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Top 25 Philanthropic organizations based in Toronto, Canada
RevenueBase identified 78 philanthropic organizations headquartered in Toronto, Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 764 professional contacts across them, including 382 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers philanthropic organizations 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.
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The 25 largest philanthropic organizations based in Toronto, Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Azrieli Foundation supports initiatives in education, science & healthcare, research and the arts, across communities in Canada and Israel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We partner with organizations that do good, so they can be better.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Imagine Canada is a national charitable organization whose cause is Canada’s charities and nonprofits.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “More than 60 years of philanthropy have taught us that there’s a relationship between healthy landscapes and healthy people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PODCAST LINK: Look for us on iTunes and Google Play: PGgrowth Planned Giving Podcast At PGgrowth, we are passionate about Planned Giving.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Social Innovation Canada (SI Canada) is a national charitable organization working to address complex challenges and create transformational change.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Environment Funders Canada (EFC) is a national network of philanthropic foundations and other organizations that support efforts to transition toward a more sustainable world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Charity Intelligence Canada (Ci) began out of frustration in 2006.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Catherine Donnelly Foundation is transforming the lives of those in underinvested communities by supporting innovative solutions in civic engagement for social change, the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The mission of the Metcalf Foundation is to enhance the effectiveness of people and organizations working together to help Canadians imagine and build a just, healthy, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Inspirit Foundation is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Sonor Foundation is a private Canadian foundation that invests in smart & creative leaders, good ideas and transformative impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At CANRev Collaborative, we help Charities, Associations and Not-For-Profits increase their revenues to help them increase their impact!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Offord Group is now Marts & Lundy Canada!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MISSION: Building on the rich legacy and tradition of the Canadian National Exhibition, we inspire community building by investing in innovative initiatives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CAF Canada, a registered Canadian charity, provides a platform for Canadian donors to fund international charitable projects.” 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: philanthropic 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 philanthropic organizations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of philanthropic organizations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name philanthropic 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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Philanthropic organizations 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 78 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 philanthropic 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 Toronto, Canada whose own description of what they do matches “philanthropic 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 philanthropic 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 philanthropic organizations, 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, 382 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.
Philanthropic organizations by metro in Canada
- Philanthropic organizations in Toronto78
- Philanthropic organizations in Montreal42
- Philanthropic organizations in Vancouver30
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 philanthropic 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 philanthropic organizations are there based in Toronto, Canada?
RevenueBase identified 78 philanthropic organizations 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?
Ontario Trillium Foundation, headquartered in Toronto, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most philanthropic organizations?
Toronto leads with 78 headquartered companies, followed by Montreal (42) and Vancouver (30).
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 382 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 78 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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