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2025 annual report: Responsive: Supporting community-driven ideas

We're pleased to release our 2025 annual report: Responsive: Supporting community-driven ideas.
June 24, 2026

2025 annual report: Responsive: Supporting community-driven ideas

Cover of The Law Foundation of Ontario 2025 annual report. The report’s name is Responsive: Supporting community-driven ideas and it shows a Toronto streetcar, brown and green farm field, and partially visible woman working on a desktop computer.

Community knows what community needs. This iconic mantra has shaped philanthropy worldwide. It essentially means that the people most affected by a situation are the ones who know best how to address it. The Law Foundation of Ontario has always prioritized this type of grantmaking, particularly through our Responsive program. In 2025, we made an unprecedented amount of Responsive grants, in both number and funds. We approved close to $22M to support 83 grants. To recognize this significant granting, the annual report highlights our Responsive program and the types of community-driven projects it supports.

Cover of The Law Foundation of Ontario 2025 annual report. The report’s name is Responsive: Supporting community-driven ideas and it shows a Toronto streetcar, brown and green farm field, and partially visible woman working on a desktop computer.What’s inside

  • Message from the Chair and CEO
  • 2025 Guthrie Award recipient, Bennett Jensen
  • Granting highlights
  • Grantee stories about CanLII, National Farmers Union-Ontario, and TTCriders
  • List of 2025 grants made
  • Class Proceedings Fund highlights
  • Financial highlights

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The Law Foundation of Ontario has been advancing access to justice since 1974. Through granting and collaboration, the Foundation invests in knowledge and services that help people understand the law and use it to improve their lives. The Foundation also administers the Class Proceedings Fund, which provides cost assistance in class actions.