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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Charitable Foundation

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C$385k
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k28 grants · C$97k
  • C$10k–50k15 grants · C$238k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$5,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED ISRAEL APPEAL OF CANADA INCC$50,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL (UJA) FEDERATION OF GREATER TORONTOC$25,000
CANADIAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTERC$25,000
CANADIAN SECURITY RESEARCH GROUP ( CSRG )C$25,000
BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF CANADAC$25,000
SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF CANADAC$20,000
THE CANADIAN ZIONIST CULTURAL ASSOCIATION ( CZCA)C$20,000
CANADIAN FRIENDS ISRAEL GUIDE DOGC$18,050
KEHILLA RESIDENTAIL PROGRAMMEC$10,000
FRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIESC$10,000
FONDATION OF PUBLIC POLICY DEVELOPMENTC$10,000
THE CANADIAN SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$10,000
GITANT STEPS FOUNDATIONC$10,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND OF CANADAC$10,000
THE NATIONAL GOLF CLUB OF CANADA FOUNDATIONC$10,000
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.8M · 73 repeat orgsC$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

73 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
78

Total granted

C$3.8M
C$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+9%

Still filing today

93%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$81k 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

  • GM
    GARDINER MUSEUM
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$420k · revenue +214%
  • SH
    SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$348k · revenue +84%
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    The Canadian Society for Yad Vashem
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$295k · revenue +246%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BISHOP STRACHAN SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$133k · revenue +49%
  • TB
    The Bishop Strachan School Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$133k · revenue +20%
  • AF
    AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · 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
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
Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation

To educate and increase the public's understanding and appreciation of the arts by conserving and exhibiting works of art and otherwise making them available to the public; to educate and increase canadians' israelis' and the public's…

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3
The Zahavy Family Foundation

Support of jewish education and institutions

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4
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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5
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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6
Mount Sinai Hospital Otolaryngology Research Fund

Support of academic medical research education and health care in canada

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7
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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8
The Toronto Cantorial Trust Fund

Raises funds through music concerts publishes jewish music provides educational seminars and assists others in music studies and provides scholarships to canadian cantorial students

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9
Canadian Jewish Experience - a tribute to Canada 150

To advance the public's understanding and appreciation of canadian jewish culture through the creation of a canadian jewish exhibit celebrating the 150th anniversary of canadian confederation in 2017 as well as supporting seminars lectures…

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10
Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Medecine Research Fund

Medical research and education in medicine in canada.

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11
The Canadian Friends of Mercaz Hatorah

Funds provided for students desirous of studying advanced Talmudic and Torah law at Mercaz Hatorah Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem and other similar institutions.

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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 Israel Appeal of Canada Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Art Gallery At Harbourfront. 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

146 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. 146 of the 163 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)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
141/146
Grantees still filing
100/146
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 budgetGARDINER MUSEUM — C$419,668 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetSINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$347,859 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetThe Canadian Society for Yad Vashem — C$295,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL — C$248,880 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBAYCREST FOUNDATION — C$210,439 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$209,858 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJewish National Fund of Canada — C$172,624 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BISHOP STRACHAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$133,332 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetThe Bishop Strachan School Foundation — C$133,332 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBETH SHOLOM SYNAGOGUE — C$132,794 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCANADIAN ASSOC OF BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV — C$113,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED ISRAEL APPEAL OF CANADA INC — C$95,313 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRIBUTE TO LIBERTY — C$80,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE CANADIAN SHAARE ZEDECK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$79,800 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetUpper Canada College, Office of Advancement — C$75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetABILITIES CENTRE — C$66,666 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT — C$65,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER TORONTO — C$52,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetB'NAI BRITH OF CANADA FOUNDATION — C$51,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFOREST HILL JEWISH CENTRE — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BENTWAY CONSERVANCY — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBUILDING A JEWISH TOMORROW — C$49,999 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CANADIAN ZIONIST CULTURAL ASSOCIATION ( CZCA) — C$44,800 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST ST. — C$44,666 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTRUE PATRIOT LOVE FOUNDATION — C$42,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFALL FOR DANCE NORTH FESTIVAL INC. — C$40,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetACHIM LACHAIM — C$36,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHumber River Hospital Foundation — C$35,091 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHILLEL ONTARIO — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetISGAP CANADA — C$35,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetArt Gallery of Ontario — C$33,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS ISRAEL GUIDE DOG — C$33,060 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetKEHILLA RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMME — C$33,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOCAD UNIVERSITY — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJACS TORONTO — C$30,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetForever Chai Foundation of Canada — C$30,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$29,800 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP OOCHIGEAS — C$29,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF CANADA — C$26,800 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSICK KIDS FOUNDATION — C$25,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTIRINITY COLLEGE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN SECURITY RESEARCH GROUP ( CSRG ) — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIBERATION 75 — C$25,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetToronto Symphony Orchestra — C$25,000 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.

Jewish Foundation of …The Azrieli Foundatio…Nathan and Lily Silve…Larry and Judy Tanenb…The Dh Gales Family C…Conam Charitable Foun…United Jewish Appeal …Gerald Sheff & Shanit…The Asper FoundationThe Sonshine Family F…The Joseph Lebovic Ch…The Gerald Schwartz &…
Jewish Foundation of Greater TorontoON32.2× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · Nathan and Lily Silver Family Foundation · Larry and Judy Tanenbaum Family Foundation · The Dh Gales Family Charitable Foundation of Toronto · Conam Charitable Foundation · United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto · Gerald Sheff & Shanitha Kachan Family Foundation · The Asper Foundation · The Sonshine Family Foundation · The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation · The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman 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 163 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 887925469:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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