Vancouver, BC · Private foundation
Sherman Foundation
The charity distributes funds to various religious education and health organizations in canada.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE TRANSFORMATION FOUNDATION | C$1,500,000 |
| THE KRAWCZYK FAMILY FOUNDATION | C$1,500,000 |
| KNRS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | C$1,500,000 |
| FRED AND JON SHERMAN & FAMILY FOUNDATION | C$1,500,000 |
| UNITED WAY GREATER TORONTO | C$300,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 32% of grant dollars (C$9.3M). The 68% that went abroad (C$20M) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 68% of all-years giving (C$20M)
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.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 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, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$6.0M 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
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2018–2020 · C$9.4M
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO3× · 2022–2024 · C$650k · revenue +9%
- CSCanadian Society for Yad Vashem2× · 2017–2019 · C$110k
Funded once
- HRHumber River Hospital Foundationone grant, 2017 · C$2.0M
- CHCongregation Habonimone grant, 2019 · C$2.0M
- UJUnited Jewish Appeal of Greater Torontoone grant, 2017 · C$1.5M
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 foundation receives accumulates and distributes funds to qualified donees as defined under the income tax act (canada)('the act').
Donations to united way of greater toronto united jewish appeal of greater toronto and sinai health foundation.
Garry hurvitz foundation provides funding to qualfied donees under the income tax act (canada).
The Foundation provides funds to qualified donees to further its charitable interests. Examples include: City of Toronto City of Burlington City of Brampton.
The jewish foundation of manitoba is the jewish community's endowment fund. the foundation which is independent of other community organizations operates under the mandate to receive capital gifts to be held in perpetuity. these gifts are…
To distribute its income to registered charities and qualified donees.
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.
The organization intended to provide support for charitable causes by making donations to those 'qualified donees 'defined in the ita who are engaged in charitable undertakings.
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…
To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to pay from time to time qualified donees.
The purpose of the foundation is to receive and maintain funds and apply all or part there of and/or the income thereform to fund registered charitable organizations in the greater toronto area ('gta') that engage in charitable activities…
The Toronto Symphony Foundation (TSF) was incorporated to aid the Toronto Symphony in the advancement of Orchestral Music. The TSF receives administers and invests gifts and makes annual distributions to The Toronto Symphony.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto and the most unlike its peers is Sinai Health Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 42 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 KNRS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRANSFORMATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRED AND JON SHERMAN & FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE KRAWCZYK FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER TORONTO ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER TORONTO ↗
- Who funds THE BAYCREST CENTRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMBER RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIBERATION75 INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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.