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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Janice Lewis and Mitchell Cohen Foundation

The foundation donates funds to qualified donees.

C$136k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k16 grants · C$50k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$86k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$107k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOANE USCHOOLC$15,000
COVENANT HOUSEC$10,800
MOCA TORONTOC$10,000
MICROBANK OF CANADAC$10,000
COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADAC$10,000
THRIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CANADAC$10,000
THE WALRUS CANADA'S CONVERSATIONC$10,000
ARTHEART COMMUNITY ART CENTREC$10,000
SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATIONC$5,000
COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOLSC$5,000
ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUNDC$5,000
ART GALLERY OF TORONTOC$5,000
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INCC$5,000
PARTNERS IN ARTC$5,000
CANADAHELPS CANADONC$5,000
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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$91k · 5 repeat orgsC$136k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

C$91k
C$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+15%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$95k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • DU
    DOANE USCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$30k · revenue +33%
  • TW
    THE WALRUS CANADA'S CONVERSATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$20k · revenue +5%
  • CC
    CANADAHELPS CANADON
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$15k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • LT
    L'ARCHE TORONTOgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k · revenue +50%
  • CB
    CHILDREN'S BOOK BANK
    one grant, 2023 · C$8k · revenue +15%
  • TP
    THEATRE PASSE MURAILLE
    one grant, 2023 · C$7k · revenue +12%

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
Toronto Dance Theatre

Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT) is a professional contemporary dance company dedicated to the research creation and production of original Canadian choreography. TDT bridges connections between artists and audiences in Toronto and beyond…

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2
Toronto Arts Foundation

Provides finanical support to artists and arts organizations in toronto. offers awards ad commissions recognizing artistic excellence. administers donor-directed funds and special initiatives supporting public engagement artist recognition…

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3
Toronto Festival of Arts Culture and Creativity

The festival operating under the trade name Luminato presents an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival in Toronto each June. We present both free and ticketed events in theatre classical and contemporary music dance and visual arts by…

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4
Toronto Cultural Advisory Corporation

The toronto cultural advisory council operating as the toronto arts council (tac) is the city of toronto's funding body for artists and arts organizations. since 1974 tac has played a major role in the city's cultural industries by…

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5
Museum of Toronto History

Museum is an evolving collection of diverse stories histories and programs. our work is about growing a comprehensive archive of toronto that explores how we live in toronto past present and future. we are about meaningful exchange that…

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6
Toronto Biennial of Art

The purpose of the organization is to create a first class international visual arts biennal for the city of toronto; art festival 72 days in length engaging youth families artists communities and professionals in the arts while building…

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7
Toronto Media Arts Cluster

TMAC is a media arts centre located in the heart of Toronto's Art+Design district. We provide artists and the public with access to state of the art production studios galleries a cinema theatre opportunities for hands-on learning and…

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8
Toronto Artscape Foundation

To increase the public's understanding of arts and culture through education and to provide support for development of various facilities in which artistic and cultural events takes place. core programs include: community access program:…

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9
Mozart Project

The Mozart Project is a nationally recognized charitable organization inspired by the universality accessibility diversity and beauty of Mozart’s vast repertoire. The Mozart Project operates the Toronto Mozart Players a professional…

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10
C the Visual Arts Foundation

C The Visual Arts Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization established to present ideas advance education and document contemporary visual art and artist culture. Our main activity is publishing C Magazine an international art…

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11
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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12
Toronto Foundation

The purpose of toronto foundation is to create a more fair and justice society where everyone can thrive by mobilizing those with resources and the will to partner with others. the foundation publishes research including the toronto's…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant House Toronto and the most unlike its peers is Save a Child's Heart Foundation. 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

30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
9/30
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 budgetDOANE USCHOOL — C$30,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE WALRUS CANADA'S CONVERSATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetL'ARCHE TORONTO — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCANADAHELPS CANADON — C$15,020 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTHEART COMMUNITY ART CENTRE — C$15,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetTHE ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — C$11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$10,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMOCA TORONTO — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S BOOK BANK — C$7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHEATRE PASSE MURAILLE — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOLS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERS IN ART — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetART GALLERY OF TORONTO — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFALL FOR DANCE NORTH FESTIVAL INC. — C$4,156 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL — C$3,600 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$2,525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYCREST HOSPITAL — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHABAD OF MISSISSAUGA — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJIAS (JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES) TORONTO — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE TORONTO — C$511 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNA'AMAT CANADA — 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.

The Lewis Cohen Famil…Toronto FoundationJ.P. Bickell Foundati…The McLean FoundationCanada GivesConam Charitable Foun…Jewish Foundation of …Aqueduct FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…The Azrieli Foundatio…The Slaight Family Fo…Ontario Arts Foundati…
The Lewis Cohen Family FoundationON12.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lewis Cohen Family Foundation · Toronto Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Canada Gives · Conam Charitable Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Aqueduct Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · The Slaight Family Foundation · Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontario

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 30 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 761731801:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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