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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Reta & Max Merkur Foundation

Qualfying distributions that that the foundation makes through gifts to qualified donees.

C$162k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$101k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k11 grants · C$32k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$29k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$101k
C$3,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATIONC$101,180
BNOS CHAYAC$15,002
MISHKAN HATORAHC$14,000
THE TORONTO CHEDERC$8,600
BNOS BAIS YAAKOV HIGH SCHOOLC$6,500
BOBOVER YESHIVA BNEI ZIONC$4,000
CONGREGATION CHASIDIEI BOBOVC$3,000
MOSDOS BOBOV TORONTOC$2,200
MISHKAN TORAHC$1,800
YESHIVAS NACHALAS ZVIC$1,800
BAIS CHAYA MUSHKA SCHOOL FOR GIRLSC$1,800
CANADIAN FRIENDS OF THE SEMINARY YESHIVA MIRER OF JERUSLAEMC$1,000
MACHSON TZVI HERSHC$1,000
BAIS YAAKOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOLC$360
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.7M · 52 repeat orgsC$72k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
22

Total granted

C$1.7M
C$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+13%

Still filing today

90%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • JH
    JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$499k · revenue +68%
  • TT
    The Toronto Cheder
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$112k · revenue +73%
  • BY
    BOBOVER YESHIVA BNEI ZION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$88k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • SK
    SICK KIDS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue -14%
  • CC
    CHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE SOCIETY OF CANADA
    one grant, 2022 · C$8k · revenue -1%
  • TT
    THORNHILL TORAH EDUCATION CENTRE
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue +24%

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
Tiferes Bais Yaakov

The charity operates a religious high school of instruction for jewish girls

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3
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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4
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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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
Yeshiva Student Religious Education Fund

The organization has been set up to provide religious education.

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7
Yeshiva Torah Temimah

The school educates high-school age male students in both secular and jewish studies in a non-conventional way offering more attention than normal to each student.

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8
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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9
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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10
Yeshiva Ateres Yisroel

Operated an orthodox jewish high school geared to students who need and would benefit from individual attention not available in existing orthodox jewish high schools.

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11
Eitz Chaim Schools

Eitz chaim operates schools for religious instruction and education of children from nursery school to grade eight for the purpose of their advancement in the jewish religion.

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12
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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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 The ChaBaD house. 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

73 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. 73 of the 75 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/73
Grantees still filing
49/73
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 HERITAGE FOUNDATION — C$498,900 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBeth Oloth Charitable Organization — C$127,680 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Toronto Cheder — C$112,100 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCanadian Friends of Ohr Somayach Tanenbaum Centre-College fo — C$89,250 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBOBOVER YESHIVA BNEI ZION — C$87,760 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetBNOS CHAYA — C$84,502 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF THE SEMINARY YESHIVA MIRER OF JERUSALEM — C$73,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSHMUEL ZEHAVY CHADER ZAHAV — C$61,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetYESHIVA LUBAVITCH TORONTO — C$61,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetMesivta Lubavitch Toronto — C$55,500 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetBNOS BAIS YAAKOV HIGH SCHOOL — C$51,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetBAIS YAAKOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — C$47,860 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMISHKAN HATORAH — C$47,825 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetCanadian Friends of Haifa University — C$34,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE YESHIVA SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF ISRAEL — C$30,500 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetYeshivas Nefesh Dovid — C$29,700 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetYESHIVAS NACHALAS ZVI — C$27,400 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetChabad Lubavitch of Saskatoon — C$20,400 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetINSTITUTE OF ADVANCED JUDAIC STUDIES — C$18,700 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCONGREGATION CHASIDIEI BOBOV — C$17,800 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL — C$13,260 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetInstitute of Advanced Talmud & Halachic Studies — C$11,475 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Jewish Welfare Fund of Toronto — C$10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSICK KIDS HOSPITAL — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR THE EDUCATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetONE FAMILY FUND CANADA — C$9,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$7,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTZIVOS HASHEM CANADA — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$5,831 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHORNHILL TORAH EDUCATION CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTORAH UMESORAH — C$5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetUNITED HATZOLAH OF CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYESHIVA MISHKAN YOSEF — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBAAL SHEM TOV ORGANIZATION — C$4,860 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetCamp Aim — C$4,600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetASHREINU — C$4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF THE NER ISRAEL RABBINICALCOLLEGE — C$4,500 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetBAIS CHAYA MUSHKA SCHOOL FOR GIRLS — C$4,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKOLLEL DAF YOMI — C$4,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCMASTER UNIVERSITY — C$3,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFacing History & Ourselves — C$3,400 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYeshiva Keser Torah — C$3,400 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetKEHILLA RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMME — C$3,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMACHSON TZVI HERSH — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHABAD HOUSE — C$2,860 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetRoyal Ontario Museum — C$2,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETH JOSEF — C$2,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEZER MIZION — C$2,700 over 4y, 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.

Heitner Charitable Fo…Jewish Foundation of …Zichron Binyomin Char…Rayjo Charitable TrustThe F&R Hauer Charita…The Friedberg Charita…Moral Arc FoundationFieldgate Cares Found…The George Hofstedter…The Dan-Hytman Family…Jack and Doris Bistri…Zolty Charitable Foun…
Heitner Charitable FoundationON24.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Heitner Charitable Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Zichron Binyomin Charity Foundation · Rayjo Charitable Trust · The F&R Hauer Charitable Foundation · The Friedberg Charitable Foundation · Moral Arc Foundation · Fieldgate Cares Foundation · The George Hofstedter Family Foundation · The Dan-Hytman Family Foundation · Jack and Doris Bistricer Charitable Foundation · Zolty 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.

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 75 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 2024-12-31, 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 823347406:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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