Capital Campaign Donors
The Gardiner Museum is grateful to the following individuals, corporations, foundations, and government funders for their contributions to these important initiatives.
If you are considering supporting the Gardiner, please contact Miranda Disney, Chief Development Officer:
416.408.5051
2024 – 2025
The Gardiner’s largest capital transformation in 20 years introduced vibrant new spaces to the Museum’s ground floor.
Learn moreTransformational Gift
The Radlett Foundation, in honour of William B.G. Humphries
Leadership Gifts
Government Support
Inspirational Gift
Appleyard Rebanks Family
Principal Gift
Diana Reitberger
$100,000+
$50,000 – $99,999
The Langar Foundation
Dr. Frances A. Shepherd
$25,000 – $49,999
Susan Crocker & John Hunkin*
Ronald M. Haynes
Eddy Reitberger
Weston Family Foundation
$10,000 – $24,999
Neil Guthrie
Trish McCain
Alison N. Reeve
$5,000 – $9,999
Cindy Breslin-Carere & George Carere
Peter, Alexander, Nicholas and Natasha Czegledy & Valerie Sorbie
The Donald Family Foundation
Yvonne & David Fleck
The Hon. William* & Catherine Graham
Keilhauer
Thomas O. Miller
Gabrielle Peacock & Steven Ranger
Wendy & Leslie Rebanks
Victoria Stuart
The Weisz Family
Bonnie Zelman & Philip Plotnick
Anonymous (1)
$1,000 – $4,999
Daniel Bain
James A. (Jay) & Birute Bilkstys-Richardson
Shary Boyle
Ryan Chang
Bingbin Cheng
Leila Fiouzi
Greenrock Charitable Trust
Philipp & Andrea Kessler
The Matchhar Family
Dennis Weiss
Brian Wilks*
Anonymous (1)
Located on the 3rd floor in a stunning new installation in the Terrace Room, the Sharp Gallery is the future home of Rosalie Sharp’s exemplary collection of blue and white ceramics. Coming spring 2026.
This gallery space on the 2nd floor hosts a rotating selection of works that span the Gardiner’s collection.
A prominent symbol of welcome, the construction of the Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Plaza enhanced accessibility through the addition of a new ramp and created a beautiful home for the Museum’s public artworks.
Spanning three floors of the Museum’s main staircase, the soaring Joan Courtois Gallery hosts original commissions and collection-based exhibitions.
Named in honour of longtime Gardiner volunteer Milou Kelley, the Gardiner Shop Gallery highlighted the work of contemporary ceramic artists from 2018 until the transformation of the ground floor in 2024.
The Laura Dinner & Richard Rooney Community Clay Studio supported the Museum’s growing educational needs by hosting public and private classes, as well as community workshops, from its opening in 2016 until the transformation of the ground floor in 2024.
2015
The transformation of the European Porcelain Galleries marked the first major reinterpretation and reinstallation of this collection in 30 years.
$150,000 +
Waltraud Hentschel Ellis*
Department of Canadian Heritage
$25,000 – $50,000
The Peter and Melanie Munk Charitable Foundation
Pierre Karch & Mariel O’Neill-Karch*
Isadore & Rosalie Sharp
$15,000 – $24,999
Lindy Barrow
Mary Lou Boone
Robert* & Marian Cumming
Gardiner Volunteer Committee
The Laundy Family
Maurice James & Barbara Moscovich
Esther & Samuel Sarick*
$5,000 – $14,999
Tony & Anne Arrell
J.P. Bickell Foundation
Rudy & Catherine Bratty
Lorna Marsden & Edward Harvey
Appleyard Rebanks Family
Laura Dinner & Richard Rooney
Brian Wilks*
Donations in Memory of James Bisback by:
Lindy Barrow
Stephen Brown & Brendan Woods
Daniel Chen
Rob & Mim O’Dowda
Isadore & Rosalie Sharp
Sis Weld
2001 – 2006
Helen E. Gardiner, CM (1938—2008) was the Honorary Chair of the capital campaign that supported the expansion and renewal of the Gardiner Museum. Her leadership and generosity were essential to the transformation of the unique institution that she founded with her husband George.
Transforming Gifts ($1,000,000 +)
Helen E. Gardiner, CM*
Anonymous (2)
Leadership Gifts ($100,000 – $999,999)
Tony & Anne Arrell
Ralph Barford
Lindy Barrow
Gail & Ian Brooker
Vivian and David Campbell Family Foundation
CIBC
Geoffrey A. Cumming
The Fleck Family
Belinda & Blake Goldring
The Henry White Kinnear Foundation
The Kresge Foundation
Elizabeth H.* & Alan Mandell
Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation
Helen McMinn*
Johanna Metcalf*
Alexandra Montgomery & John Cook*
Ann Mortimer, CM, RCA
Helen Gardiner Phelan — in memoriam
Laura Dinner & Richard Rooney
Gretchen & Donald* Ross
RBC Foundation
TD Bank Financial Group
Mary* & George B. Turnbull*
Bernadette Yuen*
Anonymous (2)
Canada-Ontario Infrastructure Program
This project was made possible through investments by the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario.
Programme d’infrastructures Canada-Ontario
Ce projet a été réalisé grâce à des investissements du gouvernement du Canada et du gouvernement de l’Ontario.
Major Gifts ($25,000 – $99,999)
Debby & David Beatty
Bell Canada
Judy & Phelps* Bell
J.P. Bickell Foundation
BMO Financial Group
Susan & Botho von Bose
Brenda Woods & Stephen Brown
Mona Campbell*
Ellen & Brian Carr
Mary Carr Harris*
Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation
The Earlaine and Gerard Collins Foundation
Robert* & Marian Cumming
Suzanne & Peter Davis
Kent & Douglas* Farndale
Shari & Tony Fell
Four Seasons Resorts and Hotels
Helen* & Thomas M. Galt*
Gardiner Volunteer Committee
Diana C. Gillespie*
Jean Griffiths
Janet & Bill Gula
Lynda Hamilton
Kirsten Hanson
Trisha Langley* (The Angel Works)
The Laundy Family
Joan & Jerry Lozinski
Lewfam Foundation
McLean Budden
George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation
Walter* & Nancy Pridham*
Rebanks-Appleyard Family, in honour of Alison Appleyard, Volunteer
Diana Reitberger
Georgina T. & Thomas A. Russo
Scotiabank
Colleen Sexsmith
Adele & Norman* Shamie
Melissa & Alan Shimmerman
Isabella Smejda & Ambrose Roche
Sun Life Financial
Helen* & George Vari*
The W. Garfield Weston Foundation
Anonymous (2)
Inspired by a Rotinohnsyonni four-cornered earthen pottery vessel, Talking Earth symbolizes the disruption and trauma caused by colonization.
Cracked Wheat celebrates our human connection to clay and honours the primary symbol of the functional vessel.
$5,000 – $24,999
Margaret & Jim Fleck
Diana Reitberger
Esther & Sam Sarick*
*Fondly Remembered
