Our Donors

A heartfelt thank you to our donors for their unwavering support in funding bold science that will untangle the intricacies of the brain. Your dedication is driving breakthroughs and inspiring hope for a brighter, healthier future.

Together, we’re making progress that matters.

We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of our lead donors who have supported Brain Canada over the years. 

The Arrell Family Foundation

The Azrieli Foundation

Bell Canada / Bell Let’s Talk

The Chagnon Family

CIBC

The Estate of Donna Canary

The Estate of John Borrowman

The Galati Family/Brain Changes Initiative

The Krembil Foundation

Power Corporation of Canada

Rossy Foundation

Royal Bank of Canada / RBC Foundation

Alvin Segal Family Foundation

Larry & Judy Tanenbaum Family Foundation

W. Garfield Weston Foundation

Women’s Brain Health Initiative

The Erika Legacy Foundation

2023 Donors

Bell Canada, The Canadian Red Cross Society, The Erika Legacy Foundation, Hewitt Foundation, Kacharie Foundation, The Krembil Foundation, Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation, Royal Bank of Canada, Women’s Brain Health Initiative

Alvin Segal Family Foundation, The AIM Foundation, The Arrell Family Foundation, Naomi Azrieli and François Blanc & Family, The Barbara Turnbull Foundation for Spinal Cord Research, Brain Changes Initiative- Move for Neurogenesis, Omico Investments Inc., Wheeler Family Foundation

 

Allan Kliger, Aviva Rajsky and Family, The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation, The Henry and Berenice Kaufmann Foundation, Mary and John Crocker, M. Wayne and J. Coleman Family Fund, The Mireille and Murray Steinberg Family Foundation, The Perseids of Hope, Dr. Marianna Seger, Dr. Monica Seger- van Tol

Anonymous (2), Rebecca Barrett, Deborah Barrett – Barrett Family Foundation, Oscar Blyth and friends, Alexandra & Cameron Bossert, Wayne E. Bossert, Ann Braden, Branch Out Neurological Foundation, Wendy R. Eisen Endowment Fund, Rob Evans, Toby Fouks, Kim Girtel, Anthony Gornik, Dr. Rashmi Goswami, Laura Hawthorn, Michele & Tim Hayman, Daniele Jodoin, Kaplin Enright Family Foundation, Fiona Lee, Daphne McCulloch, The McKay Foundation, MicroAge – NWD Walkathon, Carrie Morgan, James Palangio, Annemarie & Robert Powell, Graham DP Scott, Alex Shingler, Richard Sloan, Riccardo Teoli, The Wells (DL&K) Family Fund – Lois Wells, Carole & Bernard Zucker

Anonymous (4), Jean Besz, Robert Bodnar, Caroline Desautels, Julie Desmeules, Andrea Frossard, Carol Fryer, Shyla & Jack Goldstein, Raymond Hung, Karine Jadot, Mary Martin, Jake McGrory, Christine Moriceau, Karine Moses, Diane Nymark, Provincial Employees Community Services Fund, Christa Rauth, Dany Rochette, Meir J. Rotenberg & Sharon Wolfe, Joanne Rycaj-Guillemette, Dr. Suzanne Smith, Katrina Tilley, Amanda Wagner, United Way East Ontario

 

 

Anonymous (3), Brenda Andrews, Debbie Anderson, Freda Adema, Michelle Atrache, Sheila Alcos, Brenda E. Clost, Cottrell Family Fund – Jason Cotrell and Carolyn Jin, Glen Crisp, Michael Cord, Denis Dussault, Julia Dalla Rosa, Jane Enright, Madeleine Gagnon, Alison Garnett, Nicholas Grant, Giuseppe Gurreri, Nancy Herman, Inderbir Hundal, Genevieve Lemire, Judith Malden, Victor Marcotte, Dr. Gassan Massarweh, MEG Energy, John Moores, Nancy Pavunkovic, Andrew Penner, Antonella Perrotta, Wade Pitman, Richards-Weber Charitable Account, Kate Shingler, Mary Speagle, United Way Kingston, Arnold van den Hoeven, Peter Verlinden, Donald Weaver, Kurt Wegmann, Salina Yong

A

Anonymous (16), Irene Aguzzi, Johanne Alain, Robert Allam, Patrick Allard, Diane Angel, Gilles Auger, Louis & Claudette Auger, Manon Auger, Nancy Auger, Shirley Auger, Linda Auger-Morissette, Melissa Arauz, Tom Arban

B

Jennifer Babe, Michael Basford, Brigitte Beaudoin, Dany Beaudoin, Nancy Beaudoin, Anne-Marie Bégin Demers, Raymond Béland, Cathy Bélanger, Chantal Belanger, Karina Bélanger, Megane Bélanger, Nicole Bélanger, Monica Berger, Peter Bergerson, Louise Berglund, Mario Bernier, Daniel Bertrand, Denis Bertrand, Ronald Blackmore, Carl Blais, Simon Blais, Annie Bonenfant, Marie-Claude Bonenfant, Nancy Boomer, Garry Borg, Alain Bouffard, Noémie Bourgeois, Michael Braden, Joyce Brennan, Elana Brief, Ann Brien, David Brien, Jocelyne Brière-Trépanier, Carolle Brisson, Brent Brockerville, Claire Brodeur, Sandra Buckingham, Eugene Burles, Marilyn Burstyn, Kendra Butcher, Keith Bynum

C

Douglas Calvert, Leslie Campbell, Louise Cantin, Nancy Caron, Suzanne Cashman, Claudette Caspar, Linda Cayford-Raza, Champlain Regional College,  Gaétan Chantal, Mario Chartrand, Francine Chastenay,  Joanie Châteauvert, Stéphane Chénard, Émilienne Chevalier, Murielle Chevalier, CHIMP: Charitable Impact Fdt (Canada), Stephen Chitty, Jillian Clarke, Cynthia Clavette, Dr. Graham L. Collingridge, David Conway,  Jim Cooke

D

Lynn Daigneault, Heather Davies, Sydney Davies, Kelly Andrée Davis, Marc Delisle, Jill Dempster, Yvon Denis, Stephanie Deschamps, Laurent Deschênes, Guy Deshaies, Louise Desroches, Jean-Pierre Desilets, Luvana Di Francesco, Nancy Dion, Louis Dionne, Marie-Laurence Dionne, Daniel Doan, Yvonne Dolbec, Dons Variés, Mike Drakos, Claire Dreyfuss, Marie-Claude Drolet, Michel Drouin, Danielle Dubé, Lisette Dubé, Jessica Dubiel, Grace Duke, Karine Durocher,

E

Darren Edward, Dina El-Ariss, Lia Elenakis, Marlene Ellis

F

Lucie Fecteau, Brenda Sylvia Felker, Stephanie Fenz, Cheryl Ferguson, Nancy Ferguson, Stephen Ferguson, Claude Ferland, Filles de Cercle Marguerite-Bourgeois, Lucie Fillion, Elaine Findlay, Rita M. Folk, Dr. Sarah Foster, Barbara Forget,  Rosetta Francalancia, Eric Francoeur, Jean Frenette,

G

Francine Gagné, Nicole Gagné, Claude Gagnon, Venise Galichand, Peter Gaty, Arushi Gautam, Luc Gauthier,  Nathalie Gauthier, Nicole Gauthier, Carole Gauvin, Claire Genois, Oneil Germain, Stéphane Germain, Valérie Germain, John M. Gibson, Inger Gidska, Guy Gilbert, Sef Ginther, Linda Giroux, Reto Glass, Jean Godin, Ian Goldman, Dorothea M. Gospodaric, Samuel Goudrault, Emilie Gouillard, Nicholas Graham, Alain Gravel, Pascal Gravel, Mireille Grégoire, Ann Grubb, Kayla Grubb, Louise Guimond,

 

H

Brigitte Hallé, Daniel Halliday, Christopher Hanlon, Claude Haroon, Andrew Harrison, Michael Herman, Nancy Hoff, Marianne Howell, Richard Huffman, Frédéric Huion, Brian Hunter, H.V. Power Sports

I

Gianna Ius

J

Julian Jacobs, Mientje Jansen-Loyen, Kendra Jarduk, Norma Jelley, Lena Jin, Daniel Jobin,  France Jobin, Famille Joosten, Kelly Joosten, Anna Jubilo, Alexandre Julien, Carole Julien, Gilles Julien, Josée Julien

K

Susan L. Kelly, Roberts Kendra, Donald Kennedy, Dr. Jim King, Shane Kingerski, Sarah-Beth Knowles

L

Manon Labrie, Olivier Lajoie, Dana Lampe, Lynn Latozke, Joe Lancia,Dannie Lavoie, Christiane Leblanc, Denis Leclerc, Laurie Leclerc, Paulin Leclerc, Réal Leclerc & Linda Hardy, Renault Leclerc, Sherry Lee, Sarah Leeves, Mathieu Legros, Cathy Lem, Diane Lévesque, Helene Lessard, Annie Lortie, Pierre Loyen, Wensi Lu

M

Ryan MacLean, Claire Mainguy, Joachim Mainguy, Angie Marchetta, Deborah Marcogliese, Denis Marcotte, Helene Marcotte, Lyne Marcotte, Justin Marcotte, Tony Marcotte, Mario Marcotte, Monique Marcotte, Nancy Marcotte, Olivier Marcotte, Lucie Marcoux, Alzira F. Marques, Elizabete Marques, Heather Marshall, Annette Martel, Lucie Martel, Nadia Martin, Nicole Matte, Cathy McClary, Preston McIntyre, Jennifer McKinley, Lorne M. Mendell, Teresa Milden, Timothy Mills, Meek Moad, Chris Mohl, Julie Moisan, Richard G. Moisan, Dany Moreau, Joaly Morin, Jacques Morissette, Samuel Morissette, Cathy Morris, Elaine Murphy

N

Mathesan Naganathan, Elvira Nieri, Susan Noble, Sylvie Noël, Céline Noreau, Martine Noreau, Barbara Novek

O

Haley O’Brien, Marjorie Osiana, Carole Ouellet, Claire Ouellet, Danny Ouellet, Denise Ouellet, France Ouellet, Jean Ouellet, Lilabelle Ouellet, Sebastien Ouellet, Jean-Francois Ouellet-Morin, Caroline Ouellet-Rochefort

P

Francine Pagé, Vicky Pagé, Caroline Pageau, Erika Palladino, Michael Panzera, France Paquet, Luc Paquet, Diane Paquin, Nathalie Paquin, Carmen Pascoe, Mary Pattullo,  Lise Pelletier, Bruno Piché, Denise Piché, Gilles Piché, Mathias Piché, Antonio Pietrangelo, Filomena Pietrangelo, Maria Pietrangelo, Luisa Pisciuneri, Kerry Plamondon-Chassé, Maude Plamondon, Gaétane Plourde, Dominique Podvin, Pasquale Polisena, Shiva Ponnampalam,  Maria Prairie, Lucie H. Précourt, Karyn Prest, Richard Primeau, Glenys Prince, Franca Protomanni

R

Miandry Ranaivoharison, Godha Rangaraj, Tadeusz Redlarski, Stacey Rendell, Ghislaine Richard, Coeur Riley, Kathleen Roby, Dr. John Martin Rodgers, Bailey Roth, Julie Roy, Mary Ruddy, Ross Rutherford,

S

Reena Sahney, Mary G. Sanford, Anabela Santos, Mario Savard, Carol Scobie, Carly Scramstad, Giuseppina Scrocca, Marisa Scrocca, Gina Scrocca-Lisi, Thaaraha Selvarajah, Sebastiano Serio, Eugene Sheffield, Minnie Sheffield, Fernand Simard, Hélène Simard, Brian Simpson, Parminder Singh, Marilyn Skinner, June Smith, Liz Smith,  Soryl Rosenberg Fund, Caroline Soucy, Elizabeth Medland Spence, James Splane, Nathan Sorenson, Rob Staffen, Mark Stein, Robert Stirling, Edward Stokes, Mary Louise Stuart, Jacqueline Strasbourg, Michel Suzor, Graeme Swan, Mary M. Swiston,

T

Dr. Charles Tator, Amy Tencer, Irina Teske, Luce Theberge, Annie Theriault, Benoit Thériault, Marlène Thibault, Haley Thomson, Randy Torrance, Jean-Stéphane Tremblay, Marie-Helene Tremblay, Diane Trudel, Kaitie Turchin, Mary Anne Turner

U

United Way East Ontario, United Way Greater Toronto

V

Maurice Vadnais, June Vallis, Susan Van Egdom, Ann Verboven, Alain Vézina, Louise Vien, Marie Voyer,

W

Allan Waechter, Karen Waechter, Keith Waechter, Paul Waksberg, Donna Walker, Maya Wariyar, Sandra Wells, Louise White, Dr. Susan Wilcox, Tyler Wilkie, Matthew Williams, Douglas A. Willis, Nanny Wimme, Roger Wolfe,

 

How you can help

Brain Canada funds the very best Canadian neuroscience, fostering collaborative research and accelerating the pace of discovery, in order to improve the health and quality of life of Canadians who suffer from brain disorders.