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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Sonshine Family Foundation

Gifts to canadian registered charities.

C$311k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$16k
  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$170k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$125k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE VILLAGE SHULC$75,000
HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION OF CANADAC$50,000
ROM GOVERNORSC$25,000
FRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTRE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIESC$25,000
FEDERATION CJAC$25,000
CHABAD ON THE AVENUEC$25,000
HILLEL ONTARIOC$20,000
TORONTO CARE FUNDC$10,000
THE NATIONAL GOLF CLUB OF CANADAC$10,000
SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION CANADAC$10,000
HR CANADA CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONC$10,000
CHAI LIFELINEC$10,000
RAOUL WALLENBURG CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTSC$5,000
DAVID GOODMAN YOUTH COMMUNITY TRUSTC$5,000
CANADIAN HADASSAH-WIZOC$2,000
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$676k · 18 repeat orgsC$529k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
24

Total granted

C$676k
C$376k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$153k 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

  • SA
    SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$86k · revenue +17%
  • TV
    THE VILLAGE SHUL
    2× · 2020–2024 · C$85k · revenue +100%
  • SH
    SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$81k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • RU
    RYERSON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · C$125k · revenue +1%
  • CB
    CANADIAN BUSINESS HALL OF FAME
    one grant, 2023 · C$60k · revenue +6%
  • TA
    THE ABRAHAM GLOBAL PEACE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2021 · C$25k · 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 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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2
The Zahavy Family Foundation

Support of jewish education and institutions

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3
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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4
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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5
Canadian Friends of Yeshiva Beth Hillel Bnai Brak

Scholarships granted to qualified applicants related to post-graduate studies

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6
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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7
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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8
The Canadian Friends of Mercaz Hatorah

Funds provided for students desirous of studying advanced Talmudic and Torah law at Mercaz Hatorah Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem and other similar institutions.

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9
Canadian Friends of the Institute 0HOLEI Torah

The charity provides scholarship to needy students

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10
Canadian Friends of Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies

To advance education through the provision of scholarships bursaries and prizes to the public in order to further jewish religious studies and education.

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11
Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (Jlic) Canada

Programs in which primarily university students are able to acquire and cultivate jewish learning wisdom throught and culture

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12
Canadian Foundation for the Education and Welfare of Jews Ofthe C I S

Advancement of jewish education through religion language culture tradition history and philosophy courses.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is B'nai Brith of Canada Foundation 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.

02the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 54 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/53
Grantees still filing
36/53
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 budgetRYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION — C$86,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE VILLAGE SHUL — C$85,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — C$80,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN BUSINESS HALL OF FAME — C$60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTRE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES — C$55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION OF CANADA — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FRASER INSTITUTE — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHABAD ON THE AVENUE — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO — C$49,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetB'NAI BRITH OF CANADA FOUNDATION — C$43,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER TORONTO — C$34,332 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL ONTARIO — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFEDERATION CJA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROM GOVERNORS — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIALIK HEBREW DAY SCHOOL — C$23,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBAYCREST FOUNDATION — C$23,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF SOUTHERN ONTARIO — C$18,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL YOUTH CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTORONTO CARE FUND — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTOGETHER WE STAND MILITARY FAMILIES FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWomen's Brain Health Initiative — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF YESIVAT AISH HA TORAH — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTAND WITH US CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE PROSSERMAN JCC — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND OF CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED HATZALEH CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJRDF CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBBYO ONTARIO — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL GOLF CLUB OF CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFOREVER CHAI — C$10,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetHR CANADA CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY — C$6,451 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CANADIAN SHARRE ZEDEK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRAIN CANADA FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID GOODMAN YOUTH COMMUNITY TRUST — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRAOUL WALLENBURG CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE KEHILA JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — C$4,910 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNA'AMAT CANADA TORONTO — C$4,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN HADASSAH-WIZO — C$4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SONG SHUL — C$1,808 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBETH SHOLOM SYNAGOGUE — C$1,375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 …The Linda Frum & Howa…The Azrieli Foundatio…The Joseph Lebovic Ch…Conam Charitable Foun…Alexander E Grossman …The Arthur and Margar…Jewish Community Foun…The Gerald Schwartz &…The Dr. Wolf Lebovic …United Jewish Appeal …The Asper Foundation
Jewish Foundation of Greater TorontoON24.3× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · The Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Charitable Foundation · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Alexander E Grossman Foundation · The Arthur and Margaret Weisz Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation · The Dr. Wolf Lebovic Charitable Foundation · United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto · The Asper 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 54 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 2024-11-30, 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 892325846:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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