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Top 25 Local grantmakers based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 74 local grantmakers headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 664 professional contacts across them, including 303 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers local grantmakers 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 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 local grantmakers based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “There are many ways to build healthy and vibrant communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vancouver Foundation is dedicated to creating healthy, vibrant, equitable, and inclusive communities across BC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The West Vancouver Foundation is a Community Foundation and a registered charity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Growing a legacy of community giving in Surrey by investing in people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Coquitlam Foundation encourages and supports creative, targeted philanthropy that builds a vibrant, sustainable, and healthy community.The Coquitlam Foundation is registered…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The WindsorEssex Community Foundation is building a better Windsor-Essex by attracting and managing legacy funds, making grants to support community programs and bringing partners…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We invite donors and philanthropic investors to pool their resources to be forever dedicated to community building and community vitality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We reimagine community by inspiring generosity to create lasting legacies and responsive impact within our community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We engage donors, who have causes they are passionate about, to build permanent endowments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in the Burlington Community Foundation (BCF) is Burlington's trusted philanthropic partner, and one of more than 200 community foundations across Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Community Foundation of the South Okanagan Similkameen is dedicated to building strong, healthy communities by connecting donors with causes they care about.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We serve Abbotsford by connecting donors with causes that matter to them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About Us At the Whistler Community Foundation, we believe in building a thriving, connected community-today and for generations to come.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis 1975, Centraide Estrie recueille et investit des fonds localement pour briser le cycle de la pauvreté et de l’exclusion sociale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia is a charitable giving facilitator.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Stratford Perth Community Foundation (SPCF) is an organization for everyone; and unique because donations, large or small, are never spent but are combined and invested.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Regardless of where you live in our community, the Delta Community Foundation is supporting invaluable work in the neighbourhoods in which you live, work and play.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our Vision is Supporting community success through innovative partnerships.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Community Foundation brings community builders together to create meaningful and lasting change in the City and County of Peterborough.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We provide stable and sustainable financial support to charitable organizations on BC's Sunshine Coast, from Port Mellon to Egmont.” 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: local grantmakers. 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 local grantmakers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of local grantmakers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name local grantmakers. 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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Local grantmakers based in Canada at a glance
As of Sep 20, 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 74 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 local grantmakers, 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 “local grantmakers”. 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 local grantmakers), 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 local grantmakers, 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, 303 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.
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 local grantmakers, 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 local grantmakers are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 74 local grantmakers 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?
Ontario Trillium Foundation, headquartered in Toronto, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most local grantmakers?
Toronto leads with 4 headquartered companies, followed by Calgary (2) and Hamilton (2).
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 303 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 74 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.