Learning through bold and thoughtful action. Grounded in community, justice and integrity.
Our Strategy & Priorities.
Anchored in our values of community, justice, and integrity, Definity Foundation works to address historic and ongoing inequities. We believe lasting change comes from cooperative, collective action. By working together, we aim to dismantle structural barriers that disproportionately affect communities facing systemic inequities and help build a more just and equitable society.
Evolving with Purpose
Since our launch in 2022, Definity Foundation has been committed to learning—about how we fund, what we fund, and how to meaningfully support systems change. From the start, we made a promise to: listen deeply, stay open, and evolve with intention. Over the past three years, that’s exactly what we’ve done.
Between 2022-2025, we committed over $32M in partnership grants and $9M in impact investments that advance climate, health, social and economic justice. Through these partnerships, we’ve prioritized community-led solutions that address systematic barriers, with a particular focus on those faced by Black, Indigenous, and other racialized communities.
From the outset we were intentional about learning while doing. We began this journey with broad goals and a curiosity about how and where philanthropy could show up differently. That learning phase has brought us to a point where we are ready to define the next chapter and long-term direction of the foundation.
Our Path to 2027
Over the next year, we will refine our Community Investment Framework to better align our investments for greater impact. This evolution will help us optimize our systems-change approaches, strengthen partner relationships, and better address structural barriers to equity. Our commitment to climate, health, social and economic justice remains strong, even as we rethink how we approach and advance these mission areas.
During this period of refinement, we will not be making new grants in 2026, with a few early exceptions to honour grant proposals already under discussion. Our current multi-year commitments will continue as planned and we will continue to engage in relationship-based learning, dialogue, and amplification of our partners’ work.
This a is a deliberate and thoughtful evolution. We will now translate three years of insight into a refined Community Investment Framework for 2027. This next chapter will allow us to deepen our support for community-led change, and be even more responsive, focused, and impactful.
Between 2022-2025, we committed over $32M in grants to over 70 different organizations that advance climate, health, social and economic justice. Through these partnership grants, we met our mission by directing capital, strengthening the field, and leveraging networks and expertise, to support community-led solutions tackling deep-rooted challenges that disproportionately affect Black, Indigenous, and other racialized communities.
We built trust-based partnerships grounded in our values of community, justice and integrity, and by collaborating closely with intermediaries, funder collaboratives and community-led collectives. Learn more about our approach to partnership.
Our Grantmaking in Action
Learn about our three focus areas through our granting partnerships.
Since 2022, Definity Foundation has committed $9M across fourteen impact investments that intentionally generate positive social and environmental impact aligned with our priority areas.
Our investments span the full impact spectrum by supporting both experienced and first-time fund managers from underrepresented communities, deploying capital across multiple asset classes (including impact venture funds, community bonds, and outcomes-based financing), and embracing a range of returns.
To strengthen our commitment to impact, we have also updated our Investment Policy Statement to integrate key Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations across our entire portfolio. Over the coming years, we will continue aligning our investments to intentionally:
- Avoid harm
- Benefit the stakeholders connected to these investments, and
- Contribute to solutions within our priority areas.