Toronto, ON · Private foundation
The Ricky and Peter Cohen Family Foundation
Donations are made to other registered charities
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k2 grants · C$4k
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$31k
- C$50k–250k5 grants · C$497k
- C$250k+1 grant · C$405k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | C$405,000 |
| HAVERGAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | C$142,857 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL | C$104,080 |
| THE YORK SCHOOL | C$100,000 |
| SICK KIDS FOUNDATION | C$100,000 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | C$50,256 |
| THE SONG SHUL | C$20,800 |
| SQUASH CANADA | C$10,000 |
| THE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION | C$1,800 |
| WEIZMANN CANADA | C$1,800 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$64k 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
- MSMOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.4M · revenue +84%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL6× · 2017–2024 · C$776k · revenue +98%
- SKSick Kids Foundation7× · 2017–2024 · C$635k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- UJUnited Jewish Welfare Fundgraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$200k · revenue +144%
- AOAcademy of Canadian Cinema & Televisionone grant, 2017 · C$100k · revenue -30%
- COCamp Oochigeasone grant, 2017 · C$25k · revenue +19%
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.
Support of jewish education and institutions
The israel cancer research fund (toronto) provides funds to aid in the research of cancer in all phases: causes detection diagnosis treatment cure and care.
Raises funds through music concerts publishes jewish music provides educational seminars and assists others in music studies and provides scholarships to canadian cantorial students
The charity provides scholarships and promotes the study of judaism carrying out educational programming both in and out of schools, intensive study workshops and teacher training in biblical studies.
The foundation makes donations to qualified charities. the largest donations in 2024 were to sinai health foundation queen's university united isreal appeal and forest hill jewish centre.
To provide funds to aid the cause of cancer research in canada and israel.
Support of academic medical research education and health care in canada
The charitycontinues to receive donations and investment revenue and to make allocations to 'the calgary jewish academy'
The charity provides scholarship to needy students
As a foundation we look to support charities that offer bursaries grants and scholarships to under privledged students with an emphasis on jewish heritage and practise
The foundation provides funds to qualified donees that are focused on social cultural and environmental programs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto and the most unlike its peers is David Goodman Youth Community Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 25 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.
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 MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL ↗
- Who funds Sick Kids Foundation ↗
- Who funds HAVEGAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Jewish Welfare Fund ↗
- Who funds THE YORK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television ↗
- Who funds THE SONG SHUL ↗
- Who funds Camp Oochigeas ↗
- Who funds Horatio Alger Association of Canada ↗
- Who funds CDN. FRIENDS - BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO ↗
- Who funds The National Ballet of Canada ↗
- Who funds DAVID GOODMAN YOUTH COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds KAYLA CHILDREN CENTRE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds Save a Child's Heart Foundation Canada ↗
- Who funds THE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEIZMANN CANADA ↗
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 · Aqueduct Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · 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.