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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Dana Charitable Foundation

To receive and maintain a fund and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to charitable organizations that are also registered charities under the income tax act.

C$444k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$78k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k18 grants · C$71k
  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$226k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$147k
C$6,715
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$12k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KAV SHALOM KHMC$78,225
BEIS MEIRC$69,100
TORONTO CHEDERC$45,896
B'NAI ZION CHARITY FUNDC$33,610
BIKUR CHOLIMC$29,760
ACHIM TORONTOC$26,650
CONGREGATION SHOAVEI MAYIMC$24,915
BNEI ZIONC$20,000
KAYLA'S CHILDREN CENTREC$18,000
KOLLEL DAF YOMI INSTITUTEC$16,950
YESHIVA GEDOLAH ZICHRON SHMAYAHUC$10,250
BNOS BAIS YAAKOVC$9,250
BAIS YAAKOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOLC$8,900
SINAI CHILD CAREC$7,980
INSTITUTE FOR TORAH EDUCATIONC$6,715
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$2.1M · 46 repeat orgsC$539k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
40

Total granted

C$2.1M
C$506k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+16%

Still filing today

91%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$33k 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

  • BC
    Bikur Cholim
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$248k · revenue +0%
  • BM
    BEIS MEIR
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$129k · revenue +51%
  • BZ
    BNEI ZION
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$121k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • JH
    JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$164k · revenue +68%
  • YU
    YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · C$56k
  • OC
    OLAM CHESED YIBONE FUND
    one grant, 2023 · C$32k · revenue -35% · 87% 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
Association Merkaz Hachinuch

To provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses at belz yeshiva

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2
Yeshiva Student Religious Education Fund

The organization has been set up to provide religious education.

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3
The Zahavy Family Foundation

Support of jewish education and institutions

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4
Tiferes Bais Yaakov

The charity operates a religious high school of instruction for jewish girls

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5
Yeshivah Toras Chaim

The charity provides scholarships and assistance to needy students to enable them to study at yeshiva toras chalm

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6
Yeshivas Oholei Menachem Mendel Lubavitch

To establish an orthodox jewish high school for boys devoted to the study of the laws tenets and doctrines of the jewish faith.

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7
The Yeshivah Scholarship Fund of Israel

Provide scholarships to needy students persuing studies of higher education in israel.

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8
Jewish Heritage Foundation International

Provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses given at mosdos gur in jerusalem israel.

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9
Kollel Menachem

To advance and teach the religious tenets doctrines and observances associated with the jewish faith. to advance education by providing scholarships for talmudic scholars; and to undertake activities ancillary and incidental to the…

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10
Kollel Tosh

The charity advances education and religion by operating a school for post graduate talmudic students as well as providing scholarships and bursaries.

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11
The Haichel Hatorah B'zion Foundation

The charity collected funds from the public for the purpose of providing scholarships for deserving students attending haichel hatorah b'zion institutions.

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12
Yeshiva Ateres Yisroel

Operated an orthodox jewish high school geared to students who need and would benefit from individual attention not available in existing orthodox jewish high schools.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Les Amis Canadiens Du Seminaire Yeshivah Mirer De Jerusalem Inc./Canadian Friends of the Seminary Yeshivah Mirer of Jerusalem and the most unlike its peers is Seeds of Hope 4 Autism. 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

86 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. 86 of the 91 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/86
Grantees still filing
57/86
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 budgetBikur Cholim — C$247,515 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetJEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION CANADA — C$163,809 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBEIS MEIR — C$129,140 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetBNEI ZION — C$121,375 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetKOLLEL DAF YOMI INSTITUTE — C$119,362 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR TORAH EDUCATION — C$107,135 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetBeth Oloth Charitable Organizaiton — C$95,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKAV SHALOM KHM — C$88,925 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBEIS HATAVSHIL & HACHNOSAS ORCHIM — C$85,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetTORONTO CHEDER — C$84,233 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetYESHIVA GEDOLA TORONTO — C$79,865 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSinai Child Care — C$58,980 over 4y, 11% of budgetInstitute for Advanced Talmudic Studies — C$56,609 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetJF CANADA — C$55,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNER ISRAEL YESHIVA COLLEGE — C$45,085 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOHR CHAYA CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION — C$40,820 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBais Yaakov Elementary School — C$37,270 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetACHIM TORONTO — C$36,650 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYeshivas Keser Torah — C$35,875 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetOLAM CHESED YIBONE FUND — C$32,000 over 1y, 87% of budgetBrothers of Mercy — C$30,270 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetIntegrated Service for Autism — C$30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTORONTO CARE FUND — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNACHLAS TZVI — C$27,330 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBNOS BAIS YAAKOV — C$27,250 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetKAYLA'S CHILDREN CENTRE — C$26,075 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONGREGATION SHOAVEI MAYIM — C$24,915 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCF Meor Hatalmud — C$22,600 over 1y, 10% of budgetREB MAYER BAAL HAMES — C$21,840 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCF OF IGUD WIZNITZ — C$19,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMIZRACHI ORGANIZATION OF CANADA — C$19,487 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TZADDIK FOUNDATION — C$18,035 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBeth Jacob High School — C$17,290 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE VILLAGE SHUL — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMachzikei Torah — C$14,200 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetADVANCE INSTITUTE OF JUDAIC STUDIES — C$13,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTORAH LEARNING CENTRE — C$12,109 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCONGREGATION CHASIDEI BOBOV — C$10,900 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMINYAN SEFARD (EITZ CHAIM) CONGREGATION — C$10,530 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetGates of Mercy — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL SERVICES AND COMMUNAL MATTERS — C$9,650 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCFFC — C$9,500 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetCF OF YESHIVA LOMZA — C$9,300 over 2y, 47% of budgetYESHIVAT YESODEI HATORAH — C$9,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMISASKIM CANADA — C$9,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetYESHIVA MISHKAN YOSEF — C$8,585 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHARITY TZEDAKAH MONTREAL — C$8,450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAMPLIGHTER FOUNDATION — C$8,120 over 2y, 2.8% 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.

Moral Arc FoundationThe F&R Hauer Charita…Zolty Charitable Foun…Heitner Charitable Fo…Jack and Doris Bistri…J & H Feldman Charita…The Chaim Moshe Fried…The Koenig Family Fou…The Gross Family Foun…The George Hofstedter…Beth Oloth Charitable…Fieldgate Cares Found…
Moral Arc FoundationON49.4× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Moral Arc Foundation · The F&R Hauer Charitable Foundation · Zolty Charitable Foundation · Heitner Charitable Foundation · Jack and Doris Bistricer Charitable Foundation · J & H Feldman Charitable Foundation · The Chaim Moshe Friedman Memorial Fund · The Koenig Family Foundation · The Gross Family Foundation · The George Hofstedter Family Foundation · Beth Oloth Charitable Organization · Fieldgate Cares 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 91 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 2024-03-31, 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 advancing religion.

Source object 890415193:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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