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Thornhill, ON · Private foundation

The Ben and Hilda Katz Charitable Foundation

The foundation receives and maintains funds to apply all or part of the principal and income from these investments to other charitable organizations registered under the canadian income tax act.

C$530k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k11 grants · C$55k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$125k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$350k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATIONC$100,000
STAND WITH US CANADAC$50,000
UNITED HATZALAH CANADAC$50,000
CANADIAN FRIENDS OF SHALAVAC$50,000
CANADIAN MAGEN DAVID ADOM FOR ISRAELC$50,000
CANADIAN FRIENDS OF SHALAVAC$50,000
HUMBER RIVER HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$25,000
HOLLAND BLOORVIEW FOUNDATIONC$25,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES TORONTOC$25,000
PARKDALE QUEEN WEST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTREC$10,000
THE LOCALC$10,000
NANNY ANGEL NETWORK INC.C$10,000
GIANT STEPS TORONTOC$10,000
MAKE-A-WISH CANADAC$10,000
THE LOCALC$5,000
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.1M · 37 repeat orgsC$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
100

Total granted

C$3.1M
C$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+38%

Still filing today

95%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$205k 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

  • NH
    NESHAMA HOSPICE
    4× · 2018–2021 · C$1.3M · revenue +305% · 75% of their budget
  • CF
    CANADIAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$305k · revenue +52%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$260k · revenue +144%

Funded once

  • BF
    BAYCREST FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$100k · revenue +22%
  • MH
    MACKENZIE HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$100k · revenue -30%
  • LI
    LIBERATION75 INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$50k · revenue +533% · 53% of their budget

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
Strides Toronto Support Services

Strides Toronto is a multi-service agency providing services to young people from birth to age 29 and their families in Toronto. Strides Toronto provides a range of community residential and treatment services to improve the mental social…

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2
Casey House

Casey House is a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto offering comprehensive inpatient and outpatient holistic health care for people living with and at risk of HIV and AIDS. Together with clients staff peers and volunteers Casey House…

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3
Gerstein Crisis Centre

Gerstein Crisis Centre is a community mental health organization that provides services to adults experiencing a mental health and/or addictions crisis. Our broad range of programs and initiatives includes our Community Mental Health…

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4
Child Development Institute

Cdi is a multi-service charitable organization that offers early years and childcare services mental health and counselling services and programs that address gender-based violence. unified under one agency cdi's diverse programming…

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5
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation

The toronto rehabilitation institute foundation's mission is to raise grant and steward funds to support the mission of the toronto rehabilitation institute (which is part of the university health network) to develop solutions for people…

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6
Canadian Mental Health Association Toronto Branch

Canadian mental health association toronto (cmha toronto) is the city's leading community mental health agency. we provide accessible quality care for people in toronto through programs research and advocacy. from supporting individuals…

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7
Toronto Foundation

The purpose of toronto foundation is to create a more fair and justice society where everyone can thrive by mobilizing those with resources and the will to partner with others. the foundation publishes research including the toronto's…

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8
Jewish Vocational Service of Metropolitan Toronto

JVS Toronto plays a vital role in Toronto and York Region ensuring that jobseekers reach their potential at work and employers build the workforce they need to be successful. Programs and services include a mix of general and specialized…

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9
Cota Health

Cota is an accredited not-for-profit provider of community mental health services in the greater toronto area. the organization assists persons living with mental illness developmental disabilities dual diagnosis acquired brain injuries…

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10
The Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…

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11
StayWell Suites Charity

StayWell’s mission is to support healthcare access for patients of all ages throughout Canada including the GTA who must relocate to Toronto for critical medical care unavailable in their community. Through our reduced-cost initiatives…

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12
New Visions Toronto

Mission Statement: 'To support connect and advocate for full community inclusion for people with disabilities'. New Visions Toronto provides residential support to children and adults with developmental and/or physical disabilities in…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant House Toronto and the most unlike its peers is Act to End Violence Against Women. 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

134 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. 134 of the 147 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
127/134
Grantees still filing
100/134
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 budgetNESHAMA HOSPICE — C$1,250,000 over 4y, 75% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA — C$305,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO — C$260,180 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUHN FOUNDATION — C$205,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUJA FEDERATION — C$129,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTAND WITH US CANADA — C$120,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetBAYCREST FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMACKENZIE HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetVE'AHAVTA — C$65,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCANADIAN MAGEN DAVID ADOM FOR ISRAEL — C$65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSEEDS OF HOPE FOUNDATION — C$55,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetSICK KIDS FOUNDATION — C$55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTRE FOR THE BLIN — C$55,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetLIBERATION75 INC — C$50,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetHOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWOMEN'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED HATZALAH CANADA — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHUMBER RIVER HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDANI — C$47,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH CANADA — C$45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES TORONTO — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSURREY PLACE — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEHILLA RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMME — C$28,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGIANT STEPS TORONTO — C$25,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSOUTHLAKE FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKARMA COUNTRY CAMP — C$25,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetRENASCENT FOUNDATION INC. — C$22,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDIXON HALL NEIGHBOURHOOD SERVICES — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTELLA'S PLACE ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT CENTRE — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetONTARIO MEDICAL FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE HOLY BLOSSOM TEMPLE FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSURREY PLACE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH CANADA — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANNY ANGEL NETWORK INC. — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE CANADA — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHINE THROUGH THE RAIN FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CEDARBROOK SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY GROUP OF ONTARIO — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOODSHARE — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER TORONTO AREA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROOM 217 FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFRED VICTOR — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLION HEARTS INC. — C$10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetABOUT FACE — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.0% 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.

J.P. Bickell Foundati…F. K. Morrow Foundati…Jewish Foundation of …The George Lunan Foun…The Catherine and Max…Kids Up Front Foundat…Alice and Murray Mait…The Azrieli Foundatio…The Henry White Kinne…Robert Kerr FoundationJackman FoundationTippet Foundation
J.P. Bickell FoundationON27.6× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J.P. Bickell Foundation · F. K. Morrow Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · The George Lunan Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · Alice and Murray Maitland Foundation · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · Robert Kerr Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Tippet 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 147 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 2024-12-31, 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 119215598:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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