Lawson Foundation grants
A Canadian family foundation funding the healthy development and wellbeing of children and youth across five impact areas: early child development, child and youth diabetes, youth climate and nature leadership, sector infrastructure, and the place-based Miggsie Fund. Grantmaking explicitly names research and advocacy, prevention and early intervention, and evaluation and knowledge sharing among its priorities, and funds can cover research, capacity enhancement and training rather than only service delivery. Grants are flexible in size and length by design.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)The foundation states its grants vary in size and length to match each partner's needs and publishes no general range. Its recent child and youth diabetes call listed Canadian-dollar figures (up to CAD $300,000 for three-year projects and CAD $50,000 for seed grants), but that call is closed and tho
- Timing
- Varies by programmeNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Mostly relationship-based and invitation-driven grantmaking with occasional dated funding calls per stream. The child and youth diabetes call had closed at the time of checking. No open dated deadline is published.
- Who can apply
- Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank, Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicants must be a qualified donee registered with the Canada Revenue Agency and the project must operate in Canada, which routes most community groups through a registered charity; Canadian universities are qualified donees and can hold funds. Some streams add their own gate: the child and youth diabetes stream requires Indigenous-led or co-led initiatives from Indigenous organizations, communities or affiliated individuals, or institutional applicants demonstrating meaningful, culturally safe Indigenous engagement. Entry is by a short letter of intent, with a two-stage review of letters an
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- early child development · indigenous-led health · youth leadership · evaluation and knowledge sharing
- Apply at
- https://lawson.ca/our-work/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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