Unionville, ON · Private foundation
Leonard Wolinsky Foundation
Grants awarded to other qualified donees for religious charitable and educational purposes.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k1 grant · C$4k
- C$10k–50k3 grants · C$43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL | C$17,500 |
| BETH SHOLOM SYNAGOGUE | C$15,000 |
| VERMONT SQUARE PARENT-CHILD MOTHER GOOSE | C$10,000 |
| THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION | C$4,000 |
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 +34% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k 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
- UFUJA FEDERATION OF GREATER TORONTO6× · 2017–2023 · C$120k · revenue +98%
- TJTORONTO JEWISH FILM FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · C$101k · revenue +28%
- VSVERMONT SQUARE PARENT-CHILD MOTHER GOOSE PROGRAM5× · 2018–2022 · C$100k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- UFUJA FEDERATION OF GREATER TORONTOone grant, 2021 · C$20k
- VSVERMONT SQUARE PARENT-CHILD MOTHER GOOSE PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · C$20k
- VVE'AHAVTAone grant, 2017 · C$8k · revenue -65%
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.
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…
The israel cancer research fund (toronto) provides funds to aid in the research of cancer in all phases: causes detection diagnosis treatment cure and care.
The charity provides cultural programs for jewish students on university campuses located throughout the toronto area the gta and the province of ontario. the charity works to instill religious and cultural values to students on campus.
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…
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…
The foundation makes donations to qualified charities. the largest donations in 2024 were to sinai health foundation queen's university united isreal appeal and forest hill jewish centre.
The charity provides facilities for the practice of jewish religious rituals.
Raises funds through music concerts publishes jewish music provides educational seminars and assists others in music studies and provides scholarships to canadian cantorial students
To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or parts of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to qualified donees as defined in subsection 149.1 of the income tax act (canada) to be used for the maintenance and…
From our offices in montreal and toronto canadian friends of tel aviv university (cftau) organizes events and activities from coast to coast with an for a alumni past attendees and friends of tel aviv university (tau) and provide direct…
Provide scholarships to needy students persuing studies of higher education in israel.
Fund raising in toronto promoting understanding of the holocaust and world war ii to fund the institute for study of the holocaust in israel
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto and the most unlike its peers is The Song Shul. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 UJA FEDERATION OF GREATER TORONTO ↗
- Who funds TORONTO JEWISH FILM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VERMONT SQUARE PARENT-CHILD MOTHER GOOSE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds DAILY BREAD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BETH SHOLOM SYNAGOGUE ↗
- Who funds FOREVER CHAI FOUNDATION OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds TECHNION CANADA ↗
- Who funds THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEIT HALOCHEM CANADA ↗
- Who funds VE'AHAVTA ↗
- Who funds THE SONG SHUL ↗
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: Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Alexander E Grossman Foundation · The Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Charitable Foundation · United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto · Conam Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon
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.