Healthcare Grants and Funding in Ontario for 2026
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Ontario offers a broad landscape of healthcare grants and funding programs that support hospitals, community health organizations, nonprofits, and innovators. Opportunities span capital, operating, equipment, research, digital health, mental health and addictions, Indigenous health, and rural and northern access. This directory explains the main funding types, eligibility requirements, and application best practices to help organizations across Ontario plan strong proposals.

Expanded Energy Management Program
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Construction

XLerate Program
- Maximum amount : 15,000,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Health care and social assistance
- Public administration

FedDev Ontario — Economic Development Initiative (Southern Ontario) — Not-For-Profit
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Ontario Anti-Hate Security and Prevention Grant (2025-26)
- From $5,000 to $10,000
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Regional Artificial Intelligence Initiative (RAII) for Northern Ontario
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing
- Health care and social assistance

FedDev — Funding for southern Ontario
- From $125,000 to $10,000,000
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

OTF — Organizational Mentors
- Up to 15% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Capital Access Advisory Program (CAAP) — Building Companies
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance

OTF — Economic Recovery and Resilience Fund
- Maximum amount : 125,000 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Enabling Accessibility Fund — Small projects
- Maximum amount : 125,000 $
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Construction
- Retail trade
- Transportation and warehousing
- Information and cultural industries

Eco-Roof Incentive Program
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Retrofit Program
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Developing Medicines through Open Science (DMOS)
- Maximum amount : 1,600,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

Energy Performance Program
- No Condition
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Commercial CoolSaver Program
- Maximum amount : 1,450 $
- Up to 5% of project cost
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade

Existing Building Commissioning program
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Utilities
- Real estate and rental and leasing
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Community Economic Development (CED)
- From $5,000 to $50,000
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Ventures at Coralus
- Up to 45% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

APCHQ — Affordable Housing Innovation Fund
- No Condition
- Construction
- Finance and insurance
- Real estate and rental and leasing
- Health care and social assistance

Language Interpreter Grants
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Newcomer Settlement Program
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Strategic Jobs Investment Fund (SJIF)
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Finance and insurance
- Health care and social assistance

Occupational Health and Safety Prevention and Innovation Program
- No Condition
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Construction
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Community Planting and Stewardship Grant
- From $5,000 to $100,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Regional Artificial Intelligence Initiative in southern Ontario - Pillar 2: AI Adoption
- Maximum amount : 5,000,000 $
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Finance and insurance
- Professional, scientific and technical services
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Investing in Women's Futures
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

Hardware Catalyst Initiative
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Information and cultural industries
- Health care and social assistance

- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

Regional Economic Growth Through Innovation & Southern Ontario Prosperity Program — Not-for-profit organizations
- Minimum amount : 125,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

OBIO — Health to Business Bridge Program
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance

Energy Retrofit Loans (ERL)
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Real estate and rental and leasing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Epson's Focused Giving Community Relations Program
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Skills Development Fund (SDF) — Capital Stream — SEED Pathway
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Life Sciences Scale-Up Fund (LSSUF)
- Maximum amount : 2,500,000 $
- Up to 33% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance

OTF — Family Innovations Scale Grant
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

Seniors Community Grant Program
- From $1,000 to $25,000
- Health care and social assistance

- From $3,000 to $5,000
- Health care and social assistance

- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Retail trade
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Supported Employment
- Maximum amount : 7,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

OTF — Family Innovations Test Grant
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 10% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance

Brant Community Foundation - City of Brantford Community Grant Program
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Public administration

Heart of Georgian Bay Community Forward Fund
- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Genomic Applications Partnership Program (GAPP)
- From $100,000 to $6,000,000
- Up to 1% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance
- Public administration

Regional Economic Growth Through Innovation & Southern Ontario Prosperity Program
- Minimum amount : 125,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

INOVAIT Pilot Fund
- From $100,000 to $150,000
- Up to 3333% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

Green and Inclusive Community Buildings (GICB) Program
- Minimum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Public administration

OTF — Youth Innovations Scale Grant
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 15% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

Refugee Resettlement Fund Grant
- Maximum amount : 4,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

The Christmas Cheer Foundation
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance
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Skills Development Fund (SDF) — Capital Stream — GROW Pathway
- Up to 49% of project cost
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Health care and social assistance

Indigenous Climate Action Grants
- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Dufferin Vision Fund Grants
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

MaRS Growth Acceleration Program
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Finance and insurance
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

OTF — Grow Grant
- From $50,000 to $600,000
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Collective Bargaining Information Services
- No Condition
- Construction
- Health care and social assistance
- Public administration

Ontario Business Research Institute Tax Credit (OBRITC)
- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

- No Condition
- Wholesale trade
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

VERGE Capital — Breakthrough Fund
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Retail trade
- Health care and social assistance

Community Funding - Project Funding
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

Community Funding - Snow Go Programs
- Maximum amount : 450 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance

Community Funding - Sustainability Funding
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Community Funding - Capital Funding
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Neighbourhood Planting Program
- Maximum amount : 500 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

BioCreate Program
- From $100,000 to $150,000
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

Ontario Trillium Foundation - Capital Grants
- From $10,000 to $200,000
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Intellectual Property Ontario
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

OBIO — Early Adopter Health Network (EAHN)
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance

ventureLAB — Capital Investment Program
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Finance and insurance
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

The Norfolk Community Foundation
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

FedDev — Regional Artificial Intelligence Initiative – Adoption Pillar 2 – Businesses
- Maximum amount : 5,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Finance and insurance
- Health care and social assistance

Toronto — Capacity Buyback Program
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade
- Retail trade
- Educational services

OBIO — (WiHI) Training and Wage Subsidies
- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

Leadership and Mentorship Grant
- Maximum amount : 40,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

Ottawa Valley Community Foundation - General and Bereavement Funds
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
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- No Condition
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Professional, scientific and technical services

The Marion Ethel Kamm and Frederick John Kamm Foundation
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance

- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

OTF — System Innovations Grant
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 15% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

OTF — Seed Grant
- From $10,000 to $100,000
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Climate and Equity Lab Grants
- From $50,000 to $52,500
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

The Thames Valley Education Foundation - The Caring Fund
- Maximum amount : 500 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

OCI — Innovating Digital Health Solutions (IDHS)
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Health care and social assistance

- From $100 to $2,500
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Invest Ontario Fund (IOF)
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

Durham Community Foundation Community Grants
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

OCI — Ready 4 Market (R4M)
- From $500,000 to $250,000
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

Casino Rama Cares Community Program
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)

Safer and Vital Communities Grant
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

- From $500 to $10,000
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

The Sifton Family Foundation
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Petrolia Community Fund Grants
- From $200 to $2,000
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

United Way Simcoe Muskoka - Women United
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

United Way Simcoe Muskoka - Reaching Home
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

HIV Endgame Funding Program
- From $25,000 to $150,000
- Health care and social assistance

United Way Waterloo Region Communities - Community Impact Fund - General Operating Support
- From $20,000 to $160,000
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)