Outremont, QC · Private foundation
The Leo & Bina Kohn Foundation Inc./Fondation Leo & Bina Kohn Inc.
We donate funds to advancement of religion advancement of education and relief of poverty
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k3 grants · C$13k
- C$10k–50k6 grants · C$107k
- C$50k–250k4 grants · C$614k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANADIAN FRIENDS OF MISHAN LA'CHOLEH | C$215,000 |
| ANIYEI IRCHO | C$159,325 |
| KOLLEL DAF YOMI INSTITUTE | C$124,000 |
| CHARITY TZEDAKAH MONTRÉAL | C$115,600 |
| VAAD MISHMERES MITZVOS | C$40,900 |
| ACADEMIE YESHIVA TORAS MOSHE DE MONTREAL | C$20,500 |
| OHEL TORAH CONGREGATION | C$14,500 |
| ACADEMIE BETH ESTHER INC. | C$11,000 |
| MIFALEI CHAIM BECHESED (MCB) | C$10,000 |
| KEHAL MACHZIKEI HADAS BELZ | C$10,000 |
| CHEBRAH MESAMCHEI LEV | C$7,600 |
| CONGREGATION YETEV LEV | C$4,800 |
| RABBINICAL COLLEGE MESIFTA YOEL MOSHE OF CANADA | C$500 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k went to new ones.
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
- AIANIYEI IRCHO8× · 2017–2024 · C$660k · revenue +320%
- CTCHARITY TZEDAKAH MONTRÉAL5× · 2020–2024 · C$302k · revenue +55%
- AYACADEMIE YESHIVA TORAS MOSHE DE MONTREAL8× · 2017–2024 · C$213k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- KHKupas Ha Chesed Meorothone grant, 2017 · C$100k
- LBL'ÉCOLE BETH TZIPORAHone grant, 2022 · C$38k · revenue +6%
- CLCHSDEI LEVI YITZCOKone grant, 2021 · C$25k · revenue -6%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
To provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses at belz yeshiva
To advance and teach the religious tenets doctrines and observances associated with the jewish faith. to advance education by providing scholarships for talmudic scholars; and to undertake activities ancillary and incidental to the…
The charity provides religious education for underpriveleged children in israel
Provide interest free benevolent loans to needy and to qualified donees
To provide financial assistance to needy people in difficult situations. to provide scholarships to qualified students
Solicit recieve and maintain funds to provide charitable community programs and religious education for the purpose of advancing jewish culture and instilling a reverence for the spiritual ethical and moral values and traditions of the…
Solicitation of donations
Provide scholarships to needy students persuing studies of higher education in israel.
To provide interest free loans to needy people.
The charity advances education and religion by operating a school for post graduate talmudic students as well as providing scholarships and bursaries.
To provide scholarships and assistance to indigent sutudents enrolled in post secondary education in yeshivat kol torah in israel.
Solicit receive and maintain funds to provide religious education for the purpose of advancing jewish culture and instilling a reverence for the spiritual ethical and moral values and traditions of the jewish faith.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Congrégation Ohel Chaim/Ohel Chaim Congregation and the most unlike its peers is Maharam Tav Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
38 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. 38 of the 40 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CANADIAN FRIENDS OF MISHAN LA'CHOLEH ↗
- Who funds ANIYEI IRCHO ↗
- Who funds CHARITY TZEDAKAH MONTRÉAL ↗
- Who funds ACADEMIE YESHIVA TORAS MOSHE DE MONTREAL ↗
- Who funds KOLLEL DAF YOMI INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Maharam Tav Fund ↗
- Who funds HATZOLAS YISROEL D'ARIZAL ↗
- Who funds Kupas Ha Chesed Meoroth ↗
- Who funds ACADEMIE BETH ESTHER INC ↗
- Who funds Congregation Imray Chaim ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION OF THE COMMUNITY OF PREFONTAINE ↗
- Who funds CHEVRAH MESAMCHEI LEV ↗
- Who funds CONGRATION YETEV LEV ↗
- Who funds L'ÉCOLE BETH TZIPORAH ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION SHEVES ACHIM ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION OHEL CHAIM ↗
- Who funds OHEL TORAH CONGREGATION ↗
- Who funds CHSDEI LEVI YITZCOK ↗
- Who funds Mifalei Chaim Bechesed ↗
- Who funds Canadian Friends of Torah Vyirah Rabbinical College ↗
- Who funds TIKVAH L'CHAIM/TZOHAR ↗
- Who funds DOR YESHORIM CANADAN ↗
- Who funds RABBINICAL COLLEGE MESIFTA YOEL MOSHE OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds KEHAL MACHZIKEI HADAS BELZ ↗
- Who funds Congregation Belz ↗
- Who funds SATMAR BUILDING FUND ↗
- Who funds Canadian Friends of Wiznitz ↗
- Who funds YAM HATALMUD ↗
- Who funds Mosdos Tosh B'nei Levi ↗
- Who funds EZRAS MENACHEM AVROHOM LOAN FUND ↗
- Who funds TOMCHEI SHABBOS ↗
- Who funds FIRST MISIFTA HUTCHISON BRANCH ↗
- Who funds Refuah V'Chesed ↗
- Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM OF MONTREAL ↗
- Who funds CORP DE BENEVOLES HATZOLOH ↗
- Who funds Ezras Cholim ↗
- Who funds BONEI OLAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION BELZ ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Maharam Tav Fund · The M.K. Foundation/La Fondation M.K. · Charité Tzedakah Montréal Charity Tzedakah Montreal · Hatzolas Yisroel D'Arizal · Mifalei Chaim Bechesed (McB) · Fondation de la Famille Fischman Fischman Family Foundation · Menucha Vesimcha · Rosenberg Family Foundation / Fondation de la Famille Rosenberg · Congregation Sheves Achim · The Micha Life Foundation la Fondation de Vie Micha · Congrégation Belz · Fondation Ebs/Ebs 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.