Toronto, ON · Private foundation
The Naomi & William Ernst Charitable Foundation
Provided gifts to registered charities
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k3 grants · C$15k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANADIAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO | C$13,000 |
| CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATURE IN ISRAEL | C$5,000 |
| CANADIAN FRIENDS OF HAIFA UNIVERSITY | C$5,000 |
| EMUNAH CANADA | C$5,000 |
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.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k 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
- CFCANADIAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISIE SHAPIRO7× · 2017–2024 · C$66k · revenue +404%
- ECEMUNAH CANADA7× · 2017–2024 · C$52k · revenue +10%
- CFCANADIAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2023 · C$39k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- NFNE'EMAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · C$7k · revenue +14%
- UOUJA OF GREATER TORONTOgraduatedone grant, 2022 · C$6k · revenue +88%
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.
The organization runs a variety of programming benefiting children and families within israel who are at risk of food or socioeconomic vulnerability.
Poverty relief and financial assistance to the poor in israel
The canadian friends of the hebrew university (cfhu) provided funding to the hebrew university of jerusalem which is a registered foreign university and a qualified donee to carry out post secondary educational & research activities as…
Provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to enable them to follow religious courses at wznitz yeshiva in israel
Fund raising in toronto promoting understanding of the holocaust and world war ii to fund the institute for study of the holocaust in israel
Educating the public and increasing public awareness of the historical and cultural heritage of the jewish people. activities include fundraising for projects with the israel museum in jerusalem, preparation of audio-visual displays to…
To collect raise and solicit funds for the benefit of needy students of yeshiva yachel israel in haifa israel.
To provide support to rambam medical centre haifa israel.
Scholarships to palestine university's students
Lectures and workshops to further jewish education for women in canada. - provide funds for canadian jewish women to further their jewish learning.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Israel Fund of Canada and the most unlike its peers is Canadian Friends of University of Haifa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
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 CANADIAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISIE SHAPIRO ↗
- Who funds EMUNAH CANADA ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds N.I.F. CANADIAN CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN FRIENDS OF HAIFA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NE'EMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UJA OF GREATER TORONTO ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATURE IN ISRAEL ↗
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: Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Krauss Family Charitable Trust · The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba · Giftpact Foundation Inc. · Canada Gives · My Charity Fund · Private Giving Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadahelps Canadon
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.