Thorogood Family Fund
Priorities for 2024
This page will be updated by January 31, 2025.
Mission
Motivated by Christian faith, the Thorogood Family Fund supports a wide variety of selected charities benefiting the most marginalized in Toronto, in the province of Ontario, and elsewhere through grants and involvement.
Values Guiding Our Philanthropy
- Empowerment of Individuals
- Delivering Tangible Impact
- Creating Efficiencies
- Care for the Environment
- Achieving Sustainability
Geographic Focus
- Greater Toronto Area
- Ontario
- A limited number of internationally-focused charities will also be invited to apply.
Size of Grants
- A variety of grant requests will be considered up to $25,000.
Eligibility
- Beneficiaries must be registered Canadian charities.
- Past grant recipients are eligible for new funding when the outcomes of their previous project have been completed.
- Charities that are active members of the Stronger Philanthropy Community are favoured.
Reporting
- All charities receiving grants from Thorogood Family Fund will be encouraged to report back on progress made every six months until completion for the outcomes they propose.
Applications for Funding
- Create a Project Profile in the Stronger Grants online application system.
- Project Profiles that are shortlisted will receive an invitation to apply for a grant.
- Instructions for completing the application will be contained in the emailed invitation.
- Unsolicited applications are not accepted.
Timetable
- Project Profiles can be submitted at any time before September 30, 2024.
- Stronger Philanthropy will email invitations to charities to apply on or after October 4, 2024.
- The grant application deadline is October 21, 2024.
- Applications will be considered by members of Thorogood Family Fund by November 22, 2024, with grants awarded soon after.
Next Steps
- Check back at the end of January 2025 for updated priorities and our process for 2025 grants.