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.
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.)
Home Depot: Veteran Housing Grants
The Foundation's Veteran Housing Grants Program awards grants to nonprofit organizations for the new construction or rehabilitation of permanent supportive housing for veterans. Only physical construction of housing for veterans (hard costs) is covered. THDF does not provide funding for furnishings, rental subsidies, tenant services, etc. THDF’s grant funding must be comprised of less than 50% of the total development cost of the project/program and the target population of honorably discharged veterans must be at or below 80% AMI.
Deadlines: March 3rd for determination by August 2025 and July 3rd for determination by December 2025.
Awards typically range from $100,000 to $500,000.
Looking Out Foundation
The Looking Out Foundation supports nonprofit organizations nationwide that address the ever-changing needs of the human race, and focuses on empowering those without a voice. Program interests include, but are not limited to, disadvantaged youth, public health, women, the environment, the arts, community development, human and civil rights, the hungry, and the homeless.
Application deadline: February 1 and August 1, annually.
Grant amount: $1,000 to $5,000
NEA: Grants for Arts Projects
The NEA is committed to supporting excellent arts projects for the benefit of all Americans. Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) provides funding for public engagement with the arts and arts education, for the integration of the arts with strategies promoting the health and well-being of people and communities, and for the improvement of overall capacity and capabilities within the arts sector. We welcome applications from first-time and returning applicants; from organizations serving rural, urban, suburban, and tribal communities of all sizes; and from organizations with small, medium, or large operating budgets.
We fund arts projects in the following disciplines: Artist Communities, Arts Education, Dance, Design, Film & Media Arts, Folk & Traditional Arts, Literary Arts, Local Arts Agencies, Museums, Music, Musical Theater, Opera, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works, Theater, and Visual Arts.
Applicant organizations must have completed at least 5 years of arts programming prior to the application deadline. Generally, an applicant may submit one application per calendar year.
Applicants may request an amount between $10,000-$100,000. 1:1 Cost-share/match required. Sources may include both cash and in-kind.
Deadlines: Cycle 1: March 24, 2025; Cycle 2: July 22, 2025
Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (DRK) is a global venture philanthropy firm supporting early-stage social impact organizations solving the world’s biggest social and environmental problems with bold, scalable approaches. Support is primarily provided in Africa, Europe, India, and the United States, although projects in Latin America and Israel may be considered in select situations. DRK seeks social entrepreneurs with dynamic products or services that have a proven ability to positively impact the lives of underserved people. DRK supports these organizations at the early stages by providing capacity, capital, and community. Capacity support includes operational and technical support, both through a hands-on board service role and specialist capacity-building resources. Capital of up to $300,000 USD over a three-year period is provided as either unrestricted grant funding or investment capital. Nonprofit organizations (U.S. 501(c)(3) organizations and non-U.S. equivalents) and mission-driven for-profit entities are eligible to apply.
Application deadline: None
Geographic scope: Primarily Africa, Europe, India, and the United States
Moderna Charitable Foundation Grants
his funding opportunity supports organizations that promote public health, improve access to quality healthcare, advance scientific education and innovation, and advocate for diversity and inclusion, especially in underserved populations. Established in 2022, the Moderna Charitable Foundation aims to benefit local and global communities through these grant-making priorities. Grants are available to 501(c)(3) organizations within the United States and similarly, organized nonprofit organizations outside the U.S.
Regions Bank Community Engagement Program
The Regions Bank Community Engagement Program provides support to nonprofit organizations in communities served by Regions, including locations across the South, Midwest, and Texas. Support is provided for programs in the following areas: community and economic development, with a focus on affordable housing, job creation, small business development, homebuyer education and retention, and neighborhood revitalization and stabilization; education and workforce readiness, including student competency and skill building, college and career readiness, educational access and success, credential building and employment, and educator training and resources; and financial wellness, with a focus on financial education, financial planning tools and resources, and asset-building. No deadline.
Geographic scope: Communities served by Regions, including locations in AL, AR, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MO, MS, NC, SC, TN, and TX
Southface Institute's GoodUse program
GoodUse provides matching grants for nonprofits to upgrade facilities, reduce utility costs, and reinvest in their mission—all with the support of expert technical assistance to ensure impactful, lasting results. Nonprofit sustainability upgrades, like efficient HVAC systems and LED lighting, create healthier, more comfortable spaces for staff, volunteers, and constituents. GoodUse empowers nonprofits to have a lasting impact on the environment and the communities they serve.
GoodUse now funds Southeast states, Mid-Atlantic states, and SW Florida.
Deadlines are ongoing. Next deadline is April 11, 2025.
The Lawrence Foundation
The foundation makes grants to US based qualified charitable organizations. To date we have funded organizations that address the following areas of interest:
Environment (US headquartered organizations operating programs in the US or elsewhere in the world),
Human Services
Disaster relief (US headquartered organizations responding to disasters in the US or elsewhere in the world on an occasional basis),
Other (US headquartered organizations operating programs in the US or elsewhere in the world).
Nonprofit organizations that qualify for public charity status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or public schools and libraries are eligible for contributions or grants. There are no geographical restrictions. Grants typically range between $5,000 - $10,000.
A completed application must be submitted online, using the Common Grant Application, by midnight Central Time (CT) on either April 30 or October 31.
International Paper Foundation
The International Paper Foundation provides support in the United States in the communities where the company operates. (Memphis, TN, funding requests are by invitation only.) Areas of interest include education, with a primary focus on literacy, particularly from birth through 3rd grade; hunger, including food banks and other agencies addressing hunger and food security for children, families, and seniors; health and wellness, with a focus on promoting healthy living habits and improving health and wellness; and disaster relief, including helping communities prepare for and to recover from natural disasters. Nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply. Some municipal, county, state, and federal entities (such as a school district or fire department) are eligible if an affiliated tax-exempt organization acts as a fiscal conduit.
The Mellon Foundation: Call for Proposals to Community-Based Archives
Through this program, direct support will be provided to community-based archives that represent and serve communities marginalized due to oppression.
For the purposes of this call, community-based archives are defined as organizations that gather and share materials as members of under-documented communities to preserve and celebrate their collective histories. These archives serve to affirm and uplift their community’s existence and identity, to help combat patterns of misinformation, and to provide a trusted environment for the perpetuation of community traditions, art forms, and languages, among other forms of empowerment. Formed as counter responses to a long legacy of oversight and extraction by mainstream cultural heritage institutions and by the academy, these archives are essential to the creation of a more inclusive and multivocal American story.
Awards will range from $25,000 to $100,000 for grants of two years in length. Grant periods would begin August 1, 2025 and end on July 31, 2027.
North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation
The North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation supports programs in North Carolina that help advance science, health, and education. The Foundation’s Traditional Grants support nonprofit organizations working to help meet the educational needs of today’s society and future generations. The focus is on providing seed funds for new and worthwhile educational programs. Supported programs should benefit a large geographical region or provide a statewide impact. The Foundation also provides support through Ribbon of Hope Grants of $50,000 for projects furthering science, health, and education in local communities in North Carolina. These grants are intended to offer organizations an opportunity to develop a pilot or new initiative or to grow and expand or enhance an existing program.
Traditional Grants must be $25,000 or greater; Ribbon of Hope Grants are $50,000.
Application deadline: January 1, April 1, July 1, or October 1, annually, for Traditional Grant inquiries and for Ribbon of Hope Grant applications.
Nathan Cummings Foundation
Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF) is now welcoming proposals for partnerships via Letters of Inquiry (LOI) portals: Grant LOI and Program Related Investments (PRI) LOI.
NCF is on a learning journey, and we seek to connect with innovative partners and proximate change makers who are driving impact. We want to learn from, work with, and support organizations that share our commitment to advancing racial, economic, and environmental justice (REEJ).
NCF offers two types of funding opportunities: grants and PRIs. Successful grant and PRI proposals will align with NCF’s interconnected goals of REEJ focus areas.
This year, we anticipate awarding six to eight new grants per REEJ area with a focus on initiatives in the U.S. South.
Santander Bank Charitable Giving Program
The Santander Bank U.S. Charitable Giving Program aims to help low- to moderate-income communities within the Bank’s northeast and Florida retail banking footprint address key community development needs. Grants support community development in the following areas: affordable housing, small business development and job creation, financial education, first-time homebuyer education and down payment and closing cost assistance, career counseling, job training and workforce development, neighborhood revitalization and disaster relief, and human welfare and community service programs.
Application deadline: April 11 and July 18, 2025, for letters of inquiry
The Meyer Foundation
In 2025, the Meyer Foundation will make available rapid response funding to current core grantee partners to address emergent and urgent challenges and opportunities that surface throughout the year. With our commitment at the intersection of racial justice and systems change, these one-time, $10,000 or $20,000 grants will continue to support movement building, mobilization, and power building around causes or issues that promote racial justice through advocacy, organizing, and/or coalition building.
Work funded through these rapid response grants must be based in DC, Maryland, or Virginia, or have multi-jurisdictional or regional impacts.
Click here for more.
The J.M.K. Innovation Prize
The J.M.K. Innovation Prize seeks to identify and support bold problem-solvers leading transformative, early-stage projects in the fields of heritage conservation, the environment, and social justice.
In 2025, we will award up to 10 Prizes, each including a cash award of $150,000 over three years and $25,000 in technical assistance funds. Awardees will also receive guidance through the Fund’s resource network, accessing hands-on training and support to help turn their ideas into sustainable growth and impact.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Education, health, food and workforce systems are intertwined with community efforts toward racial equity and racial healing in serving what children need to thrive. We aim to support holistic solutions across these integrated systems. Funding available across the United States, with generational commitments in Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico and New Orleans.
Our application process is always open. Submit a letter of inquiry (LOI) through Fluxx.
Council on Library and Information Resources: Recordings at Risk
Recordings at Risk provides support in the United States for the preservation of rare and unique audio, audiovisual, and other time-based media through digital reformatting. Grants cover the costs of preservation reformatting for fragile or obsolete time-based media content by qualified external service providers. Eligible media may include, but are not necessarily limited to, magnetic audio and video tape, grooved discs, wax cylinders, wire recordings, and film (with or without sound). The program encourages professionals who may be constrained by limited resources or technical expertise to take action against the threats of degradation and obsolescence. Applicants must be U.S. nonprofit academic, research, or cultural heritage organizations. Indian tribes, Alaska native villages, regional corporations, and village corporations are also eligible to apply, as are cultural heritage-focused government agencies.
Grant amount: $10,000 to $50,000
PEDIGREE Foundation
The PEDIGREE Foundation provides grants to shelters and rescues across the country to increase dog adoption. Program Development Grants support initiatives aimed at increasing adoption rates, with funding available in the following categories: foster programs that place dogs in temporary, loving homes; behavior programs that focus on socialization, training, and stress relief; and transport programs that help organizations move dogs from overpopulated areas to regions with better adoption opportunities. In addition, one grant may be awarded through the Dogs rule.™ Grant program to support an innovative best practice initiative focused on increasing adoption rates in the areas of foster, behavior, or transport. This grant includes additional requirements, such as potential speaking engagements and the creation of a toolkit. U.S.-based 501(c)(3) animal welfare shelters and rescues are eligible to apply. (The Foundation also offers Disaster Relief Grants of up to $5,000 throughout the year.)
Program Development Grants range from $10,000 to $15,000. The Dogs rule.™ Grant is $50,000 a year for two years.
The Ricks-Wheeler Fund at The Cathedral of St. Phillip, Atlanta
The proceeds of the Ricks-Wheeler Fund are designated to support programs and activities which minister to persons living with HIV/AIDS.
Grants from the Ricks/Wheeler fund are not restricted to Episcopal or other faith-based organizations. However, it is important to the grants review committee to understand how the grant will be used to carry out the gospel service to which we are called. Please make sure your letter explains to us how the grant provided will carry out both the intent of the donor—ministry to persons with HIV/AIDS—and this gospel call to service.
Kentucky Fried Wishes Grant Program – Improving Health & Wellbeing
The KFC Foundation will award $10,000 grants to 100 nonprofit organizations, totaling $1 million, to fund actionable projects that improve health and wellbeing in local communities. Eligible projects include initiatives such as creating mobile health clinics, upgrading playgrounds, improving domestic violence shelters, and providing accommodations for individuals with disabilities.
Organizations must be based in the United States and serve individuals within the U.S., operating on a local level or as an affiliate or chapter of a larger organization that operates locally. Projects must directly benefit the surrounding community, with preference given to those that can be completed within 6-12 months.
Charlie’s Heart Foundation
Charlie’s Heart Foundation provides support to nonprofit organizations based in North Carolina for holistic programs that promote the mental and emotional well-being of families in underserved and under-resourced communities. Preference is given to nonprofits that have an operational budget of less than $3 million. Support is provided for specific program expenses, though operating expenses may be considered when directly related to program staffing and overhead.
Geographic scope: North Carolina
Grant amount: $5,000 to $15,000 for first-time applicants
The Cigna Group Foundation: Improving Youth Mental Health Grant
The Cigna Group Foundation is committing $9 million over three years to improve the mental health of youth (ages five to 18) as it relates to post-pandemic stress and distress. This commitment includes support for their parents, caregivers, and youth service professionals like educators and therapists.
We are focused on investing in solutions that address mental health concerns early, and strategically offer programming, intervention, and access to care in schools and related settings in underserved communities. Nonprofit partners must align to at least one of these grant program goals:
Increase reach of programming that fosters social-emotional skills and well-being.
Increase the number of parents, caregivers, and youth service professionals who feel equipped to support.
Increase pathways to mental health intervention and access to care.
Walking Together: Investing in Folklife in Communities of Color
A national funding program managed by the six U.S. regional arts organizations, supports folklife and traditional arts rooted in communities of color in the United States. The program will provide $15,000 unrestricted awards for six traditional artists or practitioners in each regional arts organization’s area, supporting a total of 36 practitioners in their community-rooted traditional arts practice. In addition, $50,000 awards will be provided to one organization or collective in each U.S. state and jurisdiction (56 total) to support the work they do to care for their communities’ traditions and traditional artists. Eligible applicants include traditional artists and practitioners involved in visual arts, performing arts, food or medicine traditions, oral histories, and other community-rooted practices. Organizations may include nonprofits, collectives, Tribal and local governments, businesses, and other entities that support folklife rooted in communities of color.
The Funders Network: Partners for Places
The Partners for Places grant program, hosted by The Funders Network, aims to enhance local capacity to build equitable and sustainable communities in the United States and Canada. The grants support partnerships between a local government sustainability or water department, a frontline community partner, and a place-based funder for the planning and implementation of equitable climate action or green stormwater infrastructure projects that address frontline community priorities. One-year grants are provided to strong, existing partnerships to plan or implement a project, while two-year grants support the creation or improvement of collaborative partnerships and the planning or implementation of a project. The grants require one or more local foundations to provide at least a 50% match. Support will be provided for six to eight projects in the current grant round.
Grant amount: $45,000 to $100,000 for one-year projects and $75,000 to $150,000 for two-year projects
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Reimagining Land Use and Zoning for Health Equity
Through the Reimagining Land Use and Zoning for Health Equity call for proposals, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will provide grants to organizations and communities working to reimagine land use and zoning as tools for advancing healthy, thriving, and equitable U.S. communities. The grants support activities that address negative impacts of land use policies and work to achieve health equity for all. Proposed programs should have a significant focus on creating policy, practice, and system-level changes at the local, state, or federal levels. Support focuses on existing and ongoing work that is in the demonstration (pilot), implementation, or evaluation stage. Nonprofit organizations and public entities based in the United States, including U.S. territories, are eligible to apply.
Up to 10 awards of $250,000 will be provided.
The National Fund for Sacred Places
The National Fund for Sacred Places, a program of Partners for Sacred Places in collaboration with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, offers financial and technical support to community-serving historic houses of worship across the United States. Matching grants ranging from $50,000 to $500,000 are available for significant capital projects addressing urgent repair needs, improving accessibility, or making vacant or underused space usable for community outreach. Eligible properties must have been originally built to be a house of worship, be owned by an active community of faith, be occupied by a congregation that is community-minded and serves nonmembers, and possess historical, cultural, or architectural value or be listed on or be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. Submissions are particularly encouraged from congregations that illuminate a unique or overlooked aspect of American history, as well as for historic sacred places of importance to historically and contemporaneously underrepresented communities.
The Bringing Youth Outdoors Together and Environmental Steward Program
From the Dept. of the Interior: The Bringing Youth Outdoors Together and Environmental Steward Program focuses on youth development, recreation, service, social and environmental responsibility, and healthy living that emphasizes the value and significance of natural and cultural resources in nearby parks and communities. The program provides young people—particularly youth from underserved communities in urban, rural, military, and native settings—with outdoor experiences and excursions to their local national park.
BlueCross BlueShield: Supporting Youth Mental Health and Resilience
This funding opportunity is aimed at identifying and supporting cross-sector, collaborative, community-based approaches that improve conditions for youth and foster resilience, life skills, and positive coping strategies which impact overall mental health.
Geographic restriction: North Carolina
Grants of up to $150,000 per year for three years will support up to eight experienced, youth-serving, community-based collaboratives that will engage and center youth in the development, implementation, and advancement of initiatives.
The Enterline Foundation
The Enterline Foundation aims to increase access to services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the United States. The Foundation’s 2025 grantmaking is focused on initiatives that support recruitment and retention of the direct support professional workforce in order to ensure service provision. Supported initiatives could include (but are not limited to) internship programs, new hire orientation and coaching, training and professional development, establishment of career ladders, improvements to organizational culture, communication and feedback initiatives, recognition and appreciation activities, supervisor coaching and development, and technology to support data collection and employee experience. Applicants must be nonprofit organizations that are either providers of services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities or sector level organizations that support service providers or the sector at large. For 2025, the Foundation anticipates making seven to ten single-year grants and up to two multi-year grants. (Multi-year grants are by invitation only.) Single-year grants range up to $25,000.
National Dance Project Production Grant
The National Dance Project (NDP) supports the creation and U.S. touring of new dance projects and connects artists, cultural organizations, and audiences across the nation. NDP Production Grants are made to projects led by professional choreographers or companies to support the creation and U.S. touring and/or sharing of a new dance project.
Production Grants are awarded to 20 dance projects annually through a competitive two-stage application process. Artists/choreographers and/or companies apply to receive a package of support that includes:
$45,000 for the creation of a new dance project
$10,000 in general operating support for the artist/company
$10,000 for production residency and/or community engagement plans
$35,000 to support a U.S.* tour** of the work
Creation funds and general operating funds are paid directly to the artist/company or their fiscal sponsor to cover expenses related to making the new dance project during the creation period (defined as the period from the receipt of funds to the premiere of the performative work). Works may not premiere before October 1, 2025.
CAFE Group: 1954 Project Luminary Awards
Through the 1954 Project initiative, CAFE Group awards $1 million unrestricted grants to leaders and their organizations advancing educational equity for Black students and communities in the United States. The program is designed for leaders with a proven track record of success in education that are ready to scale their impact through solutions in the following areas: innovation in teaching and learning, with a focus on effective, equitable, and culturally affirming education models that center on Black students and ultimately serve all students; diversity in education, with a focus on increasing the number of Black educators and leaders; and pathways to economic mobility, with a focus on strengthening pathways from education to career to increase Black students' and families' economic mobility. In addition to the grants, selected leaders, known as Luminaries, receive leadership development support and membership in a network driving systemic change. Applicants should demonstrate proximity, lived expertise, and a deep commitment to advancing equity for Black students and communities most impacted by systemic inequities in education.
The Nature Conservancy: Connectivity, Climate, Communities Fund
The Nature Conservancy is currently offering two grant programs as part of its Connectivity, Climate, Communities Fund to protect and conserve the Appalachian region and New York. The Resilient and Connected Appalachians Grant Program provides grants of up to $100,000 for fee and easement land acquisition projects throughout the Appalachians. Projects must include lands that are mapped as part of the Resilient and Connected Network. Geographic scope: The Appalachians landscape area of AL, CT, GA, KY, MA, MD, ME, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, SC, TN, VA, VT, and WV.
Specific to New York, the Climate Resilience Grant Program provides up to $50,000 for fee and easement land acquisition projects that connect with important floodplains and shorelines, as well as for organizational capacity building, planning, and strategy development that ultimately increases resilience to climate change for people and nature. For both programs, nonprofit 501(c)(3) conservation and community organizations, municipalities, Tribal Nations, and local and state agencies are eligible to apply.
The Stranahan Foundation’s Early Childhood Education Grants
The Stranahan Foundation’s Early Childhood Education grantmaking program focuses on increasing access to high-quality early care and education for young children (birth to five), especially those from low-income families, by investing in developing and retaining a high-quality, thriving early educator workforce.
The spring 2025 funding cycle will support nonprofit organizations and projects focused on advancing our Innovation and Proven Professional Development strategies.
Applicants may request funding up to $500,000, paid over three years. However, only proposals that include multiple collaborators or take a systems-based approach are anticipated to receive funding at the highest level.
The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood
The Foundation is an incubator of promising research and development projects that appear likely to improve the welfare of young children, from infancy through 7 years, in the United States. Funding is provided in three areas: Parenting Education, Early Childhood Welfare, and Early Childhood Education and Play.
The Foundation employs a two-step grant application process that includes the submission of both a Letter of Inquiry (LOI) and a Full Proposal–the latter only by those applicants requested to do so.
The JAMS Foundation/ACR Initiative for Students and Youth
This JAMS Foundation-ACR Initiative seeks to provide financial support for conflict resolution education and training (CRE) for Pre-K through 12th grade students and youth. The populations to be served by the funding streams will be both (1) youth in Pre-K through 12th grade age range and (2) adults working with these youth populations in ways that directly transfer CRE skills for adults to the youth populations.
It is anticipated that for each designated subject area, 1-2 applicants will be selected each year to receive Year 1 grant funding of up to $20,000 to support their efforts to develop, refine, or expand programming in that subject area. Grant recipients may also be eligible for Year 2 funding of up to $40,000, contingent upon the satisfactory achievement of Year 1 benchmarks and goals.
South Arts: Cultural Sustainability program
Cultural Sustainability, an initiative of The Wallace Foundation in partnership with the six U.S. Regional Arts Organizations, is designed to provide general operating support and collaborative learning opportunities for arts organizations rooted in communities of color with annual operating expenses under $500,000.
Cultural Sustainability acknowledges the invaluable contributions arts and cultural organizations of color make in our communities and the broader cultural landscape. Funded in part by the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, South Arts’ program will strive to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion within the arts sector while learning how organizations that have historically been underrepresented advance sustainability.
South Arts will award approximately twelve organizations located among the nine-state service area with general operating grants.
Impact100 DC
Impact100 DC is an all-volunteer women’s philanthropic community dedicated to improving lives in the Greater Washington, DC area by collectively funding transformational grants to local nonprofit organizations. The Impact100 model is designed for transformational grant-making within local communities, with a minimum grant size of $100,000.
Grant focus areas include arts and culture, environment/preservation and recreation, education, family, and health and wellness.
NewSchools Venture Fund
NewSchools Venture Fund envisions an education system that keeps its promise to all students. Through NewSchools 2025 funding opportunity, $10 million is available for innovators and educators working to reimagine education in the United States. Support is provided to early-stage organizations and new initiatives within existing organizations in the following areas: new, innovative public schools that support students to develop a strong academic foundation and skills needed for success in life; learning solutions, including tools, content, and models focused on K-8 foundational literacy and numeracy; teaching reimagined, including solutions that evolve how educators work, engage caregivers and community experts, and leverage genAI; and learning differences, including enhancing teaching and learning for students with diagnosed and undiagnosed learning disabilities. The focus is on creating new possibilities and a just future for all students, especially those furthest from opportunity. One-year, unrestricted grants ranging from $150,000 to $250,000 are provided, as well as one-on-one coaching, access to national experts, and connections with peer organizations.
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.
National Independent Venue Foundation: Emergency Relief Fund
The NIVF Emergency Relief Fund (ERF) is dedicated to providing economic relief to independent, live performance venues and promoters, both for-profit and nonprofit, across the United States experiencing a critically severe emergency due to circumstances beyond their control.
The ERF is a crucial initiative for NIVF and uniquely aligns with its mission to preserve and nurture our national independent, live entertainment community. The Emergency Relief Fund holistically covers unforeseeable situations beyond recipients’ control, including but not limited to natural disasters, natural hazards, manmade disasters, or acts of terrorism.
Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.