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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Kavelman-Fonn Foundation

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C$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$755k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$20k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$47k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$781k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$1.0M
C$60,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UJA FEDERATIONC$755,480
GOLF CANADA FOUNDATIONC$250,000
SICK KIDS HOSPTAL FOUNDATIONC$200,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESC$150,000
THE KENAUK INSTITUTEC$125,000
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILD SERVICESC$100,504
SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$84,500
CAMPFIRE CIRCLE (FORMERLY CAMP OOCHEGIAS)C$60,750
CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF WATERLOO REGIONC$60,000
NORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$25,000
SHELTER MOVERSC$12,000
CONGREGATION HABONIMC$10,000
HAMILTON JEWISH FEDERATIONC$5,400
SOCIAL GIVING NETWORK INCC$5,024
ISRAELI CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATIONC$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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$9.9M · 27 repeat orgsC$728k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
21

Total granted

C$9.9M
C$535k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+31%

Still filing today

93%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$193k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • SK
    SICK KIDS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +30%
  • CO
    Camp Oochigaes
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +19%
  • UF
    UJA FEDERATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$989k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • MC
    MSF Canadagraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$250k · revenue +47%
  • SM
    SOUTH MUSKOKA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$125k · revenue -25%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY & CHILD SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k

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
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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2
Sunnybrook Research Institute

Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The vision of SRI is to invent the future of health care. Our main…

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3
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation

The toronto rehabilitation institute foundation's mission is to raise grant and steward funds to support the mission of the toronto rehabilitation institute (which is part of the university health network) to develop solutions for people…

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4
Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Medecine Research Fund

Medical research and education in medicine in canada.

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5
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation

Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.

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6
Mount Sinai Hospital Otolaryngology Research Fund

Support of academic medical research education and health care in canada

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7
Toronto East Health Network Foundation

Michael Garron Hospital Foundation raises funds and engages our community in support of Michael Garron Hospital a vibrant community teaching hospital serving more than 400 000 people in 22 distinct neighbourhoods in East Toronto. With…

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8
University Health Network / RÉSeau Universitaire De SantÉ

University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. our primary value is the needs of patients come first. uhn operates four hospitals. these hospitals are separately…

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9
The Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…

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10
The Dr. Charles H. Best Foundation

Provides scholarship funds for medical research at the university of toronto.

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11
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation

The ottawa hospital foundation raises and grants funds to the ottawa hospital foundation and the ottawa hospital research institute and other qaulified donees for the purposes of improving patient care capital dvelopment medical research…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Shaare Zedek Hospital Foundation/Fondation Canadienne De L'hopital Shaare Zedek and the most unlike its peers is Chabad Lubavitch of the Waterloo Region. 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

46 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. 46 of the 53 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
34/46
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 budgetSICK KIDS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,315,900 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCamp Oochigaes — C$1,064,305 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetUJA FEDERATION — C$988,780 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES — C$951,800 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO-CDL OXFORD — C$736,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KENAUK INSTITUTE — C$626,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetTHE BISHOP STRACHAN SCHOOL — C$615,540 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetMount Sinai Hospital Foundation — C$499,655 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILD SERVICES — C$442,442 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF WATERLOO REGION — C$359,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetSunnybrook Foundation — C$300,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGRAND RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$251,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMSF Canada — C$250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH MUSKOKA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$125,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetISRAELI CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$99,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetFriends of Simon Wisenthal - Spirit of Hope — C$98,525 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCONGREGATION HABONIM OF TORONTO — C$55,400 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBAYCREST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$51,980 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWaterloo Education Foundation Inc. — C$45,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCAMPFIRE SUMMER BIBLE CAMP — C$40,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetSPRINT SENIOR CARE — C$25,982 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE — C$25,426 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$14,362 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER MOVERS — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCNIB FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetC VISUAL ARTS FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetThe Friends of Lubavitch-Chabad at Western — C$10,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetHAMILTON JEWISH FEDERATION — C$9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOVENT HOUSE — C$5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISABLED VETERANS OF ISRAEL — C$4,130 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Foundation — C$2,520 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAMH — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cdn Shaare Zedek Hospital Foundation — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLeejay Levin Calendar Project — C$1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN OPERA COMPANY — C$1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH SHOLOM SYNAGOGUE — C$1,080 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJORDANA'S RAINBOWS FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMAMAS FOR MAMAS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLLAND BLOORVILLE — C$720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS Society — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST PARK FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA HELPS DONATION — C$266 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIALIK HEBREW DAY SCHOOL — C$180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeart and Stroke Foundation — C$100 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.

Jewish Foundation of …Toronto FoundationThe Arthur and Margar…BenefAction FoundationJewish Community Foun…Charitable Gift Funds…Aqueduct FoundationConam Charitable Foun…Wcpd FoundationCanada GivesRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Private Giving Founda…
Jewish Foundation of Greater TorontoON13.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Toronto Foundation · The Arthur and Margaret Weisz Family Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Aqueduct Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · Canada Gives · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Private Giving 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 53 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 843174418:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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