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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Mel & Pamela Himel Family Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply from time to time all or part thereof and/or the income therefrom for charitable purposes.

C$90k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$13k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k37 grants · C$77k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$13k
C$1,600
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$455k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TANNENBAUMCHATC$13,000
BAYCREST HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$6,000
THE HOLY BLOSSOM TEMPLE FOUNDATIONC$5,000
GILDA'S CLUB GREATER TORONTOC$5,000
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDC$4,600
U OF TC$4,500
MOUNT SIMAI HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$4,000
FRIENDS OF SIMON WEISENTHAL CENTERC$4,000
PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONC$3,000
THE DR. KEN CITRON CHARITABLE TRUSTC$3,000
UNITED HATZALAH CANADAC$2,800
AFCCC$2,500
PANCREATIC CANCER CANADA FOUNDATIONSC$2,500
JEWISH FREE LOANC$2,000
CHAI LIFELINE CANADAC$2,000
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.3M · 45 repeat orgsC$475k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
29

Total granted

C$1.3M
C$474k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+23%

Still filing today

96%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k 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

  • JF
    JEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER TORONTO
    4× · 2017–2022 · C$792k · revenue +144%
  • T
    TANNENBAUMCHAT
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$52k · revenue +21%
  • TH
    THE HOLY BLOSSOM TEMPLE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$47k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • BH
    BIALIK HEBREW DAY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · C$250k · revenue +20%
  • UF
    UJA FEDERATION OF GREATER TORONTOgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$173k · revenue +31%
  • TH
    THE HOLY BLOSSOM TEMPLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$11k

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
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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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
Stand Up to Cancer Canada

Funding of Breast Cancer Research Stem Cell Research Metastatic Cancer Research & Pancreatic Cancer Research.

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4
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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5
The Lynn and Brent Belzberg Foundation

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.

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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
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation

The toronto rehabilitation institute foundation's mission is to raise grant and steward funds to support the mission of the toronto rehabilitation institute (which is part of the university health network) to develop solutions for people…

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8
Sunnybrook Research Institute

Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The vision of SRI is to invent the future of health care. Our main…

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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
Israel Magen Fund of Canada

The mission of the Israel Magen Fund of Canada is to identify and support projects for qualified institutions in Israel and globally that require humanitarian aid medical assistance and physical and mental health care.

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11
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…

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12
Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Medecine Research Fund

Medical research and education in medicine in canada.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto and the most unlike its peers is Procyon Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Centre. 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

72 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. 72 of the 75 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/72
Grantees still filing
54/72
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER TORONTO — C$792,100 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBIALIK HEBREW DAY SCHOOL — C$250,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUJA FEDERATION OF GREATER TORONTO — C$173,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTANNENBAUMCHAT — C$51,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOLY BLOSSOM TEMPLE FOUNDATION — C$47,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetThe Baycrest Centre Foundation — C$33,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILD — C$30,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB GREATER TORONTO — C$28,250 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetPRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$24,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SIMON SWISENTHAL CENTER — C$24,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLeo Baeck Day School — C$20,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSick Kids Foundation — C$18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetisreal Cancer Research Fund — C$17,150 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetU OF T — C$17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAFCC — C$16,000 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetTHE DR. KEN CITRON CHARITABLE TRUST — C$16,000 over 7y, 50% of budgetUnited Way — C$13,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FREE LOAN — C$13,700 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMount Sinai Health Foundation — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM — C$11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL ONTARIO — C$11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCAMH FOUNDATION — C$11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROSSERMAN JCC — C$10,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER CANADA FOUNDATIONS — C$10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCANADA-UKRAINE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIEL'S LEGACY CANADA — C$10,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetCovenant House Toronto — C$9,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Leo BaecK Day School — C$8,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CANADIAN ZIONIST CULTURAL ASSOCIATION — C$7,600 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE CANADA — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALLISON & DISTRICT HUMANE SOCIETY — C$6,950 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetPEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY OF ONTARIO — C$6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED HATZALAH CANADA — C$4,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$4,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSterling Hall School — C$4,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPFIRE CIRCLE — C$4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetShaarei Shomayim Congregation — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDR. JAY CHILDREN'S GRIEF CENTRE — C$4,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHumber College Instutute of Technology and Advanced Learning — C$4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST — C$3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAYS TO EDUCATION — C$3,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRETHINK BREAST CANCER — C$3,150 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMAZON CANADA — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRMCH CANADA — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWOOD COLLEGE SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSunnybrook Foundation — C$2,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCE OF CANADA — C$2,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds BIALIK HEBREW DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UJA FEDERATION OF GREATER TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds TANNENBAUMCHAT ↗
  • Who funds THE HOLY BLOSSOM TEMPLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Baycrest Centre Foundation ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILD ↗
  • Who funds GILDA'S CLUB GREATER TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SIMON SWISENTHAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Leo Baeck Day School ↗
  • Who funds Sick Kids Foundation ↗
  • Who funds isreal Cancer Research Fund ↗
  • Who funds U OF T ↗
  • Who funds AFCC ↗
  • Who funds THE DR. KEN CITRON CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds United Way ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FREE LOAN ↗
  • Who funds Mount Sinai Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds CAMH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROSSERMAN JCC ↗
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER CANADA FOUNDATIONS ↗
  • Who funds CANADA-UKRAINE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARIEL'S LEGACY CANADA ↗
  • Who funds Covenant House Toronto ↗
  • Who funds The Leo BaecK Day School ↗
  • Who funds THE CANADIAN ZIONIST CULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE CANADA ↗
  • Who funds ALLISON & DISTRICT HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY OF ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds UNITED HATZALAH CANADA ↗
  • Who funds LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds Sterling Hall School ↗
  • Who funds CAMPFIRE CIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds Shaarei Shomayim Congregation ↗
  • Who funds DR. JAY CHILDREN'S GRIEF CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds Humber College Instutute of Technology and Advanced Learning ↗

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 …United Jewish Appeal …Conam Charitable Foun…Jewish Community Foun…The Azrieli Foundatio…Toronto FoundationThe Ben and Hilda Kat…The Dr. Wolf Lebovic …The Joseph Lebovic Ch…BenefAction FoundationThe Rotman Family Fou…The Emmet Foundation
Jewish Foundation of Greater TorontoON17.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto · Conam Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · Toronto Foundation · The Ben and Hilda Katz Charitable Foundation · The Dr. Wolf Lebovic Charitable Foundation · The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · The Rotman Family Foundation · The Emmet 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 75 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 2024-06-30, 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 119214914:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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