Traquair Family Foundation
Foundation Directors
The Board of Directors of the Traquair Family Foundation is comprised of the family of Brian and Janis Traquair. The directors are:
- Brian Traquair
- Janis Traquair
- Ellen Traquair
- Robert Castro
- Hugh Traquair
- Celina Baines
Traquair Family Foundation Officers:
President - Ellen Traquair
Ellen has experience in the insurance industry and has her MBA from DePaul University. Ellen is married to Robert Castro, and they live in Chicago. Ellen is president of the foundation.
Vice President - Hugh Traquair
Hugh is an internal medicine physician at Hamilton Health Services and is married to Celina Baines, an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. Hugh is vice president of the foundation. They live in Toronto.
Secretary - Janis Traquair
Janis is active in our Toronto neighbourhood and church community, and is secretary of the foundation. Janis and Brian live in Toronto.
Treasurer - Brian Traquair
Brian retired from a career in the software industry in 2016, and is now advising fintech start-ups. He is active in a number of charities and provides pro-bono consulting to the not-for-profit sector. Brian is treasurer of the foundation.
TFF - Grants
What is our goal?
How can I learn more?
Established in 2009, the Traquair Family Foundation is committed to equity of opportunity for everyone. Our mandate is to support initiatives of Canadian charities that are aligned to our mission. We only provide grants for programs and activities in Canada.
The Traquair Family Foundation respects faiths of all kinds, but we do not make grants available to religious organizations or charities affiliated with religious organizations.
How can I learn more?
How can I learn more?
We have provided basic information here on our website. This includes background on our mandate as well as financial reports. If you would like to know more, please contact us via the form or via email.
In order to apply for a grant, please complete the grant application form. We are unable to consider grant requests without a completed application.
How do we apply for a grant?
Please submit a grant request by using the required Grant Application Form in the next section. Please complete the form and email it to us at info@traquairfamilyfoundation.ca. We will confirm receipt and may reply with questions. Please be as specific as possible on the requested grant amount and the intended use of the funds.
Deadlines are March 1st for spring grants and September 1st for fall grants.
How do you choose?
What types and sizes of grants?
We review grant proposals year-round. We make decisions and issue grant cheques in the spring (deadline March 1st) and the fall (deadline September 1st) of each year.
We choose the initiatives most closely aligned to our mission (see below), weighted for their impact, criticality and importance to those being served. We focus on helping small to medium sized charities working in their local communities.
Our mission is to assist children, youth and women to overcome poverty, abuse and neglect and gain an equal opportunity to safety, health and education.
What types and sizes of grants?
What types and sizes of grants?
What types and sizes of grants?
Our grants are normally for operations and programmes, rather than capital expenditures. Our grants generally range between $2,500 and $10,000.
We restrict our grants to small to medium sized charities, which means below $2M in revenue, not religious ograizations and also not a branch or local chapter of a large provincial, national or international organization.
We are unable to offer grants to disease related causes, even when they intersect with our mission, as the needs are too great for us to support as a small foundation, and there is already substantial financial support in place for this area.
What are the application rules?
What types and sizes of grants?
What types and sizes of grants?
If you received a grant in the prior year, you may apply again the next year but priority is given to new recipients.
If you applied and did not receive a grant, you may reapply the following year provided you were not disqualified regarding charitable status, religious status or having greater than $2M in annual revenue.
If no grant is awarded on the second application, no further applications will be accepted for three (3) years.
We ask to receive your normal annual report by email, as well as a letter describing how our funds were used and the impact they created.
If you wish to acknowledge the grant, please use "Traquair Family Foundation".