CIFAR Supporters
We express our sincere thanks to our partners and donors for helping us to address science and humanity’s most important questions.
LIFETIME GIVING
We are pleased to honour the lifetime commitment of donors who believe in our bold vision, inspiring new directions of inquiry and breakthroughs across borders and academic disciplines.
Benefactors' Circle
The Benefactors’ Circle recognizes the extraordinary philanthropic commitments of donors whose lifetime giving exceeds $1 million.
$20,000,000 and above
The Azrieli Foundation
$10,000,000 – $19,999,999
Brain Canada Foundation
RBC Foundation
Anonymous donor (1)
$2,500,000 – $4,999,999
BMO Financial Group
Gerald Heffernan
Richard & Donna Ivey
Ivey Foundation
Michael and Sonja Koerner Charitable Foundation
Lawson Foundation
Manulife Financial
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Bruce H. Mitchell
Power Corporation of Canada
R. Howard Webster Foundation
$1,000,000 - $2,499,999
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Arthur J.E. Child Foundation
Canada Life
CIBC
CP
General Motors
The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation
Glencore
The Henry White Kinnear Foundation
J.W. McConnell Family Foundation
The Lawrence & Judith Tanenbaum Family Foundation
Magna International Inc.
Max Bell Foundation
Margaret & Wallace McCain
MDA Inc.
Molson Foundation
Scotiabank
TD Bank Group
Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc.
Trottier Family Foundation
Vale Canada Limited
Believers
$500,000 – $999,999
ArcelorMittal Dofasco
Atkinson Foundation
BCE
CN
Crabtree Foundation
David Dodge
Donner Canadian Foundation
Flair Foundation
George Weston Limited
Ira Gluskin & Maxine Granovsky-Gluskin
Google LLC
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Nancy & Jon Love
Petro-Canada
Rio Tinto Alcan Inc.
Shell Canada Limited
Barbara Stymiest
T.R. Meighen Family Foundation
Weston Family Foundation
Anonymous donor (1)
$250,000 – $499,999
Peter Allen
Alva Foundation
Arrell Family Foundation
James C. Baillie
John & Mary Barnett
Bowring Group Limited
Chisholm Thomson Family Foundation
CRB Foundation
Bruno Ducharme
Margaret & Jim Fleck
Gerdau Ameristeel
Anthony R.M. Graham
Hydro One
The Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundation
John Dobson Foundation
Donald K. Johnson
The Joseph & Wolf Lebovic Charitable Foundation
MacMillan Bloedel Limited
The McLean Foundation
Gilles Ouellette
Molly Rundle & Stephen Lister
Torstar Corporation
The Young Fund at Hamilton Community Foundation
Anonymous donors (3)
$100,000 – $249,999
Andrew Peller Limited
Bealight Foundation
Cecily & Robert Bradshaw
Val & Dick Bradshaw
Canada Colors and Chemicals Limited
Canfor Corporation
CGI Group Inc.
Chawkers Foundation
Tony Comper
Olivier Desmarais
N. Murray Edwards
Fiera Capital Corporation
Fondation Céline & Jacques Lamarre
Janice & Morten Friis
GE Canada
The Gordon Foundation
Nancy & Richard Hamm
Charles Hantho & Eileen Mercier
Geoffrey Hinton
Chaviva M. Hošek
HSBC Canada
Imperial Oil Limited
Jacobs Foundation
John and Deborah Harris Family Foundation
Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc.
Joseph Louis Rotman Charitable Foundation
Sheryl & David Kerr
Jacqueline Koerner
Liberty Mutual Canada
MacMillan Family Fund
Maple Leaf Foods
Patrcia Meredith & Stephen Karam
National Bank of Canada
NorandaFalconbridge
Lawrence Pentland & Nora Aufreiter
Placer Dome Inc.
Precarn Incorporated
PwC Canada
The Rockefeller Foundation
S. M. Blair Family Foundation
SDSN Association
Sun Life Financial Inc.
Suncor Energy Inc.
Allan R. & Shirley I. Taylor
Technion Canada
TELUS Corporation
Texas Industries Inc.
Torys LLP
Tula Foundation
Alfred G. Wirth
William L. Young & Ruth T. Dowling
Anonymous donors (2)
2022 SUPPORTERS
CIFAR is grateful to donors making multi-year commitments (in italics) and gifts received in the 2022 calendar year, particularly in honour of our 40th anniversary.
Visionaries
$1,000,000 – $4,999,999
The Azrieli Foundation
Power Corporation of Canada
$500,000 – $999,999
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Richard & Donna Ivey
Michael and Sonja Koerner Charitable Foundation
$100,000 – $499,999
BMO Financial Group
Canada Life
The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation
Gerald Heffernan
Ivey Foundation
John and Deborah Harris Family Foundation
The Lawrence & Judith Tanenbaum Family Foundation
Magna International Inc.
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Bruce H. Mitchell
The Molson Foundation
R. Howard Webster Foundation
RBC Foundation
Molly Rundle & Stephen Lister
Scotiabank
Barbara Stymiest
Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc.
Trottier Family Foundation
Leaders
$50,000 - $99,999
Naomi Azrieli & François Blanc
Val & Dick Bradshaw
Chisholm Thomson Family Foundation
Fiera Capital
Flair Foundation
Donald K. Johnson
The Joseph & Wolf Lebovic Charitable Foundation
Max Bell Foundation
The Young Fund at Hamilton Community Foundation
William L. Young
$25,000 – $49,999
David Dodge
Rosamond Ivey
Jacqueline Koerner
Patricia Meredith & Stephen Karam
National Bank / Banque Nationale
Gilles Ouellette
Richard Rooney, in honour of Tony and Anne Arrell
Stephen Toope & Paula Rosen
Knowledge Circle
$10,000 – $24,999
The Alvin and Mona Libin Foundation
Alan Bernstein & JoAnn Breitman
Suzanne Ivey Cook
The Fleck Family Foundation
Janice & Morten Friis
Anthony R.M. Graham
Nancy & Richard Hamm
Charles Hantho & Eileen Mercier
Lawrence Pentland & Nora Aufreiter
Jacobs Family
The Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundation
Sheryl & David Kerr
Jason McLean
McLean Group
Anne McLellan
Irfhan Rawji
Sun Life
Damon & Stevi Williams
Anonymous donor (1)
$5,000 – $9,999
Frank Barker
William Blundell
Scott Bonham
Dominic D’Alessandro
Olivier Desmarais
Rebecca Finlay
Derek & Adrienne Fisher
Donald Guloien & Irene Boychuk
Trisha Jackson, in memory of Syd Jackson
The John Dobson Foundation
Chonnettia Jones
Vahan & Susie Kololian
Midloch Foundation
Jennifer Rattray
Ann Rooney
Indira Samarasekera
Daniel Trefler
$2,000 – $4,999
Bristol Gate Capital Partners Inc.
Brenda Eaton
John Hepburn
Marietta Hurst
Barbara L. Jackson & W. Robert Keyes, in memory of E. Sydney Jackson and Nancy Jackson
Prabhat Jha
Carol D. Kirsh
Claude Lamoureux
Keun Lee
The Linda Judith Reed Foundation
John & Sidney Madden
Sabi Marwah
Leslie McCarley
Mitchell Family Fund
Gail Regan
Sumitra & Ananth Seshan
Elissa Strome
Louis Taillefer & Louise Brisson
Michael & Renae Tims
Pauline Yick
Anonymous donor (1)
Friends
$1,000 – $1,999
Yasmeen Abu-Laban
Yoshua Bengio
Beverley Brennan
Renée Charlotte Cosgrove
Mark Daley
Melvyn Goodale
Janet E. Halliwell
Joanne Harack
Dick & Lois Haskayne
David Laidley
J. Spencer Lanthier
Troy & Rosalyn Manthorpe
Jennifer Mauro
Robert Potter
Doina Precup
Janet Rossant
Susan Schafron
Hannah Yakobi
$500 - $999
Shiraz & Nurjehan Bharmal
The Brooks Family Charitable Fund
Jim Burge
Johanna Delroy
David Hartwick
Sara & Scott Lamb
Catherine Letendre-Perreault
Evan Lieberman
Jennifer Marczak
Lissa Matyas
Robert McGavin
Sara Mostafavi
Ronald Pearlman
Elizabeth Sonnenschein (Mrs. Hugo)
Michèle Thibodeau-DeGuire
Janet Werker
Josanne White
Anonymous donors (2)
Under $500
Jane Anderson
David Angell
Craig Barlow
Ronald Barr
Harry Baumann
Ronald Blackmore
Martin Blaser, in honour of Alan Bernstein
Josh Bowman
Justine Brooks
Debbie Buehler
John Burnett
Hillary Connolly
Amy Cook
Paula Driedger
Patricia Ann Duncan
Victoria Esses, in honour of Alan Bernstein
Lesley Evans
Matthew Gaiser
Kate Geddie
Gagan Gill
Russell Greiner, in honour of Alan Bernstein
Megan Gunnar
Mike Haas
Wendy Hallé
Derek Hanna
Terrence Higgins
Nancy Howe
Oliver Johnston
Bryan Kolb
Konrad Körding
Will Kymlicka
Kevin Leyton-Brown
S J L’Hirondelle
Michael MacDonald
Mariko & Suneel Manhas
Simon Miles
Nicole Miller
Robert Morrison
Muriel Ostenberg
Lloyd & Pat Posno
Shannon Rafferty Terry
Kasra Rezaee
Avril Robinson
Carole Salah
Kathleen Sandusky
Yael Scutaru
Andrea Sharkey
T. Ann Smiley
Wanda Stephens
Jacqui Sullivan
Sam Sutherland
Emma Tarswell
Michelle Thom
Stephen Thomson
JP Udo
Leigh Valliere
Ymma Marie Villacastin
Christopher Warnock
Allan Warrack
Grace Wong
Leanne Woodcock
Hakim Ziani
Kelly Zorzi
Anonymous donors (19)
The Fraser Mustard Legacy Society
CIFAR thanks the following donors for sharing their intention to leave a Legacy gift in their Will.
Elizabeth Gerrits
Richard Ivey
Lawrence Tanenbaum
GOVERNMENT
CIFAR is grateful for commitments and investments made between April 1, 2022 and March 31, 2023.
Canada
$25,000,000 AND ABOVE
GOVERNMENT OF CANADA
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
The International Development Research Centre
$1,000,000 - $1,999,999
GOUVERNEMENT DU QUÉBEC
Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies
Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé
Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture
International
GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
If you have any questions about this listing, or if your recognition wishes have changed, please contact giving@cifar.ca or 647.951.5709.
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CIFAR is a registered charitable organization supported by the governments of Canada and Quebec, as well as foundations, individuals, corporations and Canadian and international partner organizations.