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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Henry and Sylvia Waks Family Foundation

Gifts to qualified donees

C$110k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
Regions reached
C$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$60,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED JEWISH APPEALC$60,000
TORONTO GENERAL WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$50,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 80% of grant dollars (C$1.5M). The 20% that went abroad (C$375k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 20% of all-years giving (C$375k)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

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International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.8M · 12 repeat orgsC$127k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
8

Total granted

C$1.8M
C$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+42%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23
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

  • SF
    SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · C$540k · revenue +82%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$464k · revenue +98%
  • BH
    BIALIK HEBREW DAY SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2021 · C$100k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • SS
    SHAAREI SHOMAYIM
    one grant, 2021 · C$18k · revenue +22%
  • TR
    The Royal Ontario Museum Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$15k · revenue +45%
  • FH
    Forest Hill Jewish Centregraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$13k · revenue +42%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
The Zahavy Family Foundation

Support of jewish education and institutions

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2
The Lynn and Brent Belzberg Foundation

The foundation makes donations to qualified charities. the largest donations in 2024 were to sinai health foundation queen's university united isreal appeal and forest hill jewish centre.

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3
The Sjs Legacy Foundation

As a foundation we look to support charities that offer bursaries grants and scholarships to under privledged students with an emphasis on jewish heritage and practise

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4
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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5
The Shrage Zimmerman Memorial Fund

The foundation donates funds to charitable religious organisations and educational institutions.

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6
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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7
Abraham Kahn

The charity maintained an educational program to assist students in enhancing their knowledge and expertise in various areas pertaining to judaic studies.

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8
Sinai Health Foundation

Sinai hospital foundation provides financial support to sinai health system (shs) - which includes mount sinai hospital hennick bridgepoint hospital lunenfeld-tanenbaum research institute and system partner circle of care - for patient…

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9
Mishmeret

During the fiscal period, the organization accepted funds which were dispersed as scholarships to deserving students and to sholars doing research to be used in the study of judaism.

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10
Kollel Yisroel Dovid

The charity provides scholarships to fund talmudic research.

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11
Jewish Learning Fund

High school courses with Jewish identity affirming content educational seminars provided to public schools on understanding Judaism seminars on countering antisemitism production of online materials promoting positive aspects of Judaism to…

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12
Israel Cancer Research Fund (Toronto)

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.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto and the most unlike its peers is The Song Shul. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$540,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL — C$463,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBIALIK HEBREW DAY SCHOOL — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF ONTARIO — C$54,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTORONTO GENERAL WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP WINSTON FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BAYCREST CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHAAREI SHOMAYIM — C$18,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Royal Ontario Museum Foundation — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetT.J.E.E - The Jewish Educational Experience — C$11,800 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ARI & PEARL LITWIN FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE SONG SHUL — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL CAPITAL SKIN DISEASE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSick Kids Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Village Shul — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Jewish Foundation of …Rayjo Charitable TrustMy Charity FundAlexander E Grossman …Binah Charitable Foun…United Jewish Appeal …Conam Charitable Foun…Jewish Community Foun…The Ulmer Greenspan C…The Sonshine Family F…The Rebecca and Alan …Bessin Family Foundat…
Jewish Foundation of Greater TorontoON13.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Rayjo Charitable Trust · My Charity Fund · Alexander E Grossman Foundation · Binah Charitable Foundation · United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto · Conam Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · The Ulmer Greenspan Charitable Foundation · The Sonshine Family Foundation · The Rebecca and Alan Simpson Family Foundation · Bessin Family 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 21 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 2023-11-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 821568250:2023-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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