Healthier Futures, Together

Since its inception in 2005, Tour de Bleu, the annual cycling fundraiser hosted by Mattamy Homes and the Peter Gilgan Foundation, has raised more than $53 million to benefit world-class organizations such as SickKids, CAMH, Women’s College Hospital, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, the Mattamy National Cycling Centre, Markham/Stouffville Hospital, Trillium Health Partners, William Osler Health System and now the University Health Network’s Krembil Brain Institute.

This year’s partnership with UHN Foundation reflects the Peter Gilgan Foundation’s commitment to investing in brain health — an area of urgent need as populations age and the prevalence of neurodegenerative disease continues to rise.

It’s our great pleasure to share our 2025 Annual Report. Our partners are building a healthier, more prosperous, and more sustainable future, and we are proud to support their impact.

We hope you enjoy reading a bit about the work being done in partnership with the Peter Gilgan Foundation.

“St. Joe’s has been serving Toronto’s west end for more than 100 years, and monumental donations like this help us continue to improve care for everyone who comes through our doors,” said Dr. Tim Rutledge, CEO of Unity Health.

This gift, announced on June 24, 2025, is part of Peter Gilgan Foundation’s commitment to supporting targetted health care investments that transform care and improve lives.

We’re proud to celebrate the impact of our partner organizations delivering important work overseas.

Learn a bit about our partners including CARE Canada, Kinvia, and Partners in Health, as they work towards Sustainable Development Goals addressing poverty, health, and gender equity.

Philanthropy is instrumental in the fight against climate change, yet a recent analysis shows that climate only makes up 0.9% of all Canadian philanthropic giving, which is well below the global average of 1.6%.

Climate Champions is a new initiative with the goal to triple climate philanthropy in Canada, from roughly $100 million to more than $300 million per year by 2030. On November 13th, 2024, a group of 9 Canadian families and foundations, including the Peter Gilgan Foundation, came together to announce the biggest philanthropic contribution to climate solutions in Canadian history: $405 million over ten years.

These families and foundations hope this inaugural announcement will motivate others to consider new philanthropic commitments to climate solutions. By deploying this funding over the next ten years, we can help Canada make tangible progress to a low-carbon economy.

On June 25th, The Peter Gilgan Foundation in partnership with MaRS Discovery District, North America’s largest urban innovation hub, launched Mission from MaRS: Better Buildings.

Through the mission, MaRS will work with ventures and industry partners to create a more sustainable built environment and support the commercialization of high-potential Canadian technologies.

This partnership presents an amazing opportunity to support Canadian clean-tech ventures  with market-ready technologies that reduce embodied and/or operational carbon in our built environment, through the Better Buildings Adoption Accelerator.

Peter Gilgan has made a historic $105 million gift to Trillium Health Partners (THP) – the largest donation to a hospital in Canadian history.

The donation will support THP in building the largest and most advanced hospital in Canada, to be named “The Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital.” It will also help expand and redevelop Queensway Health Centre, which will be named “The Gilgan Family Queensway Health Centre.”