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Montreal, QC · Private foundation

The Micha Life Foundation la Fondation de Vie Micha

1) to releive poverty by providing food and other basic necessities of life to not-for-profit institutions for the benefit of individuals or families who are in need; 2) to advance education by providing scholarships bursaries and other forms of financial assistance to not-for-profit educational institutions for the benefit of the…

C$839k
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$210k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k27 grants · C$54k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$113k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$672k
C$2,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARIZALC$210,000
YAM HATALMUDC$150,275
CANADIAN FRIENDS OF MISHON LA'CHOLEC$150,000
ROSENBERG FAMILY FOUNDATIONC$100,000
YAD EZERC$61,800
MENUCHA VESIMCHA (MV)C$34,500
CONG BELZC$27,675
REFUAH V'CHESEDC$26,000
CTMC$14,120
KOLLEL BELZC$10,700
VMMC$8,000
TOMACHEI SHABBOS OF MONTREALC$7,500
TASHBARC$5,000
JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATIONC$5,000
CONGREGATION ZERA KODEHSC$5,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 88% of grant dollars (C$11M). The 12% that went abroad (C$1.5M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 12% of all-years giving (C$1.5M)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$10M · 40 repeat orgsC$2.2M to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
41

Total granted

C$10M
C$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+31%

Still filing today

90%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$114k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$5.1M · revenue +97%
  • A
    ARIZAL
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$824k · revenue +10%
  • JH
    JEWISH HARITAGE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · C$753k · revenue +423%

Funded once

  • RC
    RABBINICAL COLLAGE BOBVER YESHIVA
    one grant, 2022 · C$1.0M
  • RC
    RABBINICAL COLLEGE BOBOVER YESHIVA
    one grant, 2023 · C$455k
  • K
    KMHBgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$127k · revenue +73%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
Association Merkaz Hachinuch

To provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses at belz yeshiva

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2
ÉCole Mesifta Yoel Moshe

To carry on a school for religious studies and to pursue the advancement of religion and rituals of jewish interest.

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3
The Zahavy Family Foundation

Support of jewish education and institutions

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4
The Yeshivah Scholarship Fund of Israel

Provide scholarships to needy students persuing studies of higher education in israel.

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5
Kollel Menachem

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…

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6
Canadian Friends of Toldos Aharon

To provide scholarship and assistance to needy students to enable them to follow religious courses at yeshiva toldos aharon for the furtherance of religious study

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7
Alumni Association of Yeshivatkol Torah

To provide scholarships and assistance to indigent sutudents enrolled in post secondary education in yeshivat kol torah in israel.

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8
Kollel Tosh

The charity advances education and religion by operating a school for post graduate talmudic students as well as providing scholarships and bursaries.

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9
Jewish Heritage Foundation International

Provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses given at mosdos gur in jerusalem israel.

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10
Kollel Yisroel Dovid

The charity provides scholarships to fund talmudic research.

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11
The Canadian Friends of Mercaz Hatorah

Funds provided for students desirous of studying advanced Talmudic and Torah law at Mercaz Hatorah Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem and other similar institutions.

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12
Ezrat Mehabrim

Issued scholarships for religious education

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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 Université de Montréal. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 91 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/82
Grantees still filing
54/82
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$5,082,995 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetARIZAL — C$824,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetJEWISH HARITAGE FOUNDATION — C$753,073 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSANZ MEDICAL CENTER — C$611,389 over 2y, 89% of budgetCHADEI LEVY YITZCOK — C$532,308 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetYAM HATALMUD — C$388,675 over 4y, 15% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF MISHON LA'CHOLE — C$365,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE YAD EZER FUND — C$319,995 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetRAV CHESED — C$230,100 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetC.T.M — C$190,398 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetKMHB — C$126,590 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetROSENBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEIZER LANEFESH — C$93,779 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetBNAI LEVY FOUNDATION — C$89,441 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTOMCHAI SHABBAS — C$89,320 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetMENUCHA VESIMCHA — C$89,280 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBELZ — C$80,855 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetVMM — C$78,188 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetREFUAH V'CHESED — C$68,911 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetBETH OLOTH — C$66,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF WIZNITZ — C$51,447 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA WIZNITZ — C$50,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetEZRAS MENACHEM AVROHOM LOAN FUND — C$50,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTASHBAR INSTITUTIONI — C$35,300 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetTikvah L'Chaim/Tzohar — C$25,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetUNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM — C$24,940 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF SANZ INSTITUTION — C$20,141 over 1y, 10% of budgetATERES SHLOMO — C$18,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMIFAL HASHAS FOUNDATION — C$15,387 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSHEVES ACHIM — C$14,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFIRST MESIFTA OF CANADA — C$12,200 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetECOLE BETH TZIPORA — C$11,230 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetKOLLEL BELZ — C$10,880 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHASDEI SHLOMO — C$10,500 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetAHAVAS CHESED — C$10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetINITIATIVE COMMUNIAUTAIRE DE YALDEI (YALDEI) — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYESHIVAH GEDOLA — C$9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHATZOLAH — C$8,600 over 1y, 32% of budgetM.C.B. — C$8,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVINITZ INSTITUTION — C$6,480 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONG. AHAVAS ISRAEL — C$5,450 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBETH ESTHER — C$5,110 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF ATERES BUNOS — C$5,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCONGREGATION ZERA KODEHS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST MESIFTA OF CANADA — C$3,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAIS YAAKOV D'RAV HIRSCHPRUNG — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONGREGATION YETEV LEV — C$3,230 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

Rosenberg Family Foun…Maharam Tav FundCharité Tzedakah Mont…Mifalei Chaim Bechese…Hatzolas Yisroel D'Ar…Fondation Ebs/Ebs Fou…The M.K. Foundation/L…Menucha VesimchaFondation de la Famil…Zichron David and Pes…D E Foundation / la F…VMM Zichron Chaim Cha…
Rosenberg Family Foundation / Fondation de la Famille RosenbergQC57.4× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rosenberg Family Foundation / Fondation de la Famille Rosenberg · Maharam Tav Fund · Charité Tzedakah Montréal Charity Tzedakah Montreal · Mifalei Chaim Bechesed (McB) · Hatzolas Yisroel D'Arizal · Fondation Ebs/Ebs Foundation · The M.K. Foundation/La Fondation M.K. · Menucha Vesimcha · Fondation de la Famille Fischman Fischman Family Foundation · Zichron David and Pesie Grunberger Fund · D E Foundation / la Fondation D E · VMM Zichron Chaim Charity

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 91 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 2024-06-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under support of schools and education.

Source object 838057636:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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