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Top 25 Industry associations based in Toronto, Canada
RevenueBase identified 101 industry associations headquartered in Toronto, Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 1,805 professional contacts across them, including 518 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers industry associations headquartered in Toronto, 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 20, 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 industry associations based in Toronto, Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 321 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Insurance Institute is the premier source of professional education and career development for the country’s property and casualty insurance industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 245 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) is the national industry association representing Canada's private home, auto and business insurers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 134 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Restaurants Canada is a national, not-for-profit association advancing Canada’s diverse and dynamic foodservice industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 118 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Canadian Marketing Association represents Canada’s leading business sectors and all marketing disciplines, channels and technologies through thought leadership, growth…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Centre for Study of Insurance Operations (CSIO) is a national insurance association with over broker, carrier, and vendor members in Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada is the national voice and de facto thought leader of the Canadian Interactive marketing and advertising industry; and is a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fostering Conversations, Connections, and Collaboration.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of Canada is the voice of the Canadian commercial real estate industry with over 3,200 members in regional associations across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CFIG is a non-profit trade association founded in 1962, which continues to be a collaborative community, equipping and enabling independent, franchised, and specialty grocers for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CFA Societies Canada is a collaboration of the 12 Canadian member societies, whose mission is to lead the investment profession in Canada by advancing the highest professional…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Building Owners and Managers Association of the Greater Toronto Area (BOMA Toronto) helps members ensure tenant satisfaction, maximize profits, and enhance asset values for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CSAE is many things to many people – a source of information, education, inspiration and motivation to name just a few.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1939 by a group of eleven general contracting firms, the OGCA has grown into the largest representative association in the construction industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The CFLA is the only organization advocating for the interests of the asset-backed financing and leasing industry in Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Insurance Brokers Association of Canada (IBAC) is the national voice of property and casualty insurance brokers and an advocate for insurance consumers, representing their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Tourism Industry Association of Ontario (TIAO) is recognized by government as the voice of tourism.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “As the national voice of recruiting, employment and staffing services industry, the Association of Canadian Search, Employment & Staffing Services (ACSESS) leads Canada to work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Music Canada is a Toronto-based, non-profit trade organization that represents the interests of companies that record, manufacture, produce, promote and distribute music in Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1975, CIMA is the not-for-profit national trade association representing over 650 Canadian-owned music companies connected to over artists and music industry workers in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Association of Canadian Advertisers is the only independent voice of brand-side marketers in Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Institute of Canadian Agencies is the not-for-profit association for Canadian advertising, marketing, media and public relations agencies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1954, as the Canadian Tea Council with the founding countries of Sri Lanka and India, the council carried the role of promoting tea consumption to Canadians.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to ISPE Canada Affiliate!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CAASA is a trade association created to represent Canadian alternative investment managers, investors, and service providers across Canada and globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “REALPAC is the only national association representing top-tier executives and decision makers of the Canadian commercial real estate industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: industry associations. 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 industry associations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of industry associations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name industry associations. 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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Industry associations based in Toronto, Canada at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole Canada list rather than for Toronto, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Toronto, over 101 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 industry associations, 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 Toronto, Canada whose own description of what they do matches “industry associations”. 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 industry associations), 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 industry associations, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Toronto 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, 518 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 20, 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.
Industry associations by metro in Canada
- Industry associations in Toronto101
- Industry associations in Montreal50
- Industry associations in Ottawa38
- Industry associations in Vancouver31
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 industry associations, 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 industry associations are there based in Toronto, Canada?
RevenueBase identified 101 industry associations headquartered in Toronto, 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?
Insurance Institute Of Canada, headquartered in Toronto, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most industry associations?
Toronto leads with 101 headquartered companies, followed by Montreal (50) and Ottawa (38).
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 518 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 101 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 20, 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.
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