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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Gerald Sheff & Shanitha Kachan Family Foundation

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C$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$2.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k12 grants · C$25k
  • C$10k–50k20 grants · C$425k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$686k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$2.1M
C$16,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$67M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED JEWISH APPEALC$2,100,160
UNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTOC$195,000
UHN FOUNDATIONC$140,500
ART CANADA INSTITUTEC$100,000
NESHAMA HOSPICEC$100,000
SHOREFAST FOUNDATIONC$50,000
SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATIONC$50,000
CAMP GESHERC$50,000
MCGILL UNIVERSITYC$40,000
TORONTO JEWISH FILM FOUNDATIONC$37,500
ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUNDC$34,000
BETH TZEDEC CONGREGATIONC$33,039
MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART FOUNDATIONC$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$25,000
ALLIED VOICES FOR ISRAELC$25,000
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$21M · 64 repeat orgsC$649k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

64 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
76

Total granted

C$21M
C$411k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+16%

Still filing today

97%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$238k 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

  • UF
    UJA FEDERATION OF GREATER TORONTO
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$12M · revenue +98%
  • CF
    CENTRE FOR ADDICTION & MENTAL HEALTH FDN
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$2.0M · revenue +99%
  • AG
    ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$571k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • TG
    TORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FDN.
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k
  • NB
    NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA
    one grant, 2019 · C$50k
  • JN
    JEWISH NATIONAL FUND OF CANADA
    one grant, 2020 · C$25k

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
Toronto Arts Foundation

Provides finanical support to artists and arts organizations in toronto. offers awards ad commissions recognizing artistic excellence. administers donor-directed funds and special initiatives supporting public engagement artist recognition…

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2
Israel Cancer Research Fund Fondation D'israËL Pour La Recherche Sur Le Cancer

To provide funds to aid the cause of cancer research in canada and israel.

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3
Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation

To educate and increase the public's understanding and appreciation of the arts by conserving and exhibiting works of art and otherwise making them available to the public; to educate and increase canadians' israelis' and the public's…

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4
National Gallery of Canada Foundation

Assisting the national gallery of canada in the areas of education curatorial research acquisitions and public programs.

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5
York University Foundation - Fondation De L'universite York
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6
Toronto Foundation

The purpose of toronto foundation is to create a more fair and justice society where everyone can thrive by mobilizing those with resources and the will to partner with others. the foundation publishes research including the toronto's…

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7
Ocad University Foundation
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8
The Dr. Charles H. Best Foundation

Provides scholarship funds for medical research at the university of toronto.

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9
Mount Sinai Hospital Otolaryngology Research Fund

Support of academic medical research education and health care in canada

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10
Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Medecine Research Fund

Medical research and education in medicine in canada.

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11
C the Visual Arts Foundation

C The Visual Arts Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization established to present ideas advance education and document contemporary visual art and artist culture. Our main activity is publishing C Magazine an international art…

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12
Canadian Association of University Teachers Foundation Fond ation de l'association Canadienne des professeures et professeurs d'université
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Israel Appeal of Canada Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shelter Movers. 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

148 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. 148 of the 154 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
143/148
Grantees still filing
97/148
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUJA FEDERATION OF GREATER TORONTO — C$12,302,762 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetCENTRE FOR ADDICTION & MENTAL HEALTH FDN — C$1,980,960 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO — C$1,127,343 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRhodes Scholarships in Canada — C$800,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$570,687 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUHN FOUNDATION — C$536,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHASBARA FELLOWSHIP CANADA — C$315,000 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetART CANADA INSTITUTE — C$315,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetTORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$296,110 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetCANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE — C$286,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetRAOUL WALLENBERG CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS — C$250,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION — C$220,823 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetNESHAMA HOSPICE — C$200,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetBETH TZEDEC CONGREGATION — C$196,628 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTORONTO JEWISH FILM FOUNDATION — C$196,200 over 7y, 8.4% of budgetNational Ballet of Canada — C$152,620 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Art Foundation — C$128,152 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND — C$122,700 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$120,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAROLD GREEN JEWISH THEATRE COMPANY — C$114,057 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetTHE LAW SOCIETY FOUNDATION — C$113,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetHOLLAND BLOORVIEW FOUNDATION — C$103,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — C$100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYORK UNIV. - KOSCHITZKY CTRE JEWISH STUDIES — C$92,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART FOUNDATION — C$81,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FND — C$78,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWOOD COLLEGE SCHOOL — C$65,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKAHILLA RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMME — C$60,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCHABAD OF DOLLARD — C$54,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetPROSSEMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$53,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSt. Michael`s Foundation — C$50,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHALIFAX DANCE ASSOCIATION — C$50,100 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCAMP GESHER — C$50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSHOREFAST FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCamp Oochigeas — C$39,025 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDoris Giller Rabinovitch Foundation — C$32,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBaycrest Foundation — C$26,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$25,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIED VOICES FOR ISRAEL — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBOOK CLUBS FOR INMATES — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE NE'EMAN FOUNDATION CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTAU CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJewish Foundation of Greater Toronto — C$22,532 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWalrus Foundation — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCANDIAN INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH — C$16,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetPEN Canada — C$16,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetCONGREGATION HABONIM OF TORONTO — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds UJA FEDERATION OF GREATER TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds CENTRE FOR ADDICTION & MENTAL HEALTH FDN ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds Rhodes Scholarships in Canada ↗
  • Who funds ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds UHN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HASBARA FELLOWSHIP CANADA ↗
  • Who funds ART CANADA INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE ↗
  • Who funds RAOUL WALLENBERG CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NESHAMA HOSPICE ↗
  • Who funds BETH TZEDEC CONGREGATION ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO JEWISH FILM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds National Ballet of Canada ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Art Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds HAROLD GREEN JEWISH THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds THE LAW SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOLLAND BLOORVIEW FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MCGILL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds YORK UNIV. - KOSCHITZKY CTRE JEWISH STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FND ↗
  • Who funds GREENWOOD COLLEGE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds KAHILLA RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMME ↗
  • Who funds CHABAD OF DOLLARD ↗
  • Who funds PROSSEMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds St. Michael`s Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HALIFAX DANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CAMP GESHER ↗
  • Who funds SHOREFAST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Camp Oochigeas ↗
  • Who funds Doris Giller Rabinovitch Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Baycrest Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗

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 …The Ira Gluskin and M…The Linda Frum & Howa…The Azrieli Foundatio…Larry and Judy Tanenb…Hal Jackman FoundationLa Fondation Emmanuel…Toronto FoundationThe McLean FoundationThe Hennick Family Fo…The Murray Frum Found…The Robins Appleby C…
Jewish Foundation of Greater TorontoON26.4× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · The Ira Gluskin and Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foun · The Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Charitable Foundation · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · Larry and Judy Tanenbaum Family Foundation · Hal Jackman Foundation · La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso · Toronto Foundation · The McLean Foundation · The Hennick Family Foundation · The Murray Frum Foundation · The Robins Appleby Charitable 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 154 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 887908663:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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