Donner Canadian Foundation

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History of the Donner Canadian Foundation

SOURCE:  DonnerFoundation.org, captured 2020-08-19

The Donner Canadian Foundation was established in 1950 by William H. Donner. In the mid-1960s, the Donner Canadian Foundation began to focus on specific program interests, among these, research on public policy. The Donner family chose Canada's centennial year, 1967, to embark on a course of professional grantmaking that has contributed well over $150 million to almost 2,500 projects across Canada and around the world.

In addition to ongoing funding of public policy research, the Donner Canadian Foundation supports environmental, international development, and social service projects. Every year, the Donner Book Prize honours the best book on Canadian public policy, and the Donner Canadian Foundation's lecture series features some of the world's most influential speakers. The Donner Canadian Foundation is guided by a Board of Governors composed of representatives of the Donner family and prominent Canadians from a variety of fields.

Allan Gotlieb

The Donner Canadian Foundation celebrates the life and career of Chairman Emeritus Allan Ezra Gotlieb (1928-2020).

[2020-04-28] In Memoriam: Allan Gotlieb
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Financials

SOURCE:  CharityData.ca, captured 2020-08-19

Total Assets:

2018: $140,455,657
2017: $145,645,517
2016: $138,258,988
2015: $132,261,915
2014: $120,283,459
2013: $114,810,990
2012: $96,337,075
2011: $91,899,893
2010: $94,036,829
2009: $92,582,222
2008: $90,092,177
2007: $106,852,365
2006: $111,653,033
2005: $102,167,111
2004: $108,318,962
2003: $113,657,128

Donner Canadian Foundation: Revenue and Expenditures, 2018-2014.
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Donner Canadian Foundation: Assets, 2018-2010.
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Donner Canadian Foundation: Assets, 2012-2003.
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Granting

SOURCE:  DonnerFoundation.org, captured 2020-08-19

In 2019, the Donner Canadian Foundation supported more than 70 charitable organizations. The Donner Canadian Foundation devoted over 40 percent of its granting to environment and wildlife stewardship and 18 percent to public policy research and education. The Donner Canadian Foundation also directed almost 10 percent of its granting toward international development and human rights and almost 20 percent to organizations delivering social services. The Donner Canadian Foundation's remaining grants sustained a variety of worthy projects.

2019 Grants  |  local copy (pdf)

Donner Canadian Foundation -- 2019 -- Areas funded:

• Environment and Wildlife Stewardship
• Public Policy Research and Education
• International Development and Human Rights
• Social Services
• Other

Donner Canadian Foundation: Public Policy Research and Education organizations funded in 2019

• C.D. Howe Institute [General Support]: $46,000

• Canadian Constitution Foundation ($36,000):

  • General Support: $31,000
  • Support for the Runnymede Society: $5,000

• Canadian Ditchley Foundation [Conference on Food Security in the 21st Century: Global Prospects for Resilient and Sustainable Food Production]: $10,000

• Democracy Education Network [SpeakYourMind.ca Pilot Phase]: $20,000

• Fraser Institute [General Support]: $51,000

• Hillsdale College [General Support]: $55,000

• Institute for Liberal Studies [General Support]: $35,000

• Macdonald-Laurier Institute ($162,888):

  • General Support: $56,000
  • Public Policy Book Project: $50,000
  • Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad: $56,888

• Montreal Economic Institute ($133,632):

  • General Support: $61,000
  • Canada-USA: Public Policy Ideas Exchange: $72,632

• Salt Spring Institute for Sustainability Education & Action (operating as The Institute for Sustainability Education & Action) [First Nations Forward Year 3]: $25,000

• Samara Centre for Democracy [General Support]: $30,000

• SecondStreet.org [General Support]: $21,000

• University of Delaware [Radio America Production of Educational Audio and Video Features for the Center for Economic Education & Entrepreneurship]: $75,000

• University of Toronto (Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy) [General Support for Ontario 360]: $90,000

Granting [Sponsorship]: Addenda

SOURCE:  various.

The Donner Canadian Foundation has sponsored / funded the following.

• Breakout Educational Network

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• Cardus Institute

  Cardus has its roots in a charity established in 1974 under the name "Foundation for Research and Economics in Developing a Christian Approach to Industrial Relations and Economics," also known as the Work Research Foundation. ... In 1996, the Work Research Foundation received a project grant from the Donner Canadian Foundation to deal with Freedom of Association in Canadian Labour Relations. This project included a survey of Canadian attitudes towards unions done in cooperation with Gallup; the publication of Buying a Labour Monopoly, and numerous smaller publications and presentations. Ray Pennings directed this project and, together with Gideon Strauss, developed a proposal to develop the Work Research Foundation into a full-fledged think tank that would be "public, credible and Christian." Michael Van Pelt, at that time the President of the Sarnia Chamber of commerce, was hired as the first full-time employee and began work in September 2000. Ray Pennings joined the full-time staff in 2002, having previously served as the Public Affairs Director for the Christian Labour Association of Canada. They developed a threefold strategy of utilizing publications, research, and networking events in order to map the institutional space that exists between government and the markets.

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• C.D. Howe Institute

  The C.D. Howe Institute has won five Doug Purvis Prizes, which are awarded annually by the Canadian Economics Association to the authors of highly significant Canadian economic policy, and one Donner Prize (runner-up three times), which are awarded annually by the Donner Canadian Foundation for the Best Public Policy Book by a Canadian.

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• The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms [Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms] gratefully acknowledges the generous support provided by the Aurea Foundation, the Lotte & John Hecht Memorial Foundation,  the Donner Canadian Foundation, and numerous other donors across Canada. Our work in defending constitutional freedoms depends entirely on the voluntary donations of those who agree with our mission and vision. The JCCF neither asks for, nor receives, any government funding. All donations made to the JCCF are confidential. The JCCF only recognizes donors with their express consent.

  

  Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms [JCCF]: Donor Recognition (captured 2020-08-16)
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• Montreal Economic Institute

  The Montreal Economic Institute is a registered Canadian charity and Kelly-Gagnon has said that 65-70% of MEI's funding comes from foundations, with an additional 15-20% coming from individuals and the remainder coming from corporations; it does not accept funding from the public sector. Its 2015 budget was $2.3 million, and had a full-time staff of 12 as of March 2016. Its tax returns indicate that major support comes from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, the Donner Canadian Foundation, and the Chase Foundation of Virginia. It has also received funding from the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation, and the John Templeton Foundation.

  As noted above / below, the Montreal Economic Institute has received substantial funding from the Machiavellian  Koch family; e.g.:

  • [2019-09-03]:  Death of David Koch a reminder of who bankrolls Canada's right.

  • [2018-06-23]  What Does the Canadian Taxpayers Federation Get From Its Right-Wing US Partner?.  Atlas Network 'has reshaped political power in country after country,' report says.

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• [2019-01-07]:  Donner Canadian Foundation, prominent funder of right-wing groups, helps bankroll new 'think tank' [SecondStreet.org] closely connected to Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF)

  • SecondStreet.org received $50,000 from the Donner Canadian Foundation

  • Other Canadian think-tanks receiving funds from the Donner Canadian Foundation include:

    • the Fraser Institute, the well-known right-wing think tank in Vancouver;

    • the Canadian Constitution Foundation, which litigates on behalf of social conservative and market fundamentalist causes, including a legal challenge now under way to the principles on which Canadian public health care is based; and

    • several market-fundamentalist think tanks including the Montreal-based Institute for Liberal Studies.