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Non-Profit Funding Information

Securing funding for your non-profit can be facilitated by numerous companies and institutions dedicated to supporting the improvement of the communities they serve.

Alberta Foundation for the Arts: The following link provides access to various funding opportunities surrounding the Arts.  

Alberta Real Estate Foundation:  The Alberta Real Estate Foundation funds initiatives that support and advance education, research, law reform, and other activities related to real estate across our three focus areas of Real Estate Leadership, Built Environment, and Land.

Alberta Sport Connection: Sport, Physical Activity and Recreation (SPAR) Donation Fund Program encourages support for the development of sport, physical activity and recreation in Alberta.

Align- Association of Community Services: The following link provides access to various funding opportunities to support organizations.

Alliance Pipeline: ​Alliance Pipeline’s community investments are guided by a core set of criteria. We consider donation and sponsorship opportunities in communities where Alliance Pipeline operates.

Allstate Foundation of Canada: We support organizations and initiatives that focus on fostering an environment of inclusion, involvement and empowerment for those who experience barriers to participation – whether it be within their community, career, or personal life. Our two main pillars are investing in our community through grants and in-kind contributions, and empowering employees to get involved by giving back.

ATB Entrepreneur Centre: You bring your ideas, questions and passion—we’ll provide the advice, tools, resources and connections so you can grow your business, your way. We understand the ambition. The sacrifice. The desire to get to that next level. ATB is here to help you navigate each stage of your business journey and build and grow your small business.

ATCO: We share a great responsibility to ensure the world is a sustainable place for future generations. Through our community investment programs, we are supporting organizations on their energy transition journey toward a net zero future, building capacity for safer communities and collaborating with our sponsored partners to make a meaningful difference where we live and work. Across our global operations, we are proud to provide volunteers, expertise, gifts-in-kind and financial support to the organizations that help communities thrive.

Baytex Energy Corp: Baytex believes in enhancing the communities where employees live and work, supporting causes, and institutions through financial and volunteer efforts. Our community investment program is focused on three pillars of support: Healthcare and Research, Community Living, and Education and Training.

Bell: The Bell Let’s Talk Community Fund is part of the Bell Mental Health Initiative, a $50 million multi-year national program in support of mental health.

BMO: BMO’s Purpose, to Boldly Grow the Good in business and life, informs our strategy, drives our ambition, and reinforces our commitment to double the good. It’s how we are driving progress for our colleagues, customers and communities.

Canada Council for the Arts: The Canada Council for the Arts champions and invests in artistic excellence through grants, services, prizes and payments to professional Canadian artists, groups and arts organizations.

Canada Life: Supporting charitable organizations and initiatives across the country is one of the ways our companies give back to Canadians, yet it’s more to us than simply writing a cheque. We also engage our employees in volunteering opportunities, workplace campaigns and corporate donations so we’re all connected by a shared sense of responsibility to give back and help build stronger communities.

Canadian Agricultural Strategic Priorities Program (CASPP): CASPP is designed to support the Canadian agricultural sector’s participation in the Government of Canada’s growth and policy objectives, and larger initiatives by investing in the sector’s design, development and implementation tools and strategies to respond to and seize on opportunities created by these objectives. This program has an annual intake and ending in March 2029.

Eligible applicants under CASPP are:

• not-for-profit organizations including associations, cooperatives and marketing boards

• Indigenous groups

Canadian Space Agency: The program provides funding in three main areas

  • Research: Support space-related research and development in CSA priority areas, and targeted knowledge development and innovation to sustain and enhance Canada's capacity to use space to meet the country's future needs and priorities.
  • Space awareness: Raise awareness of Canadian space science and technology by increasing the interest of Canadian youth and educators and their participation in related activities.
  • Space learning: Provide learning opportunities to Canadian students, educators and physicians in various space-related disciplines.

Canadian Wildlife Federation: The Canadian Wildlife Foundation’s Funding Program exists to promote the conservation of wildlife habitat and the sustainable use of wildlife resources in Canada. There are a number of socio‐economic benefits in adopting innovative approaches to urban planning involving wetlands.

Careers- The Next Generation: A non-profit organization that brings together industry, schools, government, and communities to guide youth into successful career paths. CAREERS works with Alberta schools to connect students to employers for paid internships.

Cenovus Energy: Our Community Investment program strategically concentrates its efforts in three core areas - learning, safety and well-being and sustainable communities. These areas reflect the positive differences we want to make in the communities where we work and live.

CIBC: Built on our storied history of supporting our communities, the CIBC Foundation serves our commitment to creating a world without limits to ambition. We are demonstrating our purpose in action by supporting causes important to our clients and communities. We’re thankful to our clients for enabling our work and immensely proud of our partnerships with community organizations as we come together with a shared purpose.

Community Initiatives Program (CIP) Project-Based: The Community Initiatives Program, Project-based grant stream supports projects that enhance and enrich communities throughout Alberta by providing assistance to non-profit organizations for: new programs, enhancement to an existing program, community events, gender equity events, 2SLGBTQIA+ events and new programs, technology, and portable equipment.

Community Initiatives Program (CIP) Operating: The Community Initiatives Program, Operating grant supports eligible non-profit organizations in their ability to operate and deliver services to the vulnerable and disadvantaged.

CN Community Fund: At CN, it’s important for us to be good neighbours who listen, learn and do our part to help communities remain great places to live, work and play. Each year, CN contributes millions of dollars, over $20 million in 2024, to non-profits that promote people, safety, and the environment.

Coca-Cola Company: The Coca-Cola Company, its global philanthropic arm, The Coca-Cola Foundation, and its regional foundations strive daily to be responsive to the citizenship priorities in the global communities where it does business. Community investment priorities focus on water stewardship, active healthy living, community recycling, and education. It also funds disaster relief in communities facing crisis.

Community Facility Enhancement Program Small (CFEP)- CFEP provides financial assistance up to $125, 000 to upgrade, expand, purchase or build public-use community facilities. CFEP Large provides financial assistance over $125, 000 to $1 Million to upgrade, expand, purchase or build public-use community facilities.

We are committed to being good neighbors and responsible corporate citizens – whether that is giving back through financial support or in-kind donations of goods and services. We believe that the most effective community investments are those achieved by nurturing relationships with organizations that serve the needs of the community and help us meet our business objectives.

Co-op Community Spaces Fund: The Co-op Community Spaces Program was established to improve community health and well-being by building places for Western Canadians to come together, build social connections and enable community development. Projects can apply for between $25,000 and $150,000 in CAPITAL funding in three categories: recreation, environmental conservation, or urban agriculture.

Co-Operators:We foster financial security for Canadians through risk mitigation, co-operative business development, and skill-building and employment opportunities.

EPCOR: Communities count on us to be there when it really matters. EPCOR’s Heart + Soul Program is our way of giving back to create an impact, whether that’s inspiring hope, creating possibilities, or nurturing community. 

FCC AgriSpirit Fund: Do you have a capital project that will enrich lives in your rural community? The FCC AgriSpirit Fund supports projects in communities of less than 150,000 people by charities, non-profit groups, and First Nations, Métis or Inuit governments/communities.

Finning: This initiative is youth-focused STEM education, a community investment strategy that Finning is pursuing globally in concert with leading non-profit strategic partners.

Home Depot: The Home Depot Canada Foundation is committed to preventing and ending youth homelessness in Canada. The Home Depot Canada Foundation has pledged $125M in support by 2030. Our commitment will focus on enabling systemic change through investments in three strategic pillars: expanding stable housing for youth, providing quality wrap around community supports, and increasing youth employment readiness.

Honda Canada: We were created to lend a hand to registered non-profit charities that strive to make the lives of Canadians better with a focus on Education, Environment, Mobility, Traffic Safety and Community.

Imperial Oil: We seek to contribute to the social and economic progress of the communities in which we operate and believe that respecting human rights, managing our impacts on communities and making valued social investments are integral to the success of our business.

Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada: The following Government of Canada link provides access to various funding opportunities to assist various Indigenous organizations.

Jobs and Growth Fund: The Jobs and Growth Fund provides funding to businesses and organizations to help create more jobs and position Canada for an inclusive recovery and long-term growth. Projects need to contribute to one or more of the following:

• Support the transition to a green economy

• Foster an inclusive recovery

• Preserve competitiveness and enhance resilience through productivity improvement and digital adoption

• Strengthen capacity in sectors critical to Canada’s recovery and growth

Labour Market Partnership Grants: These grants are project-based grants available to nonprofits, municipalities, charities, businesses, associations and Indigenous groups to support workforce development and initiatives to attract and retain workers. For example, the grant could be used for labor studies, career or job fairs, bring in labor speakers, etc. Contact your Workforce Consultant to learn more.

Mercer: Examples of Mercer reside in each community – unique, specific to the needs of the community, but with one common theme: bettering the places we call home.

Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC): The MEC Community Contributions program believes the outdoors changes lives. Being active outside challenges us, recharges us, makes us better humans. We want to help more people feel the impact of the outdoors. We invest in groups that are actively working to break down barriers of access and increase equity in the outdoors. Through it all, our goal is to help teach outdoor skills protect wild spaces grow the communities of people getting active outside

Movable Cultural Program: Movable Cultural Property Grants help designated organizations acquire cultural property of outstanding significance and national importance to Canada, as outlined in the Cultural Property Export and Import Act. Designated organizations are located in Canada and demonstrate the ability to ensure the long-term preservation of cultural property.

National Housing Affordable Housing Fund: The Affordable Housing Fund provides capital to partnered organizations for new affordable housing and the repair and renewal of existing affordable and community housing. Funds are provided as low-interest and/or forgivable loans and contributions..

Nestle Canada: Nestlé Canada encourages and supports the promotion of health and wellness in the communities we all share. Funding is directed toward programs and organizations that support healthy active living, with specific emphasis on encouraging physical activity in children, youth and their families, all in a non-competitive setting.

Restorative Justice Grants: Alberta’s government is developing a modern approach to reducing crime and protecting Albertans by offering grants to organizations that deliver restorative justice services.

Richardson International: Richardson International contributes over $1 million annually to initiatives in communities where our customers and employees live and work. Since the company was founded in 1857, this commitment to giving has been integral to Richardson International.

Shell Canada: At Shell Canada we have social investment programs that support the communities around our operations as well as national programs that ​​provide lasting benefits to Canadians across the country.​​

Space Creation- Child Care: The Space Creation Grant will help enable 42,500 total new non-profit licensed spaces to be created over the next 5 years. Applications for grant funding are open to non-profit groups interested in creating new childcare spaces or starting new childcare programs.

Strategic Partnership Initiative: The Strategic Partnerships Initiative (SPI) provides a way for federal partners to coordinate their efforts, reduce administrative burden, and pool resources in support of Indigenous communities. This approach fills gaps in other funding programs that might create a barrier to Indigenous involvement in economic opportunities. SPI initiatives can span multiple years, have regional economic impacts and serve multiple communities.

Student Work Placement Program: This Program offers wage subsidies for employers, up to $5,000 per student or $7,000 for students in underrepresented groups.

Suncor Energy Foundation: Suncor and the Suncor Energy Foundation (SEF) proudly contribute to non-profit and charitable organizations in Canada and Internationally.

Sunlife Financial: Sun Life's goal is to help those who need help the most, in ways that are relevant to our purpose of helping people to live healthier lives. Our philanthropic support within Canada focuses on health, with an emphasis on the prevention of type-2 diabetes and youth mental health. We support organizations and programs across the country that empower Canadians to live healthier lives through positive lifestyle changes like increasing their physical activity, eating a healthy diet, and improving their mental resilience.

TELUS: TELUS and government partners are helping provide access to education and making economic growth easier in rural and Indigenous communities across Canada with high-speed internet.

TD Bank Group: TD launched the TD Ready Commitment to help open doors for a more inclusive and sustainable tomorrow by focusing our community on four drivers of change. Read our informational sheet for each of these drivers here: Financial Security, Vibrant Planet, Connected Communities and Better Health.

Thrive Academy:  THRIVE Academy is a 12-week agrifood tech pre-accelerator program for agri-food early stage startups looking to commercialize their innovations. Our immersive program helps entrepreneurs de-risk and validate their ideas, develop and execute their go-to-market strategy, and prepare to raise capital.

Tourism Entrepreneur Acceleration Program: The Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada has Partnered with Firecircle to help bring your business ideas to like with an easy to follow program. The program will help you build a strong foundation of knowledge about the fundamentals of business sustainability.

UFA Agricultural Communities Foundation: . Our dedication to being a good neighbour inspires us to care deeply about agricultural priorities, fostering connection and collaboration. Through the UFA Foundation, we aim to empower the agricultural community, ensuring a bright and thriving future for all.

United Way Alberta Northwest: United Way Alberta Northwest strategically allocates funding to over 30 programs annually, focusing on supporting successful kids through poverty reduction and building strong communities. 

Viterra: We are committed to contributing to positive social outcomes in the communities where we have operations and our employees live, work and play through community development. 

Volunteer Alberta: We have gathered some key resources that shed light on the different ways the nonprofit sector, volunteerism, and civic engagement support our society. We continue to monitor social trends, explore statistical information, and gather inspiring resources that support you in your day-to-day work. If you would like to inquire about a live workshop or presentation on a resource or an additional topic, please visit our Workshops & Webinars page.

Walmart: We aim to build a better world, helping people live better and renew the planet while building thriving, resilient communities. For us, this means working to create opportunity, drive a culture of belonging and bring communities closer together and helping our customers save more of their hard earned money for the things they care about most.