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Top 25 Charitable organizations based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 108 charitable organizations headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 1,575 professional contacts across them, including 652 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers charitable organizations 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.
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The 25 largest charitable organizations based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 440 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “YMCA of Northern Alberta is an independent charity that provides health, education and social services to communities including Red Deer, Edmonton, Grande Prairie and Fort…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 341 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Connective is a Canadian nonprofit organization working to create safe, healthy, and inclusive communities for all.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Charitable Impact is a free giving platform created to empower generous Canadians like you to make a real difference, no matter what cause you choose to support.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Imagine Canada is a national charitable organization whose cause is Canada’s charities and nonprofits.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PearTree Canada is the originator & leading provider of flow through share donations in Canada, and provides corporate financing, M&A solution for Canadian resource companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our main purpose is to partner with people, ministries, and projects in order to help fulfill The Great Commission as defined in the gospel of Matthew in the Bible.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Blue Sea exists to give charities the power to fundraise successfully and we believe that more often than not, peer-to-peer fundraising is the best way to do that.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Building Common Good was founded because we saw that charities and non-profits were being underserved and were unable to engage the people that matter most.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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. | |||||
| 11 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Funding Innovation exists to make an impact on society.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Muslim Welfare Canada is a charitable organization dedicated to serving the needs of the less fortunate across Canada and globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Canadian Centre for Christian Charities is Canada's largest association of Christian charities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CAGP provides a unique platform for charitable fundraisers and professional advisors in Canada to meet and network, collaborate, and learn new and innovative ways of helping…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The George Brown College Foundation, established in 1984, is a separately incorporated registered charity that serves as the primary fundraising vehicle for the George Brown…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Myriad Canada, formerly KBF CANADA, was established at the initiative of the Brussels-based King Baudouin Foundation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1941, our United Way has worked to strengthen lives by bringing together business, labour, individuals, government, and funders – to raise funds in support of a network of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Neufeld Institute is a registered Canadian charitable organization under the name Neufeld Institute Foundation and is also registered as an NPO in British Columbia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 20 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 21 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Benefaction Foundation is a public foundation registered with the Charities Directorate of the Canada Revenue Agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Passionate and experienced fundraisers, creatives, coders, and project management types who help nonprofits-like yours-raise money and do more good.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our Mission: We assist Christians in planning, giving and managing their God given resources to accomplish His work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Veritas Foundation aims to be Canada's authoritative source for participating in the country's charitable sector and evaluating its effectiveness and impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Upside Foundation of Canada offers an innovative platform to help Canadian startups and high-growth companies to be more philanthropic: donate options or warrants, not cash.” 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 organizations. 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 organizations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of charitable organizations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name charitable organizations. 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 organizations based in Canada at a glance
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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 108 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 organizations, 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 organizations”. 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 organizations), 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 organizations, 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, 652 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 organizations, 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 organizations are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 108 charitable organizations 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 Of Northern Alberta, headquartered in Edmonton, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most charitable organizations?
Toronto leads with 21 headquartered companies, followed by Vancouver (14) and Montreal (7).
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 652 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 108 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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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.
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