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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Esther and Bernard Besner Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Esther Et Bernard Besner

C$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$2,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$74k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW ISRAEL FUND CANADAC$2,500
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYC$1,500
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$112k · 13 repeat orgsC$34k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
9

Total granted

C$112k
C$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
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

  • CA
    CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF PSYCHOANALYTIC CHILD THERAPISTS (CAP
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$40k · revenue +79% · 93% of their budget
  • NI
    NEW ISRAEL FUND
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$11k · revenue +73%
  • AS
    AUBERGE SHALOM POUR FEMMES
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$6k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • DT
    DANCE THEATRE DAVID EARLE
    one grant, 2019 · C$25k · revenue -77% · 34% of their budget
  • CJ
    COMBINED JEWISH APPEALgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$2k · revenue +69%
  • BY
    BATSHAW YOUTH AND FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · C$2k

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
Canadian Academy of Health Sciences/AcadÉMie Canadienne Des Sciences De La SantÉ.

The objective of the canadian academy of health sciences-academie canadienne des sciences de la sante is to provide assessments of and advice on key issues relevant to the health of canadians.

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2
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

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…

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3
The Canadian Foundation for Women's Health

To distribute funding to organizations and universities for research in the field of women's sexual reproductive health.

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4
Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research/Coalition Canadienne Pour La Recherche En SantÉ Mondiale

The coalition works actively to develop capacities to support relevant research and also to manage share translate and use knowledge the coalition aims to increase support for global health research by influencing relevant policies of…

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5
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

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.…

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6
Prostate Cancer Canada

Prostate Cancer Canada has continued to responsibly invest the generous donations of Canadians to develop the most promising studies and minds Canada has to offer in the field of prostate cancer research. We have continued to ensure the…

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7
Canadian Lung Association - Association Pulmonaire Du Canada

Provide fellowships studentships and other awards for research on issues related to respiratory health as conducted through universities and other research facilities throughout Canada. Offer support to individuals with lung health issues…

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8
The Canadian Foundation for Dietetic Research

The canadian foundation for dietetic research (cfdr) was created by dietitians of canada (dc) the professional association for dietitians and incorporated in 1991 as a charitable foundation. our mandate: enhancing the health of canadians…

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9
Breast Cancer Canada Cancer du sein du Canada

To fund medical research into improving the detection prevention and treatment of breat cancer in canada. to provide public awareness and education of breast cancer in canada.

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10
L'Institut de Recherche du Centre Universitaire de Santé McGill the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

The charity carries out all forms of medical research. the programs provide physical space as well as financial and personnel services to facilitate the work of researchers.

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11
Canadian Radiation Oncology Foundation/Fondation canadienne de radio-oncologie

To educate the canadian general public family physicians specialists and radiation health care workers about the use and benefits of radiation therapy sciences in the treatment healthcare cure and palliation of cancer in canada. - to offer…

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12
Canadian Foundation for Infectious Diseases

The prime objective of the foundation is to make grants in aid of projects in support of research and education in the field of infectious disease. the organization has agreed to fund a 12 year series of summer studentships for medical…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Foundation for Aids Research/Fondation Canadienne De Recherche Sur Le Sida and the most unlike its peers is Dancetheatre David Earle. 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

19 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. 19 of the 22 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
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 budgetCANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF PSYCHOANALYTIC CHILD THERAPISTS (CAP — C$40,017 over 2y, 93% of budgetCPS TRUST FUND — C$30,000 over 2y, 69% of budgetDANCE THEATRE DAVID EARLE — C$25,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — C$11,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAUBERGE SHALOM POUR FEMMES — C$6,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDIABETTES CANADA — C$5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMONTREAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE — C$4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANFAR — C$4,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBATSHAW YOUTH AND FAMILY FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMBINED JEWISH APPEAL — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEIZMANN CANADA — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDANS LA RUE — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN AIDS SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION CANADA FOR SEXUAL HEALTH — C$500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHALCO INSTITUTE — C$500 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.

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.

Cidel FoundationJewish Community Foun…Toronto FoundationRaymond James Canada …Aqueduct FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…BenefAction FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…Vancouver FoundationUnited Way East Ontar…United Way of Greater…Charities Aid Foundat…
Cidel FoundationAB8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cidel Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Toronto Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Vancouver Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · United Way of Greater Toronto · Charities Aid Foundation Canada

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 22 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 886938398:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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