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North York, ON · Private foundation

The Benjamin Walker Foundation

Funding other charities

C$160k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$6k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$154k
C$20,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$826k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY CANADAC$30,000
THE CANADIAN SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$30,000
FRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTERC$25,000
CANADIAN FRIENDS OF BOYS TOWN JERUSALEMC$20,000
THE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$20,000
CANADIAN MAGEN DAVID ADOM FOR ISRAELC$16,000
UNITED HATZALAH CANADAC$13,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF GREATER TORONTOC$5,000
YESHIVAT AISH HATORAH COLLEGE OF JEWISH STUDIESC$1,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 89% of grant dollars (C$607k). The 11% that went abroad (C$77k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 11% of all-years giving (C$77k)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

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International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$561k · 10 repeat orgsC$123k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
12

Total granted

C$561k
C$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+71%

Still filing today

100%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$31k 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

  • TC
    THE CANADIAN SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$150k · revenue +78%
  • BT
    BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$73k · revenue +124%
  • HI
    HAND IN HAND
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$65k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • CF
    CANADIAN FRIENDS OF SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$20k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTRE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES
    one grant, 2022 · C$20k
  • UJ
    UNITTED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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.

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The Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University

The canadian friends of the hebrew university (cfhu) provided funding to the hebrew university of jerusalem which is a registered foreign university and a qualified donee to carry out post secondary educational & research activities as…

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2
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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3
Israel Magen Fund of Canada

The mission of the Israel Magen Fund of Canada is to identify and support projects for qualified institutions in Israel and globally that require humanitarian aid medical assistance and physical and mental health care.

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4
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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5
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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6
Canadian Friends of Holocaust Survivors Relief Fund of Shearis Hapletah

To provide assistance to those in need

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7
The Canadian Friends of Ezrath Nashim Herzog Hospital

To carry out charitable activities in medical research and patient care at ezrath nashim herzog hospital in jerusalem israel.

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8
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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9
Canadian Friends of IsraAID
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10
The Zahavy Family Foundation

Support of jewish education and institutions

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11
Canadian Friends of Yeshiva Beth Hillel Bnai Brak

Scholarships granted to qualified applicants related to post-graduate studies

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12
The Lynn and Brent Belzberg Foundation

The foundation makes donations to qualified charities. the largest donations in 2024 were to sinai health foundation queen's university united isreal appeal and forest hill jewish centre.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Shaare Zedek Hospital Foundation/Fondation Canadienne De L'hopital Shaare Zedek and the most unlike its peers is Holy Blossom Temple. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the 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. 17 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
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 budgetTHE CANADIAN SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER — C$133,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM — C$73,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetHAND IN HAND — C$65,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUJA FEDERATION OF GREATER TORONTO — C$50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTEL AVIV UNIVERSITY CANADA — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCANADIAN MAGEN DAVID ADOM FOR ISRAEL — C$29,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED HATZALAH CANADA — C$26,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP KIVITA INC. — C$25,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetHOLLAND BLOORVIEW — C$8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOCKEYS HELPS HOMELESS — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOCKEY HELPS THE HOMELESS — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY BOSTON TEMPLE — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVAT AISH HATORAH COLLEGE OF JEWISH STUDIES — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE FAMILY OVERCOMING TERROR TOGETHER — C$360 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.

Jewish Foundation of …Charitable Gift Funds…Canadahelps Canadon
Jewish Foundation of Greater TorontoON7.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · 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 24 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 888794641:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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