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Mont-Royal, QC · Private foundation

The Leonard and Alice Cohen Family Foundation

Collection of contributions and distribution of funds to recognized charitable organizations in canada.

C$186k
Granted FY2023
66
Grants FY2023
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Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k64 grants · C$66k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$20k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$100k
C$600
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEDERATION CJAC$100,000
JDRFC$20,000
JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITALC$7,500
REENA FOUNDATIONC$5,000
MCGILL UNIVERSITYC$5,000
CANADA HELPS - BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATIONC$5,000
CANADA HELPS - NARAYAVER CONGREGATIONC$5,000
CANADA HELPS - JEWISH NATIONAL FUNDC$3,000
CENTRE SEGALC$2,000
YALDEIC$1,600
CANADA HELPS - CENTRAIDE DE MONTREALC$1,400
CANADA HELPS - MALSON SHALOMC$1,350
CANADA HELPS - JEM WORKSHOPC$1,200
CANADA HELPS - JUVENILE DIABETESC$1,200
CANADA HELPS - SHAARE ZIONC$1,200
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$457k · 7 repeat orgsC$41k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
55

Total granted

C$457k
C$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+17%

Still filing today

100%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
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

  • CH
    CANADA HELPS - THE FIRST NARAYAV CONGREGATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$86k · revenue +11%
  • JG
    JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$23k · revenue +5%
  • J
    JDRF
    2× · 2021–2023 · C$21k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FIRST NARAYEVER CONGREGATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue -4%
  • C
    CANADAHELPS
    one grant, 2021 · C$3k
  • JN
    JEWISH NATIONAL FUND
    one grant, 2021 · C$3k

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.

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Fondation de l'Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal

Accumuler des fonds pour financier la recherche effectuée par l'institut de recherches cliniques de montréal

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2
Fondation de Recherche Medicale Maimonides / Maimonides Medical Research Foundation

The purpose of the maimonides medical research foundation is to solicit and obtain gifts legacies and endowment funds in order to promote research health education and cultural services and to make gifts grants contributions and donations…

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3
Fondation du Chu de Québec

Organisme qui a comme mission de financier et subventionner la recherche l'enseignement l'équipement médical spécialisé et de haute technologie nécessaire à l'avancement scientifique et clinique et toutes les activités liées à…

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4
Fondation De L'institut De Cardiologie De Montreal/Montreal Heart Institute Foundation

La fondation de l'institut de cardiologie de ontréal recueille et administre des fonds pour soutenir la recherche la prévention et l'enseignement prodigués par l'institut de cardiologie de montréal. elle encourage ainsi l'excellence d'une…

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5
Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Medecine Research Fund

Medical research and education in medicine in canada.

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6
Fondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGill McGill University Health Centre Foundation

To receive and invest funds and apply them to health care activities research and the teaching mandate for the benefit of the mcgill university health centre it's related institutions and other qualified donees with a similar mission.

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7
La fondation de l'institut thoracique de Montréal / the Montréal Chest Institute Foundation

Make grants directed to the care and treatment of respiratory diseases at the mcgill university health centre

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8
Fondation de l'Université du Québec à Montréal

La fondation utilise ses revenus pour favoriser et soutenir le développement et l'avancement de l'enseignement à l'université due québec à montréal

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9
Fondation Hec Montréal

Financement de plusieurs projets de recherche reliés à la gestion de hec montréal et contributions à des programmes de bourses à hec montréal

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10
Israel Magen Fund of Canada

The mission of the Israel Magen Fund of Canada is to identify and support projects for qualified institutions in Israel and globally that require humanitarian aid medical assistance and physical and mental health care.

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11
Fondation du Centre des Sciences de Montréal / Montreal Science Centre Foundation

La fondaiton a pour but de promouvoir une meilleure connaissance et compréhension de la science des technologies et de leur histoire.

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12
L'Institut de Recherche du Centre Universitaire de Santé McGill the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

The charity carries out all forms of medical research. the programs provide physical space as well as financial and personnel services to facilitate the work of researchers.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fondation De L'hopital Royal Victoria/Royal Victoria Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Atelier Jem Inc./Jem Workshop Inc.. 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

58 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. 58 of the 65 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)
56/58
Grantees still filing
42/58
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 budgetFEDERATION CJA — C$310,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCANADA HELPS - THE FIRST NARAYAV CONGREGATION — C$85,672 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJDRF — C$21,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIRST NARAYEVER CONGREGATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREENA FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYALDEI (DONALD BERMAN DEVELOPMENT CENTRE) — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMYWHA — C$1,343 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAIDE MONTREAL — C$1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH REHAB HOSPITAL — C$1,120 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEM WORKSHOP INC. — C$1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAISON SHALOM — C$1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST MARYS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICRF MONTREAL — C$550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL — C$550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — C$550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA HELPS - CANADIAN MAGEN DAVID ADOM — C$550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONALD BERMAN MAIMONIDES — C$550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRIAM FOUNDATION MONTREAL — C$550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMS SOCIETY OF CANADA (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) — C$550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMI QUEBEC — C$550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH SOCIETY — C$550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEUNESSE AU SOLEIL MONTREAL — C$550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAD-ASC — C$550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCJCS FOUNDATION (CUMMINGS) — C$550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGI (ALZHEIMER GROUP INC.) — C$550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF BEN-GURION — C$550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEIT HALOCHEM CANADA — C$550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCFHU TORONTO — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERZLIAH/TALMUD TORAHS MONTREAL (SCHOOL) — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCDN HADASSANWIZO TORONTO — C$450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFONDATION SAINTE-JUSTINE MONTREAL — C$450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCFTAU TORONTO — C$400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA HELPS - MONTREAL ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF — C$400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMGH FOUNDATION (MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL) — C$400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA HELPS - CANADIAN OLYMPIC FOUNDATION — C$396 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTECHNION CANADA — C$375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMSF CANADA — C$360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOUGLASS INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — C$350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATON — C$350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADA COMMUNITY CENTER — C$350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION MCCORD MUSEUM — C$350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADD CANADA — C$350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFONDATION PORTAGE MONTREAL — C$350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY — C$350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA HELPS - JEWS FOR JUDAISM — C$350 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.

The Mireille and Murr…Morris and Rosalind G…Jewish Community Foun…Mitzi & Mel Dobrin Fa…Maxwell Cummings Fami…The Azrieli Foundatio…Alvin Segal Family Fo…Rayjo Charitable TrustFondation Familiale G…Nellie Philanthropy F…The Norman Zavalkoff …Leo and Shirley Goldf…
The Mireille and Murray Steinberg Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille Mireille et Muuray SteinbergQC22.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Mireille and Murray Steinberg Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille Mireille et Muuray Steinberg · Morris and Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation / Fondation de la Famille Morris Et Rosalind Goodman · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Mitzi & Mel Dobrin Family Foundation · Maxwell Cummings Family Foundation - Fondation de la Famille Maxwell Cummings · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · Alvin Segal Family Foundation · Rayjo Charitable Trust · Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family Fondation · Nellie Philanthropy Foundation · The Norman Zavalkoff Family Foundation / la Fondation Familiale Norman Zavalkoff · Leo and Shirley Goldfarb Foundation/Fondation Leo and Shirley Goldfarb

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 65 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 2023-08-31, 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 889542551:2023-08-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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