Which Frameworks Are Appropriate to Study and Describe Philanthropic Foundations in Canada?

The article answers a central question: which analytical framework would be most relevant to understanding the Canadian grantmaking foundation sector? To answer this question, the authors present the sector using the statistical information and analytical frameworks of the Canada Revenue Agency. Then they make his portrait detailing the roles taken, and sometimes formalized theoretically, by the foundations. Finally, in a third part, the authors make use of the three main theoretical frameworks that they have identified in the scientific literature to analyze the foundations. The authors conclude the article by analyzing the interrelations, theoretical and practical, of these three analysis grids.