FedDev Ontario invests to build, compete, strengthen and support businesses and organizations across southern Ontario, driving economic growth and reinforcing Canada’s economy.
Funding programs
Funding for businesses
Funding for businesses to innovate, grow and compete.
Funding for organizations that help businesses grow
Funding for not-for-profit and community development organizations to support business growth.
Regional Tariff Response Initiative
Funding to support businesses and organizations impacted by tariffs
Regional Defence Investment Initiative Warning: Intake paused
Funding for businesses and organizations seeking to enter or grow within defence supple chains and increase their industrial and innovation capacity.
Economic Development Initiative
Funding to support economic growth in official language minority communities.
Past Programs
Information on programs closed to applications.
Where we provide funding
Southern Ontario MapFedDev Ontario supports businesses and organizations across southern Ontario.
Our service area stretches from Cornwall in the east to Windsor in the west. This region includes 37 Statistics Canada census divisions.
Census divisions identified in the map:
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario)
Catchment Area and Census Divisions
- Brant
- Bruce
- Chatham-Kent
- Dufferin
- Durham
- Elgin
- Essex
- Frontenac
- Grey
- Haldimand–Norfolk
- Haliburton
- Halton
- Hamilton
- Hastings
- Huron
- Kawartha Lakes
- Lambton
- Lanark;
- Leeds and Grenville
- Lennox and Addington
- Middlesex
- Niagara
- Northumberland
- Ottawa
- Oxford
- Peel
- Perth
- Peterborough
- Prescott and Russell
- Prince Edward and Lambton
- Renfrew
- Simcoe
- Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry
- Toronto
- Waterloo
- Wellington
- York