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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Michael J. Halbert Foundation

The foundation makes donations to qualified donees.

C$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$13k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
C$2,500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$320k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LETTER OF THE LAWC$10,000
AGUDATH ISRAEL SOUTHC$2,611
MOSDOS BOBOV TORONTOC$2,500
THE MACKENZIE INSTITUTEC$2,500
KOLLEL TORONTOC$1,800
Individual grant recipientC$1,800
UHN FOUNDATIONC$1,540
SOCIAL SERVICES AND COMMUNAL MATTERS FUNDC$250
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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$53k · 10 repeat orgsC$158k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
25

Total granted

C$53k
C$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+21%

Still filing today

90%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
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

  • TG
    Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
    3× · 2017–2020 · C$15k · revenue +83%
  • JH
    JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · C$7k · revenue +423%
  • TM
    The Mackenzie Institute
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$5k · revenue +31% · 42% of their budget

Funded once

  • TB
    The B.A.S. Charitable Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · C$50k · revenue -10%
  • UJ
    United Jewish Appealgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$25k · revenue +88%
  • CF
    Canadian Friends of Yeshivat Aish Hatorahgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$21k · revenue +55%

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
The Zahavy Family Foundation

Support of jewish education and institutions

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2
Institute for Advanced Talmudic and Halachic Studies

Established and operated as an institution of jewish training and education particularly in the fields of rabbinic talmudic halachic studies.

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3
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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4
Mishmeret

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.

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5
Association Merkaz Hachinuch

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

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6
The Institute of Torah Education

The institute of torah education advances religion by teaching students doctrines observances and culture associated with the orthodox jewish faith.

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7
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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8
Jewish Educational Services

To advance and teach the religious tenets doctrines observances and culture associated with the jewish faith.

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9
Kollel Yisroel Dovid

The charity provides scholarships to fund talmudic research.

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10
Yeshiva Student Religious Education Fund

The organization has been set up to provide religious education.

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11
Maimonides Schools for Jewish Studies

Operate schools for jewish studies and provide grants to qualified donees

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12
The E D Fund

Offers scholarships to needy students of rabbinical seminaries publications of religious periodicals and enhancing Jewish culture and heritage.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Canadian Friends of Ohr Somayach - Tanenbaum Centre - College of Judaic Studies and the most unlike its peers is The Mackenzie Institute for the Study of Terrorism Revolution and Propaganda. 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

34 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. 34 of the 43 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/34
Grantees still filing
22/34
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 budgetThe B.A.S. Charitable Foundation — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Friends of Yeshivat Aish Hatorah — C$20,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetToronto General & Western Hospital Foundation — C$15,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETH HA-MIDRASH AGUDATH ISRAEL(SOUTH) — C$10,553 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetBeth Oloth — C$10,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION — C$6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mackenzie Institute — C$5,250 over 2y, 42% of budgetNAVON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetJews for Judaism — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF ISRALIGHT — C$5,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetKollel Toronto Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKUPAS HACHESED MEOROTH — C$2,864 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPeninas Helping Hand - Chai Lifeline Canada — C$2,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMount Saint Vincent University — C$2,577 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYeshivas Keser Torah — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetZichron Binyomin Charity Foundation — C$2,256 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBobov Yeshiva Bnei Zion of Toronto — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Friends of Kolled Tiferes Yitzchok of Aleksander — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHebrew Centre of Belle Ewart — C$1,405 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetLoran Scholars Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHalachic Academy Ravad — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCongregation Kahal Avreichim — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetForest Hill Jewish Centre — C$709 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShaarei Zion Congregation — C$500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSasson V'Simcha — C$500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPaths of Torah School — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL SERVICES AND COMMUNAL MATTERS FUND — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Friends of Cuban Jewry — C$180 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmunah Toronto — C$180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMinyan K'Vasikin — C$110 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM — C$100 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.

Rayjo Charitable TrustPhilip and Hannah Rei…Jack and Doris Bistri…The Dan-Hytman Family…The S. Sigler Family …Zolty Charitable Foun…The Friedberg Charita…Fieldgate Cares Found…Zichron Binyomin Char…Matan Bsayser Foundat…The Rothschild Charit…The Gross Family Foun…
Rayjo Charitable TrustON19.8× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rayjo Charitable Trust · Philip and Hannah Reichmann Family Foundation · Jack and Doris Bistricer Charitable Foundation · The Dan-Hytman Family Foundation · The S. Sigler Family Charitable Foundation · Zolty Charitable Foundation · The Friedberg Charitable Foundation · Fieldgate Cares Foundation · Zichron Binyomin Charity Foundation · Matan Bsayser Foundation · The Rothschild Charitable Foundation · The Gross 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 43 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 2024-11-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 863607156:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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