Canadian Urban Institute: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Toronto, ON · grants and contributions register · Spadina–Fort York

Canadian Urban Institute: federal grants and contributions: 12 agreements; $48.2M value; 5 departments; 7 programs.

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12agreements
$48.2Mvalue
5departments
7programs

Largest agreements

1014193$18.9Mvalue2023start2025end

To provide support to businesses and community placemaking activities aimed to support main street and community revitalization across southern Ontario.

Roster of Climate & Infrastructure Experts$16.5Mvalue2024start2028end

The Roster of Climate and Infrastructure Experts (Roster) will provide communities with technical climate and infrastructure expertise to support them in strengthening low carbon and climate resilience considerations into their infrastructure projects. The Roster Administrator will match municipalities with pre-qualified experts on climate and infrastructure issues over four years (2024 – 2028) through a collaborative, consultative process.

819468$10.0Mvalue2021start2023end

The community revitalization stream of My Main Street spurs main street recovery through placemaking, supporting initiatives to draw new ideas, opportunities and people to their community cores.

Infill Housing for Canada’s Transit Corridors and Main Streets$1.7Mvalue2024start2026end

To develop a new method of identifying under-utilized land to increase housing density along transit corridors, while considering environmental, fiscal, social and equity factors in determining the most appropriate locations for housing infill. This builds on the Measuring Main Streets platform.

Community Infrastructure Inventory Platform (CIIP)$600Kvalue2023start2024end

The applicant, in collaboration with its partners, proposes an evaluation of main streets in key cities to develop tools that can be used across Canada to support municipalities, regional/provincial and federal governments and communities to better align infrastructure assessment, decision-making and investments to support long-term equity and future-proof recovery of our main streets.

Agreement$181Kvalue2014start–end
Agreement$99.7Kvalue2012start–end
Agreement$95.0Kvalue2017start–end
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Digital transformation of communities for Energy Efficiency$94.8Kvalue2019start2020end

This project is to support the implementation of a study to reduce energy costs and improve energy performance.

Agreement$49.4Kvalue2017start–end
CSJ2020-Canadian Urban Institute(Spadina-Fort York)$4.3Kvalue2020start2020end

Through the application of national and local priorities, the CSJ program seeks to provide youth, particularly those who face barriers to employment with access to work opportunities. Funded employers must demonstrate that they are providing quality work experiences for youth that provide opportunities to develop and improve their skills.

CSJ2018-Canadian Urban Institute (Spadina--Fort York )$3.8Kvalue2018start2018end

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Departments

Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario2agreements$28.9Mvalue2programs
  • Community Economic Development and Diversification (CEDD)
  • CED & Diversification

All grants from Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario

Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities3agreements$18.8Mvalue3programs
  • Supporting Climate Resilient Infrastructure Initiative
  • Research Knowledge Initiative
  • Research and Knowledge Initiative

All grants from Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities

Natural Resources Canada4agreements$470Kvalue1programs
  • Contributions in support of Energy Efficiency

All grants from Natural Resources Canada

Canadian Heritage1agreements$49.4Kvalue0programs
Employment and Social Development Canada2agreements$8.1Kvalue1programs

Years

20242agreements$18.2Mvalue2programs
  • Supporting Climate Resilient Infrastructure Initiative
  • Research Knowledge Initiative
20232agreements$19.5Mvalue2programs
  • Community Economic Development and Diversification (CEDD)
  • Research and Knowledge Initiative
20211agreements$10.0Mvalue1programs
  • CED & Diversification
20201agreements$4.3Kvalue1programs
  • Youth - Canada Summer Jobs
20191agreements$94.8Kvalue1programs
  • Contributions in support of Energy Efficiency
20181agreements$3.8Kvalue1programs
  • Youth - Canada Summer Jobs
20172agreements$144Kvalue0programs
    20141agreements$181Kvalue0programs
      20121agreements$99.7Kvalue0programs

        Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.