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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Leonard Simpson Family Foundation

The foundation receives and maintains funds and applies all or part of the principal and income therefrom to charitable organizations

C$225k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k8 grants · C$27k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$48k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$150k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BRENDA SIMPSON FOUNDATIONC$50,000
SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$50,000
PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONC$50,000
CANADIAN MAGEN DAVID ADOMC$25,000
NESHAMA HOSPICEC$12,500
FRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTERC$10,000
TORONTO JEWISH FILM FOUNDATIONC$5,000
CANADIAN SECURITY RESEARCH GROUPC$5,000
ABRAHAM PEACE INITIATIVEC$5,000
ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUNDC$5,000
HOLY BLOSSOM TEMPLEC$4,080
MS SOCIETY OF CANADAC$1,000
JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$1,000
JACS TORONTOC$1,000
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.9M · 14 repeat orgsC$239k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
18

Total granted

C$1.9M
C$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+32%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$92k 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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF GREATER TORONTO
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$732k · revenue +98%
  • SH
    SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$168k · revenue +84%
  • PM
    PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$101k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • TR
    The Rebecca and Alan Simpson Family Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$100k · revenue +57%
  • NF
    NE'EMAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$7k · revenue -45%
  • JN
    Jewish National Fund of Toronto
    one grant, 2018 · C$6k

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
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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2
Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto

The jewish foundation of greater toronto receives manages and invests funds as well as disburses grants to qualified donees. using a research-driven approach the jewish foundation of greater toronto strategically distributes to community…

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3
The Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University

The canadian friends of the hebrew university (cfhu) provided funding to the hebrew university of jerusalem which is a registered foreign university and a qualified donee to carry out post secondary educational & research activities as…

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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
The Lynn and Brent Belzberg Foundation

The foundation makes donations to qualified charities. the largest donations in 2024 were to sinai health foundation queen's university united isreal appeal and forest hill jewish centre.

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6
The Zahavy Family Foundation

Support of jewish education and institutions

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7
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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8
Mount Sinai Hospital Otolaryngology Research Fund

Support of academic medical research education and health care in canada

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9
Canadian Friends of Massuah

Fund raising in toronto promoting understanding of the holocaust and world war ii to fund the institute for study of the holocaust in israel

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10
The Abraham Fund

The objectives of the Fund are to carry on the following activities for the benefit of Jewish and Arab residents in the state of Israel: -to conduct and promote adult and childhood education programs -to disseminate educational material in…

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11
The Canadian Jewish Educational Fund

The charity provides scholarships and promotes the study of judaism carrying out educational programming both in and out of schools, intensive study workshops and teacher training in biblical studies.

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12
Canadian Friends of Yeshiva Beth Hillel Bnai Brak

Scholarships granted to qualified applicants related to post-graduate studies

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto and the most unlike its peers is David Goodman Youth Community Trust. 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

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 39 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/38
Grantees still filing
20/38
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 budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF GREATER TORONTO — C$731,550 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBaycrest Foundation — C$565,667 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetSINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$167,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$100,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rebecca and Alan Simpson Family Foundation — C$100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND — C$92,032 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$82,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES — C$80,015 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetNESHAMA HOSPICE — C$50,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetTHE BRENDA SIMPSON FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 73% of budgetCANADIAN MAGEN DAVID ADOM — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN HADASSAH-WIZO (CHW) — C$20,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOLY BLOSSOM TEMPLE — C$17,755 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO JEWISH FILM FOUNDATION — C$14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNE'EMAN FOUNDATION — C$6,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJewish National Fund of Toronto — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN WHALE INSTITUTE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTORONTO JEWISH FILM FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCanadian Firends of Halifa University — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetABRAHAM PEACE INITIATIVE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN SECURITY RESEARCH GROUP — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEN GURION UNIVERSITY — C$3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArthritis Research Foundation — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE CANADA — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$2,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTANDWITHUS — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVILLAGE SHUL — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBeit Halochem Canada — C$1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY BLOSSOM TEMPLE — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEART & STROKE FOUNDATION — C$1,120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACS TORONTO — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDavid Goodman Youth Community Trust — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYORK UNIVERSITY — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARTHRITIS SOCIETY — C$50 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 …Conam Charitable Foun…The Gerald Schwartz &…United Jewish Appeal …The Rebecca and Alan …The Dh Gales Family C…The Linda Frum & Howa…THE BRETTLER/Mintz Fo…The Asper FoundationJewish Community Foun…The Micki Moore Found…The Sonshine Family F…
Jewish Foundation of Greater TorontoON13.5× 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 · Conam Charitable Foundation · The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation · United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto · The Rebecca and Alan Simpson Family Foundation · The Dh Gales Family Charitable Foundation of Toronto · The Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Charitable Foundation · THE BRETTLER/Mintz Foundation · The Asper Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · The Micki Moore Foundation · The Sonshine Family 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 39 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 2024-11-30, 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 890833791:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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