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Granting

The Wubs Family Foundation grant programs proudly support organizations that share our vision.  Learn about our funding priorities and how to apply below

Building Lasting Partnerships for Meaningful Impact

We aim to establish long-term partnerships with our grantees, providing stable and sustainable funding. This help ensures that our partners can scale their operations appropriately and focus on delivering impact, not on worrying whether they will be able to fundraise enough to sustain their operations in the future.

Typically, we provide unrestricted funding to our charitable partners since they know best where the most urgent needs for resources are. Sometimes, where an organization carries out complex or diverse activities, we will target individual programs that we believe have the most potential for community impact. In these cases, we will provide restricted funds to target these activities specifically.

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What We Look For

We primarily seek to fund charities with the highest potential for generating social return on investment over the long-term. Some of the ways we attempt to evaluate this and other criteria we use to select grantees are as follows:

Registered Canadian Charity

To receive grants from a Canadian private foundation , an organization must be a qualified donee. In most cases, to be a qualified donee an organization must be a registered Canadian charity.

Transparency

To receive grants from a Canadian private foundation , an organization must be a qualified donee. In most cases, to be a qualified donee an organization must be a registered Canadian charity.

Impact

We seek charities with strong impact potential, backed by past results or a compelling case for a new initiative. Key factors include execution ability, community need, high-likelihood of success, and funding necessity. Impact is assessed using tailored metrics.

Cost Efficiency

We look for charities which have, among other metrics, a high cents-to-the-cause in their operations and who keep overhead and administrative costs within a healthy range.

What We Do Not Grant To:

  • Organizations or projects which exclusively serve religious purposes
  • Political campaigns

Granting Process

1

Account Creation

Click on the button below and create a new account on the Aqueduct Foundation's Online Portal.

2

Access Code

Click Apply in the Applicant dashboard and enter the access code: wubs2025

3

Submit Application

The more data you can provide on your organization’s impact and the proposed use of funds, the better.

We are always open to discussing new initiatives with skilled charity operators. If we are interested in learning more, we will have more in-depth discussions about your work to help us evaluate your organization’s potential for receiving a grant. Once a grant has been decided on, we will develop a gifting agreement together and determine how best to deliver the grant.

Grant Application