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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Brenda Simpson Foundation

The foundation receives and maintains funds and applies all or part of the principal and income therefrom to charitable organizations.

C$70k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$26k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$9k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$61k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$634k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UJA FEDERATION OF TORONTOC$26,000
WILLIAM OSLER HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONC$12,500
SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$12,500
BAYCREST FOUNDATIONC$10,000
THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONC$5,000
NE'EMAN FOUNDATION CANADAC$1,800
JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$1,600
CANADIAN SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL FUNDC$1,000
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$172k · 3 repeat orgsC$43k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

C$172k
C$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+7%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$29k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$126k · revenue +101%
  • BF
    BAYCREST FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · C$32k · revenue +3%
  • TP
    THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$15k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • UH
    UNITED HATZALAH
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue -39%
  • IC
    ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND
    one grant, 2019 · C$4k · revenue +7%
  • BH
    BEIT HALOCHEM CANADA AID TO DISABLED VETERANS OF ISRAEL (CAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue +104%

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
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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2
Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Medecine Research Fund

Medical research and education in medicine in canada.

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3
Mount Sinai Hospital Otolaryngology Research Fund

Support of academic medical research education and health care in canada

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4
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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5
Mount Sinai Hospital Employees' Charity Trust

Donations to united way of greater toronto united jewish appeal of greater toronto and sinai health foundation.

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6
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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7
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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8
Uhn Foundation

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…

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9
Arthritis Research Foundation

The arthritis research foundation provides funding for research projects in the area of arthritis and autoimmune disease research at university health network and sinai health system.

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10
Sinai Health Giving Fund
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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Israel Cancer Research Fund (Toronto) and the most unlike its peers is Moral Arc 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

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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO — C$125,515 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBAYCREST FOUNDATION — C$31,667 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM OSLER HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED HATZALAH — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND — C$4,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEIT HALOCHEM CANADA AID TO DISABLED VETERANS OF ISRAEL (CA — C$3,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNE'EMAN FOUNDATION CANADA — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL FUND — C$1,000 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.

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 12 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 778750687:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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