The Foundation’s partners are doing remarkable things, from advancing conservation initiatives and addressing climate change to championing gender justice and fostering community resilience. We offer multi-year, unrestricted funding that gives organizations the flexibility to achieve their important work.
Current Grantees
Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights
All My Relations Indigenous Society / Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week
Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland
Canadian Parks & Wildlife Society (CPAWS BC)
Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC
Coast Conservation Endowment Fund Foundation
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Family Services of the North Shore
Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society
Justice for Girls Outreach Society
Metro Vancouver Zero Emissions Innovation Centre (ZEIC)
Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders
Neighbours United for Nature Society
Pacific Immigrant Resources Society
Squamish Helping Hands Society
Zero Ceiling Society of Canada
Legacy Grantees
Organizations the Foundation has previously partnered with from 2020 onwards. Note that organizations from before 2020 are not listed.
Lions Gate Hospital Foundation
PLUSEC (Pluralism, Human Security & Sustainability Centre)
Raincoast Conservation Foundation
The Climate Justice Organizing HUB
News & Impact Stories
Shaping climate and conservation policy, strengthening feminist movements, and building the care economy.
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Newsletter: February 2026
Our partners are pivoting in real time. -
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The most important infrastructure isn’t in the budget
Philanthropy has a crucial role to play in supporting the chronically underfunded work of gender justice organizations – which are holding communities together in an age of precarity – and the moment is now. -
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Philanthropic Investment vs. Social Need
In early 2025, the Houssian Foundation, in partnership with Catalyst Philanthropy, took a closer look at the state of gender justice philanthropy in Canada. What we found was both clear and concerning. -
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Newsletter: October 2025
How do we regroup, and not retreat, on policy at this moment in time? -
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Daylight Fund – Grant Recipients
Meet the grant recipients of the Houssian Foundation’s Daylight Fund 2025
