Toronto, ON · Private foundation
Mendelson Family Foundation
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k8 grants · C$14k
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO | C$20,000 |
| THE BAYCREST CENTRE FOUNDATION | C$10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO | C$4,000 |
| CAMH FOUNDATION | C$2,500 |
| ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO | C$2,500 |
| SIMON WEISENTHAL CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES | C$1,000 |
| KIDS HELP PHONE | C$1,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND OF CANADA | C$1,000 |
| HR CANADA CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION | C$1,000 |
| DYING WITH DIGNITY | C$1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 88% of grant dollars (C$447k). The 12% that went abroad (C$62k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 12% of all-years giving (C$62k)
0 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.
25 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k 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
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO5× · 2017–2023 · C$115k · revenue +98%
- TGToronto General & Western Hospital Foundation3× · 2017–2021 · C$30k · revenue +83%
- CFCanadian Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem4× · 2017–2023 · C$14k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- L7LIBERATION 75 INC.graduatedone grant, 2019 · C$5k · revenue +533%
- PGPROJECT GIVE BACKone grant, 2020 · C$3k
- HBHoly Blossom Templegraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$3k · revenue +135%
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.
To provide funds to aid the cause of cancer research in canada and israel.
To provide a public amentiy by establishing administering and maintaining a jewish museum focusing on world jewish history art and culture for the public.
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.
The charity provides scholarships and promotes the study of judaism carrying out educational programming both in and out of schools, intensive study workshops and teacher training in biblical studies.
Fund raising in toronto promoting understanding of the holocaust and world war ii to fund the institute for study of the holocaust in israel
Educating the public and increasing public awareness of the historical and cultural heritage of the jewish people. activities include fundraising for projects with the israel museum in jerusalem, preparation of audio-visual displays to…
To carry out charitable activities in medical research and patient care at ezrath nashim herzog hospital in jerusalem israel.
Acquisition and collection of documentary and photographic material and artifacts relating to the history of the jewish community in ontario
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jewish Family and Child Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Project Give Back for Youth. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 36 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 JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO ↗
- Who funds THE BAYCREST CENTRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ↗
- Who funds CAMH Foundation ↗
- Who funds Art Gallery of Ontario ↗
- Who funds PROJECT GIVE BACK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIBERATION 75 INC. ↗
- Who funds Jewish National Fund of Canada ↗
- Who funds DYING WITH DIGNITY ↗
- Who funds Holy Blossom Temple ↗
- Who funds KIDS HELP PHONE ↗
- Who funds The Canadian Friends of Rambam Medical Centre ↗
- Who funds Eva's Initiatives ↗
- Who funds Jacob's Ladder ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family and Child Service ↗
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 · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · United Way of Greater Toronto · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · 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.