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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “toronto”
Where the money went
Largest: $257,667 to TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL — to support two years of a science and technology film program at the toronto international film festival, including feature film prizes, screenwriting fellowships, project pitches …
Largest: $3.6M to Sisters of St Joseph of Toronto — contribution provided
Largest: $192,000 to UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — simons investigator in mathematics
Largest: $2,000 to GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — in support of university of toronto schools' greatest need fund.
Largest: $25,000 to HILARY AGRO — agro, hilary (british columbia, u. of) "resistance to prohibition among people whose drug use is criminalized in toronto, on"
Largest: $374,947 to Governing Council of the University of Toronto — the effects of sustained cash transfers on children's education outcomes
Largest: $176,304 to UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — raising academic achievement in under-performing schools through improved management: a research-practice partnership
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $243,181 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to ASSOCIATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO INC — scholarships & financial aid
Largest: $589,623 to THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN — very early onset inflammatory bowel disease (veoibd): precision molecular diagnoses to targeted therapies-toronto studies
John Templeton FoundationWest Conshohocken, PA
6 matching grants · $2.1M · through 2024Largest: $108,293 to THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — give big: investigating and fostering generosity in young children
Largest: $100,000 to GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — crowdsourcing a research agenda for materials acceleration platforms
Largest: $540,000 to UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — core support for citizen lab to research cyber-surveillance threats to human rights defenders around the world and for core support for citizen lab's institutional strengthening
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →