Non-Profits
Use proven reports, guides, and toolkits. Map programs to Canadian SDGs, find partners, and increase visibility to funders and peers.
Canada’s community-based organizations have already created a wealth of knowledge.
Let’s discover it today!
TrueNetwork is Canada’s first integrated platform mapping the country’s
non-profit sector. It connects
non-profit organizations, funders, provincial and local governments, policymakers,
and researchers around a shared mission:
to build a unified network of knowledge, collaboration, and impact.
The platform integrates Canada’s fragmented non-profit landscape by enhancing transparency, efficiency, and collaboration across the sector, helping organizations measure, connect, and amplify their collective impact.
In its current release, TrueNetwork integrates community knowledge from over
137,000 Canadian charities, including nearly
85,000 officially registered as of October 2025. It brings together organizational profiles, reports, handbooks, and toolkits created by organizations across the country.
Equipped with intelligent search and analytics tools, the platform enables users to explore documents, organizations, funders, and collaborators,
uncover emerging collaboration clusters, and build on verified, reusable insights that strengthen collective problem-solving throughout Canada’s non-profit sector.
TrueNetwork aligns Canada’s non-profit sector with “Moving Forward Together: Canada’s 2030 Agenda National Strategy” by implementing Canada’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Framework , its goals, targets, and indicators. TrueNetwork leverages advanced data technology to map and connect community knowledge, revealing how collective local action contributes to both national and global objectives. By organizing organizations, reports, and resources under relevant goals and themes, TrueNetwork makes it easier to explore how every initiative supports Canada’s progress toward sustainable development.
SDG analytics for an organization or a document:
Result example
This guide published by United Way British Columbia, serves as a practical handbook for advancing social prescribing.
Insight
See which SDGs each organization or file advances and where there are gaps.
Through our research, we reviewed the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) charity categories, the International Classification of Non-Profit Organizations (ICNPO) schema, and the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Canada. We found that these classification systems are primarily designed for economic or administrative purposes, rather than serving as goal-oriented frameworks aligned with a sustainable vision.
While TrueNetwork plans to integrate these coding systems alongside the SDG framework, we believe that non-profit organizations should also be classified in a goal-based, impact-driven way , within a framework that supports the quality of life and sustainability goals of Canadians.
Our review highlights gaps, especially for cross-cutting initiatives such as advocacy for sustainable transportation. These taxonomies remain valuable, but connecting Canada’s non-profit sector to national and global frameworks (SDGs) provides clearer alignment, comparability, and visibility of real-world impact.
Many non-profits are multi-activity organizations, and single primary or secondary codes (CRA/ICNPO/NAICS) often fail to capture that complexity. Because the SDG framework is goal-oriented with clear targets and indicators, organizations and their community-generated knowledge can be classified under multiple SDG goals that they advance within Canadian communities.
The Canadian SDG framework allows us to tag specific contributions across goals, capturing the full breadth of programs while linking them to Canada’s national strategies. This approach helps non-profits find and connect with peers who share similar focus areas, fostering stronger networks locally and across Canada.
Search smarter. Discover deeper. Collaborate better.
Stop reinventing. Use proven reports, handbooks, guides, frameworks, papers, and toolkits from peers so you can start on third base, not from scratch.
Search organizations working on your topics, view profiles, their files and resources, and reach out with confidence.
TrueNetwork’s search technology understands topics, synonyms, and context, surfacing the most relevant documents and organizations fast.
See how work maps to the Canadian SDGs and related indicators. Show contribution, spot gaps, and align your projects with national goals.
Explore funder–organization networks by theme and geography. Discover the cluster where your work fits and who to partner with next.
Can’t find your organization or latest outputs? Send us your resources — reports, handbooks, guides, visuals, or videos — and we’ll add and highlight them in TrueNetwork.
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Use proven reports, guides, and toolkits. Map programs to Canadian SDGs, find partners, and increase visibility to funders and peers.
Explore community projects, toolkits, and case studies for coursework. Connect with organizations working on the SDGs and find collaboration opportunities.
Access verified gray literature, search SDGs and indicators, relate community knowledge to your work, and showcase findings in a national network.
Find SDG-aligned organizations, visualize regional coverage, access organizational profiles, explore previously produced community knowledge, and review historical financials.
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