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Other Funders
Arts and Culture
New Funding Opportunities from the Infrastructure Stimulus Fund and Other Current Programs
Follow these links to newly announced funding by Government of Ontario and Canada:
Infrastructure Stimulus Fund (ISF)
Building Canada Fund
Cultural Spaces Canada
Canada Council for the Arts
A national arm's length agency that provides grants and services to professional Canadian artists and arts organizations.
Canadian Heritage
Supports a variety of different programs in the arts and culture sector, including the Canadian Arts and Heritage Sustainability Program, Cultural Spaces Canada and Arts Presentation Canada.
Fondation Franco Ontarienne
Main objective is to financially assist initiatives that will ensure the viability of the Franco-Ontarian community.
Imperial Oil Charitable Foundation
Donations are made to a variety of areas - including the arts - with the majority of funding made toward programs that enrich the lives of young people.
McLean Foundation
Makes grants in a wide range of areas, including arts, conservation, education, and health and welfare.
Metcalf Performing Arts Program - Performing Arts Program
Seeks to strengthen and enhance the effectiveness of people and organizations working to sustain the vibrancy of the professional performing arts.
Ontario Arts Council
Offers more than fifty funding programs for Ontario-based artists and arts organizations, with funds from the Ontario government. Grants provide assistance for a specific activity, support for a period of time, or for ongoing operations.
Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund
A $20 million initiative to help Ontario's arts, cultural and heritage organizations with new cultural programming ventures.
Salamander Foundation
Has two current areas of interest: Arts and Culture, and Environmental Health. The Foundation's purpose is to recognize the forms, functions and interactions of natural systems and to promote continuity and discovery in the arts and in culture.
SOCAN Foundation
Granting programs are aimed at encouraging performance opportunities for Canadian music creators.
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Environment
Environment Canada
Supports a variety of environmental granting programs, including the EcoAction Community Funding Program and the Endangered Species Recovery Fund (a collaborative program with the World Wildlife Fund).
Evergreen
Supports three granting programs: 1) The Home Depot - Evergreen Rebuilding Nature Grant, 2) Green Grants (sponsored by Wal-Mart-Canada), and 3) Unilever-Evergreen Acquatic Stewardship Grant.
Ivey Foundation
Supports a variety of granting programs with an emphasis on the environmental sector in Ontario.
McLean Foundation
Makes grants in a wide range of areas, including arts, conservation, education, and health and welfare.
Metcalf Foundation - Environment Program
The Metcalf Environment Program seeks to strengthen and enhance the effectiveness of people and organizations working together to ensure the ecological health and integrity of Canada's natural and working lands.
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Human and Social Services
Alva Foundation
Funds organizations conducting research and/or developing services that address significant risk factors in early childhood development, prenatal through four years of age.
Atkinson Charitable Foundation
Provide grants to Ontario registered charities that focus on either early childhood education and development and/or economic justice.
Canadian Heritage
Supports a variety of granting programs in the Human and Social Services sector, including Muliticulturalism and Human Rights, Aboriginal Peoples, and Official Languages.
Canadian Race Relations Foundation
Provides grants to projects that meet the Foundation's objectives relating to racism and racial discrimination.
Canadian Women's Foundation
Provides grants to charitable organizations under two granting programs: Building Women's Economic Independence and Ending Violence Against Women.
Change Foundation
Mission is to support and improve health and the delivery of health care through four activity areas: applied research and analysis; development program; education; and grants to charities.
Community Foundations of Canada
Check the directory for your local Community Foundation.
Counselling Foundation of Canada
The object of the Foundation is to engage in charitable and educational activities for the benefit of people; thus enabling them to improve their lifestyles and make a more effective contribution to their communities.
Fondation Franco-ontarienne
Main objective is to financially assist initiatives that will ensure the viability of the Franco-Ontarian community.
Northern Development Heritage Fund
Supports a variety of granting programs to not-for-profit organizations in Northern Ontario including the Infrastructure and Community Development Program.
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Human Resources and Skills Development Canada - National Literacy Program
Provides grants to build the capacity for literacy opportunities across Canada.
Imperial Oil Charitable Foundation
Donations are made to a variety of areas - including for community projects - with the majority of funding made toward programs that enrich the lives of young people.
Laidlaw Foundation - Children and Youth Program
Provides grants to promote youth involvement in communities, in decision-making and governance structures, in order to address barriers and issues of access.
Maytree Foundation - Refugee and Immigrant Grants
Provides grants to enable civil society organizations to serve refugees and immigrants in two granting programs: Capacity Building Grants and Solution Seeking Grants.
McLean Foundation
Makes grants in a wide range of areas, including arts, conservation, education, and health and welfare.
Ministry of Citizenship - Newcomer Settlement Program
Supports community organizations to provide settlement, orientation, job-finding workshops and other direct settlement services to more than 125,000 newcomers that arrive in communities across Ontario each year.
Office of Francophone Affairs - Violence Against Women Prevention Public Education Program
Provides grants for projects that contribute to the development of public education activities that make Ontario's Francophone population aware of the issue of violence against women and supports the development of measures to prevent it.
Raptors Foundation
Accepts proposals for funding from registered charities across Ontario that focus on at-risk children and youth.
Social Development Canada
Runs various granting programs including New Horizon for Seniors, Social Development Partnerships Program and Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
United Way of Canada
Check the main website to find your local United Way.
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Sports and Recreation
Canadian Heritage
Supports a variety of programs in the sports and recreation sector, including the Hosting Program and the Sport Support Program.
Forzani Group Foundation
The Foundation provides financial support for activities that involve the promotion of physical fitness, health and wellness, the prevention and relief of sickness and disability, or the participation and education in sports across Canada.
Funding Opportunities in Ontario for Physical Activity and Nutrition Initiatives (pdf 152kb)
This unofficial list has been compiled by Spark Together for Healthy Kids at the Heart and
Stroke Foundation of Ontario.
Ministry of Health Promotion - Communities in Action Fund
Aims to help bring about a physical activity and community sport culture in Ontario by helping local and provincial not-for-profit organizations provide and enhance opportunities for physical activity and community sport and recreation.
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Aboriginal Funders
The following links to granting programs may be of interest to not-for-profit or charitable aboriginal organizations as well as to First Nations, Metis and other Aboriginal communities.
Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative
The purpose of this program is to improve the health status of Métis, off-reserve Aboriginal people, and urban Inuit living outside their traditional communities by providing time-limited funding for community-based diabetes prevention and health promotion projects.
The Anglican Church of Canada - Indigenous Healing Fund
Grants from the church's Indigenous Healing Fund will be made and administered by the Healing Response Committee to encourage and initiate programs which help educate and heal.
Canada Council for the Arts - Aboriginal Peoples Music Program
Supports activities that contribute to the career and artistic development of Aboriginal musicians, and to the continued vitality of Aboriginal music. This includes funding to organizations dedicated to Aboriginal music.
Canada Council for the Arts - Aboriginal Peoples Production Project Grants in Dance
This program provides project support to Canadian Aboriginal dance professionals (individuals), companies, collectives and organizations.
Canada Council for the Arts - Aboriginal Traditional Art Forms Program
This program supports Aboriginal artists (working individually or together), groups, collectives, cultural centres and other organizations to undertake activities that contribute to the knowledge, sharing, understanding and development of Aboriginal traditional art forms.
Canada Council for the Arts - Annual Support to Aboriginal Peoples Dance Companies, Organizations and Collectives
The purpose of this program is to support the creation, production, revival and presentation of significant dance works in traditional dance and contemporary dance forms.
Canada Council for the Arts - Developmental Support to Aboriginal Theatre Organizations
This program provides support to Aboriginal theatre organizations towards the costs of producing theatre works and contributions towards the costs associated with the professional development of Aboriginal theatre artists and organizations.
Canadian Heritage - Aboriginal Friendship Centre Program
Provides funding for the operation of friendship centres, the National Association of Friendship Centres and its affiliated provincial/territorial associations.
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Canadian Heritage - Aboriginal Languages Initiative
The objective of the program is to support First Nation, Inuit and Métis community-based language projects in order to preserve, promote, and revitalize the loss of Aboriginal languages and cultures.
Canadian Heritage - Aboriginal Women's Program
The purpose of this program is to enable Aboriginal women to influence policies, programs, legislation and decision making that affect their social, cultural, economic and political well-being within their own communities and Canadian society while maintaining their cultural distinctiveness and preserving cultural identity.
Canadian Heritage - Cultural Connections for Aboriginal Youth
Programming provides accessible, Aboriginal community-based, culturally relevant and supportive projects, programs, services and counselling to urban Aboriginal youth, and will facilitate their participation in existing programs in order to improve their economic, social and personal prospects.
Circle on Aboriginal Grantmaking in Canada
This collaboration site has been created as a space for dialogue and sharing around Aboriginal-focused philanthropy in Canada. A place where foundations and other philanthropic grantmakers can connect to the larger issues and solutions through access to new research, stories, events and a network of fellow grantmakers.
Justice Partnership and Innovation Fund
Supports activities that respond effectively to the changing conditions effecting Canadian justice policy. Funding is available to aboroginal not-for-profit organizations, Bands, tribal councils and self-governing First Nations and Inuit.
Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs - Aboriginal Community Capital Grants Program
This program invests in the development of facilities that provide Aboriginal community services and encourage business activity. These facilities foster healthy lifestyles and skills development, especially among Aboriginal children and youth.
National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation
This program provides hands-on arts or cultural experience to community members, especially youth, and promotes the retention of Aboriginal languages.
Ontario Arts Council - Aboriginal Arts Education Projects
The purpose of this program is to provide opportunities for arts education projects where Aboriginal artists can engage learners in their language, culture and artistic practices.
Ontario Arts Council - Aboriginal Arts Projects
The purpose of this program is to develop opportunities for Aboriginal artists to engage with Aboriginal communities and to strengthen the relationship of Aboriginal organizations and communities with the arts and Aboriginal artists.
The United Church of Canada - The Healing Fund
The Healing Fund is intended to support grassroots projects that are First Nations-initiated and community-oriented. It is not intended to fund building projects, furniture/capital equipment purchases, salaries, or churches/ministries.
For other funding opportunities, please consult these websites:
Aborginal Canada Portal
Health Canada
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
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Online Directories
In addition to the granting foundations listed above, here are some other online directories that may be useful.
Charity Village - Resources and Library
Imagine Canada (membership required)
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