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About
About the McConnell Foundation
We are a private Canadian foundation that contributes to diverse and innovative approaches to address community resilience, reconciliation, and climate change. We do so through funding and investment partnerships, and collaborating with the public, private and non-profit sectors.
Foundation highlights
+ $30M in funding annually
We aim to allocate 5% of our endowment towards our charitable activities annually. In 2022, we disbursed $32.6 million or 4.8% of our assets.
3 focus areas
We fund organizations working to address community resilience, reconciliation and climate change. We also support Capacity Strengthening projects for the sector, and, in honour of our history, Montreal-based organizations.
100% impact investing
We aim to deploy all of our assets towards advancing our mission. By 2028, we hope to allocate 100% of our endowment towards investing for impact.
183 active partners
In 2022, we partnered with 183 partners located across the country, as well as an additional 162 organizations through our Innoweave initiative.
Find out more about the Foundation’s governance structure and Board Committees.
Get to know our compassionate and collaborative team.
History
Founded 1937 by J.W. McConnell, the McConnell Foundation is one of the earliest family foundations established in Canada. For more than 85 years, our focus has expanded from funding Montreal-based institutions to supporting organizations nation-wide using diverse approaches to addressing some of today’s most pressing challenges. Learn more about our founder and our organization in our history section.
Last year we forged new ways of working to become better partners and collaborated with organizations across the country to enhance our impact.