Major Gift News
Bader Philanthropies
Gift:
$54,000,000
Recipient:
Queens University
City:
Kingston
Province:
Ontario
The Bader Philanthropies will give roughly $54 million to revitalize the Agnes Etherington Arts Centre. The gift will help build a new museum to house the Bader Collection, the graduate program in Art Conservation, and both graduate and undergraduate programs of Art History. This is the largest donation the University has ever received.
July 2020
Rogers Foundation
Gift:
$20,000,000
Recipient:
Food Banks Canada
City:
Mississauga
Province:
Ontario
To support the organization’s increased need due to COVID-19. This is part of a $60 million commitment to various organizations around Canada in response to COVID-19. This is the largest gift that Food Banks Canada has ever received.
July 2020
Rogers Foundation
Gift:
$10,000,000
Recipient:
Salvation Army
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
To support the organization’s food banks and shelters across the country. This is part of a $60 million commitment to various organizations around Canada in response to COVID-19. This is the largest private donation that Salvation Army has ever received.
July 2020
Cowan Foundation
Gift:
$5,000,000
Recipient:
Conestoga College
City:
Kitchener
Province:
Ontario
To support the college’s $10 million initiative to address the urgent need for additional health care professionals including personal support workers at the frontline of care.
July 2020
Rogers Foundation
Gift:
$5,000,000
Recipient:
Children's Aid Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
To expand emergency COVID-19 assistance to children, youth and families involved with the child welfare system who are impacted by the pandemic. This is part of a $60 million commitment to various organizations around Canada in response to COVID-19.
July 2020
BMO
Gift:
$3,000,000
Recipient:
Montreal Children's Hospital Foundation
City:
Montreal
Province:
Quebec
BMO Financial Group and the Hewitt Foundation are partnering with a total contribution of $5 million for an unprecedented Canadian project to maintain social pediatric services in Northern Quebec Indigenous communities.
July 2020
Hewitt Foundation
Gift:
$2,000,000
Recipient:
Montreal Children's Hospital Foundation
City:
Montreal
Province:
Quebec
BMO Financial Group and the Hewitt Foundation are partnering with a total contribution of $5 million for an unprecedented Canadian project to maintain social pediatric services in Northern Quebec Indigenous communities.
July 2020
Estate of Ron Durnin
Gift:
$1,700,000
Recipient:
Canadian Cancer Society
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
The gift will support the organization’s areas of greatest need. Before he passed away in 2017, Ron Durnin said he hoped the gift would inspire others to give. Ron Durnin’s late wife, Frances, wife died of cancer in 2011.
July 2020
Bell Let's Talk
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Canadian Mental Health Association
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
To expand mental health supports available remotely for Canadians with the introduction of the CMHA’s BounceBack program across the country.
July 2020
BMO
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Various
City:
Toronto, Chicago and New York
Province:
International / National
To support social and racial justice and inclusion in Canada and the US. This gift will be distributed between NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Equal Justice Initiative, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, and the Greater Twin Cities United Way.
July 2020
CP
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Various
City:
Minneapolis, MN; Montgomery, AB
Province:
International
CP is donating $1 million USD to support the people of Minneapolis, home to the headquarters of CP’s US operations, and support meaningful positive change nationally in response to ongoing social unrest and social injustice across the United States. Recipients are Lake Street Council, East Side Neighborhood Services and Equal Justice Initiative.
July 2020
The Jarislowsky Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Queens University
City:
Kingston
Province:
Ontario
To bring leading-edge technology to Canada and help to preserve some of the country’s most important works of art.
July 2020
Larry and Judy Tanenbaum
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Sinai Health Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
To fuel COVID-19 research at Sinai Health’s Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute. The gift will be used to match all new donations to the Institute for COVID-19 and other related groundbreaking research.
July 2020
Mailman Family Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
North Island College
City:
Courtenay
Province:
British Columbia
To purchase equipment and supplies for priorities including Campbell River’s first ever nursing simulation lab. Mailman Family Foundation
Student Commons This is North Island College’s largest-ever donation.
July 2020
Procter & Gamble Canada
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
CanadaHelps
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
This is a matching gift to CanadaHelps’ Black Solidarity Fund. Gifts made to the fund up until July 31st will be matched by P&G up to $1,000,000.
July 2020
Robert Regular
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Dr. H. Bliss Murphy Cancer Care Foundation
City:
St. Johns
Province:
Newfoundland & Labrador
To support the “In This Together” Campaign which is raising money for a new chemotherapy unit. This gift brings the campaign to its $5,000,000 goal.
July 2020
The Leo and Sala Goldhar Foundation
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $1,000,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Juan & Stefania Speck
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $1,000,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Henry and Mindy Lau
Gift:
$1,000,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $1,000,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Anonymous
Gift:
$950,000
Recipient:
Cuso International
City:
Ottawa
Province:
Ontario
This gift will allow Cuso to maintain a presence in Myanmar, and action other multi-country programs in the ASEAN region, with a focus on gender equality, women and girls’ empowerment and economic opportunities for youth.
July 2020
Mastercard Foundation
Gift:
$840,000
Recipient:
Various
City:
Various
Province:
Saskatchewan
The gift will be distributed to Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research, the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies, and the University of Saskatchewan to support Indigenous students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
July 2020
Donald R. Sobey Foundation
Gift:
$750,000
Recipient:
Dalhousie University
City:
Halifax
Province:
Nova Scotia
To support the new International Restorative Research, Innovation and Education Lab, which is aimed at promoting restorative justice to help institutions start tackling racial discrimination and other social problems.
July 2020
Bell Let's Talk
Gift:
$700,000
Recipient:
Canadian Red Cross
City:
Ottawa
Province:
Ontario
To help support the mental wellbeing of Canadians during COVID-19 with a significant expansion of the Friendly Calls program in communities with increased demand for mental health services.
July 2020
Manulife
Gift:
$695,000
Recipient:
St. Mary's General Hospital Foundation
City:
Kitchener
Province:
Ontario
This is a matching gift for a recent local COVID-19 response fundraiser.
July 2020
Bell Let's Talk
Gift:
$650,000
Recipient:
Revivre
City:
Montreal
Province:
Quebec
To help support the mental wellbeing of Canadians during COVID-19 with a launch of new virtual services to meet the increased demand.
July 2020
Kirkland Lake Gold
Gift:
$550,000
Recipient:
Cochrane District Social Services Administration Board
City:
Timmins
Province:
Ontario
To support homelessness programs in Timmins.
July 2020
Various
Gift:
$500,000
Recipient:
Food Banks of Quebec
City:
Montreal
Province:
Quebec
Eidos-Montreal, Square Enix Montréal, and Eidos-Sherbrooke, the three Square Enix video game studios in Montreal and Sherbrooke, are giving $850,000 in support of the community, $500,000 of which will be donated directly to Food Banks of Quebec. Several other associations in the greater Montreal and Sherbrooke region working in the areas of food insecurity, poverty, student retention, and homelessness will also recieve funding.
July 2020
Marcelle and Jean Coutu Foundation
Gift:
$500,000
Recipient:
Centraide of Greater Montreal
City:
Montreal
Province:
Quebec
To support the Youth Project, a joint initiative of the Centraides of Quebec and the Lucie and André Chagnon Foundation that aims to help isolated and marginalized youth start the 2020-2021 school year with every chance on their side despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
July 2020
Rogers Foundation
Gift:
$500,000
Recipient:
Boost Child & Youth Advocacy Centre
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
To support Child Victims of Abuse and Online Exploitation during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. This is part of a $60 million commitment to various organizations around Canada in response to COVID-19.
July 2020
Scotiabank
Gift:
$500,000
Recipient:
Various
City:
Various
Province:
International / National
This gift will support several organizations recognized for their leadership in the fight to eliminate racial discrimination within Canada and the U.S. Recipients of the donation include the Careers Education Empowerment Centre for Young Black Professionals and the Canadian Race Relations Foundation.
July 2020
Sorbara Group of Companies and Tribute Communities
Gift:
$500,000
Recipient:
Groves Hospital Foundation
City:
Fergus
Province:
Ontario
To help build the new hospital. This gift helped push the Foundation past its $20 million goal. The Obstetrical/Surgical Inpatient Unit at New Groves will be named after the developers in recognition of their donation.
July 2020
The Weeknd
Gift:
$500,000
Recipient:
Scarborough Health Network Foundation
City:
Scarborough
Province:
Ontario
Scarborough born and raised artist The Weeknd has made this gift to support the organization’s COVID-19 Emergency response fund.
July 2020
The Peter and Melanie Munk Charitable Foundation
Gift:
$500,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $500,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Loretta A. Rogers
Gift:
$500,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $500,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Martha Rogers
Gift:
$500,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $500,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
The Slaight Family Foundation
Gift:
$500,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $500,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Ruth Larsen
Gift:
$250,000
Recipient:
Belleville General Hospital Foundation
City:
Belleville
Province:
Ontario
To support the hospital’s areas of greatest need.
July 2020
Carlo and Angela DeGasperis
Gift:
$250,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $250,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Fast Grants & Thistledown Foundation
Gift:
$250,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $250,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
FDC Foundation
Gift:
$250,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $250,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Geosentinel Foundation Inc.
Gift:
$250,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $250,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Toronto Police Association
Gift:
$250,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $250,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Blake and Rita Wallace, in honour of Raymond McCarthy
Gift:
$250,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $250,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Medavie Health Foundation
Gift:
$200,000
Recipient:
Jack.org
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
This is a matching gift to support the organization’s digital capacity in helping Canadian youth access mental health services.
July 2020
Lenovo & Best Buy
Gift:
$190,000
Recipient:
Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
This is an in-kind gift to support the COVID-19 Response Fund. Specifically, to provide Chromebooks that are helping Clubs and families nationwide meet their technology needs and access virtual supports.
July 2020
CIBC
Gift:
$150,000
Recipient:
Northern Ontario School of Medicine
City:
Thunder Bay
Province:
Ontario
To support new annual awards for Indigenous students.
July 2020
GoEasy Ltd.
Gift:
$150,000
Recipient:
Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
To support the COVID-19 Response Fund.
July 2020
M&M Food Markets
Gift:
$125,000
Recipient:
Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
M&M Food Markets has given $125,000 worth of gift cards to the COVID-19 Response Fund, which will allow Clubs to help over 4,000 families purchase meals in their local communities.
July 2020
Recipe Unlimited
Gift:
$125,000
Recipient:
Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
To support the COVID-19 Response Fund.
July 2020
Anonymous
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
NEO Kids Foundation
City:
Sudbury
Province:
Ontario
This is a matching gift to support the Vale Presents: NHL vs Sudbury for NEO Kids hockey challenge fundraising event.
July 2020
Carlsberg
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Community Food Centres Canada
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
For the month of June, Carlsberg will donate $0.20 for every bottle and can of Carlsberg Danish Pilsner and Carlsberg Lite sold in Canada. The goal of the program is to sell at minimum 500,000 bottles and cans with the hopes to make a charitable donation of $100,000, at minimum.
July 2020
Darren Entwistle
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
McGill University Health Centre Foundation
City:
Montreal
Province:
Quebec
To support projects aiming to understand the impact of virtual connections on hospitalized patients who are cut off from their families and friends due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
July 2020
Frank and Julie McKenna
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
New Brunswick Association of Food Banks
City:
Moncton
Province:
New Brunswick
To respond to the organization’s increased need due to COVID-19.
July 2020
Green Shield Canada
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences
City:
Whitby
Province:
Ontario
To support research in digital health.
July 2020
Marc Parent
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
McGill University Health Centre Foundation
City:
Montreal
Province:
Quebec
To support ground-breaking research using the Biobanque québécoise de la COVID-19 (BQC19), a provincial and federal government sponsored bank of COVID-19 samples from patients across Quebec. Marc Parent is President and CEO of CAE and a MUHC Foundation board member.
July 2020
Medavie Health Foundation
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
White Buffalo Youth Lodge
City:
Saskatoon
Province:
Saskatchewan
This gift is part of Medavie Health Service’s $5 million COVID-19 Response Fund established to help communities address immediate needs and navigate through the pandemic. The gift will be used to support an Emergency Food Security Program.
July 2020
TELUS Friendly Future Foundation
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Breakfast Club of Canada
City:
Boucherville
Province:
Quebec
To support the organization’s increased need due to COVID-19.
July 2020
Hyundai
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
To support the COVID-19 Response Fund.
July 2020
Attix Pharmaceuticals
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $100,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Pamela and Paul Austin
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $100,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
The Azrieli Foundation
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $100,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Bruce Power
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $100,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Chanel
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $100,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Ronald & Sandra Chiovitti
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $100,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
The John David and Signy Eaton Foundation
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $100,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Laura and Jon Hantho
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $100,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Donald K. Johnson & Anna McCowan-Johnson
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $100,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Albert & Temmy Latner Family Foundation
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $100,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Jim Leech and Deb Barrett
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $100,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Manulife
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $100,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
The Newlands Family Foundation
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $100,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
The Nixon Charitable Foundation
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $100,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
NSUS Group Inc.
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $100,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Donald & Nita Reed
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $100,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Jeff and Honey Rubenstein and Family
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $100,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Songhuan Huang (Joseph)
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $100,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.
July 2020
Warren & Ann Walker
Gift:
$100,000
Recipient:
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
City:
Toronto
Province:
Ontario
Recognized for giving $100,000 or more to the Foundation’s COVID-19 response.