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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Smdl Charitable Foundation

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C$181k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$134k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$19k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$28k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$134k
C$3,600
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEEMAN FOUNDATION CANADAC$134,100
CANADIAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTERC$18,000
PAUL PENNA JEWISH DAY SCHOOLC$10,000
JEWISH RUSSIAN COMMUNITY CENTRE OF ONTARIOC$6,000
UNITED HATZALAH CANADAC$3,600
THE CANADIAN SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$3,600
FOREST HILL JEWISH CENTREC$2,540
CHABAD OF MARKHAMC$2,000
CONGREGATION BETH HAMINYANC$650
NEW ISRAEL FUNDC$482
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$508k · 8 repeat orgsC$114k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

C$508k
C$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+11%

Still filing today

100%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$32k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
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 OF CANADA
    4× · 2020–2023 · C$118k · revenue +68%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF GREATER TORONTO
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$113k · revenue +98%
  • FH
    FOREST HILL JEWISH CENTRE
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$25k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • OC
    OHR CHAYA
    one grant, 2022 · C$33k · revenue -11%
  • UI
    UNITED ISRAEL APPEAL OF CANADA
    one grant, 2019 · C$31k · revenue +5%
  • IC
    ISREAL CANCER RESEARCH FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue +39%

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
Halacha Institute of Toronto

1. to provide courses seminars and workshops to explain and identify the principals of jewish law 2. telephone helpline 3. consulting the jewish business owners to ensure that their businesses adhere to jewish law 4. ongoing study group…

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2
The Toronto Jewish Film Foundation

The charity stages a large film festival and educates the public through this fesitval discussion and lectures as to the jewish history language society culture and religion.

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3
Downtown Jewish Community School of Toronto

The school provides classes from junior kindergarten to high school with a curriculum that develops an understanding of Jewish heritage religion culture and traditions. The school serves the Jewish community within the proximity of…

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4
Talmudical Academy of Toronto Mishkan HaTorah Charitable Trust

Operate a school to provide religious education in accordance with orthodox jewish tradition.

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5
Chabad of Downtown Vancouver

Fostering and conducting religious jewish educating in bc

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6
Chabad on Campus Canada

To advance the teachings and religious tenets of the jewish faith by developing educational outreach and spiritual activities and events both locally and nationally.

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7
Torah Umesorah Canada

To aid promote and establish schools and classes for the propogation of the orthodox jewish religion and the study of jewish religious and cultural texts in canada.

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8
Agudath Israel Congregation of Toronto

Conducting prayers lectures on ethics and religous laws talmudic study groups promoting furtherance of the practice of jewish orthodox faith to adults and children.

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9
The Interactive Jewish Education Centre

To preach and advance the teachings of the Jewish faith and the religious tenets doctrines observances and culture associated with that faith.

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10
The Toronto Mikvah Society

The charity provides facilities for the practice of jewish religious rituals.

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11
The Canadian Jewish Educational Fund

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.

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12
The Chai Centre

Lectures religious events and programming yiddish language program religious articles provisions and services

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Israel Appeal of Canada Inc and the most unlike its peers is Link Yad Chesed. 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

22 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. 22 of the 23 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
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 budgetNEEMAN FOUNDATION CANADA — C$213,723 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetJEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$118,292 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF GREATER TORONTO — C$113,448 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOHR CHAYA — C$32,974 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED ISRAEL APPEAL OF CANADA — C$31,477 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOREST HILL JEWISH CENTRE — C$25,140 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH RUSSIAN COMMUNITY CENTRE OF ONTARIO — C$22,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER — C$18,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetISREAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPAUL PENNA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF MARKHAM — C$8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CANADIAN SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED HATZALAH CANADA — C$3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJACS TORONTO — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHAAREI SHOMAYIM — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — C$964 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAN FAMILY VILLAGE SHUL — C$750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKehillat Shaarei Torah — C$700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONGREGATION BETH HAMINYAN — C$650 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLINK YAD CHESED — C$360 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHABAD GEORGINA — C$360 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVANCOUVER HEBREW ACADEMY SOCIETY — C$180 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.

Jewish Foundation of …United Jewish Appeal …My Charity FundThe Friedberg Charita…Zichron Binyomin Char…Moral Arc FoundationRayjo Charitable TrustConam Charitable Foun…The Gra Charitable Tr…Jack and Doris Bistri…Jewish Community Foun…The Goldberg Family F…
Jewish Foundation of Greater TorontoON16.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto · My Charity Fund · The Friedberg Charitable Foundation · Zichron Binyomin Charity Foundation · Moral Arc Foundation · Rayjo Charitable Trust · Conam Charitable Foundation · The Gra Charitable Trust · Jack and Doris Bistricer Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · The Goldberg 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 23 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 862943156:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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