Public charity
Governing Council of the University of Toronto
The University's vision is to be a leader among the world's best public universities in its discovery, preservation and sharing of knowledge through its teaching and research and its commitment to excellence and equity.
- $367M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.7M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $489,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11.2B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Governing Council of the University of Toronto funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $1.7M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $2.4M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $1.6M | 45% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $1.9M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $1.7M | 59% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $1.8M | 71% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $1.5M | 30% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $1.7M | 69% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allchemy Inc | $1,549,000 | 4 | n/a |
| University of California San Francisco | $1,490,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $1,487,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Trustees of Boston University | $1,480,001 | 9 | 0% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $859,000 | 3 | n/a |
| University of Minnesota | $736,000 | 5 | n/a |
| State University of Iowa | $497,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Washington | $470,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Sogorea Te Land Trust | $403,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Rutgers the State University | $398,000 | 3 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allchemy Inc | $1,549,000 | 4 | n/a |
| University of California San Francisco | $1,490,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $1,487,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Trustees of Boston University | $1,480,001 | 9 | 0% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $859,000 | 3 | n/a |
| University of Minnesota | $736,000 | 5 | n/a |
| State University of Iowa | $497,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Washington | $470,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Sogorea Te Land Trust | $403,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Rutgers the State University | $398,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research | $282,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education | $255,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Cornell University | $245,000 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $240,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $226,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente | $171,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Brookings Institution | $166,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sciboston Inc | $121,000 | 3 | 45% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $105,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | $98,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Donaldson Foundation | $91,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | $83,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New York Weill Cornell Medical Center Fund Inc | $82,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Washington | $69,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Louisiana State University | $68,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Yale University - Subordinates | $64,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Texas A&M Research Foundation | $57,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $53,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Duke University | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Brown and Caldwell | $41,001 | 3 | n/a |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $41,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington | $38,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $38,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Curators of the University of Missouri | $33,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Eastern Ohio Extension Camps Inc | $30,999 | 3 | 10% |
| Emory University | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Rochester | $29,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas A&M University | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tetra Tech Inc | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $14,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Loyola University of Chicago | $13,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Central Florida | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Children's Hospital Medical Center | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community of Vermont Elders Inc | $5,998 | 1 | n/a |
| Barry University Inc | $5,001 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Governing Council of the University of Toronto supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About Governing Council of the University of Toronto
- How much does Governing Council of the University of Toronto give?
- Governing Council of the University of Toronto reported 17 itemized grants totaling $1,721,000, out of $366,848,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Governing Council of the University of Toronto fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (71%), Education (16%), Health (6%).
- Who are Governing Council of the University of Toronto's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Allchemy Inc ($1.5M), University of California San Francisco ($1.5M), The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois ($1.5M).
- Does Governing Council of the University of Toronto fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Governing Council of the University of Toronto?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
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