Toronto, ON · Private foundation
The Mazel Foundation
The purpose of the foundation is to receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom to registered charities.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k2 grants · C$4k
- C$10k–50k6 grants · C$179k
- C$250k+1 grant · C$275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GITTA NISHUMA FOUNDATION | C$275,000 |
| TIFERES BARS YAAKOV | C$49,000 |
| THE SHTIEBEL | C$36,000 |
| BETH JACOB HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | C$31,000 |
| JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION | C$25,000 |
| YESHIVA YESODEI HATORAH | C$19,800 |
| ADAS ISRAEL CONGREGATION OF HAMILTON | C$18,000 |
| RELIEF RESOURCES CANADA | C$2,500 |
| INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED TALMUDIC AND HALACHIC STUDIES | C$1,800 |
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 +43% since the first grant, against -45% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 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, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$333k 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
- ECEITZ CHAIM SCHOOLS6× · 2018–2023 · C$311k · revenue +24%
- TBTIFERES BARS YAAKOV6× · 2019–2024 · C$203k · revenue +43%
- YYYESHIVA YESODEI HATORAH5× · 2020–2024 · C$79k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- POPATHS OF TORAH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · C$35k
- POPATH OF TORAH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue -45%
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.
Maintained a religious school for the training and instruction of religious scholars maintained a house of worship in compliance with the requirements and practices of the jewish faith in the orthodox tradition.
The institute of torah education advances religion by teaching students doctrines observances and culture associated with the orthodox 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.
Operating a postsecondary institution for educating boys in orthodox jewish faith.
Operated an orthodox jewish high school geared to students who need and would benefit from individual attention not available in existing orthodox jewish high schools.
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.
To carry on a school for religious studies and to pursue the advancement of religion and rituals of jewish interest.
Operate a school for teaching religious studies
Advance the teachings of the jewish faith religious tenets and doctrines.
To advance and teach the religious tenets doctrines observances and culture associated with the jewish faith.
Provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses given at mosdos gur in jerusalem israel.
The organization has been set up to provide religious education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshivat Yesodei Hatora and the most unlike its peers is Relief Resources Canada. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 13 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 EITZ CHAIM SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE GITTA NISHUMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIFERES BARS YAAKOV ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA YESODEI HATORAH ↗
- Who funds BETH JACOB HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Paths of Torah School ↗
- Who funds THE SHTIEBEL ↗
- Who funds ADAS ISRAEL CONGREGATION OF HAMILTON ↗
- Who funds PATH OF TORAH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RELIEF RESOURCES CANADA ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED TALMUDIC AND HALACHIC STUDIES ↗