Downview, ON · Private foundation
The Dov Zimmerman Z'L Foundation
To make donations to charitable organizations
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k34 grants · C$47k
- C$10k–50k6 grants · C$123k
- C$250k+1 grant · C$384k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION | C$383,569 |
| KOLLEL OHALE YOMTOV | C$30,000 |
| VAAD MISHMERES MITZVOS | C$23,985 |
| YESHIVAT YESODEL HATORA | C$22,955 |
| JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION | C$22,750 |
| BAIS YAAKOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | C$13,060 |
| BNOS BAIS YAAKOV HIGH SCHOOL | C$10,000 |
| C.F. OF MIR - JERUSALEM | C$5,500 |
| AGUDATH ISRAEL OF TORONTO | C$5,110 |
| BAIS BRUCHA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | C$5,000 |
| CONGREGATION SHOAVEL MAYIM | C$4,100 |
| CLANTON PARK SYNAGOGUE | C$3,758 |
| KOLLEL AVRAICHIM | C$3,680 |
| ZICHRON BINYOMIN FOUNDATION | C$3,543 |
| KAV SHALOM | C$1,900 |
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 +35% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 6 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k 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
- JHJEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · C$1.5M · revenue +423%
- YYYESHIVA YESODEI HATORAH7× · 2017–2024 · C$150k · revenue +11%
- VVV.M.M. - VAAD MISHMERES MITZVOS5× · 2020–2024 · C$111k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- ATAlmond Tree Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · C$20k · revenue +716%
- KOKOLLE OHALEI YOMTOVgraduatedone grant, 2020 · C$14k · revenue +81%
- BCBNOS CHAYAone grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue +1%
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 charity provides scholarships and assistance to needy students to enable them to study at yeshiva toras chalm
To provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses at belz yeshiva
Provide scholarships to needy students persuing studies of higher education in israel.
To provide scholarship and assistance to needy students to enable them to follow religious courses at yeshiva toldos aharon for the furtherance of religious study
Provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses given at mosdos gur in jerusalem israel.
Support of jewish education and institutions
To provide scholarships and assistance to indigent sutudents enrolled in post secondary education in yeshivat kol torah in israel.
The charity operates a religious high school of instruction for jewish girls
The charity provides scholarship to needy students
The charity advances education and religion by operating a school for post graduate talmudic students as well as providing scholarships and bursaries.
The organization has been set up to provide religious education.
To establish an orthodox jewish high school for boys devoted to the study of the laws tenets and doctrines of the jewish faith.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Friends of Yeshivath Meor Hatalmud and the most unlike its peers is Ms Canada Sp Canada. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
115 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. 115 of the 136 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 JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA YESODEI HATORAH ↗
- Who funds Beth Oloth ↗
- Who funds V.M.M. - VAAD MISHMERES MITZVOS ↗
- Who funds BNOS BAIS YAAKOV HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Bais Yaakov Elementary School ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION OHOLEI YOM TOV ↗
- Who funds KOLLEL OHALE YOMTOV ↗
- Who funds BETH JACOB HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION SHOAVEI MAYIM ↗
- Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL CONGREGATION ↗
- Who funds C.F. OF MIR - JERUSALEM ↗
- Who funds K H Meoroth (Kupas Hachsed) ↗
- Who funds Clanton Park Synagogue ↗
- Who funds Almond Tree Foundation ↗
- Who funds Kollel Avraichim ↗
- Who funds C>F.Of Yad L'Achim ↗
- Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM ↗
- Who funds Yeshiva Nachalas Zvi ↗
- Who funds KOLLE OHALEI YOMTOV ↗
- Who funds NER ISRAEL YESHIVA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Bnai Zion Charity Fund ↗
- Who funds ZICHRON BINYOMIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TORONTO CHEDER ↗
- Who funds CHEVRA OSEH CHESED COC ↗
- Who funds C.F.Of Merkaz Hakolim D'Square ↗
- Who funds ROCKWOOD TORAHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BNOS CHAYA ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA GEDOLAH OF MONTREAL ↗
- Who funds KAC SHALO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FUND FF & CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA GEDOLAH ZICHRON SHMAYAHU ↗
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: Heitner Charitable Foundation · Zolty Charitable Foundation · The S. Sigler Family Charitable Foundation · The George Hofstedter Family Foundation · The F&R Hauer Charitable Foundation · Zichron Binyomin Charity Foundation · The Chaim Moshe Friedman Memorial Fund · Schofam Charitable Foundation · The Weitz Family Foundation · The Friedberg Charitable Foundation · Mae Day Foundation · 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.