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Grant Programs
Supporting Toronto's communities
Toronto Foundation makes grants in three ways:
- Donor Advised Grants: Toronto Foundation fundholders direct grants independently through their own areas of interest
- Core Grants: When we use our smaller central pool of discretionary funds to support our core grants, investments and responsive granting
- Responsive Grants: When we administer national grant programs locally to communities
The amount of Toronto Foundation’s discretionary funding available centrally varies from year to year. Signature programs include Toronto’s Vital Signs Grants. In addition, we provide occasional partnership funding for organizations working at the crossroads of issues, sectors and systems change.
In 2024, together with our fundholders, Toronto Foundation made 2,435 grants to 1074 charities, totalling $26.7 million.
Core Grants
Toronto's Vital Signs
Tackling Toronto's greatest inequalities today.
We also make social impact investments. Learn more about becoming an investee here.
Responsive Grants
Occasionally, responsive funding programs do come up – often in partnership with other organizations. COVID-19 prompted many funding opportunities.
Below are links to past responsive grants we’ve administered, many in partnership with our umbrella organization, Community Foundations of Canada. Funding criteria for these programs are often pre-established and we administer the program locally.