Grants and student awards

Grants and Community Leadership in 2024-25

The database below contains grants beginning with the fiscal year-ended March 31, 2025.* Results can be filtered by year and sorted by sector, project title or grant amount. Use the search function to find keywords across organization names and project titles.

Grants in red are those made from discretionary funds (Board-directed Community Fund or field-of-interest funds.) All other grants are from donor-advised or designated funds and reflect the philanthropic interests of those who established the funds.

In 2024-25, the Foundation made 930 grants to 382 charities totalling $12 million. In addition to the grants listed for 2024-25, the Foundation provided grants totalling:

For details of our $320,771 in community leadership funding for 2024-25 click the dropbox below.

Community leadership projects 2025

These projects include HCF’s own community leadership activity as well as projects where we act as an intermediary to assemble funding for multi-organizational community initiatives. The projects may span multiple years and are funded by new donations as well as by Board-directed funds.

Current year funders are The Fairmount Foundation and the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario. Leadership project costs include research, community consultation, meetings costs, education and communication materials. Spending for 2024-25 is:

ABACUS: Advancing post-secondary access$148,534
Equity Project$76,583
Hamilton Anchor Institution Leadership Table$21,905
Higher Education Quality Council Ontario$41,793
Indigenous Project$14,146
Other leadership projects  $17,810
Total community leadership projects$320,771
Total grants and community leadership spending$12,334,080

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* Grants made before the 2024-25 year can be found in the grant list sections of each year’s annual reports available on our Publications page.