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North York, ON · Private foundation

Sef Foundation

Education support the running of schools in third world countries.

C$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$355k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$22k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$116k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$172k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$927k
C$25,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAJJADYA TRUSTC$355,393
Indus Development Foundation CanadaC$321,480
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FOUNDATION (IDRF)C$250,000
IMAAN FOUNDATIONC$68,260
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITYC$54,004
WILLIAM OSLER HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONC$50,000
MAX SCHOLARSHIP FUNDC$41,000
SANCTUARY MINISTRIES OF TORONTOC$25,000
Imamia Association of ReginaC$25,000
TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITYC$15,000
ISLAMIC RELIEF CANADAC$10,000
ISLAMIC SHIA ASHERI JAMAAT OF TORONTOC$7,000
CRESCENT VILLAGE TRUSTC$6,200
Zanzibar International Development Organization (ZIDO)C$5,000
HOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$2,500
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$6.5M · 23 repeat orgsC$683k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
12

Total granted

C$6.5M
C$262k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
-16%

Still filing today

91%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$421k 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

  • ID
    INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$888k · revenue +746%
  • CU
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$809k · revenue +55%
  • ST
    SAJJADYA TRUST
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$783k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • CR
    CANADIAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2021 · C$94k · revenue -22%
  • AZ
    AL ZAHRA SHIA A
    one grant, 2021 · C$38k · revenue -80%
  • CU
    CARLETON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · C$30k · revenue +3%

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
Habib University Foundation Canada

The Foundation runs a scholarship program. In 2024 the successful applicants were students at Habib University in Karachi Pakistan.

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2
The Shining Star Foundation

Providing support for various NPOs and charities who are advanicng the Islamic Shia Ithna Asheri faith through research education and conferences - Providing support and funds for projects to assist poor families in Canada and India by…

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3
Help Orphans and Promote Education Foundation

1. Scholarship / educational support provided to 4302 Orphans/deserving students. 2- Food temporary shelter and Hygiene kits were provided to over 8000 families during the Pakistan Foods. 3- House restoration and reconstruction in the…

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4
Relieve Humanity International

Primary and Secondary Students Sponsorships in Pakistan Somaliland and Somalia. Medical Clinic located in the world's largest slum in Karachi offers a wide range of medical services to the general public. Delivering charitable medical and…

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5
Canadian Friends of University of Haifa

To provide financial support for haifa university including funding for research capital projects and scholarships for canadians attending the university

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6
Jusoor Canada

The organization raises funds to provide scholarships to post-secondary students based on an application project. funds riased are also used to sponsor and support charitable initiatives on an ongoing basis.

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7
Canadian Friends of Iit Madras

To advance education by providing financial assistance scholarships and bursaries to students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras (India). To promote Health by providing financial assistance to students at IIT Madras who…

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8
Light of Guidance Foundation Canada

Advanced education by providing scholarships to students attending Islamic schools in Ontario. The scholarships are provided to the schools

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9
Al Rashid Education Foundation

The foundation creates educational assistance programs for those individuals likely to enhance the status of the muslim community in canada; promotes the cause of education for canadian muslims and any other citizens; provides assistance…

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10
Rahim Foundation

Helping people in need through Islamic Relief; Covid reduce program and overall programming this year

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11
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at Canada Inc.

The advancement of religious and secular education and research. The relief of those who are sick or poor in health. The relief of those in financial distress. The reliefassistance of people in any part of the World who are the victims of…

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12
Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research Canada

Yaqeen Institute focuses on research community webinars and video series.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hunar Foundation Canada and the most unlike its peers is The Pluralist Foundation. 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

35 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. 35 of the 39 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
22/35
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 budgetINTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FOUNDATION (IDRF) — C$888,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY — C$808,840 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAJJADYA TRUST — C$783,131 over 2y, 10% of budgetWilliam Osler Health System Foundation — C$475,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetRyerson University — C$386,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIndus Development Foundation Canada — C$321,480 over 1y, 12% of budgetWILLIAM OSLER HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — C$175,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetSANCTUARY MINISTRIES OF TORONTO — C$145,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetMAX SCHOLARSHIP FUND — C$98,500 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$94,020 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF CANADA — C$80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLICENSED TO LEARN INC. — C$75,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetSMILE CANADA — C$75,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetHolland Bayview Bloor Foundation — C$56,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Citizens Foundation Of Canada — C$55,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAL ZAHRA SHIA A — C$37,650 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSICK KIDS FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON UNIVERSITY — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetImamia Association of Regina — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetZanzibar International Development Organization (ZIDO) — C$25,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetISLAMIC SHIA ASHERI JAMAAT OF TORONTO — C$23,800 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNASIMCO — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Bishop Strachan School Foundation — C$17,018 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIMAMIA MEDICA INTERNATIONAL CANADA INC. — C$15,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetHUSSAINI ASSOCIATION OF SASKATOON CORP — C$14,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCrescent School Foundation — C$13,200 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJEAN AUGUSTINE CENTRE FOR WOMEN — C$10,500 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetPluralist Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetISLAMIC HUMANITARIAN SERVICES — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCRESCENT VILLAGE TRUST — C$6,200 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHUNAR FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCANCER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOrganization of Islamic Learning — C$4,800 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetIMAAN CUP - MUSLIM FOOD BANK — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYork University — C$500 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.

Islamic Shia Ithna-As…North American Shia I…M.P. Charitable Found…Moez & Marissa Kassam…The Foundation of Lig…Sajjadiyya TrustRahma FoundationIslamic Relief - Ir C…Shia Muslim Community…Pickering Islamic Cen…Human Concern Interna…BenefAction Foundation
Islamic Shia Ithna-Asheri Jamaat of TorontoON15.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Islamic Shia Ithna-Asheri Jamaat of Toronto · North American Shia Ithna - Asheri Muslim Communities Organization · M.P. Charitable Foundation · Moez & Marissa Kassam Foundation · The Foundation of Light · Sajjadiyya Trust · Rahma Foundation · Islamic Relief - Ir Canada · Shia Muslim Community of British Columbia · Pickering Islamic Centre · Human Concern International (Hci) · BenefAction 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 39 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 2024-11-30, 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 advancing education.

Source object 887613156:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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