Toronto, ON · Private foundation
The Ludwig Family Foundation
The foundation makes cash donations to registered charities on behalf of the ludwig family.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLY BLOSSOM TEMPLE | C$900 |
| BEIT HALOCHEM CANADA | C$642 |
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.
8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$642 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
- SESHAARE-BETH EL CONGREGATION5× · 2017–2021 · C$24k · revenue +43%
- BTBeth Tikvah Synagogue5× · 2017–2021 · C$16k · revenue +5%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL4× · 2017–2020 · C$8k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- NCNational Council of Jewish Womengraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$500 · revenue +143%
- TCThe Canadian Zionist Cultural Assocgraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$500 · revenue +38%
- BFBaycrest Foundationone grant, 2017 · C$400 · revenue -2%
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.
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…
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.
The charity provides cultural programs for jewish students on university campuses located throughout the toronto area the gta and the province of ontario. the charity works to instill religious and cultural values to students on campus.
The synagogue provides for orthodox jewish prayer services as well as educational and social programming for the surrounding community.
Programs in which primarily university students are able to acquire and cultivate jewish learning wisdom throught and culture
Support of jewish education and institutions
To provide the jewish community with a religious and cultural center and place of worship.
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.
Providing educational programs for adults youth and children in Toronto Operating 3 synagogues Providing family counselling services
The israel cancer research fund (toronto) provides funds to aid in the research of cancer in all phases: causes detection diagnosis treatment cure and care.
THE ORGANIZATION CARRIES OUT RELIGIOUS SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN DOWNTOWN TORONTO Chabad runs a vibrant lineup of community programs including adult education classes Hebrew school for youth…
Provides the framework and guidance for its extensive youth program activities. an affiliate of the agudath israel world organization and agudath israel of america. provides adult education and social services. provides a non profit…
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 Trent University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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.
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 SHAARE-BETH EL CONGREGATION ↗
- Who funds Beth Tikvah Synagogue ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL ↗
- Who funds Holy Blossom Temple ↗
- Who funds Beth Lida ↗
- Who funds BEIT HALOCHEM CANADA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds National Council of Jewish Women ↗
- Who funds The Canadian Zionist Cultural Assoc ↗
- Who funds JF&CS ↗
- Who funds Baycrest Foundation ↗
- Who funds SALVATION ARMY ↗
- Who funds TRENT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Heart & Stroke Foundation ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION OF PETERBROUGH ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN RED CROSS ↗
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: Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto · United Way of Greater Toronto · 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.