Dollard-Des-Ormeaux, QC · Private foundation
Zeldie & Joe Lester Foundation
The foundation was set up to earn investment income and to pay out the earned amounts to registered charities in canada.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k7 grants · C$3k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JPPS BIALIK | C$44,595 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$1,000 |
| UJA OF GREATER TORONTO | C$1,000 |
| MADA | C$500 |
| CHABAD WATERLOO | C$360 |
| DONALD BERMAN MAIMONIDES FOUNDATION | C$150 |
| CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY | C$100 |
| JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | C$100 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 87% of grant dollars (C$418k). The 13% that went abroad (C$61k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 13% of all-years giving (C$61k)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k went to new ones.
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
- JBJPPS BIALIK7× · 2017–2024 · C$197k · revenue +65%
- CCHAT5× · 2017–2022 · C$98k · revenue +9%
- BSBETH SHOLOM SYNAGOGUE6× · 2017–2023 · C$22k · revenue +258%
Funded once
- BHBIALIK HEBREW DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · C$23k
- BIBETH ISRAEL AARON (MEMBERSHIP)one grant, 2023 · C$8k
- BIBETH ISRAEL BETH AARON (MEMBERSHIP)one grant, 2022 · C$8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
To provide funds to aid the cause of cancer research in canada and israel.
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…
Grants made to charitable organizations and for charitable programs providing support to low income families/individuals education health research for public good& social services cultural activities religious activities humanitarian…
B'nai brith hillel foundation of montreal inc.s' mission is to support jewish students on campus.
Raising funds for jewish education in the west island of montreal
The charity opertes a school for jewish children
Supporting institutions that provides religious jewish education. the organization provides funds to ensure that poor families are able to provide their children with a quality education. providing funds to synagogues so that jewish…
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.
The charity furthered the practice of judaism by funding programs in mir yerushalayim including scholarships to deserving students to enable them to pursue religious studies at mir yerushalayim in jerusalem.
Providing funds for medical charitable and educational purposes by making gifts grants contributions and donations to or for the benefit of the mont sinai hospital centre montreal
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…
Funds provided for students desirous of studying advanced Talmudic and Torah law at Mercaz Hatorah Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem and other similar institutions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hadassah-Wizo Organization of Canada - L'Organisation HadassAh-Wizo Du Canada and the most unlike its peers is Act to End Violence Against Women. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
58 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. 58 of the 98 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 JPPS BIALIK ↗
- Who funds CHAT ↗
- Who funds BETH SHOLOM SYNAGOGUE ↗
- Who funds VMM CHABBAD ↗
- Who funds JGH (JEWISH GENERAL FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CENTER CHABAD ST.SAUVEUR ↗
- Who funds BEIT HALOCHEM ↗
- Who funds MADA ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF ISRAEL CONGREGATION ↗
- Who funds CHABAD FLAMINGO ↗
- Who funds KIDNEY FOUNDAITON OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE CANADA ↗
- Who funds HEART AND STROKE ↗
- Who funds MONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHAYA MUSUKA SEM ↗
- Who funds MADA ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ↗
- Who funds McGill University Research Health Center ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · Rayjo Charitable Trust · Fondation Familiale Gewurz/Gewurz Family Fondation · Federation Cja · Zolfam Matan Bceter Foundation · Hatzolas Yisroel D'Arizal · Morris and Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation / Fondation de la Famille Morris Et Rosalind Goodman · Gurman Foundation/Fondation Gurman · Joseph Neufeld Family Foundation · Fondation Eldee-Eldee Foundation · Alvin Segal Family Foundation · The Mireille and Murray Steinberg Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille Mireille et Muuray Steinberg
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.