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CONNECTING PHILANTHROPY TO NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITIES
In 2019-2020 (pre-pandemic) the Toronto Foundation made 1,827 grants to 852 charities, for a total value of $27.2 million.
GRANTS ARE MADE IN TWO KEY WAYS:
- Fundholders grant from their own funds to the organizations and issues they care about.
- Toronto Foundation grants our discretionary funds to high-impact organizations tackling inequality.
Find more details about our work and collective impact in our current annual report.
Tangible and sustainable change is created when donors listen, learn more deeply and become engaged with the community in creating a more fair and equal city. That's why we’re proud to support and share our connections with smaller and mid-sized organizations that do so much of the heavy lifting involved in addressing inequalities.
Consider this: hospitals, universities and colleges only represent 1% of organizations and yet represent about 66% of the total revenues of the entire charitable sector.*
We enable fundholders to continue supporting these familiar causes while also encouraging them to diversify their philanthropy to support the high-impact work happening at local organizations.
Informed and intentional giving can indeed make a difference.
Here's how we share and learn with our fundholder community:
*Source: http://sectorsource.ca/research-and-impact/sector-impact
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