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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Ben and Sylvia Marks Charitable Foundation

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C$35k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$35,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOLODYMYR GEORGE DANYLIW FOUNDATIONC$35,000
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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$725k · 4 repeat orgsC$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +98% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

C$725k
C$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%
+36%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
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

  • UJ
    United Jewish Appeal Federation of Greater Toronto
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$265k · revenue +98%
  • JN
    JEWISH NATIONAL FUND OF CANADA
    2× · 2021–2023 · C$210k
  • CF
    CANADIAN FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH OF ISRAEL
    2× · 2017–2021 · C$200k · revenue +789%

Funded once

  • AI
    ADATH ISRAEL CONGREGATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$550k · revenue -7%
  • NF
    NEEMAN FOUNDATION CANADA
    one grant, 2022 · C$500k · revenue -30%
  • CF
    Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalemgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$250k · revenue +83%

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
The Canadian Jewish Educational Fund

The charity provides scholarships and promotes the study of judaism carrying out educational programming both in and out of schools, intensive study workshops and teacher training in biblical studies.

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2
The Canadian Friends of Mercaz Hatorah

Funds provided for students desirous of studying advanced Talmudic and Torah law at Mercaz Hatorah Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem and other similar institutions.

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3
Canadian Friends of Yeshiva Beth Hillel Bnai Brak

Scholarships granted to qualified applicants related to post-graduate studies

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4
Canadian Friends of the Institute 0HOLEI Torah

The charity provides scholarship to needy students

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5
Canadian Friends of United Wiznitz Institutions in Israel

Provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to enable them to follow religious courses at wznitz yeshiva in israel

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6
The Zahavy Family Foundation

Support of jewish education and institutions

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7
Canadian Friends of Yeshivat Lev Hatorah

To advance religion by providing financial assistance to jewish boys and men interested in pursuing high religious studies.

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8
Canadian Friends of Yeshivat Wiznitz of Bnei Braq

Provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses given at yeshivat wiznitz.

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9
Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto

The jewish foundation of greater toronto receives manages and invests funds as well as disburses grants to qualified donees. using a research-driven approach the jewish foundation of greater toronto strategically distributes to community…

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10
Canadian Friends of Shalom Torah Center

The charity furthered the practice of judaism by providing scholarships to deserving students to enable them to attend religious courses being given at shalom torah centres. scholarships were provided to students attending shalom torah…

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11
The Canadian Alumni of Bais Hatalmud Jerusalem

Provide scholarships to students finance lectures and publishing

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12
Arza Canada

Creation and implementation of israel curriculum - educational programming for synagogues - scholarships for youth

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto and the most unlike its peers is Wolodymyr George Danyliw 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

17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetADATH ISRAEL CONGREGATION — C$550,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNEEMAN FOUNDATION CANADA — C$499,983 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal Federation of Greater Toronto — C$265,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem — C$250,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetReena Foundation — C$200,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH OF ISRAEL — C$200,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCanadian Magen David Adom for Israel — C$155,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetASSOCIATED HEBREW SCHOOLS — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROBBINS HEBREW ACADEMY — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCanadian Friends of Boys Town Jerusalem — C$100,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetKAYLA'S CHILDREN CENTRE — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF ONTARIO — C$50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWOLODYMYR GEORGE DANYLIW FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetTHE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CANADIAN ZIONIST CULTURAL ASSOCIATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 Dh Gales Family C…Alexander E Grossman …The Beverley and Samu…United Jewish Appeal …Jewish Foundation of …Conam Charitable Foun…Wcpd FoundationJewish Community Foun…Charitable Gift Funds…United Way of Greater…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
The Dh Gales Family Charitable Foundation of TorontoON9.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dh Gales Family Charitable Foundation of Toronto · Alexander E Grossman Foundation · The Beverley and Samuel H. Cohen Family Foundation · United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Conam Charitable Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 17 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.

Source object 887790350:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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