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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Victor and Rhoda Shields Charitable Foundation

Donations

C$43k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$12k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k34 grants · C$31k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$12k
C$370
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAYC$12,000
THE GOOD SHULC$7,286
SUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CTRC$5,000
BEIT HALOCHEMC$5,000
SIMON WISENTHALC$1,500
ONE FAMILY FUNDC$1,099
Individual grant recipientC$872
SISTERING A WOMAN'S PLACEC$779
ALS SOCIETYC$772
NORTH YORK WOMENS SHLTRC$750
NELLIESC$750
KAYLA'S CHILDREN CENTREC$535
COVENANT HOUSE TORONTOC$528
DIABETES CANADAC$528
BAYCREST FOUNDATIONC$522
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$445k · 39 repeat orgsC$11k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
23

Total granted

C$445k
C$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+16%

Still filing today

92%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$120k · revenue +98%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$106k · revenue +223%
  • BH
    BEIT HALOCHEM
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$16k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • KC
    KNESSETH CONGREGATION
    one grant, 2017 · C$3k
  • HG
    HAROLD GREEN JEWISH THEATRE
    one grant, 2017 · C$1k · revenue -12%
  • IR
    INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE
    one grant, 2023 · C$711

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
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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2
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
Toronto Holocaust Museum
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7
Jewish Music Week

Jewish Music Week is an exciting week of concerts recitals and musical events throughout the Greater Toronto Area. Founded in 2011 the festival celebrates all styles of Jewish music as well as the Jewish contribution to mainstream genres…

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8
Jewish Vocational Service of Metropolitan Toronto

JVS Toronto plays a vital role in Toronto and York Region ensuring that jobseekers reach their potential at work and employers build the workforce they need to be successful. Programs and services include a mix of general and specialized…

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9
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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10
The Toronto Cantorial Trust Fund

Raises funds through music concerts publishes jewish music provides educational seminars and assists others in music studies and provides scholarships to canadian cantorial students

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11
Canada Charity Partners

Advancing education by providing Canadians with information to better understand the use of media to manipulate the news regarding Israel Advancing education by providing educational missions that explore Israel's legendary intelligence…

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12
Mazon Canada

The charity raises money primarily from the jeiwsh community and distributes grants to front line organizations that fight hunger

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jewish Family and Child Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Song Shul. 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

55 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. 55 of the 65 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
40/55
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL — C$120,460 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL — C$105,643 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY — C$78,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WISENTHAL — C$38,300 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBEIT HALOCHEM — C$16,100 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOOD SHUL — C$12,440 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetKNESSETH CONGREGATION — C$6,200 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetBAYCREST FOUNDATION — C$5,822 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetZAREINU EDUCATION CENTRE — C$5,460 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM — C$5,180 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILD — C$4,656 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetALS SOCIETY — C$3,644 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDEAF BLIND SERV. — C$3,210 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TORONTO — C$3,028 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNNYBROOK HOSPITAL — C$2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNELLIES — C$2,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTREET HEALTH COMMUNITY — C$1,820 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHONEST REPORTING — C$1,650 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetONE FAMILY FUND — C$1,466 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetORT — C$1,440 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTRATFORD FEST — C$1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJACS — C$1,370 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDIABETES CANADA — C$1,028 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAROLD GREEN JEWISH THEATRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP RAMAH — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCNIB — C$750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHESCHEL SCHOOL — C$720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMT SINAI HOSPITAL FDN — C$650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEAF BLIND SERV. — C$650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWS FOR JUDAISM — C$600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTT MISSION — C$500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO SYMPHONY ORCH — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FREE LOAN — C$442 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN & COLITIS — C$402 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITAL — C$400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION — C$360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORAYNU — C$300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEZER MIZION — C$260 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY CANADA — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSISTERING A WOMAN'S PLACE — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH EMETH BAIS YEHUDA SYNOGOGUE — C$202 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS HELP PHONE — C$201 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONTARIO HORTICULTURAL TRADES FDN — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHAW FESTIVAL — C$200 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.

  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WISENTHAL ↗
  • Who funds BEIT HALOCHEM ↗
  • Who funds THE GOOD SHUL ↗
  • Who funds KNESSETH CONGREGATION ↗
  • Who funds BAYCREST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ZAREINU EDUCATION CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILD ↗
  • Who funds ALS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds DEAF BLIND SERV. ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds SUNNYBROOK HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds NELLIES ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE ↗
  • Who funds STREET HEALTH COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds HONEST REPORTING ↗
  • Who funds ONE FAMILY FUND ↗
  • Who funds ORT ↗
  • Who funds STRATFORD FEST ↗
  • Who funds JACS ↗
  • Who funds DIABETES CANADA ↗
  • Who funds HAROLD GREEN JEWISH THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds CAMP RAMAH ↗
  • Who funds CNIB ↗
  • Who funds HESCHEL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MT SINAI HOSPITAL FDN ↗
  • Who funds DEAF BLIND SERV. ↗
  • Who funds JEWS FOR JUDAISM ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds SCOTT MISSION ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCH ↗

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 …The Beverley and Samu…Canada GivesNathan and Lily Silve…Rayjo Charitable TrustThe Brown-Nusbaum Fam…Beth Tzedec Congregat…The Atid Charitable F…Conam Charitable Foun…The Emmet FoundationKrauss Family Charita…
Jewish Foundation of Greater TorontoON18.2× affinity18 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 · The Beverley and Samuel H. Cohen Family Foundation · Canada Gives · Nathan and Lily Silver Family Foundation · Rayjo Charitable Trust · The Brown-Nusbaum Family Foundation · Beth Tzedec Congregation · The Atid Charitable Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · The Emmet Foundation · Krauss Family Charitable Trust

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 65 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 advancing education.

Source object 888595071:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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