Toronto, ON · Private foundation
The Mesora Charitable Foundation
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k20 grants · C$63k
- C$10k–50k16 grants · C$340k
- C$50k–250k1 grant · C$89k
- C$250k+1 grant · C$1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION | C$1,128,072 |
| INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED TALMUDIC AND HALACHIC STUDIES | C$89,250 |
| TORONTO CARE FUND | C$43,200 |
| CONG. KAHAL AVREICHIM | C$37,000 |
| YESHIVA GEDOLAH ZICHRON SHMAYAHU | C$34,850 |
| THE TORONTO SEPHARDIC KOLLEL | C$30,100 |
| BETH JACOBS HIGH SCHOOL | C$26,000 |
| YESHIVA BNEI ZION OF BOBOV | C$24,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCES JUDIAC STUDIES | C$22,750 |
| CANADIAN FRIENDS OF TESHIVA BETH HILLEL BNAI BRAK | C$22,408 |
| BAIS YAAKOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | C$17,000 |
| OHR CHAYA CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION | C$15,000 |
| YESHIVA YESODEI HATORAH | C$14,250 |
| BIKUR CHOLIM | C$13,360 |
| LEKET CANADA | C$10,000 |
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 +35% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
95 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$26k 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
- JHJEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADA6× · 2019–2024 · C$9.5M · revenue +423%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED TALMUDIC AND HALACHIC STUDIES8× · 2017–2024 · C$888k · revenue +33% · 26% of their budget
- TCTORONTO CARE FUND8× · 2017–2024 · C$546k · revenue +334%
Funded once
- PAPHILIP AND HANNAH REICHMANN FAMILY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · C$200k · revenue +53% · 30% of their budget
- TMTHE MEYER AND IDELLE WEINSTOCK CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · C$100k · revenue -59%
- TJTHE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF CANADAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · C$62k · revenue +57%
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 organization has been set up to provide religious education.
Provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses given at mosdos gur in jerusalem israel.
To provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses at belz yeshiva
Provide scholarships to needy students persuing studies of higher education in israel.
The charity provides scholarships and assistance to needy students to enable them to study at yeshiva toras chalm
The charity advances education and religion by operating a school for post graduate talmudic students as well as providing scholarships and bursaries.
To advance and teach the religious tenets doctrines and observances associated with the jewish faith. to advance education by providing scholarships for talmudic scholars; and to undertake activities ancillary and incidental to the…
To provide scholarships and assistance to indigent sutudents enrolled in post secondary education in yeshivat kol torah in israel.
During the fiscal period, the organization accepted funds which were dispersed as scholarships to deserving students and to sholars doing research to be used in the study of judaism.
To establish an orthodox jewish high school for boys devoted to the study of the laws tenets and doctrines of the jewish faith.
The charity provides scholarships to fund talmudic research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Les Amis Canadiens Du Seminaire Yeshivah Mirer De Jerusalem Inc./Canadian Friends of the Seminary Yeshivah Mirer of Jerusalem and the most unlike its peers is P.O.M. - United. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
147 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. 147 of the 168 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 JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds BETH OLOTH ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED TALMUDIC AND HALACHIC STUDIES ↗
- Who funds CARIBOU TORAH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds TORONTO CARE FUND ↗
- Who funds YESOD YESHIVA YESODEI HATORAH ↗
- Who funds CONG. KAHAL AVREICHIM ↗
- Who funds BAIS YAAKOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA GEDOLAH ZICHRON SHMAYAHU ↗
- Who funds GATES OF MERCY ↗
- Who funds PHILIP AND HANNAH REICHMANN FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHAAREI ZION COMMUNITY CENTRE ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN FRIENDS OF THE SEMINIARY YESHIVAH MIRER OF JERUS ↗
- Who funds BNOS CHAYA ↗
- Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA BNEI ZION OF TORONTO ↗
- Who funds THE TORONTO CHEDER ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED JUDAIC STUDIES ↗
- Who funds NCSY CANADA BUILDING A JEWISH TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN FRIENDS OF OHR SOMAYACH ↗
- Who funds KOLLEL OHR YOSEF ↗
- Who funds BETH JACOB HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION SHOAVEI MAYIM ↗
- Who funds J.FRANKEL FAMILY CHARIABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE MEYER AND IDELLE WEINSTOCK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAS NACHLAS ZVI ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA BNEI ZION OF BOBOV ↗
- Who funds THE DANA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEIS MEIR ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE EDUCATION & WELFARE OF JEWS ↗
- Who funds MIZRACHI ORGANIZATION OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA KESER TORAH ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA BETH HILLEL BNAI BRAK ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVATH BETH ABRAHAM JERUSALEM ↗
- Who funds THE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds K H MEOROTH ↗
- Who funds DANI DEVELOPING AND NURTURING INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds EMERALD FOUNDATION ↗
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: Heitner Charitable Foundation · Fieldgate Cares Foundation · Zichron Binyomin Charity Foundation · The F&R Hauer Charitable Foundation · The S. Sigler Family Charitable Foundation · The Friedberg Charitable Foundation · The Chaim Moshe Friedman Memorial Fund · Zolty Charitable Foundation · The George Hofstedter Family Foundation · The B&C Zy Gezunt Charitable Foundation · Jack and Doris Bistricer Charitable Foundation · Schofam Charitable 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.