McConnell Foundation - Montréal Grants Program

• Short-form application
• Budgetary information

• The project must be Montréal-based and have a positive impact on the greater Montréal community.
• The project must advance one of the Foundation’s focus areas (communities, reconciliation, or climate change) or align with the Montréal criteria described (e.g., major campaigns or heritage-building revitalization for social-sector use).
• For heritage-building projects, the applicant must be a charitable organization or non-profit.

Who is eligible?

• Charitable organizations and non-profits revitalizing heritage buildings for social-sector use
• Hospitals, CISSS and CIUSSS in the greater Montréal area (for the Nourish Leadership program)

Who is not eligible

• Hospitals and healthcare centres seeking capital campaign support

Eligible expenses

• Costs to develop financial models (heritage-building projects)
• Space analysis costs (heritage-building projects)
• Consulting/consultancy fees (heritage-building projects)
• Construction and renovation costs (heritage-building projects)

Ineligible Costs and Activities

• Funding requests for building purchase (heritage-building projects)
• Capital campaign support for hospitals and healthcare centres

Eligible geographic areas

• Montréal
• Greater Montréal area (Nourish Leadership participation)

• Step 1: Prepare application package
  • Complete the short-form application.
  • Compile budgetary information.

• Funding decisions were approved once a year in December.
• For current partners, existing funding agreements already underway continue as planned.

• The Montréal funding stream has been closed and the funding portal will not reopen.
• Existing funding agreements already underway will continue as planned.
• Montréal funding decisions were approved once a year in December.
• Since 2021, the Foundation has invested and committed $20M through the Montréal Strategy.