Downsview, ON · Private foundation
The S & L Stern Foundation
The selection and distribution of funds to qualified donees.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k41 grants · C$70k
- C$10k–50k7 grants · C$112k
- C$50k–250k1 grant · C$51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KHAL TORAS CHESSED | C$51,440 |
| JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION | C$23,423 |
| JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION | C$23,120 |
| MEIR BAAL HANES | C$18,100 |
| ZICHRON YISROEL YOSEPH | C$13,698 |
| BAIS YAKOOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | C$13,600 |
| KOLLEL AVREICHIM | C$10,000 |
| CANADIAN FRIENDS OF MIR | C$10,000 |
| YASDODDEI HATORAH | C$8,555 |
| YASHIVAH GEDOLAS | C$7,500 |
| NACHLAS TZVI | C$5,460 |
| BETH JACOB HIGH SCHOOL | C$5,200 |
| ECHO | C$4,000 |
| TOMCHEI SHABBOS | C$3,650 |
| BIKUR CHOLIM | C$2,860 |
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 +30% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 13 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$25k 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
- KTKHAL TORAS CHESED4× · 2019–2024 · C$255k · revenue ×13
- JHJewish Heritage Fund6× · 2019–2024 · C$144k · revenue +423%
- BYBais Yaakov8× · 2017–2024 · C$135k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- KTKOLLEL TORONTOone grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue +12%
- BBaycrestgraduatedone grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +33%
- COCHAVERIM OF THE COMMUNITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$3k · revenue ×12
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.
To provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses at belz yeshiva
Provide scholarships to needy students persuing studies of higher education in israel.
Provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses given at mosdos gur in jerusalem israel.
To provide scholarships and assistance to indigent sutudents enrolled in post secondary education in yeshivat kol torah in israel.
The charity advances education and religion by operating a school for post graduate talmudic students as well as providing scholarships and bursaries.
The organization has been set up to provide religious education.
Support of jewish education and institutions
To establish an orthodox jewish high school for boys devoted to the study of the laws tenets and doctrines of the jewish faith.
The charity provides scholarships to fund talmudic research.
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.
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.
Issued scholarships for religious education
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 Les Amis Du College Mestiva of Lakewood. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
123 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. 123 of the 162 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 KHAL TORAS CHESED ↗
- Who funds Jewish Heritage Fund ↗
- Who funds Bais Yaakov ↗
- Who funds TOLLEL TORONTO ↗
- Who funds KOLLEL OHALEI YOM TOV ↗
- Who funds Yesodei Hatorah ↗
- Who funds Yeshivah Mir ↗
- Who funds rabbi Meir Baal Haness ↗
- Who funds BETH JACOB HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN FRIEND OF BETH AVROHOM ↗
- Who funds KOLLEL TORONTO ↗
- Who funds Tomechai Shabbos ↗
- Who funds RABBI MEIR BAAL HANESS ↗
- Who funds Yeshiva Mishkan Hatorah ↗
- Who funds Toronto Cheder ↗
- Who funds Hachnosas Kallah ↗
- Who funds Chofetz Chaim Heritage ↗
- Who funds Bikur Cholim ↗
- Who funds YEHIVAH NACLAS TZVI ↗
- Who funds Yeshiva Nefesh Dovid ↗
- Who funds Echo ↗
- Who funds BETH OLOTH ↗
- Who funds BNOS CHAYA ↗
- Who funds ZICHRON YISROEL YOSEPH ↗
- Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAH GEDOLAH ZICHRON SHMAYU ↗
- Who funds Bobov ↗
- Who funds BNOS CHAYA ↗
- Who funds Chai Lifeline ↗
- Who funds Nscy ↗
- Who funds Rockwood Cares Torah ↗
- Who funds BETH JACOB HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Yeshiva Gedolah ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN FRIENDS OFHILLEL ↗
- Who funds Path of Torah School ↗
- Who funds Baycrest ↗
- Who funds ECHO ↗
- Who funds Project Inspire ↗
- Who funds MISASKIN CANADA ↗
- Who funds TOMECHAI SHABBOS ↗
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: Zolty Charitable Foundation · The Chaim Moshe Friedman Memorial Fund · The George Hofstedter Family Foundation · The F&R Hauer Charitable Foundation · Heitner Charitable Foundation · Zichron Binyomin Charity Foundation · Moral Arc Foundation · The Daniel and Vera Rubinstein Charitable Foundation · The Gross Family Foundation · Schofam Charitable Foundation · The S. Sigler Family Charitable Foundation · The Dov Zimmerman Z'L 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.