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Montreal, QC · Private foundation

The Maurice Pollack Foundation

Provide financial assistance to hospitals museums religious and educational institutions for the advancement of education and funding of charitable organizations.

C$109k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$109k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$109,310
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$270k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MONTREALC$109,310
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$983k · 13 repeat orgsC$259k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
10

Total granted

C$983k
C$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+7%

Still filing today

92%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$109k 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

  • RI
    ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGILL UNI
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$300k · revenue +20%
  • KM
    KEHILLA MONTRÉAL RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMS
    3× · 2018–2020 · C$200k · revenue +117% · 35% of their budget
  • CR
    CALDWELL RESIDENCE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$100k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · C$41k
  • UH
    UNITED HATZALAH CANADA
    one grant, 2023 · C$35k · revenue -39%
  • MU
    Mcgill University
    one grant, 2017 · C$25k

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
Congrégation Juive Francophone de Montréal
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2
Agence Ometz

The purpose of the organization is to provide employment immigration and social services to help people meet their challenges and fulfill their potential and to secure the growth and vitality of the montreal jewish community.

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3
Association Chabad sur le Campus

Promotion of jewish culture and religion engage jewish students learning of culture

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4
BNai BRith Hillel Foundation of Montreal Inc./La Fondation B'Nai B'Rith Hillel de Montréal Inc.

B'nai brith hillel foundation of montreal inc.s' mission is to support jewish students on campus.

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5
Centre Bronfman De L'education Juive / Bronfman Jewish Education Center

Bjec offers services to schools including professional development to teachers principals consultants in special education and early academic intervention. bjec is the central agency for jewish education in montreal and is responsible for…

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6
Yeshiva Gedolah L'ecole D'etudes Superieures De Montreal

The charity opertes a school for jewish children

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7
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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8
Musee Des Beaux-Arts De Montreal / Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Encourager les arts diffuser les connaissances artistiques acquérir conserver collectionner mettre en valeur et exposer les oeuvres d'art.

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9
Communauté Chabad du Vieux-Montréal

Office religieux activites de promotion de la culture religieuse juive.

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10
La Fondation De L'ecole De Formation Hebraique

Raising funds for jewish education in the west island of montreal

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11
Centre Hospitalier De L'universite De Montreal
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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal and the most unlike its peers is Canadian Friends of Bar-Ilan University. 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

21 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. 21 of the 24 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
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 budgetROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGILL UNI — C$300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKEHILLA MONTRÉAL RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMS — C$200,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetJewish Public Library — C$132,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MONTREAL — C$109,310 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALDWELL RESIDENCE FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 7y, 9.4% of budgetFEDERATION CJA: COMBINED JEWISH APPEAL — C$82,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTEMPLE EMANU-EI BETH SHALOM — C$45,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED HATZALAH CANADA — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSegal Centre — C$22,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF JEWISH MONTREAL — C$20,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUMMINGS JEWISH CENTRE FOR SENIORS FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF BAR-LIAN UNIVERSITY — C$19,200 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLA FONDATION DE L'UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAIDE OF GREATER MONTREAL — C$8,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSUN YOUTH ORGANIZATION — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMaiso Shalom — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMONTREAL HOLOCAUST MUSEUM — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADA COMMUNITY CENTER — C$540 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.

Fondation Familiale G…Federation CjaMorris and Rosalind G…Jewish Community Foun…Fondation Eldee-Eldee…The Mireille and Murr…The Azrieli Foundatio…The George and Sylvia…The Henry and Berenic…Alvin Segal Family Fo…Rayjo Charitable TrustLa Fondation De La Fa…
Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family FondationQC13.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family Fondation · Federation Cja · 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 · Fondation Eldee-Eldee Foundation · The Mireille and Murray Steinberg Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille Mireille et Muuray Steinberg · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · The George and Sylvia Aikins Foundation · The Henry and Berenice Kaufmann Foundation · Alvin Segal Family Foundation · Rayjo Charitable Trust · La Fondation De La Famille De Léonard Albert/The Leonard Albert 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 24 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 2024-12-31, 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 130524572:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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