Toronto, ON · Private foundation
The David and Francine Shields Family Charitable Foundation
Donations
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k42 grants · C$36k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UJA | C$15,000 |
| CANADA HELP | C$3,650 |
| JNF MONTREAL | C$2,500 |
| LEO BAECK | C$2,000 |
| TANENBAUMCHAT | C$2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$2,000 |
| DAILY BREAD | C$2,000 |
| UNITED WAY | C$2,000 |
| HILLEL ONTARIO | C$1,500 |
| BAYCREST | C$1,200 |
| B'NAI BIRTH | C$1,030 |
| UHN FOUNDATION | C$1,000 |
| TERRY FOX | C$1,000 |
| BEIT HALOCHEM CANADA | C$1,000 |
| ASSOCIATED HEBREW | C$1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 54% of grant dollars (C$218k). The 46% that went abroad (C$183k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 46% of all-years giving (C$183k)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$23k went to new ones.
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
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL3× · 2017–2020 · C$41k · revenue +98%
- CHCANADA HELP6× · 2017–2024 · C$21k · revenue +223%
- TTANENBAUMCHAT5× · 2017–2024 · C$8k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- UHUNITED HATZALAH CANADAone grant, 2023 · C$112k
- UUIAone grant, 2023 · C$15k
- TTANENBAUMCHATone grant, 2023 · C$2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
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.
To provide funds to aid the cause of cancer research in canada and israel.
Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…
Medical research and education in medicine in canada.
Through the support of donors and volunteers we take action and provide programs for every canadian affected by a brain tumour. we provide information including handbooks storybooks information sheets videos and a comprehensive website and…
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.
SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…
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…
Support of academic medical research education and health care in canada
Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The vision of SRI is to invent the future of health care. Our main…
Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…
Funding of Breast Cancer Research Stem Cell Research Metastatic Cancer Research & Pancreatic Cancer Research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is B'nai Brith of Canada Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sam Project for Sustainability Through Agriculture and Micro-Enterprises Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
49 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. 49 of the 94 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL ↗
- Who funds CANADA HELP ↗
- Who funds THE LEO BAECK DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TANENBAUMCHAT ↗
- Who funds JNF CANADA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL ↗
- Who funds DB FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI FDN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds TORONTO HOSPITAL FDN ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S FUND OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds ALZEIMER ↗
- Who funds BEIT HALOCHEM CANADA ↗
- Who funds SUNNYBROOK FNDTN ↗
- Who funds SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CCS DR ONT ↗
- Who funds WEST MUSKOKA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NYGH FDN ↗
- Who funds SALVATION ARMY ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE SINAI CONGREGATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAELI GUIDE DOG CENTRE FOR THE BLIND ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto · The Dr. Wolf Lebovic Charitable Foundation · The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · The Friedberg Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · The Atid Charitable Foundation · The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation · The Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Charitable Foundation · My Charity Fund · Giftpact Foundation Inc.
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.