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Montreal, QC · Private foundation

The William and Ida Pencer Foundation

C$83k
Granted FY2022
16
Grants FY2022
1
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under C$10k14 grants · C$13k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$20k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$46k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CJAC$50,000
JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITALC$20,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLEC$6,000
YM-YWHAC$1,260
MONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITALC$1,000
FREE HEBREW FOR JUNIORSC$1,000
BENJAMIN & VANDA TRESIER MAISON SHALOMC$1,000
ST MARY'S HOSPITALC$500
QUEBEC FOUNDATION FOR THE BLINDC$500
MS SOCIETY OF CANADAC$500
MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$500
CUMMINGS JEWISH CENTRE FOR SENIORS FOUNDATIONC$300
HEART AND STOKE FOUNDATIONC$200
CNIBC$200
MONTREAL NEURILIGICAL INSTITUE-HOSPITALC$100
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$795k · 23 repeat orgsC$30k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
11

Total granted

C$795k
C$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+64%

Still filing today

100%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
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

  • C
    CJA
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$606k · revenue +69%
  • JG
    JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL
    3× · 2019–2022 · C$73k · revenue +50%
  • FC
    FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE
    4× · 2017–2022 · C$28k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • HB
    HAVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · C$20k
  • O
    OMETZ
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue -2%
  • CB
    CAMP B'NAI BRITHgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$3k · revenue +64%

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
Fondation du Chu de Québec

Organisme qui a comme mission de financier et subventionner la recherche l'enseignement l'équipement médical spécialisé et de haute technologie nécessaire à l'avancement scientifique et clinique et toutes les activités liées à…

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2
Fondation de l'Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal

Accumuler des fonds pour financier la recherche effectuée par l'institut de recherches cliniques de montréal

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3
Fondation De L'institut De Cardiologie De Montreal/Montreal Heart Institute Foundation

La fondation de l'institut de cardiologie de ontréal recueille et administre des fonds pour soutenir la recherche la prévention et l'enseignement prodigués par l'institut de cardiologie de montréal. elle encourage ainsi l'excellence d'une…

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4
Fondation de l'Université du Québec à Montréal

La fondation utilise ses revenus pour favoriser et soutenir le développement et l'avancement de l'enseignement à l'université due québec à montréal

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5
La Fondation De L'ecole De Formation Hebraique

Raising funds for jewish education in the west island of montreal

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6
Fondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGill McGill University Health Centre Foundation

To receive and invest funds and apply them to health care activities research and the teaching mandate for the benefit of the mcgill university health centre it's related institutions and other qualified donees with a similar mission.

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7
Fondation de Recherche Medicale Maimonides / Maimonides Medical Research Foundation

The purpose of the maimonides medical research foundation is to solicit and obtain gifts legacies and endowment funds in order to promote research health education and cultural services and to make gifts grants contributions and donations…

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8
Fondation de l'hôpital Jean-Talon

Contribuer à l'amélioration de la qualité des soins et des services offerts à la clientèle et à la promotion de la santé dans la communauté en soutenant financièrement le développement de l'hôpital jean-talon et du ciusss du…

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9
BNai BRith Hillel Foundation of Montreal Inc./La Fondation B'Nai B'Rith Hillel de Montréal Inc.

B'nai brith hillel foundation of montreal inc.s' mission is to support jewish students on campus.

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10
Fondation du Centre des Sciences de Montréal / Montreal Science Centre Foundation

La fondaiton a pour but de promouvoir une meilleure connaissance et compréhension de la science des technologies et de leur histoire.

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11
L'Institut de Recherche du Centre Universitaire de Santé McGill the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

The charity carries out all forms of medical research. the programs provide physical space as well as financial and personnel services to facilitate the work of researchers.

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12
La fondation de l'institut thoracique de Montréal / the Montréal Chest Institute Foundation

Make grants directed to the care and treatment of respiratory diseases at the mcgill university health centre

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fondation De L'hopital Mont Sinai / Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Gesher Abraham 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

31 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. 31 of the 35 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
27/31
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 budgetCJA — C$606,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$72,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE — C$28,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMCGILL HEAD & NECK FOUNDATION — C$26,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHAARE ZION — C$26,337 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYM-YWHA — C$6,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBENJAMIN & VANDA TRESISER MAISON SHALOM — C$6,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOMETZ — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE HEBREW FOR JUNIORS — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP B'NAI BRITH — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HOPSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST MARY'S HOPSITAL — C$2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH HOSPITAL OF HOPE ELDERCARE FOUNDATION — C$1,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCJCS FOUNDATION — C$1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetQUEBEC FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND — C$1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCNIB — C$1,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TORONTO HESCHEL SCHOOL — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION — C$700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON SOCIETY QUEBEC — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKURLING FOR KIDS — C$300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLES AMIS DE LA MONTAGNE — C$200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMADA — C$200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BETH RIVKAH FOUNDATION — C$200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFONDATION ACCUEIL BONNEAU — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER (LEUCAN) — C$200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaron de Hirsch - Black River Cemetaries — C$100 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.

The Mireille and Murr…Jewish Community Foun…Morris and Rosalind G…Leo and Shirley Goldf…Fondation Familiale G…The Norman Zavalkoff …Fondation Eldee-Eldee…Alvin Segal Family Fo…Maxwell Cummings Fami…The Azrieli Foundatio…Federation CjaConam Charitable Foun…
The Mireille and Murray Steinberg Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille Mireille et Muuray SteinbergQC17.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Mireille and Murray Steinberg Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille Mireille et Muuray Steinberg · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Morris and Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation / Fondation de la Famille Morris Et Rosalind Goodman · Leo and Shirley Goldfarb Foundation/Fondation Leo and Shirley Goldfarb · Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family Fondation · The Norman Zavalkoff Family Foundation / la Fondation Familiale Norman Zavalkoff · Fondation Eldee-Eldee Foundation · Alvin Segal Family Foundation · Maxwell Cummings Family Foundation - Fondation de la Famille Maxwell Cummings · The Azrieli Foundation/La Fondation Azrieli · Federation Cja · Conam 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 35 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 2022-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2022. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 887673663:2022-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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