Toronto, ON · Private foundation
The Marlin Spring Foundation
To receive and maintain fund(s) and to donate all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to charitable organizations that are also registered charities and to qualified donees under the income tax act (canada).
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k11 grants · C$41k
- C$10k–50k5 grants · C$97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOVE MSF OB TO NEW COA | C$41,750 |
| KOLLEL DAF YOMI INSTITUTE | C$18,000 |
| TAU CANADA | C$16,750 |
| JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION | C$10,000 |
| ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF TORONTO | C$10,000 |
| YESHIVA YESODEI HATORAH | C$9,000 |
| BAIS YAAKOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | C$6,250 |
| BAIS YAAKOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | C$6,250 |
| TALMUDICAL YESHIVA OF PHILADELPHIA | C$5,000 |
| BLU GENES FOUNDATION | C$5,000 |
| BLU GENES FOUNDATION | C$5,000 |
| TORONTO CARE FUND | C$2,500 |
| JACS TORONTO | C$1,000 |
| KEHILLA RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMME | C$500 |
| MACKENZIE HEALTH FOUNDATION | C$500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 53% of grant dollars (C$461k). The 47% that went abroad (C$409k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 47% of all-years giving (C$409k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +423% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$97k 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
- WWWE WELLBEING2× · 2019–2020 · C$250k
- CTCARIBOU TORAH EDUCATION FOUNDATION (2714)2× · 2019–2020 · C$100k · revenue -87%
- YYYESHIVA YESODEI HATORAH3× · 2021–2024 · C$37k
Funded once
- CSCONGREGATION SHOAVEI MAYIM (2158)graduatedone grant, 2019 · C$45k · revenue +36%
- JHJEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADAone grant, 2023 · C$30k
- YYYESHIVA YESODEI HATORAH (V0000007)one grant, 2022 · C$18k
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.
Support of jewish education and institutions
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.
The charity operates a religious high school of instruction for jewish girls
The organization has been set up to provide religious education.
The school educates high-school age male students in both secular and jewish studies in a non-conventional way offering more attention than normal to each student.
The institute of torah education advances religion by teaching students doctrines observances and culture associated with the orthodox jewish faith.
Carry on educational programs and produced educational materials to advance information and knowledge regarding jewish religions and culture.
To advance and teach the religious tenets doctrines observances and culture associated with the jewish faith.
To establish an orthodox jewish high school for boys devoted to the study of the laws tenets and doctrines of the jewish faith.
Jewish education
Established and operated as an institution of jewish training and education particularly in the fields of rabbinic talmudic halachic studies.
Operating a postsecondary institution for educating boys in orthodox jewish faith.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caribou Torah Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Seniors' Wish Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 73 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 CARIBOU TORAH EDUCATION FOUNDATION (2714) ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION SHOAVEI MAYIM (2158) ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds BAIS YAAKOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (1011) ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAS NEFESH DOVID ↗
- Who funds BAIS YAAKOV OF THORNHILL ↗
- Who funds CANADINA FOUNDATION FOR THE EDUCATION AND WELFARE OF JEWS OF ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND OF CANADA INC. ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO (0008) ↗
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 · The Mesora Charitable Foundation · The Rothschild Charitable Foundation · Nathan & Shani Bleeman Charitable Foundation · The Koenig Family Foundation · Ari and Naomi Klein Charitable Trust · Abraham Bleeman Foundation · J & H Feldman Charitable Foundation · The S. Sigler Family Charitable Foundation · Jack and Doris Bistricer Charitable Foundation · Zolty Charitable Foundation · The George Hofstedter 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.