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Message from RockCreek Canada 2025

Toronto Foundation Investment Performance in 2025 It was a strong year for the Foundation’s investment portfolio. Markets that weathered one shock after another continued to rise during the year. Despite enormous changes in the global trading system, global equities continued to make gains. By maintaining a diversified portfolio with long-term investment themes, the Foundation’s investment […]

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Toronto Foundation Investment Performance in 2025 It was a strong year for the Foundation’s investment portfolio. Markets that weathered one shock after another continued to rise during the year. Despite enormous changes in the global trading system, global equities continued to make gains. By maintaining a diversified portfolio with long-term investment themes, the Foundation’s investment

When Community Wealth Builds Wellbeing

We ask community organizations to carry more than they are often built to hold. For the past decade, we’ve worked to shift that—centering equity in our granting, our research and our relationships with donors. We’ve helped shine a light on smaller charities doing outsized work across the city, often serving those who need it most.

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We ask community organizations to carry more than they are often built to hold. For the past decade, we’ve worked to shift that—centering equity in our granting, our research and our relationships with donors. We’ve helped shine a light on smaller charities doing outsized work across the city, often serving those who need it most.

Year-end deadlines: Holiday gifting and granting 2025

Sending a holiday grant to your favourite organization? Grants: Wednesday, December 3, 2025 Grants received by December 3 will be deposited or mailed before the end of the calendar year Making a contribution to your TF fund and hoping for a 2025 tax receipt? Gifts of securities: Wednesday, December 10, 2025* We require a completed Gift

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Sending a holiday grant to your favourite organization? Grants: Wednesday, December 3, 2025 Grants received by December 3 will be deposited or mailed before the end of the calendar year Making a contribution to your TF fund and hoping for a 2025 tax receipt? Gifts of securities: Wednesday, December 10, 2025* We require a completed Gift

End-of-Year Deadlines: Holiday Gifting and Granting

Sending a holiday grant to your favourite organization? Grants: Wednesday, December 4, 2024 Grants received by December 4 will be deposited or mailed before the end of the calendar year Making a contribution to your TF fund and hoping for a 2024 tax receipt? Gifts of securities: Wednesday, December 11, 2024* We require a completed Gift

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Sending a holiday grant to your favourite organization? Grants: Wednesday, December 4, 2024 Grants received by December 4 will be deposited or mailed before the end of the calendar year Making a contribution to your TF fund and hoping for a 2024 tax receipt? Gifts of securities: Wednesday, December 11, 2024* We require a completed Gift

A message from RockCreek

Toronto Foundation Investment Performance in 2023 For the first time since Toronto Foundation embarked on a responsible investing journey, we’ve partnered on providing an investment impact report. Last year we invested $758M on behalf of the Foundation, of which $97M was invested responsibly. Overall the investments generated a 9.9% return, with an even higher rate

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Toronto Foundation Investment Performance in 2023 For the first time since Toronto Foundation embarked on a responsible investing journey, we’ve partnered on providing an investment impact report. Last year we invested $758M on behalf of the Foundation, of which $97M was invested responsibly. Overall the investments generated a 9.9% return, with an even higher rate

Announcing: our new COO, Rashid Javed

With over 20 years of senior leadership experience in finance and operations in the corporate and charity sectors across four continents, Rashid Javed has been able to build a reputation of having sound judgment, analytical skills and an ability to inspire, motivate and build trust. Having a particular niche in finding new ways of working

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With over 20 years of senior leadership experience in finance and operations in the corporate and charity sectors across four continents, Rashid Javed has been able to build a reputation of having sound judgment, analytical skills and an ability to inspire, motivate and build trust. Having a particular niche in finding new ways of working

Social isolation on the rise while civic engagement has dropped in Toronto, study finds

COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected social wellbeing of some residents, new study says Civic engagement among Torontonians has fallen markedly in recent years while the proportion of city residents who feel socially isolated has risen. That’s according to the Toronto Social Capital Study 2022, a sweeping report released Tuesday that explores how the COVID-19 pandemic

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COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected social wellbeing of some residents, new study says Civic engagement among Torontonians has fallen markedly in recent years while the proportion of city residents who feel socially isolated has risen. That’s according to the Toronto Social Capital Study 2022, a sweeping report released Tuesday that explores how the COVID-19 pandemic

Philanthropy Reset

In the midst of pandemic upheaval, philanthropy became the story in 2020. For the first time in my 20+-year career, private philanthropy rose up as the central figure in a narrative about change. Many spoke up to call traditional philanthropy to account. Endowments were under the microscope for leaving too much money “on the table.”

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In the midst of pandemic upheaval, philanthropy became the story in 2020. For the first time in my 20+-year career, private philanthropy rose up as the central figure in a narrative about change. Many spoke up to call traditional philanthropy to account. Endowments were under the microscope for leaving too much money “on the table.”

Leveraging our assets and knowledge for a bigger impact 

A reflection on our social impact investing between June 2020 – June 2021 As a community foundation we know full well the potential of pooling assets to deliver a more powerful impact. This year we reaffirmed that philosophy as preferred practice of collaborating with other investors – notably other foundations – on larger, and sometimes ground-breaking initiatives so that we can share the due diligence, best practices and

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A reflection on our social impact investing between June 2020 – June 2021 As a community foundation we know full well the potential of pooling assets to deliver a more powerful impact. This year we reaffirmed that philosophy as preferred practice of collaborating with other investors – notably other foundations – on larger, and sometimes ground-breaking initiatives so that we can share the due diligence, best practices and

A Letter from CEO Sharon Avery

We opted to forgo a subtitle on this, our 18th Toronto’s Vital Signs Report. How to sum up 18 months of devastation and despair? There’s no simple roundup, no original, insightful, singular analysis that can make sense of all of this. There’s little comfort in pretty words in the face of the greatest crisis of

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We opted to forgo a subtitle on this, our 18th Toronto’s Vital Signs Report. How to sum up 18 months of devastation and despair? There’s no simple roundup, no original, insightful, singular analysis that can make sense of all of this. There’s little comfort in pretty words in the face of the greatest crisis of

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