For grantees

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Welcome!

Congratulations on receiving a grant from The Law Foundation of Ontario, and welcome!

Like all funders, the Foundation has a set of requirements for you to follow in order to manage your grant with us. Requirements are specific to the type of grant received. Below are your responsibilities as a Foundation grantee.

You received a grant. Now what?

Requirement 1 - Letter of Agreement

Requirement 2 - Reporting on your grant

Requirement 3 – Requesting a change to your grant

Requirement 4 – Subscribe and ‘follow’

Requirement 1 - Letter of Agreement

The first step for all grantees is to carefully review and return your signed Letter of Agreement (LOA) to your Grants Manager. This letter outlines the terms of the grant. If you have not received your LOA yet, please contact your Grants Manager. (Here is a PDF sample of what it looks like.)

Requirement 2 - Reporting on your grant

All grantees are required to complete reports. Depending on the grant received, you may be required to submit either an interim report and a final report, or just a final report.

Reporting is made up of the following components:

Narrative report about your activities
All grantees are required to provide a narrative report. In general, grantees are asked to share information and their candid observations about their grant, including what activities were completed, who they served, and how it went. Narrative reports are important because they help the Foundation learn from the successes and challenges of our grantees, measure the effectiveness of funded activities, and evaluate our grant programs.
Financial report
Depending on the grant received, you may be required to provide financial reports. These must be in budget-to-actual format, based on the budget included with the grant application, and include all sources of revenue related to the project or activity that received Foundation funding.
Quantitative Statistics report
Depending on the grant received, you may be required to complete a Quantitative Statistics report. This report collects a selection of numbers related to your activities and it is in addition to the quantitative information you would include in your narrative report. These statistics are important to the Foundation because they illustrate an amalgamation of our impact, and they help inform our grantmaking and our priorities.

See our Reporting guidelines webpage for the tools you need for all the above reporting requirements.

Requirement 3 – Requesting a change to your grant

Requirement 4 – Subscribe and ‘follow’

Although not an official requirement, we strongly encourage you to subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on social media so you always learn about new granting opportunities and other news that will be relevant to you and your organization. And, we encourage you to “tag” us in your posts so we can help promote your activities to a wider audience.

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Have a question?
Contact a Grants Manager.

Reporting guidelines

Guidelines, resource information, and tools to help grantees fulfill the reporting requirements of their grant.

Acknowledging the Foundation

What you need to know to help you understand why and how to properly acknowledge your Foundation grant.

Grant Modification Request

Contact your Grants Manager in advance if you are contemplating any significant change in your funded work’s objectives, scope, budget, or project lead.