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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Samuel and Bessie Orfus Family Foundation

Disburse funds to registered charities.

C$146k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$36k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$7k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$139k
C$30,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YORKVILLE JEWISH CENTRE-THE JOACHIM AND CHARLOTTE KELLERMAC$36,000
UNITED HATZALAH CANADAC$30,000
ONE FAMILY FUND CANADAC$30,000
THE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONC$25,000
CANADIAN SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$18,000
MIZRACHI CANADAC$7,200
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.1M · 5 repeat orgsC$89k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +123% since the first grant, against +68% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

C$1.1M
C$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+123%
+68%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$43k 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

  • MC
    Mizrachi Canada
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$727k · revenue +123%
  • SH
    SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · C$180k · revenue +89%
  • OF
    ONE FAMILY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$84k · revenue +155%

Funded once

  • YJ
    YORKVILLE JEWISH CENTRE
    one grant, 2017 · C$36k
  • MC
    MAZON CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$5k · revenue +68%
  • SF
    SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +62%

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
Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Medecine Research Fund

Medical research and education in medicine in canada.

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2
Mount Sinai Hospital Otolaryngology Research Fund

Support of academic medical research education and health care in canada

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3
The Lynn and Brent Belzberg Foundation

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.

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4
The Zahavy Family Foundation

Support of jewish education and institutions

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5
Israel Cancer Research Fund Fondation D'israËL Pour La Recherche Sur Le Cancer

To provide funds to aid the cause of cancer research in canada and israel.

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6
Sinai Health Giving Fund
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7
The Dov Zimmerman Z'l Foundation

To make donations to charitable organizations

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8
Israel Cancer Research Fund (Toronto)

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.

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9
Mount Sinai Hospital Employees' Charity Trust

Donations to united way of greater toronto united jewish appeal of greater toronto and sinai health foundation.

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10
Israel Magen Fund of Canada

The mission of the Israel Magen Fund of Canada is to identify and support projects for qualified institutions in Israel and globally that require humanitarian aid medical assistance and physical and mental health care.

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11
The Haichel Hatorah B'zion Foundation

The charity collected funds from the public for the purpose of providing scholarships for deserving students attending haichel hatorah b'zion institutions.

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12
The Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University

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…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Shaare Zedek Hospital Foundation/Fondation Canadienne De L'hopital Shaare Zedek and the most unlike its peers is The Joachim and Charlotte Kellerman 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
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 budgetMizrachi Canada — C$727,200 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetSINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$180,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetONE FAMILY — C$83,600 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetYORKVILLE JEWISH CENTRE-THE JOACHIM AND CHARLOTTE KELLERMA — C$72,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetUNITED HATZALAH CANADA — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$18,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAZON CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$5,000 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.

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 10 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 119138592:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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