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Halifax, NS · Private foundation

Ralph and Shirlee Medjuck Charitable Foundation

The foundation provides gifts to qualified donees

C$160k
Granted FY2018
44
Grants FY2018
3
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2018 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under C$10k40 grants · C$29k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$32k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$100k
C$150
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$870
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF ATLANTIC CANADAC$50,000
WEIZMAN CANADAC$50,000
CANADIAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA UNIVERSITYC$20,000
IWK HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$11,500
CHABAD LUBAVITCHC$6,800
BARON DE HIRSCH HEBREW BENEVOLENT SOCIETYC$5,190
BEST BUDDIES CANADAC$5,000
THE MOLLY APPEALC$1,598
SYMPHONY NOVA SCOTIAC$1,500
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY - ANNUAL GIVINGC$1,500
CHW CANADIAN HADASSAH - WIZOC$1,000
SCHLERODERMA SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIAC$1,000
ROYAL NOVA SCOTIA/INTERNATIONAL TATTOOC$1,000
JA NOVA SCOTIA (JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT)C$1,000
CANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATIONC$250
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$471k · 29 repeat orgsC$10k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
27

Total granted

C$471k
C$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+45%

Still filing today

97%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
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

  • WC
    WEIZMAN CANADA
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$100k · revenue +48%
  • CF
    Canadian Friends of Yeshiva University
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$40k · revenue +15%
  • BD
    Baron De Hirsch Hebrew Benevolent Society
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$17k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • BB
    Big Brothers Big Sisters
    one grant, 2017 · C$2k · revenue +19%
  • RN
    Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo
    one grant, 2017 · C$1k
  • TC
    Tema Conter Memorial Trust
    one grant, 2017 · C$800

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
Canadian Cancer Society - SociÉTÉ Canadienne Du Cancer

The Canadian Cancer Society works tirelessly to save and improve lives. We raise funds to fuel the brightest minds in cancer research. We provide a compassionate support system for all those affected by cancer across Canada and for all…

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2
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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3
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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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
Atlantic Salmon Federation (Canada)/Federation Du Saumon Atlantique (Canada)

Develop and undertake research programs aimed at providing scientific information to support advocacy public awareness and education programs designed to conserve wild Atlantic salmon stocks throughout their range in Quebec and the…

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6
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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7
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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8
Israel Cancer Research Fund (Toronto)

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.

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9
Breast Cancer Canada Cancer du sein du Canada

To fund medical research into improving the detection prevention and treatment of breat cancer in canada. to provide public awareness and education of breast cancer in canada.

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10
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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11
Fighting Blindness Canada

Fighting Blindness Canada leads the fight against blindness by advancing research in to vision loss and blindness education and public awareness. To advance vision research we fund qualified donees researchers and clinicians to investigate…

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12
Autism Science Foundation Canada

Asf canada's mission is to fund breakthrough research to improve the lives of people with autism. asf canada provides funds to support university-based research in canada. asf canada board members have presented at national conferences and…

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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 Baron De Hirsch Hebrew Benevolent Society. 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

49 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. 49 of the 70 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
36/49
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 budgetCamp Kadimah (Atlantic Jewish Council) — C$150,050 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetWEIZMAN CANADA — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal of Atlantic Canada — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Friends of Yeshiva University — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBest Buddies — C$25,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBaron De Hirsch Hebrew Benevolent Society — C$17,170 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetIWK HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHABAD LUBAVITCH — C$8,654 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY - ANNUAL GIVING — C$3,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSymphony Nova Scotia — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHW-Canadian Hadassah-Wizo — C$2,280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJA NOVA SCOTIA (JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT) — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MOLLY APPEAL — C$1,698 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHLERODERMA SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNorthwood Foundation — C$615 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRabbinical College of Canada — C$580 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Diabetes Association — C$500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Associates of Ben-Gurion University — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Simon Wiesenthal — C$450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHealth Services Foundation of The South Shore — C$450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEART & STROKE FOUNDATION — C$400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salvation Army — C$350 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian Feed The Children — C$300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM NOVA SCOTIA — C$300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND OF CANADA — C$300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMADD Canada — C$285 over 2y, 0.0% of budgeteSource Registration (2017 Stanish Luncheon) — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeit Halochem Canada — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTangnbaum Chat — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Research Society — C$200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer Society — C$200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEzrat Israel — C$180 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetADSUM FOR WOMEN — C$150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBonny Lea Farm — C$150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Wildlife Federation Inc. — C$120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS CANADA — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. MICHAELS FOUNDATON — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNON PROFIT LOAN ORGANIZATION — C$100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARTHRITIS SOCIETY — C$75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCNIB — C$75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Canada — C$70 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED NOVA SCOTIA — C$60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER CANADA — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes — C$35 over 1y, 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.

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.

The Community Foundat…United Way Maritimes/…River Philip Foundati…J and W Murphy Founda…The Windsor FoundationBlack Family Foundati…Jewish Community Foun…Sisters of Charity Mo…The Wadih M. Fares Fa…Masonic Foundation of…Jewish Foundation of …Doane Grant Thornton …
The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia SocietyNS15.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · River Philip Foundation · J and W Murphy Foundation · The Windsor Foundation · Black Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · The Wadih M. Fares Family Foundation · Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Doane Grant Thornton 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 70 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 2018-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2018. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation.

Source object 814371795:2018-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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