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North York, ON · Private foundation

The Sturm Family Foundation

Donating funds to charitable organizations that include religious schools hospitals and medical research

C$144k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
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Regions reached
C$54k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$10k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$30k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$104k
C$10,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$647k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANADIAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT BETH AVRAHAMC$54,000
JEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$50,000
NETIVOT HATORAH DAY SCHOOLC$20,000
MACHZIKAI HADATH CONGREGATION - CLANTON PARK SYNAGOGUEC$10,000
EMUNAH CANADAC$5,400
THE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF CANADA INC.C$1,800
MIZRACHI CANADAC$1,800
OR CHAIM MINYANC$1,350
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$576k · 8 repeat orgsC$123k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
16

Total granted

C$576k
C$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+9%

Still filing today

75%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$77k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • BA
    BNEI AKIVA SCHOOLS
    3× · 2018–2022 · C$251k · revenue +94%
  • MH
    MACHZIKAI HADATH CONGREGATION - CLANTON PARK SYNAGOGUE
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$23k · revenue +274%
  • MC
    MIZRACHI CANADA
    3× · 2017–2023 · C$18k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • CF
    CANADIAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT BETH AVRAHAM
    one grant, 2021 · C$25k
  • JN
    JEWISH NATIONAL FUND
    one grant, 2018 · C$10k
  • NF
    NEEMAN FOUNDATION CANADA
    one grant, 2021 · C$2k · revenue +14%

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
Canadian Friends of the Institute 0HOLEI Torah

The charity provides scholarship to needy students

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3
The Zahavy Family Foundation

Support of jewish education and institutions

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4
Jewish Heritage Foundation International

Provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses given at mosdos gur in jerusalem israel.

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5
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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6
Canadian Friends of Toldos Aharon

To provide scholarship and assistance to needy students to enable them to follow religious courses at yeshiva toldos aharon for the furtherance of religious study

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7
Yeshivah Toras Chaim

The charity provides scholarships and assistance to needy students to enable them to study at yeshiva toras chalm

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8
Chesed L'avraham

The charity provides religious education for underpriveleged children in israel

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9
Mishmeret

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.

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10
Yeshiva Student Religious Education Fund

The organization has been set up to provide religious education.

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11
Canadian Friends of Yeshivat Wiznitz of Bnei Braq

Provide scholarships and assistance to deserving students to continue their religious courses given at yeshivat wiznitz.

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12
The Yeshivah Scholarship Fund of Israel

Provide scholarships to needy students persuing studies of higher education in israel.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shomrai Shaboth-Chevrah Mishnayoth Congregation and the most unlike its peers is J.F. of Canada. 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

27 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. 27 of the 28 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/27
Grantees still filing
13/27
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 budgetBNEI AKIVA SCHOOLS — C$250,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT BETH AVRAHAM — C$160,100 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetJ F OF CANADA — C$68,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetBETH OLOTH CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION — C$52,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMACHZIKAI HADATH CONGREGATION - CLANTON PARK SYNAGOGUE — C$22,760 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNETIVOT HATORAH DAY SCHOOL — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMIZRACHI CANADA — C$17,620 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMUNAH CANADA — C$5,400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOR CHAIM MINYAN — C$3,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF CANADA INC. — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEEMAN FOUNDATION CANADA — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO CHEDER — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYU TORAH MITZION BEIT MEDRASH OF TORONTO — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJACS — C$1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Friends of Yeshiva University — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTORAH IN MOTION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetZichron Binyamin Charity Foundation — C$876 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSSCM — C$540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM — C$500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGemilas Chesed of Clanton Park — C$500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHEVRA OSEH CHESED FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE ORGANIZATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAGUDAS YISRAEL OF TORONTO — C$360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIDF Widows and Orphans Canada — C$250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREGESH FAMILY AND CHILD SERVICES — C$180 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.

My Charity FundRayjo Charitable TrustThe Weitz Family Foun…Jack and Doris Bistri…Jewish Foundation of …Fieldgate Cares Found…Messorah Tzedakah Fou…Zichron Binyomin Char…Tom and Annie Kohn Ch…The Amayn Charitable …The Robert and Renee …The Kelman Charitable…
My Charity FundON15.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: My Charity Fund · Rayjo Charitable Trust · The Weitz Family Foundation · Jack and Doris Bistricer Charitable Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · Fieldgate Cares Foundation · Messorah Tzedakah Foundation · Zichron Binyomin Charity Foundation · Tom and Annie Kohn Charitable Foundation · The Amayn Charitable Foundation · The Robert and Renee Rubinstein Charitable Foundation · The Kelman Charitable 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 28 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 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 119258184:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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