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Westmount, QC · Private foundation

Mitzi & Mel Dobrin Family Foundation

The primary purpose of the foundation is to receive and manage funds for the purpose of making gifts to qualifed charitable donees.

C$276k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k24 grants · C$51k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$40k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$185k
C$1,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEDERATION CJAC$100,000
FEDERATION CJAC$85,000
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIMC$30,000
FEDERATION CJAC$10,000
CHUM FOUNDATIONC$9,000
CANADIAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY CFHUC$6,000
SELWYN HOUSEC$5,000
MUSEUM OF JEWISH MONTREALC$5,000
AKIVA SCHOOL FOUNDATIONC$5,000
TREISER MAISON SHALOMC$3,450
MIRIAM FOUNDATIONC$2,500
MAIMONIDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$1,800
DEFI CANDEREL (35TH ANNIVERSARY)C$1,500
MAIMONIDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$1,000
SEGAL CENTRE FOR PERFORMING ARTSC$1,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 90% of grant dollars (C$1.6M). The 10% that went abroad (C$188k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 10% of all-years giving (C$188k)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.5M · 55 repeat orgsC$261k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

55 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
58

Total granted

C$1.5M
C$245k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+21%

Still filing today

91%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$16k 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

  • FC
    Federation CJA
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$783k · revenue +69%
  • JG
    Jewish General Hospital Foundation
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$137k · revenue +31%
  • CS
    CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$130k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • FC
    FEDERATION CJA ONE TIME GIFT
    one grant, 2021 · C$80k
  • FC
    FEDERATION CJA (GEN IPJ LIBRARY) 5TH OF S PLEDGE
    one grant, 2021 · C$25k
  • JG
    JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$19k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
La Fondation De L'ecole De Formation Hebraique

Raising funds for jewish education in the west island of montreal

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2
Fondation de l'Université du Québec à Montréal

La fondation utilise ses revenus pour favoriser et soutenir le développement et l'avancement de l'enseignement à l'université due québec à montréal

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3
Fondation de Recherche Medicale Maimonides / Maimonides Medical Research Foundation

The purpose of the maimonides medical research foundation is to solicit and obtain gifts legacies and endowment funds in order to promote research health education and cultural services and to make gifts grants contributions and donations…

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4
Fondation De L'hopital Mont Sinai / Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation

Providing funds for medical charitable and educational purposes by making gifts grants contributions and donations to or for the benefit of the mont sinai hospital centre montreal

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5
Fondation de l'Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal

Accumuler des fonds pour financier la recherche effectuée par l'institut de recherches cliniques de montréal

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6
Fondation du Centre des Sciences de Montréal / Montreal Science Centre Foundation

La fondaiton a pour but de promouvoir une meilleure connaissance et compréhension de la science des technologies et de leur histoire.

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7
Fondation universitaire de l'école des hautes études commerciales de Montréal
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8
Fondation Hec Montréal

Financement de plusieurs projets de recherche reliés à la gestion de hec montréal et contributions à des programmes de bourses à hec montréal

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9
Fondation du Chu de Québec

Organisme qui a comme mission de financier et subventionner la recherche l'enseignement l'équipement médical spécialisé et de haute technologie nécessaire à l'avancement scientifique et clinique et toutes les activités liées à…

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10
Yeshiva Gedolah L'ecole D'etudes Superieures De Montreal

The charity opertes a school for jewish children

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11
La Fondation de l'Université Laval
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12
BNai BRith Hillel Foundation of Montreal Inc./La Fondation B'Nai B'Rith Hillel de Montréal Inc.

B'nai brith hillel foundation of montreal inc.s' mission is to support jewish students on campus.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal and the most unlike its peers is Atelier Jem Inc./Jem Workshop Inc.. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

83 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. 83 of the 117 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/83
Grantees still filing
62/83
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 budgetFederation CJA — C$782,800 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetJewish General Hospital Foundation — C$136,850 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM — C$130,050 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetAkiva — C$69,900 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetCdn Friends of Hebrew University — C$32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMontreal General Hospital — C$31,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSegal Centre for Performing Arts 3 of 3 — C$29,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHABILITAS FOUNDATIOIN (MAB MACKAY) — C$27,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMcGill University — C$26,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMusee d'Art de Joliette — C$18,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMAISON SHALOM TREISER — C$17,600 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMuseum of Jewish Montreal — C$17,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetLise Watier Foundation — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetICRF ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND (46TH — C$12,300 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAlzheimer Group Inc. — C$12,200 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYM-YWHA MONTREAL — C$12,100 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDEFI CANDEREL — C$10,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of YCT-c/o Congregation Shaar Hashor — C$10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCentraide — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMADA-CALENDAR INITIATIVE — C$9,380 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMIRIAM FOUNDATION — C$9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHUM FOUNDATION — C$9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCJPAC CANADIAN JEWISH POLITICAL AFFAIRS — C$8,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMontreal Children's Hospital Foundation — C$8,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAIMONIDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$7,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRaoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights — C$7,300 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCummings Jewish Centre for Seniors — C$7,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAU CONTRAIRE FILM FESTIVAL URBAN PARDES — C$7,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetOld Brewery Mission — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKLEZ KANADA — C$6,600 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCANADIAN ASSOCIATES OF BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY — C$5,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONGREGATION HOUSE OF ISRASEL — C$5,200 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMcCord Museum — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSELWYN HOUSE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAUBERGE SHALOM POUR FEMMES — C$4,660 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMontreal Symphony Orchestra — C$4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE — C$4,180 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMontreal Holocaust Museum — C$4,050 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE METROPOLIS FOUNDATION — C$4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUST FOR KIDS FOUNDATION - DANCING WITH THE STARS — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMEMRI CANADA — C$3,800 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetCEDARS CANCER FOUNDATION - BLADDER CANCER — C$3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST. MARY'S MASTER'S 27TH GOLF TOURNAMENT — C$3,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MONTREAL - 1/3 ONO ETHIOPIAN — C$2,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColorectal Cancer Canada — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJFC-UIA-CIJA Gala Montreal 2018 — C$2,175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeth Midrash L'Horaah — C$2,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetKollel Yisroel Dovid — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 Federation CJA ↗
  • Who funds Jewish General Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHOMAYIM ↗
  • Who funds Akiva ↗
  • Who funds Cdn Friends of Hebrew University ↗
  • Who funds Montreal General Hospital ↗
  • Who funds Segal Centre for Performing Arts 3 of 3 ↗
  • Who funds HABILITAS FOUNDATIOIN (MAB MACKAY) ↗
  • Who funds McGill University ↗
  • Who funds Musee d'Art de Joliette ↗
  • Who funds MAISON SHALOM TREISER ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Jewish Montreal ↗
  • Who funds Lise Watier Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ICRF ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND (46TH ↗
  • Who funds Alzheimer Group Inc. ↗
  • Who funds YM-YWHA MONTREAL ↗
  • Who funds DEFI CANDEREL ↗
  • Who funds Friends of YCT-c/o Congregation Shaar Hashor ↗
  • Who funds Centraide ↗
  • Who funds MADA-CALENDAR INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds MIRIAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CJPAC CANADIAN JEWISH POLITICAL AFFAIRS ↗
  • Who funds Montreal Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MAIMONIDES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights ↗
  • Who funds Cummings Jewish Centre for Seniors ↗
  • Who funds AU CONTRAIRE FILM FESTIVAL URBAN PARDES ↗
  • Who funds Old Brewery Mission ↗
  • Who funds KLEZ KANADA ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN ASSOCIATES OF BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CONGREGATION HOUSE OF ISRASEL ↗

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.

Fondation Familiale G…The Mireille and Murr…Maxwell Cummings Fami…Morris and Rosalind G…The Azrieli Foundatio…Alvin Segal Family Fo…Jewish Community Foun…The Irving Ludmer Fou…Nellie Philanthropy F…Leo and Shirley Goldf…The Henry and Berenic…Rayjo Charitable Trust
Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family FondationQC39× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family Fondation · The Mireille and Murray Steinberg Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille Mireille et Muuray Steinberg · Maxwell Cummings Family Foundation - Fondation de la Famille Maxwell Cummings · Morris and Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation / Fondation de la Famille Morris Et Rosalind Goodman · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · Alvin Segal Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · The Irving Ludmer Foundation / la Fondation Irving Ludmer · Nellie Philanthropy Foundation · Leo and Shirley Goldfarb Foundation/Fondation Leo and Shirley Goldfarb · The Henry and Berenice Kaufmann Foundation · Rayjo Charitable Trust

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 117 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 2024-07-31, 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 893498857:2024-07-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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