The Edwin and Miriam Merkur Charitable Foundation

Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Edwin and Miriam Merkur Charitable Foundation

Q: How much did The Edwin and Miriam Merkur Charitable Foundation grant in FY2024?

The Edwin and Miriam Merkur Charitable Foundation reported 18 grants totaling C$141,813 in its FY2024 T3010 return.

Q: Where is The Edwin and Miriam Merkur Charitable Foundation based?

The Edwin and Miriam Merkur Charitable Foundation is based in TORONTO, ON.

To receive and maintain funds and to apply all or part of funds or income for educational religious and charitable purposes.

C$142k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

Regions reached

C$60k

Largest

01What you fundRead

02Your edgeRead

03Your fieldRead

01What you fund

01FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under C$10k14 grants · C$30k
C$10k–50k3 grants · C$52k
C$50k–250k1 grant · C$60k

C$3,600

Median grant

Regions reached

C$509k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UJA FEDERATION	C$59,600
CHABAD ON BAYVIEW	C$23,350
CANADA-ISRAEL CHILDREN'S CENTRES	C$16,000
ONE FAMILY FUND CANADA	C$12,500
CDN MAGEN DAVID ADOM	C$7,200
REENA FOUNDATION	C$5,000
CHABAD OF MIDTOWN	C$5,000
BAIS CHAYA MUSHKA SCHOOL	C$4,000
CROHNS & COLITIS	C$3,600
CANADIAN ANTISEMITISM FOUNDATION	C$1,800
SICK KIDS	C$1,000
Individual grant recipient	C$823
FRIENDS OF SIMON WEISENTHAL	C$720
SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION	C$360
HOCKEY HELPS THE HOMELESS	C$300

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

C$786k · 59 repeat orgsC$31k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

C$786k

C$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%

-18%

Still filing today

95%

81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$22k went to new ones.

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

UF
UJA FEDERATION
8× · 2017–2024 · C$372k · revenue +98%
CC
CANADA-ISRAEL CHILDREN'S CENTRES
6× · 2017–2024 · C$34k · revenue +92%
JF
Jewish Fed. of Greater Vancouver
3× · 2017–2020 · C$33k · revenue +191%

Funded once

JG
JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
one grant, 2022 · C$4k · revenue -38%
LW
LISE WISE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · C$2k · revenue -22%
CH
CAMP HATIKVAH
one grant, 2021 · C$1k

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.

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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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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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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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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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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Canada Charity Partners

Advancing education by providing Canadians with information to better understand the use of media to manipulate the news regarding Israel Advancing education by providing educational missions that explore Israel's legendary intelligence…

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The Canadian Jewish Educational Fund

The charity provides scholarships and promotes the study of judaism carrying out educational programming both in and out of schools, intensive study workshops and teacher training in biblical studies.

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Canadian Friends of IsraAID

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Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Medecine Research Fund

Medical research and education in medicine in canada.

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Canadian Friends of the Jaffa Institute

The organization runs a variety of programming benefiting children and families within israel who are at risk of food or socioeconomic vulnerability.

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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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Dor Yeshorim Canada

Conducted test drives in accordance with mission to eradicate recessive genetic diseases. Funded testing for recessive genetic disorders Funded research for new types of genetic screening Marketed to community to increase awareness about…

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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 My Friend's House Collingwood Crisis Centre. 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

79 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. 79 of the 82 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

75/79

Grantees still filing

51/79

Grew since you first funded

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.

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 Greater TorontoON20.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation · Canada Gives · My Charity Fund · The Beverley and Samuel H. Cohen Family Foundation · Rayjo Charitable Trust · Giftpact Foundation Inc. · Conam Charitable Foundation · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · The Dr. Wolf Lebovic Charitable Foundation · United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto

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.

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