Grants Made

In this current period a legacy grant payment of $500,000 has been awarded to Western University, with a similar payment due in the next fiscal year. Some additional funding will be available during this period, but funds will be limited and dependent partly on investment performance. Some grants will be awarded by the Board of Directors of the Foundation.  We are not accepting applications during this current year or the next. Grants awarded will be posted here as they occur:

• • • • Western University ($500,000 2/3)
      • The New Quarterly Literary Society Inc. ($12,000)

Total grants awarded for this period so far are $512,000.

GOOD FOUNDATION INC.           OUR 50TH YEAR

In honour of our 50 years of donating, we awarded five grants of $50,000 each to the following organizations with whom we have worked in recent years. These grants were discretionary to most of their respective organizations and payable in April, 2023, except in the case of Region of Waterloo. However, In a subsequent development, the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund cancelled its planned fund distribution for Fall, 2023, and the $50,000 has been returned to us for our future distribution:

• • • • Theatre London (The Grand Theatre)
      • Museum London
      • London Symphonia
      • London Regional Children’s Museum
      • (Region of Waterloo Arts Council–cancelled)
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      • Royal Canadian College of Organists ($10,000)
      • Paisley  Blues Festival ($3,000)
      • Achill Choral Society ($3,000)
      • Ottawa School of Art ($17,650)
      • Forest City School for Strings ($5,000)
      • Elora Centre for the Arts ($6,000)
      • Blyth Festival ($12,000)
      • Brassroots ($4,350)
      • Crouch Neighbourhood Resource Centre ($7,500)
      • Cambridge Symphony ($5,000)
      • Port Burwell Periscope Theatre ($20,000)
      • Western University – McIntosh Gallery ($10,000)
      • Canadian Arabic Orchestra ($10,000)
      • Highlands Opera Studio ($15,000)
      • Western University – Library ($15,600)
      • Aeolian Hall Musical Arts Association ($10,000)
      • London Youth Symphony ($5,000)
      • INNERchamber Stratford ($2,500)
      • Homer Watson House & Gallery ($8,650)
      • Investing in Children – London ($6,000)
      • Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario ($2,500)
      • Fanshawe Pioneer Village – Women Making History ($15,000)
      • Western University – Chair in English (1/3: $500,000)
      • Brassroots – London Jazz Society Project ($20,000)
• Total grants paid in this period are for $913,750.

• • • • Philanthropic Foundations Canada [$1,700]
      • Theatre London [2/2 $50,000]
      • The Unity Project “UPwithART” [$10,000]
      • Jet Aircraft Museum, London [$5,000]
      • Indwell Community Homes; London Potters Guild [$20,000]
      • Paisley Blues Festival [$3,000]
      • Wilfred Laurier University [$15,000]
      • Parkhill Carnegie Gallery [$10,000]
      • London Symphonia [$116,000, payments TBA]
      • Port Burwell Periscope Playhouse [$30,250]
      • Victoria Playhouse Petrolia [$25,000, payment TBA]
      • Off the Wall Stratford Artists’ Alliance [$5,000]
      • Cambridge Symphony[$5,000]
      • Al Purdy A-Frame Association [$20,000]
      • INNERchamber – Stratford [$5,000]
      • Ottawa Camber Music Society [$15,000]
      • University of Waterloo-Longhouse Project [$30,000]
      • Centre in the Square – Kitchener [$25,000]
      • Elora Centre for th Arts [$5,000]
      • The Elora Singers [$6,000]
      • Aeolian Music Arts Association [$10,000]
      • Stratford Festival Theatre [$5,000]
      • Waterloo Region Arts Fund [$50,000]
        • Press Release for Fall 2022 Grants
• Total grants to date for this period are $470,100, of which all but $50,000 is for 22 new requests.

• • • • Philanthropic Foundations Canada [up tp $1,800]
      • The Arts Project London [2/2 $48,000]
      • Canadian Museum of History [$25,000]
      • Jet Aircraft Museum, London [$5,000]
      • Highlands Opera Theatre [$20,000]
      • Children’s Museum, London  [$75,000]
      • Paris Port Dover Pipe Band [$4,000]
      • London & Middlesex Historical Society [$10,000]
      • London Symphonia [$16,000]
      • Character Curtain Calls – St. Thomas [$3,000]
      • Victoria Playhouse Petrolia [$25,000]
      • Off the Wall Stratford Artists’ Alliance [$5,000]
      • UPwithART [$7,500]
      • The Grand Theatre, London [$100,000 over this year and next.]
      • Rideau Lakes Theatre School [$5,000]
      • Paisley Blues Festival. [$3,000]
      • Canadian Arabic Orchestra [$5,000]
      • INNERchamber Stratford [$5,000]
      • Carol Shields Prize for Fiction [$23,750]
      • Western University -Faculty of Arts & Humanities [$75,000 FT]
      • Conrad Grebel University Collage [$50,000 FT]
      • Waterloo Region Arts Fund [$50,000] for funding as follows, in whole or in part:
        • Press Release for Fall 2021 Grants 
        • Diverse Dance Productions ($11,000);
        • Green Light Arts ($12,000);
        • SHORE Centre ($10,240);
        • Stephen Svenson, Ernest Daetwyler, Lila. Bruyere ($12,000) for filming;
        • Waterloo Chamber Players ($7,500)
• Total grants for this period are $512,050, of which $387,050 are request based.  Funding is complete for this period.

• • • Pacific Opera Victoria [3/3 $20,000]
    • Fanshawe College -“Good Foundation Theatre” [$125,000 was still outstanding on this grant of $500,000; the Foundation has this year paid off the grant in full.]
    • Philanthropic Foundations Canada [$1,575]
    • Karen Schuessler Singers – London [3/3 $1,500]
    • London Symphonia [$15,000]
    • Unity Project – London [$7,500]
    • Blyth Festival  [$10,000 paid in full in 2019 – 2 year project]
    • Stratford Festival Capital Campaign [2/2 $50,000]
    • London Regional Children’s Museum [$25,000]
    • Homer Watson House & Gallery -Kitchener [$5,000]
    • Detweiler Meeting House [$15,000]
    • Aeolian Hall – London [$10,000]
    • The Arts Project London [1/2 $48,000]
    • London Community Dental Alliance [$5,000]
    • Elora Centre For the Arts [$5,300]
    • Brassroots – London [$5,000]
    • Dancetheatre David Earle -Guelph [$4,000]
    • Tyrconnell Heritage Society – Wallacetown [$2,500]
    • Conrad Grebel University College  [$75,000 – John R. Good Library Endowment Fund -Flow-through]
    • Western University – Faculty of Arts & Humanities [$100,000 – Flow-through]
    • Region of Waterloo Arts Fund [$50,000]. Six Grants from its Fall Competition were funded wholly or in part by Good Foundation Inc.: Fall 2020 Competition Results
      • Drayton Theatres Inc. – Jonathan Randall (Waterloo) $6,000 towards the High School Music Project;
      • Susan Fish (Waterloo) – $5,000 for research towards a first draft of a novel;
      • Heather Kocsis and Gary Kirkham (Cambridge) – $28,000 for production of Dancing Within Our Worlds;
      • Registry Theatre – Sam Varteniuk (Kitchener) – $5,000 for artists fees for script development;
      • Uptown Waterloo Jazz Festival – Cheryle Ewing (Kitchener) $4,000 for a “group mentoring project”;
      • Vera Causa Opera – Dylan Langan (Cambridge) $5,000 towards a production of a film of The Gondoliers

The above list represents a total of  almost all of the $400,000 or so available before flow-through grants are included. With flow-through funding the grants for 2019-20 total $570,375.

• • • Pacific Opera Victoria [2/3 $20,000]
    • Museum London – Centre at the Forks [4/4 $25,000]
    • Fanshawe College -“Good Foundation Theatre” [$125,000: 375,000/500,000]
    • Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery – Waterloo [2/2 $12,500]
    • Philanthropic Foundations Canada [$1,500]
    • Karen Schuessler Singers – London [2/3 $1,500]
    • London Symphonia [$15,000]
    • Unity Project – London [$5,000]
    • Blyth Festival  [$10,000-2 year project]
    • Stratford Festival Capital Campaign [1/2 $50,000]
    • K-W Chamber Music Society [$3,000]
    • Encore Concert Band, 25th Year Celebration [$1,500]
    • Indspire – Hilary Pearson Bursary Fund [$1,000]
    • Theatre of the Beat [$2,000]
    • Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival [$2,500]
    • St. John The Evangelist Church Restoration [$20,000 – Flow-through]
    • Western University – Faculty of Arts & Humanities [$75,000 – Flow-through]
    • Conrad Grebel University College  [$75,000 – John R. Good Library Endowment Fund -Flow-through]
    • Region of Waterloo Arts Fund [$40,000]-for redistribution in its Fall 2019 Competition:For full results, click here:   Fall 2019 Competition Results
    • Five Grants from the above competition were funded wholly or in part by Good Foundation Inc.:
      • Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area (CAFKA) – $15,000 for “White Elephant” sculptural installation by Shary Boyle;
      • Kitchener-Waterloo Community Orchestra – Janice Boich (Kitchener) $4,400 towards commissioning of a new composition;
      • The New Quarterly -Emily Bednarz (Waterloo) – $13,500 towards 24 podcast interview episodes with local and national authors;
      • Open Ears Festival – Richard Burrows (Kitchener) -$10,000 towards Art and Sound Walk performances;
      • Waterloo Chamber Players – Rebekka Fry (Cambridge) – $5,000 to commission a new composition by Ben Bolt-Martin.

This is now a complete list of 2019-20 grants and payments totalling $485,500 including flow-through funded distributions..

• • • • K-W Symphony [$10,000]
      • DaCapo Chamber Choir -Waterloo [$5,000]
      • Coastal Discovery Centre, Main-à-Dieu, NS [$12,500]
      • Philanthropic Foundations Canada [$1,500]
      • Fanshawe College -“Good Foundation Theatre” [5/10, $50,000]
      • Pacific Opera Victoria [1/3 $20,000]
      • Victoria Conservatory of Music [$5,000]
      • The New Quarterly – Waterloo [$7,750]
      • Erb Street Cemetery – Waterloo [$5,000]
      • Museum London – Centre at the Forks [3/4 $25,000]
      • Stratford Summer Music [$2,500]
      • Waterloo Public Library [$24,000]
      • Brassroots  – London [$5,000]
      • Museum London – Art Song [$5,000]
      • Victoria Philharmonic Choir [$2,500]
      • London Symphonia [$15,000]
      • Unity Project – London [$5,000]
      • Clay & Glass Gallery – Waterloo [1/2 $12,500]
      • Home County Folk League [$1,000]
      • Blyth Theatre [$3,500]
      • KWAG – [$10,000]
      • Createspace/Green Light Arts – Waterloo [$3,000]
      • National Youth Symphony [$10,000]
      • INNERChamber – Stratford [$4,000]
      • Spiritus Ensemble – Waterloo [$3,500]
      • Pat The Dog Theatre Creation – Waterloo [$9,500]
      • Karen Schuessler Singers – London [1/3 $1,500]
      • London Historical Society – Woodman Project [$10,000]
      • Western University – Opera Production [$5,000}
      • Robert Bateman Foundation -Art of Poetry Project [$4,500]
      • Conrad Grebel University College – Waterloo [sponsored grant $15,000]
      • Western University – Arts and Humanities Fund [sponsored grant $25,000]

The total of the above 32 payments and new grants is $318,750.

• • • • K-W Symphony [$5,500]
      • DaCapo Chamber Choir -Waterloo [$5,000]
      • Coastal Discovery Centre, Main-à-Dieu, NS [$5,500]
      • Philanthropic Foundations Canada [repeating, $1,500]
      • Fanshawe College -“Good Foundation Theatre” [4/10, $50,000]
      • Pacific Opera Victoria [2/2 $12,500]
      • Victoria Conservatory of Music [2/2 $12,500]
      • The New Quarterly – Waterloo [2/2 $7,000]
      • Fugitive Slave Chapel Preservation Project [deferred from 2016-17,$25,000]
      • Museum London – Centre at the Forks [2/4 $25,000]
      • Project Bookmark Canada [prepaid in 2016, $0]
      • Walrus Foundation [$5,000]
      • rare Charitable Research [$5,000]
      • Silver Lake Camp [$7,500]
      • Victoria Philharmonic Choir [$2,500]
      • Oak Bay Sea Rescue Society – Victoria [$20,000]
      • K-W Chamber Music Society [$5,000]
      • THEMUSEUM – Waterloo [$12,000]
      • Fridge Door Live Theatre [$1,800]
      • NUMUS – Waterloo  [$3,000]
      • Belfry Theatre – Victoria [$15,000]
      • London Symphonia [$15,000]
      • Unity Project – London [$5,000]
      • Clay & Glass Gallery – Waterloo [$15,000]
      • The Grand Theatre – London [$7,500]
      • Blyth Theatre [$4,000]
      • MT Space – Waterloo [$5,000]
      • Nota Bene – Waterloo  [$6,000]
      • Createspace/Green Light Arts – Waterloo [$5,000]
      • National Youth Symphony [$10,000]
      • INNERChamber – Stratford [$4,000]
      • Spiritus Ensemble – Waterloo [$3,000]
      • JM Drama/Registry Theatre – Waterloo [$5,000]
      • Pat The Dog Theatre Creation – Waterloo [$5,500]
      • Driftwood Theatre [$2,000]
      • Karen Schuessler Singers – London [$2,500]
      • Menno Singers – [$2,500]
      • Strong Start – Waterloo Region [11,500]
      • University of Victoria – Library & Malahat Review [$10,000]
      • Maritime Museum of British Columbia – Poetry Project [$3,000]
      • University of Victoria – Music Education Project [$25,000]
      • Western University – Arts & Humanities [special grant $25,000]

The total of the above 42 payments and grants is $397,800.

• • • • K-W Symphony [repeating, $5,500]
      • DaCapo Chamber Choir (Waterloo) [repeating, $5,000]
      • Coastal Discovery Centre, Main-à-Dieu, NS [repeating, $5,500]
      • Philanthropic Foundations Canada [repeating. $1,500]
      • Fanshawe College -“Good Foundation Theatre” [continuing, 3/10, $50,000]
      • Western University, Visual Arts Lab [$10,000]
      • Waterloo Historical Society  [$10,000]
      • London Potters Guild  [$10,000]
      • Pacific Opera Victoria  [1/2 $12,500]
      • Unity Project London UPwithArt 2016 [$5,000]
      • Victoria Conservatory of Music [1/2 $12,500]
      • Grand River Conservation Authority [$10,000]
      • The Al Purdy A-Frame Association [$5,000]
      • The New Quarterly – Waterloo [1/2 $7,000]
      • Fugitive Slave Chapel Preservation Project [$25,000-deferred to 2017-’18]
      • Museum London – Centre at the Forks [1/4 $25,000]
      • JM Drama – K-W  [$2,500]
      • Guelph Dance Festival [$5,000]
      • Menno Singers – K-W [$3,000]
      • Karen Shuessler Singers – London [$2,500]
      • World Festival of Children’s Theatre -Stratford [$2,500]
      • Fanshawe Pioneer Village [$20,000]
      • eyeGO to the Arts – K-W [$2,500]
      • Spiritus Ensemble – K-W [$3,000]
      • Jet Aircraft Museum -London [$5,000]
      • NUMUS – K-W [$3,500]
      • Driftwood Theatre Group [$1,500]
      • CAFKA – K-W [$2,500]
      • Grand Theatre – London [$5,000]
      • Focus on Ethnic Women – K-W [$10,000]
      • MT Space – K-W  [$5,000]
      • Secrets of Radar Museum [$2,500]
      • Project Bookmark Canada [$23,000]
      • Western University, Western Libraries [$10,000]
      • Western University, Western Libraries -Special Grant [$65,000]

Total Funds Committed for 2016 is $348,500.  There were 35 grants, 28 of which were new.

• • • • DaCapo Chamber Choir (Waterloo) [repeating, $5,000]
      • K-W Symphony [repeating, $5,500]
      • Coastal Discovery Centre, Main-à-Dieu, NS [repeating, $5,500]
      • Philanthropic Foundations Canada [repeating. $1,500]
      • Conrad Grebel University College [continuing, 5/5, $100,000]
      • Fanshawe College -“Good Foundation Theatre” [continuing, 2/10, $50,000]
      • Wilfred Laurier University Faculty of Education [continuing, 2/2, $10,000]
      • Stratford Shakespearean Festival [continuing, 3/3, $10,000]
      • Stratford Summer Music [continuing, 2/2, $2,000]
      • Sweetwater Music Festival – Owen Sound [$1,500]
      • Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery – Waterloo [$15,000]
      • Museum London (for Bealart & new shared gallery) [$10,000]
      • Night/Shift – Waterloo [$5,000]
      • Numus – Waterloo Region [$5,000]
      • Museum of Ontario Archeology [$3,000]
      • Driftwood Theatre Group [$1,500]
      • K-W Little Theatre [$6,000]
      • Port Stanley Festival Theatre [$10,000]
      • Pat The Dog Theatre Creation [$15,380]
      • THEMUSEUM – Kitchener [$5,000]
      • K-W Art Gallery [$10,000]
      • INNERchamber – Stratford [$2,500]
      • Nota Bene Baroque Players  [$2,500]
      • The Walrus Foundation [$5,000]
      • Lost & Found Theatre – K-W [$3,500]
      • Project Bookmark Canada [$7,500]
      • The Unity Project -“Up With Art” [$1,000]
      • The Malahat Review [$3,000]

Total of Funds Committed for 2015 is $301,880.

• • • • Orchestra London  [$5,000]
      • Conrad Grebel University College [continuing]
      • K-W Symphony  [$5,000]
      • The ARTS Project – Hyatt Fund (London)
      • Fanshawe College -“Good Foundation Theatre” [continuing]
      • Brassroots (London)  [$6,500]
      • Shalom Counselling Services [$20,000]
      • St.Joseph’s Hospice (London) [$15,000]
      • Wilfred Laurier University Faculty of Education [$20,000 over 2 years]
      • Music and Opera Association (Stratford)
      • DaCapo Chamber Choir (Waterloo)
      • Stratford Summer Music
      • The Grand Theatre (London)  [$15,000]
      • High Park Nature Centre [$3,600]
      • London Fringe Theatre Festival [$5,000]
      • Western University – Alice Munro Chair
      • INNERchamber-Stratford
      • Aeolian Hall Musical Arts Association
      • Al Purdy A-frame Association [$5,000]
      • K-W Chamber Music Society [$2,000]
      • Pacific Opera Victoria [continuing]
      • Stratford Shakespearean Festival [continuing]
      • Coastal Discovery Centre, Main-à-Dieu, NS [continuing]
      • Philanthropic Foundations Canada
      • Western University – Special Grant ($100,000)

Total of Funds Committed for 2014: $299,100. A “Special Grant” has raised the total distributions for the year to $399,100.

• • • • Orchestra London  [$5,000]
      • Conrad Grebel University College [continuing]
      • K-W Symphony  [$5,000]
      • Inter Arts Matrix, Signature Project
      • Stratford Shakespearean Festival  [$30,000 over 3 years]
      • Secrets of Radar Museum, London [$10,000]
      • The New Quarterly,  Waterloo  [$4,900]
      • Forest City Gallery, London [$10,000]
      • Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery [$12,000]
      • Pacific Opera Victoria
      • London Public Library – Glanworth Project [$10,000]
      • Lost & Found Theatre [$3,000]
      • Menno Youth Singers [$500]
      • Fanshawe College – Theatre Production Facility [multiple years]
      • Canada Conservatory [$7,400]
      • INNERchamber – Stratford [$3,000]
      • High Park Nature Centre [$3,600]
      • Project Bookmark Canada [$4,600]
      • Coastal Discovery Centre, Main-à-Dieu, NS [continuing]
      • Stratford Summer Music [continuing]
      • Philanthropic Foundations Canada

Total of Grants Paid for 2013: $297,500.