.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k25 grants · C$54k
- C$10k–50k20 grants · C$510k
- C$50k–250k36 grants · C$4.2M
- C$250k+26 grants · C$61M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Israel Appeal of Canada Inc. | C$28,530,491 |
| The Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal | C$9,615,470 |
| Agence Ometz | C$4,735,046 |
| Centre Juif Cummings pour Aines/Cummings Jewish Centre | C$3,991,624 |
| Communauté Sépharade Unifiée du Québec | C$1,614,328 |
| Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association | C$1,117,655 |
| United Talmud Torahs of Montreal Inc. | C$1,062,368 |
| Montreal Holocaust Museum/Musée de l'Holocauste Montréal | C$992,920 |
| Jewish People's Schools and Peretz Schools Inc. | C$898,131 |
| Jewish Public Library/La bibliothèque publique Juive | C$896,117 |
| Hebrew Academy Inc./Académie Hébraique Inc. | C$866,481 |
| Camp B'nai Brith Inc. | C$822,071 |
| Les Programmes Résidentiels Kehilla Montréal | C$800,510 |
| JEM Workshop Inc./Atelier JEM Inc. | C$719,355 |
| Ecole Maimonide | C$565,161 |
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 +40% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
111 repeat relationships — 88 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$178k 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
- CJCummings Jewish Centre for Seniors8× · 2017–2024 · C$50M · revenue +86%
- AOAGENCE OMETZ8× · 2017–2024 · C$32M · revenue +1% · 74% of their budget
- TJTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MONTREAL8× · 2017–2024 · C$31M · revenue +129%
Funded once
- BBB'nai Birth Hillel Foundation of Montreal Inc.one grant, 2017 · C$497k · revenue -90% · 66% of their budget
- TSTOMCHEI SHABBOS MONTREALone grant, 2021 · C$300k · revenue -71%
- BRBETH RIVKAH ACADEMY FOR GIRLS/L'ACADÉMIE BETH RIVKAH POUR FIone grant, 2022 · C$290k
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 carry on a school for religious studies and to pursue the advancement of religion and rituals of jewish interest.
The Torah Study Centre of Montreal Inc provides religious education and services
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.
Provide scholarships to students operates torah study learning
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.
To provide adult education. to pursue the advancement of religion and rituals of jewish interest.
To operate a synagague and promote jewish religieus and moral and ethical values and practices
Synagogue
To promote and encourage jewish education.
Promouvoir l'étude de torah et la formation des futurs dirigeants religieux supporter la pratique les besoins religieux culturelles et traditionnelles de la communauté juive assistance pour les nécessiteux dans la communauté juive
To advance religion by teaching religious tenets doctrines and observances associated with the jewish faith by setting up jewish courses for men and women of all ages.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chabad de Sherbrooke et des Cantons de l'Est Chabad of Sherbrooke and the Eastern Townships and the most unlike its peers is Maison Belfield. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
157 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. 157 of the 164 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 United Israel Appeal of Canada Inc. ↗
- Who funds Cummings Jewish Centre for Seniors ↗
- Who funds AGENCE OMETZ ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MONTREAL ↗
- Who funds UNITED TALMUD TORAHS OF MONTREAL INC. ↗
- Who funds Communauté Sépharade Unifiée du Québec ↗
- Who funds HEBREW ACADEMY INC./ACADÉMIE HÉBRAÏQUE INC. ↗
- Who funds Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association ↗
- Who funds JEWISH PEOPLE'S SCHOOLS AND PERETZ SCHOOLS INC. ↗
- Who funds JEWISH PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CAMP B'NAI BRITH INC. ↗
- Who funds JEM WORKSHOP INC. ↗
- Who funds SEGAL CENTRE FOR PEFORMING ARTS/CENTRE SEGAL DES ARTS DE LA ↗
- Who funds LES PROGRAMMES RESIDENTIELS KEHILLA MONTREAL/KEHILLA MONTREA ↗
- Who funds Montreal Holocaust Museum/Musée de l'Holocauste Montréal ↗
- Who funds Bronfman Jewish Education Centre ↗
- Who funds Ecole Maimonide ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON SCHECHTER ACADEMY/ACADÉMIE SOLOMON SCHECHTER ↗
- Who funds BELZ COMMUNITY SCHOOL/ECOLE COMMUNAUTAIRE BELZ ↗
- Who funds ACADÉMIE YESHIVA YAVNÉ ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FOUNDATION SCHOOL OF CONGREGATION BETH TIKVAH ↗
- Who funds BETH JACOB SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MADA COMMUNITY CENTER INC./CENTRE COMMUNAUTAIRE MADA INC. ↗
- Who funds Akiva School/L'Ecole Akiva ↗
- Who funds Beth Rivkah Academy for Girls ↗
- Who funds Yeshiva Gedolah l'école d'étude supérieures de Montréal ↗
- Who funds CHABAD HOPE CENTER/CENTRE DE L'EPOIRE CHABAD ↗
- Who funds YALDEI SHASHUIM DEVELOPMENT CENTER/CENTRE DE DÉVELOPPEMENT Y ↗
- Who funds PROJECT GENESIS ↗
- Who funds THE SIR MORTIMER & DAVIS JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION RESHITH CHOCHMA FIRST MESIFTA OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds THE CALDWELL RESIDENCES/LES RÉSIDENCES CALDWELL ↗
- Who funds Limmud Center ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF QUEBEC/CERCLE DE L'AMITIÉ DU QUÉBEC ↗
- Who funds CAMP KINNERET-BILUIM ↗
- Who funds Montreal BB Residences Foundation/Fondation Résidences BB ↗
- Who funds Birthright Israel Foundation of Canada ↗
- Who funds iTaLAM.org ↗
- Who funds THE YAD EZER FUND ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF JEWISH MONTREAL/LE MUSÉE DU MONTRÉAL JUIF ↗
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: Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family Fondation · Rayjo Charitable Trust · Morris and Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation / Fondation de la Famille Morris Et Rosalind Goodman · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Hatzolas Yisroel D'Arizal · Alvin Segal Family Foundation · ORT Canada · Aaron and Susan Lieberman Foundation · The Mireille and Murray Steinberg Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille Mireille et Muuray Steinberg · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · Nellie Philanthropy 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.