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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Renette and David Berman Family Foundation

Making of gifts and grants to qualified and non-qualified donees (cultural and relief of poverty donees)

C$338k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
1
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$3k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$35k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$300k
C$25,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSICC$100,000
CANADA'S NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOLC$100,000
FALL FOR DANCE NORTH FESTIVAL INCC$50,000
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIOC$50,000
FRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHALC$25,000
COLLINGWOOD GENERAL & MARINE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$10,000
CANADA HELPSC$1,820
THE PEOPLE BRIDGEC$1,000
TORONTO FESTIVAL OF ARTS CULTURAL AND CREATIVITYC$500
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.8M · 10 repeat orgsC$468k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

C$1.8M
C$455k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • UF
    UJA Federation of Greater Toronto
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$436k · revenue +98%
  • RC
    ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$415k · revenue +17%
  • CN
    CANADA'S NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL
    4× · 2020–2023 · C$263k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • TS
    Toronto Symphony Orchestra
    one grant, 2017 · C$298k · revenue +12%
  • NA
    National Arts Centre Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · C$68k · revenue -22%
  • TC
    THE CORPORATION OF MASSEY HALL
    one grant, 2021 · C$50k · revenue -31%

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 Toronto Symphony Foundation

The Toronto Symphony Foundation (TSF) was incorporated to aid the Toronto Symphony in the advancement of Orchestral Music. The TSF receives administers and invests gifts and makes annual distributions to The Toronto Symphony.

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2
Toronto Arts Foundation

Provides finanical support to artists and arts organizations in toronto. offers awards ad commissions recognizing artistic excellence. administers donor-directed funds and special initiatives supporting public engagement artist recognition…

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3
The Roy Thomson Hall and Massey Hall Foundation

The Foundation continues to support the charitable activities of the Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall.

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4
Siminovitch Theatre Foundation

The Siminovitch Prize Foundation celebrates inspires convenes and connects theatre artists on a national stage across disciplines geography and language groups. Its portfolio of programs helps groundbreaking artists thrive creatively and…

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5
Jewish Music Week

Jewish Music Week is an exciting week of concerts recitals and musical events throughout the Greater Toronto Area. Founded in 2011 the festival celebrates all styles of Jewish music as well as the Jewish contribution to mainstream genres…

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6
Toronto Dance Theatre

Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT) is a professional contemporary dance company dedicated to the research creation and production of original Canadian choreography. TDT bridges connections between artists and audiences in Toronto and beyond…

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7
Mozart Project

The Mozart Project is a nationally recognized charitable organization inspired by the universality accessibility diversity and beauty of Mozart’s vast repertoire. The Mozart Project operates the Toronto Mozart Players a professional…

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8
Toronto Holocaust Museum
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9
Canadian Opera Foundation

Canadian Opera Foundation acquires holds and applies funds to assist in the development of the Canadian Opera Company and any successor organization as determined by the Board of Directors.

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10
The Toronto Cantorial Trust Fund

Raises funds through music concerts publishes jewish music provides educational seminars and assists others in music studies and provides scholarships to canadian cantorial students

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11
Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation

To educate and increase the public's understanding and appreciation of the arts by conserving and exhibiting works of art and otherwise making them available to the public; to educate and increase canadians' israelis' and the public's…

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12
Toronto Biennial of Art

The purpose of the organization is to create a first class international visual arts biennal for the city of toronto; art festival 72 days in length engaging youth families artists communities and professionals in the arts while building…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Friends of the Israel Museum and the most unlike its peers is The People Bridge Charitable Foundation. 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

21 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. 21 of the 22 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUJA Federation of Greater Toronto — C$436,165 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — C$415,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetToronto Symphony Orchestra — C$297,550 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCANADA'S NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL — C$262,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$185,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFALL FOR DANCE NORTH FESTIVAL INC — C$155,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL — C$104,400 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetToronto Festival of Arts Culture and Creativity — C$100,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNational Arts Centre Foundation — C$67,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MASSEY HALL — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetToronto Jewish Film Foundation — C$49,220 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetThe Glenn Gould Foundation — C$36,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSave a Child's Heart Foundation Canada — C$29,112 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe National Ballet of Canada — C$11,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLINGWOOD GENERAL & MARINE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKehilla Residential Programme — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCanadian Friends of the Israel Museum — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFacing History and Ourselves — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Toronto Heschel School — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA HELPS — C$1,820 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.

The Azrieli Foundatio…Jewish Foundation of …Toronto FoundationThe Delaney Family Fo…The Linda Frum & Howa…Hal Jackman FoundationThe George Cedric Met…Jackman FoundationThe Michael and Sonja…Private Giving Founda…The Dh Gales Family C…Larry and Judy Tanenb…
The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation AzrieliQC12.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Toronto Foundation · The Delaney Family Foundation · The Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Charitable Foundation · Hal Jackman Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · Jackman Foundation · The Michael and Sonja Koerner Charitable Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · The Dh Gales Family Charitable Foundation of Toronto · Larry and Judy Tanenbaum 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 22 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 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 812563393:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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