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Top 25 Charitable foundations based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 161 charitable foundations headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 1,977 professional contacts across them, including 479 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers charitable foundations headquartered in Canada, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest charitable foundations based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 688 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “YMCA BC is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “There are many ways to build healthy and vibrant communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Vancouver Foundation is dedicated to creating healthy, vibrant, equitable, and inclusive communities across BC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our Commitment The YMCA is committed to strengthening the foundations of community by: Nurturing the potential of children, teens and young adults.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Winnipeg Foundation is Winnipeg’s forever fund.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Edmonton Community Foundation (ECF) strengthens the community by connecting donors to charities and causes that are important to them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Victoria Foundation is a registered charity accredited by Imagine Canada, and the second oldest of Canada’s 191 community foundations (view our CRA Registered Charity Return).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Toronto Foundation connects philanthropy with community needs and opportunities in order to make Toronto the best place to live, work, learn and grow.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Grande partenaire de l’Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont (HMR) depuis 1978, la Fondation HMR soutient les orientations stratégiques de développement de l’Hôpital pour mieux répondre…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Since 2002, the Rexall Foundation has been helping build strong and vibrant communities by supporting numerous charitable organizations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1974, Abundance Canada has helped people support the causes they care about during their life and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “United Way Waterloo Region Communities is dedicated to helping people live better lives in every one of the seven communities we serve.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis plus de 35 ans, la Fondation du MAC contribue activement à la mission de conservation, de diffusion et d’éducation du Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, et ce, grâce au…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Oakville Community Foundation is a registered charity connecting visionary donors with causes that truly matter.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Fondation Dévo, anciennement connue sous le nom de la Fondation Québec Philanthrope, existe pour une raison simple : faire en sorte que le bien dure.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “London Community Foundation is a charitable organization dedicated to improving communities across London and Middlesex County through collaboration, strategic leadership, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Northpine Foundation is a philanthropic organization that invests in people and ideas to help build a future where everyone in Canada can live a sustainable, fulfilling life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The West Vancouver Foundation is a Community Foundation and a registered charity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Growing a legacy of community giving in Surrey by investing in people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We seek to inspire and empower change in the following areas-Encourage organizations to operate efficiently and effectively -Mobilize community support to meet local community…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our VISION is a more philanthropic society, enabled by the JCF’s expertise in impactful giving.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Aqueduct Foundation is one of Canada's largest public foundations, built to help individuals, families, and their advisors give with intention, structure, and lasting impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Canada Gives is a federally registered not-for-profit organization committed to helping philanthropists build and grow high-impact foundations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pour ouvrir la voie à la relève, la mission de la Fondation du Collège Montmorency est de redonner aux étudiants et à la communauté montmorencienne afin de les accompagner dans…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Organisme caritatif public, la Fondation contribue au développement philanthropique d’Espace pour la vie et aux missions scientifiques, éducatives, culturelles, sociales et…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: charitable foundations. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names charitable foundations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of charitable foundations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name charitable foundations. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Charitable foundations based in Canada at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Canada, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Canada, over 161 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among charitable foundations, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Canada whose own description of what they do matches “charitable foundations”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names charitable foundations), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among charitable foundations, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 479 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names charitable foundations, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many charitable foundations are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 161 charitable foundations headquartered in Canada as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Ymca BC, headquartered in New Westminster, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most charitable foundations?
Toronto leads with 19 headquartered companies, followed by Montreal (15) and Vancouver (9).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 479 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 161 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.