A calendar of grants, resources, and funding opportunities listed by application or inquiry due date and tagged in various categories. For more information about grant, foundation, and other resources contact Laura Hennighausen at lhennighausen@purposepossible.com.
The Joyce Foundation
The Joyce Foundation is a private, nonpartisan philanthropy that invests in public policies and strategies to advance racial equity and economic mobility for the next generation in the Great Lakes region.
We support policy research, development, and advocacy in six program areas: Culture, Democracy, Education & Economic Mobility, Environment, Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform, and Journalism. We focus our grant making primarily in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin, while also exploring promising, evidence-informed policy solutions nationally and at the federal level. Rolling deadline.
Peoples Bank Foundation
Application deadlines: Applications are reviewed quarterly. Visit the Foundation’s website for the upcoming application deadlines.
Geographic scope: Communities within the Peoples Bank footprint in OH, WV, KY, VA, DC, and MD, as well as Burlington, VT; Excelsior, MN; and Lee’s Summit, MO
The Peoples Bank Foundation provides support to nonprofit organizations working to improve the quality of life for individuals and families within the Peoples Bank footprint of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Washington D.C., and Maryland, as well as Burlington, VT; Lee’s Summit, MO; and Excelsior, MN. Support is provided for local programs that help low- to moderate-income individuals and families. Areas of interest include community investment and economic development, youth and education, health and human services, arts and culture, and the environment.
Groundswell Fund: The Rapid Response Fund
The Rapid Response Fund provides the philanthropic community with a vehicle for deploying resources quickly and strategically to Reproductive Justice and social justice organizations during unexpected and critical campaign fights and key opportunities. Defending the most vulnerable communities with timely, flexible grants, RRF moves resources with an emphasis on funding in states and communities where women of color, transgender people of color, low-income women, and trans-people-led organizing is under-resourced
Rolling deadline on the 15th of each month.
The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People (SDOP)
The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People (SDOP) aims to empower economically poor, oppressed, and disadvantaged people who are seeking to change the structures that perpetuate poverty, oppression, and injustice. Support is available to groups in the United States that are oppressed by poverty and social systems, want to take charge of their own lives, have organized or are organizing to do something about their own conditions, and have decided that what they are going to do will produce long-term changes for their lives or communities. Projects must utilize some combination of the SDOP core strategies to promote justice, build solidarity, advance human dignity, and advocate for economic equity. In addition, projects must be presented, owned, and controlled by the group of economically poor people who will directly benefit. (Internationally, applications are accepted from Panama, and work is done in Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Nigeria through intermediary partners.)
There are no deadlines.
The Americana Foundation’s Early American Art and Heritage Projects
The Americana Foundation’s American Heritage program area supports projects and programs throughout the United States that seek to broaden the inclusivity of early American art and the early American historical narrative to “tell the full story of” the American experience. The Foundation seeks to support organizations and projects that elevate those whose perspectives have been traditionally underrepresented, especially people of color, Indigenous people, and women. Examples of eligible projects include interpretation or reinterpretation of art, decorative arts, or other objects of early American material culture (“Americana”) and their placement on public display for the appreciation and understanding of present and future generations; internships, fellowships, apprenticeships, and other career development opportunities for people interested in the curation, conservation, preservation, or restoration of Americana; and exhibits, visual media, interactive experiences, and other educational programs that contribute to better understanding or “tell the full story” of the American experience.
Grant amount: Typically $10,000 to $25,000
Concept letters and grant applications are accepted on a rolling basis and reviewed quarterly.
Virginia Environmental Endowment
Application deadline: June 15 and December 1, annually
Geographic scope: Virginia
The mission of the Virginia Environmental Endowment (VEE) is to improve the quality of the environment by encouraging all sectors to work together to prevent pollution, conserve natural resources, and promote environmental literacy. VEE’s Virginia Program provides support to nonprofit organizations and institutions and governmental agencies for specific projects that promise measurable results to improve the environment in Virginia. The focus is on improvement of local rivers and protection of water quality, restoration of the Chesapeake Bay, innovative land conservation and sustainable land use practices, environmental literacy and public awareness, and emerging issues of concern. Projects are required to have matching funds in amounts equal to or in excess of the grant request.
Wish You Well Foundation
he Wish You Well Foundation supports adult and family literacy in the United States by fostering the development and expansion of new and existing adult literacy and educational programs. The focus is on supporting nonprofit organizations that teach adults the literacy skills they need to communicate, grow, and thrive within their communities. (Funding is not provided for youth programs.)
Grant amount: $200 to $10,000. Rolling deadline.
NBA Foundation: School-to-Career Efforts for Black Youth
The NBA Foundation seeks to drive economic opportunity in the Black community through employment and career development by funding programs that generate successful transitions from school to meaningful employment for Black youth. The Foundation supports organizations operating in NBA markets in the U.S. and Canada that promote school-to-career employment opportunities, including job readiness, skill training, job placement, and career advancement, for Black youth ages 14 to 24. U.S. nonprofit organizations and Canadian registered charities that target Black youth ages 14 to 24 years old and serve a minimum of 25 youth annually are eligible for support. Rolling deadline.
Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program
Funding opportunity for increased participatory governance around environmental justice. $40M in funding, 20 projects to expected to be funded at $1-3 M.
Track II applications should focus on breaking down systemic barriers to community participation in government processes impacting environmental and climate justice. This can be done by creating engagement and feedback mechanisms with two-way communications between community members and government decision-makers.
Applications should focus on ways to provide disadvantaged communities with information about issues that directly impact them, while simultaneously creating mechanisms for the government to gather input to ensure community needs inform decision-making and are integrated into government processes and policies. Applications in this track should strive to enable communities to play a meaningful role in making and implementing decisions.
The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation
The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation aims to support organizations and programs for which a relatively small amount of funding might make a large difference. The Foundation will consider requests to support museums, cultural and performing arts programs; schools and hospitals; educational, skills-training and other programs for youth, seniors, and persons with disabilities; environmental and wildlife protection activities; and other community-based organizations and programs. Awards typically range from $1,000 to $20,000.
Applications submitted between now and November 12th will be considered for the Spring 2025 Award Round.
Institute of Museum and Library Services: Inspire! Grants for Small Museums
The Inspire! Grants for Small Museums initiative supports small museums of all disciplines in project-based efforts to serve the public through exhibitions, educational/interpretive programs, digital learning resources, policy development and institutional planning, technology enhancements, professional development, community outreach, audience development, or collections management, curation, care, and conservation. Project categories include lifelong learning, institutional capacity, and collections stewardship and access.
Grant Amount: $5,000–$75,000
Grant Period: One to three years
The Shubert Foundation
The Shubert Foundation is dedicated to sustaining and advancing the live performing arts in the United States. The Foundation provides unrestricted grants for general operating support, with a particular emphasis on theatre and a secondary focus on dance. Approximately 74% of the Foundation’s funding is directed to nonprofit, professional theatres and 16% to dance companies, with an emphasis on producing, rather than presenting, organizations. The Foundation is especially interested in providing support to theatre and dance companies that develop and produce new American work.
Deadline: December 4, 2024, for theatre applications.
Alpha Phi Foundation Heart to Heart Grant
In 1993, Alpha Phi Foundation designed an annual grant—the Heart to Heart Grant—to encourage research and education to lessen the impact of heart disease in women.
The Heart to Heart Grant now has two arms of eligibility for two different grants, Clinical and Community:
Clinical: projects that are traditional bench/clinical research. These projects may be from hospitals, universities/schools, or research programs. The Heart to Heart Clinical Grant is $100,000.
Community: projects more focused on community engagement, education, and programming as opposed to research. These proposals may come from hospitals, universities/schools, or community organizations. The Heart to Heart Community Grant is up to $25,000.
The Teagle Foundation: Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts
The Teagle Foundation works to support and strengthen liberal arts education in the United States. The Foundation’s Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts initiative, jointly sponsored with the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, aims to bring the lifelong benefits of a liberal arts education to students who historically have been excluded from higher education—including low-income students, first-generation students, students of color, and immigrant students—who now constitute the “new majority” of undergraduates and depend on community college as their gateway to higher education. Support is provided for statewide, regional, or consortial academic partnerships between public two-year and private four-year colleges to facilitate transfer and completion of the baccalaureate in the liberal arts. The focus is on building comprehensive curricular frameworks between community colleges and independent colleges and ensuring alignment in learning objectives between lower and upper division coursework, transferability and applicability of credits, and timely completion of the baccalaureate in the liberal arts.
The last concept paper deadline for 2024 is December 1.
Up to $25,000 for planning and up to $350,000 for implementation.
Institute of Museum and Library Services: Museum Grants for African American History and Culture
he Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program supports projects that nurture museum professionals, build institutional capacity, and increase access to museum and archival collections at African American museums and Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Projects designed to build the capacity of African American museums may involve increasing the number of museum professionals working at African American museums to enable the museum to expand educational programs, engage with the community, enhance organizational operations and resiliency, or provide for enhanced care of collections.
Bloomberg Philanthropies: Asphalt Art Initiative
Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Asphalt Art Initiative provides support for arts-driven street redesigns that improve safety, revitalize public spaces, and engage local communities. The Initiative’s current funding round will award ten grants of up to $100,000 each, as well as provide on-call technical assistance and impact evaluation support, to cities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States with populations of 50,000 or more. The focus is on large-scale projects that will make important streets safer and more accessible, create significant new public spaces, or enact other similarly transformative roadway redesigns. Applicants must include a lead city agency which is the primary government agency with oversight of the project. Applicant teams are encouraged to include collaborative partners, such as other city agencies, nonprofit community or arts organizations, or individual artists or consultants.
America’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative: Food Access and Retail Expansion (FARE) Fund
The America’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) Food Access and Retail Expansion Fund (FARE Fund) will support innovative fresh food retail and food system enterprises that seek to improve access to healthy food in underserved areas of the United States through food retail. $60 million in loans, grants, and technical assistance will be provided over five years for the predevelopment, planning, and implementation of projects aiming to increase food access, and strengthen, expand, and innovate within the food retail supply chain. Support will be provided for projects in eligible underserved geographic areas. Grants and loans are designed to be one-time investments of capital into a food retail or food enterprise project in order to address higher costs and initial barriers to entry in underserved rural and urban areas. Eligible applicants include for-profit business enterprises, cooperatively owned businesses, nonprofits, institutions of higher education, state and local governments and governmental agencies and authorities, and tribal governments and tribal governmental agencies and authorities. (State, local, and tribal governments are not eligible for loans.)
Grants will range up to $250,000 for implementation and up to $100,000 for early-stage planning, predevelopment, and technical assistance. Loans may range from $500,000 to $5,000,000.
Deadlines: October 14, 2024, and March 3 and August 4, 2025, for funding inquiry forms (Loans and technical assistance applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.)
American Association of University Women: Community Action Grants
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) works to advance gender equity through research, education, and advocacy. AAUW’s Community Action Grants provide funding to AAUW branches, AAUW state organizations, and community-based nonprofits for programs that promote education and equity for women and girls across the United States. General operating support is provided to nonprofit organizations whose primary mission focus is promoting education and equity for women and girls in grades K-12, with preference given to organizations promoting gender equity in STEM fields. Project support is available to nonprofit organizations, universities, and AAUW branches and state organizations for projects that promote education and equity for women and girls in grades K-12, with an emphasis on projects with a STEM focus.
Grant amount: Up to $10,000
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation: Support Promotes Education, the Environment, and Civil Society
The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation works to promote a just, equitable, and sustainable society. The Foundation’s civil society program provides grants internationally to support national, regional, and global-level organizations working to protect the space for civic engagement, enhance community philanthropy development, and increase access to justice in communities around the world. The education program funds projects in the United States to expand learning opportunities and support for children, particularly those from low‑ and moderate-income communities. The environment program primarily funds organizations in the Great Lakes region, but also makes grants to selected organizations in other countries to help ensure that international investment and trade support sustainable development and reduce environmental degradation. The Flint area program funds a broad range of projects in the city of Flint and Genesee County, Michigan. No grants (except in the Flint area) are made for local projects unless they are part of a Foundation-planned national demonstration or network of grants. The Foundation is open to new ideas and projects, but funding for unsolicited requests is very limited. Rolling deadline for LOIs.
AKC Humane Fund: Women’s Shelters Grant
The AKC (American Kennel Club) Humane Fund’s Women’s Shelters Grant program provides financial assistance to domestic abuse shelters in the United States that accept pets. Preference is given to nonprofit organizations that provide temporary or permanent housing for victims of domestic abuse and their pets. Nonprofit organizations that provide housing for victims’ pets (pet shelters) and have a working relationship with at least one shelter for victims of domestic abuse are also eligible to apply. Grants are awarded for essential operational support relating to the housing of pets or capital improvements specifically for the housing and maintenance of pets. Rolling deadline.
National Endowment for the Humanities: Public Humanities Projects program
The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. The focus is on projects that are intended to reach broad and diverse public audiences in non-classroom settings in the United States. Project categories include exhibitions, historic places, and humanities discussions. Grants are available for planning and implementation.
Optional draft due: December 4, 2024. Deadline: January 8, 2025.
National Science Foundation: Discovery Research Pre-K-12 program
The goal of the Discovery Research Pre-K-12 program is to catalyze research and development that enhances all pre-K-12 teachers’ and students’ opportunities to engage in high-quality learning experiences related to the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The program’s objectives are to build knowledge about how to develop pre-K-12 students’ and teachers’ STEM content knowledge, practices, and skills; support collaborative partnerships among STEM education researchers, STEM education practitioners, and school leaders with the goals of extending relevant scientific literature while developing more effective practice; and build the field of STEM education by supporting knowledge synthesis, interdisciplinary interactions across fields and stakeholders, and the development of novel and robust ways of assessing teacher and student learning, engagement, and skills.
CNX Foundation
CNX Foundation provides support in urban and rural communities facing socio-economic challenges within the Appalachian Basin where CNX operates, including Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. Areas of interest include food security, children’s health and wellness, broadband and information technology access, recidivism and re-entry, domestic abuse awareness, the opioid epidemic, career awareness and technical/vocational training, and water quality safety and awareness. (The Foundation’s Dream Fields initiative also provides grants to rehabilitate and revitalize sports fields across the Appalachian Basin.) Grants are reviewed on a quarterly basis. The next application period is open from October 1 to November 30, 2024.
The Andrew Family Foundation Junior Board Grants
The Andrew Family Foundation Junior Board seeks to fund qualified Section 501(c)(3) organizations whose purpose is aligned with our mission statement and is focused on positively impacting the lives of youth. Our preference is to support well-established organizations with 5 or more years of operating experience unless a Board Member has familiarity with the organization. Additionally, to ensure that our support will provide a more significant impact, we are interested in organizations with a budget of less than $5 million. We are highly interested in funding grants designated for a specific purpose or specific project that will have a direct impact on the target population.
Interested grantseekers will be required to complete and submit an online letter of inquiry for consideration.
The Malone Family Foundation
The mission of the Malone Family Foundation is to promote positive changes in the lives of people, who in turn can build and enhance the communities in which they live. The Foundation primarily supports organizations and programs whose beneficiaries reside in the state of Alabama, while organizations and programs in the states of Florida and Georgia will be considered to a limited extent. Support is provided for initiatives that improve the quality of education and the motivation and self-esteem of students from pre-kindergarten through higher education. The Foundation has an especially strong interest in supporting innovative endeavors that lead to a better-educated population and a higher standard of living. The focus is on programs and projects designed to prevent or solve problems and create opportunities, rather than meet basic needs. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply.
MIT Solve: Truist Foundation Inspire Awards
Through the Inspire Awards, Truist Foundation and MIT Solve seek innovative nonprofit solutions that improve resources and wraparound services for adults who are in the middle or late stages of their careers seeking reskilling, upskilling, and career navigation support. The Awards will support nonprofits serving within the Truist footprint, including AL, AR, DE, FL, GA, IN, KY, MD, MS, NJ, NC, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, DC, and WV. Supported services can include wraparound services for unemployed and underemployed individuals on their journey to economic mobility, including transportation support, childcare, mentorship, mental health services, and more; coalition building to generate greater buy-in and support for workforce navigation efforts across diverse sectors and stakeholders; career navigation enabling workers to navigate their career choices more easily; and upskilling and reskilling training opportunities for those transitioning between careers or facing unemployment.
15 semi finalists will receive a $10,000 award and six finalists will be selected for a $250,000 first place award, a $150,000 second place award, and four $25,000 runner-up awards. Additionally, one of the six finalists will also receive the $75,000 audience favorite award.
Action for Women’s Health
Pivotal, a Melinda French Gates organization, has launched Action for Women’s Health, a $250 million global open call that will fund organizations around the world that are improving women’s mental and physical health. Eligible organizations serve women and have a record of improving women’s mental or physical health. They should center equity in their approach and be poised to scale their work to strengthen the health of more women. Organizations from around the world are invited to apply.
After applications are submitted, they will undergo Administrative Review to confirm basic eligibility, followed by Participatory Review by other applicants.
In May-June 2025, organizations top-rated by their peers will advance to a second round of review by an external Evaluation Panel. Following a final round of due diligence, Pivotal will select awardees from among the organizations top-rated by their peers and external evaluators, giving each awardee flexible funding between $1 million and $5 million USD. Action for Women’s Health awardees will be announced by the end of 2025.
Hearst Foundations: Culture, Education, Health, and Social Services
The Hearst Foundations fund nonprofit organizations to ensure that people of all backgrounds in the United States have the opportunity to build healthy, productive, and satisfying lives. The Foundations’ major areas of focus are culture, education, health, and social services. Funding is provided for approaches that create sustainable employment and productive career paths for adults, improve health and quality of life, increase academic achievement through access to high-quality educational options, promote the arts and sciences, and support family stability and self-sufficiency. The Foundations support well-established nonprofit organizations that operate with audited expenses of greater than $2 million and that primarily serve large demographic or geographic constituencies.
National Endowment for the Humanities
The Media Projects program supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films, and documentary film series that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. Projects must be grounded in humanities scholarship and demonstrate an approach that is thoughtful, balanced, and analytical. The program offers two levels of funding: development and production.
Optional draft deadline: December 4, 2024
All Kids Play: Youth Sports Grants
The mission of All Kids Play is to increase quality youth sports participation in the United States by providing financial assistance to families and communities that lack sufficient resources and provide education on safe and healthy sports-related play. All Kids Play’s Youth Sports Grants for organizations support nonprofit organizations, school sports programs, or government-run programs (i.e. community park districts) in low-income communities that provide community-based recreational level sports for kids in grades K-12. (Grants for individuals are also provided.)
No deadline.
People With Disabilities Foundation
The mission of the People With Disabilities Foundation (PWDF) is to provide education and advocacy for people with psychiatric and/or developmental disabilities so that they can achieve equal opportunities in all aspects of life. PWDF provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the United States for work to integrate people with psychiatric and/or developmental disabilities into the whole of society. Grants are provided for advocacy, education, vocational programs, and other areas of particular impact to people with psychiatric and/or developmental disabilities. Applicant organizations must have been in operations a minimum of three years.
Grant amount: $5,000 to $12,500
Brooks and Joan Fortune Family Foundation
The Brooks and Joan Fortune Family Foundation was established to support education and the arts. While the Foundation has historically supported nonprofit organizations in Florida and Indiana, requests from around the country are considered. The Foundation primarily supports education, art, and outreach programs and projects. In general, the Foundation desires to support specific activities that result in a defined outcome rather than general operating funds or fundraising campaigns.
Applications may be submitted between April 1 and December 31, annually.
Department of Health and Human Services: Grants to Promote Maternal and Child Health Capacity Building
The purpose of the Partnership for National Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Leadership program is to support national organizations in building the capacity of state MCH programs, urban MCH programs, Healthy Start programs, and maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting programs to achieve the long-term goal to improve national MCH health outcomes and reduce associated disparities by better serving specific populations and awardees.
National Partnership for Student Success: Community Collaboration Challenge
The National Partnership for Student Success (NPSS) Community Collaboration Challenge supports collaborations to scale, expand, or pilot evidence-based, people-powered student supports in communities across the country. The Challenge seeks to connect schools and districts with local organizations that provide high-quality tutors, mentors, student success coaches, wraparound and integrated student support coordinators, and post-secondary transition coaches in their communities. Preference will be given to applicants addressing chronic absenteeism in their communities and applicants engaging high school students in NPSS-aligned roles (e.g., high school students supporting their younger peers as tutors, mentors, etc.). Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations, school districts, city or state agencies, and higher education institutions. Both local and state-level collaborations will be supported.
Grant amount: $5,000 to $10,000
Save America’s Treasures program from the Historic Preservation Fund
The Save America’s Treasures program from the Historic Preservation Fund provides grants for preservation or conservation work on nationally significant properties and collections through two types of grants: preservation and collection grants. Work to historic districts, buildings, sites, structures, and objects will be funded through preservation grants, and collection grants support conservation work on nationally significant collections, including artifacts, museum collections, documents, sculptures, and other works of art.
Temper of the Times Foundation
he Temper of the Times Foundation promotes the use of standard marketing concepts to increase awareness about wildland conservation and restoration initiatives in the United States. Recognizing that organizations working to protect the environment in general have limited access to paid media, the Foundation provides funds to underwrite advertising designed to promote the conservation and restoration of native wildlife, plants, and ecosystems anywhere in the U.S. The Foundation also supports earned media campaigns and other efforts to communicate about conservation and restoration initiatives and actions. Grants may be used to fund the production of print, radio, or television ads; pay for advertising space or airtime; or produce or distribute pamphlets, books, videos, or press packets.
Grant amount: Typically $5,000 to $15,000.
The Smart Family Fund Targets Impactful Early-Stage Nonprofits
The Smart Family Fund’s mission is to discover, support, and mentor emerging U.S. nonprofit organizations and their leaders, providing the necessary backing to help them succeed. The Fund focuses on early-stage nonprofit ventures that have the potential to make a significant impact on the world, but that have yet to demonstrate the efficacy needed to acquire large-scale funding. Early-stage, U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply. Applicants must be able to clearly articulate how they will demonstrate the efficacy of the intervention, quantify the potential positive impact in the world, and communicate how the organization is differentiated and better than other ecosystem players.
Grant amount: $25,000 to $100,000. No deadline.
CareSource Foundation
The CareSource Foundation funds programs that improve health outcomes and conditions for low-income, underserved populations in states where CareSource does business, including Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Michigan. The Foundation focuses on the following priority areas: supporting health education and promoting healthy habits; improving maternal, infant, and child health; 21st century workforce development; and neighborhood and downtown redevelopment in Dayton, OH. Pilots and partnerships with local and national nonprofits that align with the focus areas and foster learning and innovation are particularly of interest. The Foundation seeks to support organizations that deploy innovative solutions, address root problems, engage the community voice in the solution, and aim for meaningful improvements to health and wellness.
No deadline.
NEA Big Read: Matching Grants Facilitate Community Reading Programs
NEA Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest, is a national program that offers matching grants of up to $20,000 to support community-wide reading programs in the United States. The grant helps bring communities together around the shared activity of reading and discussing the same book. Each applicant organization selects one of 22 available books from the NEA Big Read library; engages with community partners to develop, conduct, and promote engaging literary and artistic programs that illuminate the book and theme; and offers events and activities related to the theme and chosen book. The theme for the 2025-26 cycle is “Our Nature: How Our Physical Environment Can Lead Us to Seek Hope, Courage, and Connection.” Nonprofit arts organizations, universities, libraries, service organizations, museums, school districts, and tribal governments are eligible to apply.
Grant amount: $5,000 to $20,000
Application deadline: January 23, 2025, for intents to apply, and January 30, 2025, for applications.
Georgia Music Foundation Grant
Georgia Music Grant applications for music programs taking place in 2025 will go live at georgiamusicfoundation.org on Oct. 1, 2024 and will be accepted through Nov. 1, 2024. Grant recipients will be notified by Dec. 15, 2024 and awards will be disbursed in January 2025.
Eligible applicants include K-12 schools (public, private and charter) and non-profit organizations with IRS 501(c)3 status. The music programs must fall under one of the three categories below, with preference given to music education programs in rural or underserved communities:
Music Education
Music Preservation
Outreach
Delta Dental Community Care Foundation Senior Oral Health Partnership 2025 Request for Proposals (RFP)
The Delta Dental Community Care Foundation (DDCCF) works with nonprofit partners across our enterprise to increase access to oral health care, fund oral health education and support organizations that serve vital needs in our communities. Through this grant opportunity, The Delta Dental Community Care Foundation will dedicate up to $5 million in grant funding over five years to a collaborative of organizations serving a defined geographic community. Application is open to collaborating organizations based and operating in the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, or Georgia. The selected partnership will work together to address the pressing issue of senior oral health access in their communities and from a systems-change perspective.
Cedar Tree Foundation: Rooted in Justice, Youth-Led Urban Greening Programs
The Cedar Tree Foundation’s Rooted in Justice funding program helps amplify youth voices and actions in the environmental and food justice movements. The program supports community-based organizations in the Southeast, Midwest, and Mid-Atlantic that manage established, youth-led urban greening programs within a justice framework as a core part of their work. Support is provided for organizations, groups, collectives, and programs that work with young people between the ages of 12 to 20 in youth-led programming for communities or cultures which have historically or currently experience a lack of access to land or nature, agricultural oppression or neglect, food apartheid, and other forms of injustice. Preference is given to organizations or programs with a budget of less than $800,000 that are majority-led by people who identify as BIPOC or of the global majority. Up to four two-year grants of $20,000 to $25,000 per year will be provided.
Geographic scope: AL, AR, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, IA, KY, LA, MD, MI, MN, MS, MO, NJ, NC, OH, PA, SC, TN, VA, WV, WI, and DC
SBP: SHARE Program
SBP is a national organization dedicated to helping communities shrink the time between disasters and recovery by rebuilding homes, increasing resilience, and improving policies. SBP’s SHARE Program, which supports nonprofit organizations to help meet recovery needs, is currently providing support through the following programs:
The National Long Term Recovery Grant provides funds to nonprofit organizations to support repairs for homeowners who reside in a FEMA Individual Assistance declared county and that have been impacted by a presidentially declared disaster in the last four years. Grantees will also assist impacted individuals in receiving the maximum eligible awards from FEMA, the Small Business Administration, and their insurance companies.
The Preparedness and Resilience Micro Grant funds nonprofit organizations supporting individuals in areas at high risk for extreme weather or climate change impacts. Supported resilience and preparedness measures may include minor fortifications of homes as well as wider community preparedness and disaster response efforts, such as preparedness and emergency kits or training events.
For both programs, priority is given to organizations serving immigrants, migrants, refugees, Indigenous, and communities of color.
Comer Family Foundation: Syringe Services and Community-Based Harm Reduction Programs
The Comer Family Foundation provides support for syringe services and community-based harm reduction programs in the United States that improve the health and wellness of people who use drugs. Supported organizations provide free sterile syringes, safer smoking and snorting kits, education, and community wraparound services to reduce opioid overdose and the transmission of HIV and viral hepatitis. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, tribal governments, and organizations that require a fiscal sponsor are eligible to apply. Organizations must have total organizational budgets of less than $600,000, be grounded in harm reduction principles and practice, and provide access to sterile syringes and safer smoking and snorting kits through syringe services and community-based harm reduction programs that have been in operation for one full year. Grants are made either for general operating funds, including harm reduction supplies, or harm reduction supplies only.
Grant amount: Average grants range from $2,500 to $20,000.
Application deadline: May 1 and November 1, annually
Council on Library and Information Resources: Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives
Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices, a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), supports the digitization of rare and unique materials held by collecting organizations in the U.S. and Canada. For the 2024-2025 cycle, up to $4,000,000 in grants will be provided for projects digitizing materials in a variety of formats that enrich the public’s understanding of the histories of underrepresented communities, particularly those of people of color and other communities and populations whose work, experiences, and perspectives have been insufficiently recognized or unattended. Eligible applicants include nonprofit, academic, independent, and community-based organizations as well as government entities in the U.S. and Canada that collect, preserve, and share rare and unique materials with the general public. The program is generously supported by the Mellon Foundation.
Grant amount: $50,000 to $300,000
First Bank Power of Good Grants
First Bank’s Power of Good Grants support the important work of nonprofit leaders and educators throughout the Carolinas. Areas of interest include affordable housing and homeownership, education for all ages in both traditional and non-traditional learning environments, food scarcity and supply, and mental, physical, and financial health and wellness. Nonprofit organizations and schools are eligible to apply.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. The deadline for the current round is October 31, 2024, depending on the volume of applications received.
Geographic scope: North Carolina and South Carolina
Organic Valley: Farmers Advocating for Organic (FAFO)
Farmers Advocating for Organic (FAFO), a grant program funded by contributions from Organic Valley farmers, is dedicated to protecting and promoting the organic industry and the livelihood of organic farmers in the United States. Grants are awarded to research, education, and advocacy projects that advance FAFO’s mission. Priority is currently given to projects that 1) benefit family farmers who produce organic dairy, eggs, meat, produce, and grain/forage, and 2) focus on organic soil health and biology. Nonprofit organizations and academic and research institutions are eligible to apply.
The winter 2024 application deadline is October 4, 2024.
Grant amount: $5,000 to $50,000, averaging $20,000
The Fund for Workforce Equity
The Fund for Workforce Equity is a project of Workforce Matters, a national network of grantmakers that draws on expert and practitioner knowledge and works together to strengthen workforce development philanthropy so it empowers workers, learners, and job seekers to realize their full potential; dismantles inequities based on race, gender, ability, and other individual characteristics; and advances equitable education and employment outcomes for youth and adults.
The fund has opened applications for a second round of grants in 2024. In this round of funding, the project anticipates awarding up to seven two-year grants of $100,000 each to organizations working to center the voices of workers and learners in designing, developing, and implementing workforce programs and policies. Grants will be awarded to organizations providing workforce development services primarily to or within historically marginalized or excluded populations, including workers and learners of color, Native Nations and communities, immigrants and refugees, and people with disabilities. Within the broader eligibility criteria, the fund has established a few priority areas and populations for this round of funding:
Populations: Workers and learners with disabilities, refugees and immigrants, youth and young adults.
Geographies: All U.S.-based applicants are welcome to apply; however, some funds are set aside for organizations based in California, southeast Michigan, and western New York.
The Shubert Foundation
The Shubert Foundation is dedicated to sustaining and advancing the live performing arts in the United States. The Foundation provides unrestricted grants for general operating support, with a particular emphasis on theatre and a secondary focus on dance. Approximately 74% of the Foundation’s funding is directed to nonprofit, professional theatres and 16% to dance companies, with an emphasis on producing, rather than presenting, organizations. A limited number of grants are also made through the arts-related organizations and Shubert Scholars program areas. U.S. nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, a record of artistic activity, a record of developing and producing new work, and a demonstrated commitment to underserved audiences or underrepresented voices are eligible to apply.
Deadline: October 16, 2024, for dance, arts-related organizations.
The Allstate Foundation College Service Grants
The Allstate Foundation, in partnership with the Center for Expanding Leadership & Opportunity, is providing College Service Grants of $10,000 to support youth-led, youth-driven community service at community colleges, HBCUs, and other higher education institutions across the United States. The grants are intended to help redefine youth empowerment for a new generation and usher in a return to service for young people. Funded initiatives must fall into one of the following categories: microgrants directly provided to students for new, youth-led service initiatives; initiatives that increase student access to service experiences; and initiatives that enhance the depth of impact of existing youth-led service activities.
The Chapman Prize
The Chapman Prize invites applications from those improving health and wellness. Established through the Daniel and Barbara Chapman Trust, the Chapman Prize annually recognizes and honors the efforts and achievements of individuals and organizations in the United States who make significant contributions to American society.
Funding will be awarded to a charitable individual or organization who has contributed most significantly to the improvement of health and wellness in the United States. By way of example, contributions may include providing access to quality and affordable health care, initiatives that empower individuals to develop active, healthy lifestyles that begin in childhood and continue through all phases of life, and/or programs that promote healthy environments in homes, schools, and neighborhoods.
Approximately $100,000 is awarded each year.
Applicants must be either U.S. citizens or U.S.-based nonprofits who will use the disbursement exclusively in the United States; have been conducting charitable work for at least the last three years; and can show demonstrated impact in the selected focus area of the year in which the application is submitted.
ACM Lifting Lives: Music and the Mind Grant Cycle
ACM Lifting Lives, the philanthropic partner of the Academy of Country Music, is dedicated to improving lives through the power of music. ACM Lifting Lives provides grants to organizations supporting the mental and emotional health of members of the country music industry as well as organizations that provide music therapy for mental and physical health-related causes. Support will be provided in the following categories: organizations using music therapy to provide direct memory care support to benefit the mental and emotional health of individuals suffering from Alzheimer's disease, dementia, and cognitive decline; organizations supporting the mental and emotional health of members of the country music industry by providing direct services; and organizations providing music therapy programs for mental or physical health related causes, including the purchase or repair of musical instruments or music-related equipment as it relates to therapeutic programs.
Grant amount: Generally $5,000 to $10,000
Diverse City Fund’s 2024 Fall Grant
Diverse City Fund is a grantmaking organization dedicated to racial justice that invests financial and social capital to transform systems in DC. The Diverse City Fund provides grants for groups that are building community power and engaging in work to actively and directly dismantle systems of oppression through mobilizing, organizing, and advocacy to create change to stop the harm, create space for healing, and allow people of color to live with dignity and respect.
DC Fund organizes the strategies changemakers use to create systemic change into three funding priorities:
Mobilizing
Healing Justice & liberation
Advocacy & organizing
The Fund for Workforce Equity
The Fund for Workforce Equity is a project of Workforce Matters accepting letters of inquiry (LOIs) through the JustFund platform through September 16, 2024.
This round of funding anticipates awarding up to seven, two-year grants of $100,000 each to organizations working to center the voices of workers and learners in designing, developing, and implementing workforce programs and policies.
The Fund for Workforce Equity will utilize a two-stage application process.
AAPD Foundation: Access to Care Grants
The AAPD (American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry) Foundation is dedicated to making dental care accessible to all children. Through the Access to Care Grants, support is provided to community-based initiatives in the U.S. and U.S. territories that provide dental care and serve as a primary dentist to underserved children and children with limited access. Supported initiatives must be dentist-led, with priority given to projects with pediatric dentist leadership. Eligible applicants include, but are not limited to, nonprofit 501(c)(3) or 501 (c)(6) organizations, local health jurisdictions, county health departments, hospitals and clinics, state government agencies, colleges and schools of dentistry, colleges and schools of medicine (pediatric and family medicine departments only), and national, state, and local dental societies.
Grant amount: Up to $30,000. Geographic scope: United States, including U.S. territories.
The D’Addario Foundation
Through a disciplined bi-annual application process, the D’Addario Foundation awards grants to upwards of 200 non-profit music education organizations each year. We support focused teams deeply trusted by the communities they serve executing immersive and enduring music education and youth development programs. We provide services, resources (instruments and accessories), and development opportunities constantly.
Simply Organic Giving Fund
The Simply Organic Giving Fund aims to nourish food insecure individuals in the U.S. and Canada by providing access to nutrient-dense organic food to populations in need. Support is available to U.S. and Canadian nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations with annual revenue between $150,000 and $7,000,000 who are dedicated to serving the food insecure in their communities. Funded organizations should meet one or more of the following priorities:
1) provide direct access to organic, nutrient-dense, culturally relevant food options to populations facing low to very low food security or
2) utilize and distribute nutrient dense organic food or meals.
Grant amount: $30,000 to $100,000 USD total over a two-year period
The Poetry Foundation: Equity in Verse
The Equity in Verse grant category was created in direct response to the June 6, 2020 community letter requesting that the Poetry Foundation examine its historic cultural debt to poets of color. These grants are intended to provide support for nonprofit poetry and literary organizations, which include presses and publications, led and staffed by people of color.
There are two types of support in this category: general operating support and program support. Grants range in size from $10,000-$100,000, and all grants are for a 12-month period.
Institute of Museum and Library Services: National Leadership Grants for Libraries
The National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program (NLG-L) supports projects that address critical needs of the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance practice and strengthen library and archival services for the American public.
The program supports projects that:
Serve the learning needs of the public through libraries and archives;
Improve community well-being through libraries and archives;
Provide broad access to and preservation of information and collections through libraries and archives; or
Provide services to affected communities in the event of an emergency or disaster.
Gwinnett Co. Nonprofit Capacity Building Grant
The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners allocated $5 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding for Nonprofit Capacity Building. The objective is to increase the effectiveness and strength of local nonprofits to enhance their impact on our community. This may occur in the form of operational support or capital support.
In alignment with the County’s Human Services Strategic Plan, funding will be given to organizations providing services within the following categories of need:
Food Security
Housing
Health and Wellbeing
Youth, Literacy, and Learning
Cross-cutting Barriers to Access
Transportation
Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Services
The County also intends to prioritize funding to small nonprofits and grassroots organizations working within these priority areas to enhance our community’s collective impact. Small nonprofits and grassroots organizations are identified as organizations with an annual operating budget of up to $250,000.
2024 TD Ready Challenge
The 2024 TD Ready Challenge is seeking applications from charitable and non-profit organizations that propose innovative approaches to supporting underserved small business owners to develop a business, launch a new business, or grow an existing business.
We encourage applicants to present novel strategies, technologies or partnerships that have the potential to disrupt systemic barriers for underserved entrepreneurs with the goal of cultivating a more inclusive and supportive entrepreneurial landscape across North America.
Deadline: 4pm September 5th. Amount: $1 million.
Herb Block Foundation: Defending Basic Freedoms
The Herb Block Foundation is committed to defending the basic freedoms guaranteed to all Americans, combating all forms of discrimination and prejudice, and improving the conditions of the poor and underprivileged. The Foundation’s Defending Basic Freedoms program provides support to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations nationwide to help safeguard the basic freedoms guaranteed in the U.S. Bill of Rights, help eliminate all forms of prejudice and discrimination, and assist government agencies to be more accountable to the public. The Foundation will also consider contemporary societal issues that may arise.
Grant amount: $5,000 to $25,000. Application deadline: October 2, 2024, for letters of inquiry
The Poetry Foundation: Poetry Programs, Partnerships, and Innovation
Poetry Programs, Partnerships, and Innovation Grants provide support to nonprofit organizations invested in at least one of the following priorities:
Broadening the audiences for poetry;
Increasing access to poetry;
New collaborations and partnerships in poetry;
Innovations in the field of poetry, including investment in new technologies.
There are two types of support in this category: general operating support and program support. Grants range in size from $10,000-$75,000, and all grants are for a 12-month period.
The One Hundred Children’s Foundation
The One Hundred Children’s Foundation promotes the health, education and well-being of children through financial support of child-focused outreach programs in the Coastal Empire of Georgia and Jasper, Beaufort and Hampton Counties of South Carolina.
Institute of Museum and Library Services: Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program
The Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (LB21) supports the training and professional development of library and archives professionals; developing faculty and information leaders; and recruiting, educating, and retaining the next generation of library and archives professionals in order to develop a diverse library and archival workforce and meet the information needs of their communities.
The program supports projects that:
Develop or enhance practices, programs, or initiatives encouraging diverse or underrepresented students to pursue careers in library and information science;
Develop or enhance initiatives, programs, or curricula to increase the capacity of institutions to educate or retain diverse or underrepresented library and information science students;
Develop or enhance professional development and training programs to enable the library and archival workforce to meet the needs of their communities; or
Support the research of untenured, tenure-track library and information science faculty, furthering the faculty member’s long-term research agenda, career trajectory, and professional development.
The Culture Connect Legacy Fund
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta’s Culture Connect Legacy Fund has been established to carry forward the mission of the Atlanta-based social enterprise, Culture Connect. This organization fostered cultural fluency between immigrants and the broader community by focusing on three core areas:
Ensuring all had access to vital services like schools, medical care and the legal system through professional interpretation and translation (language access),
Cultivating inclusive, welcoming communities through mentorship programs and teaching people to understand and respect their and others’ cultures (cultural competency),
Promoting economic empowerment and entrepreneurship for immigrants and refugees.
Requests should not exceed $150,000 or 100% of the last fiscal year annual budget (whichever is less).
Georgia Council for the Arts: Cultural Facilities Grant
Cultural Facilities Grants provide support for the renovation, restoration, preservation or acquisition of an arts facility, and the purchase of equipment that supports arts programs. Arts non-profit organization or government entities are welcome to apply.
Grant Request: Between $10,000 and $75,000
Match Requirement: One-to-one match of request amount for organizations with budgets over $500,000. 50% match of request amount for organizations with budgets under $500,000
Project Must Take Place: November 1, 2024-June 30, 2025 for FY25 grants
Foot Locker Foundation Community Empowerment Program
The Foot Locker Foundation Community Empowerment Program, offered by LISC and Foot Locker, Inc. through the Foot Locker Foundation, provides grant funding to support local nonprofit community-based organizations in 13 cities whose programs advance opportunities for youth in underserved communities. Eligible cities include Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Francisco, CA; Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL; Baltimore, MD; Detroit, MI; Newark, NJ; New York City, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Dallas and Houston, TX; and Washington, DC. Grants ranging from $25,000 to $75,000 are available to support current youth programming, create new programming, or extend existing programming, while grants ranging from $25,000 to $100,000 support capital improvement projects that enhance the impact of youth programming. Applicant organizations should primarily serve youth in under-resourced communities with programs and services focused on health and wellness, education and life skills support, mentoring, and career development; maintain at least one full-time staff person focused on youth programming; operate in underserved communities within the 13 eligible cities; and be able to engage local Foot Locker, Inc. store team members in volunteer activities tied to the proposed program.
The Heising-Simons Foundation Science Program
The Heising-Simons Foundation’s Science program solicits proposals for support of meetings, workshops, conferences, summer schools, research collaboration gatherings, and other events related to astronomy, cosmology, fundamental physics, climate change science, as well as increasing the representation and retention of underrepresented groups within these areas.
They expect to fund up to $400,000 total in grants during this open call for proposals. Each grant will be between $20,000 and $80,000.