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Top 25 Community foundations based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 150 community foundations headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 2,313 professional contacts across them, including 685 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers community 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.
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The 25 largest community foundations based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 688 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 → | ||||
Partial 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 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A strong and vibrant community is better equipped to respond to new and urgent needs and challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 5 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 6 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Winnipeg Foundation is Winnipeg’s forever fund.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Since 1955, Calgary Foundation has been nurturing a healthy, vibrant, giving and caring community that supports all people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We love where we live-and that local love fuels everything we do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 10 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Vancity Community Foundation was founded in 1989 on the belief that by working together we can all thrive.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 12 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “East Scarborough Storefront (The Storefront) uses the power of collaboration to support people and build community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “On July 1st, 2022 – Cambridge & North Dumfries Community Foundation (CNDCF) and Kitchener Waterloo Community Foundation (KWCF) unified to become Waterloo Region Community…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 15 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Community Foundations of Canada (CFC) is the national leadership organization for Canada’s over 200 local community foundations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “United Way Simcoe Muskoka is a registered charity working to advance the common good and create opportunities for a better life for everyone in our region.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Created by and for the people of Ottawa, the Ottawa Community Foundation is a public, non-profit organization that has been serving the community since 1987.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hamilton Community Foundation’s (HCF) mission is to drive positive change by helping people give in a way that has meaning to them and impact in the community, providing grants…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 20 | 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. | |||||
| 21 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are stewards of philanthropy, helping donors creating legacy in Saskatoon.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 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. | |||||
| 23 | 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. | |||||
| 24 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 25 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
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: community 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 community foundations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of community foundations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name community 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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Community 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 150 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 community 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 “community 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 community 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 community 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, 685 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 community 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 community foundations are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 150 community 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 community foundations?
Toronto leads with 8 headquartered companies, followed by Calgary (5) and Ottawa (5).
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 685 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 150 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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