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North York, ON · Public foundation

The Lawrence Pollack Foundation

The Lawrence Pollack Foundation was incorporated and registered effective november 1 2017.

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

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$720
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$58
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOREST HILL JEWISH CENTERC$2,500
CHABAD OKANAGAN SOCIETYC$720
CHARITY X FOUNDATIONC$720
YOUTH FOR SOCIETYC$360
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$127k · 5 repeat orgsC$8k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

C$127k
C$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+61%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23’24
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

  • TJ
    THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA
    2× · 2018–2019 · C$111k · revenue +78%
  • ZB
    ZICHRON BINYOMIN CHARITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · C$10k · revenue -8%
  • BZ
    B'nai Zion Charity Fund
    3× · 2018–2023 · C$3k · revenue -2%

Funded once

  • CO
    CHABAD ON THE AVENUEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$3k · revenue +61%
  • BZ
    BNAI ZION
    one grant, 2021 · C$1k
  • CL
    CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF ALBERTA
    one grant, 2019 · C$430 · revenue -42%

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
The Chabad Rehovot Fund
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2
Bobever Yeshiva Bnei Zion Charitable Fund
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3
Chai-Tikvah Foundation
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4
The Zahavy Family Foundation

Support of jewish education and institutions

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5
Chabad of Downtown Vancouver

Fostering and conducting religious jewish educating in bc

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6
Olam Chesed Yobone Fund
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7
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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8
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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9
Zolty Charitable Foundation

Administered the charitable activities of the zolty family and others for the advancement of education and jewish religion and loans to the needy.

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10
Chesed L'avraham

The charity provides religious education for underpriveleged children in israel

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11
Reb Mayer Baal Hanes - Chibas Jerusalem

Providing scholarships to poor and low income students in israel.

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12
The Chaim Yosef and Chana Zeifman Charitable Trust

Funding other charities

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Organization for Jewish Education Chabad-Lubavitch and the most unlike its peers is CharityEx 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

10 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. 10 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
3/10
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$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$111,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetZICHRON BINYOMIN CHARITY FOUNDATION — C$9,581 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetB'nai Zion Charity Fund — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOREST HILL JEWISH CENTER — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHABAD ON THE AVENUE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITY X FOUNDATION — C$2,080 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHABAD OKANAGAN SOCIETY — C$720 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF ALBERTA — C$430 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH FOR SOCIETY — C$360 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.

Fieldgate Cares Found…The Friedberg Charita…Jewish Community Foun…My Charity FundCHIMP: Charitable Imp…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Fieldgate Cares FoundationON9.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fieldgate Cares Foundation · The Friedberg Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · My Charity Fund · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 11 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 786413518:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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