Thorogood Family Fund
Priorities for 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.
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.
Granting Process
- If your charity believes it has an opportunity that would interest Thorogood Family Fund, complete the Charity Survey well in advance of the granting dates listed in the timetable below.
- Stronger Philanthropy will conduct a face-to-face interview for organizations that are most closely aligned to Thorogood Family Fund’s priorities.
- Shortlisted organizations will receive an emailed invitation to apply for a grant.
- Instructions for completing the application will be contained in the emailed invitation.
- Unsolicited applications are not accepted.
Timetable
- Charity Surveys must be received by September 20, 2025.
- Based on surveys received, Stronger Philanthropy will email invitations to charities to apply on or after October 1, 2025.
- Applications will be considered by members of Thorogood Family Fund by November 17, 2025, with grants awarded soon after.
Next Steps
- Complete your 2025 Charity Survey.
- You only need to submit one Charity Survey per year to Stronger Philanthropy. We will keep it on file for all our clients through the remainder of the calendar year.
- We will contact you if you’ve been selected to complete a grant application.