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.
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.
ONEOK Foundation
ONEOK Foundation supports programs that enhance the quality of life and economic well-being in the communities where ONEOK operates and where employees work and live. Areas of interest include arts and culture, community improvement, education, the environment, and health and human services. Priority consideration is given to educational programs and health and human services organizations, particularly those with programs helping people to become self-sufficient.
Application deadline: None, rolling (Requests for greater than $5,000 are reviewed quarterly.) Grant amount: $500-$500,000
Geographic scope: Company communities in AR, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, IA, KS, LA, MN, MO, MT, NE, NM, ND, OK, SD, TN, TX, VA, WI, and WY
U.S. Soccer Foundation's Safe Places to Play program
The U.S. Soccer Foundation and Musco Sports Lighting support the Safe Places to Play program, aiming to provide children with accessible, high-quality soccer spaces that foster both physical activity and personal growth. Through the Soccer Fund, they offer ongoing financial support for lighting projects (including Mini-Pitch Systems™ and larger-scale soccer facilities) ensuring more youth have the opportunity to play safely, anytime.
The following 2025 deadlines remain: September 30 and December 31
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.
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.
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Exploring Equitable Futures
Exploring Equitable Futures call for proposals is designed to support projects that seed new and unconventional ideas that could radically advance health equity for generations to come.
RWJF aims to fund projects that:
Explore the future by researching and experimenting with ideas that are ahead of the curve or at the edge of our collective imagination;
Shine a light on the emerging trends and forces that are shaping our future for better or worse—and suggest ways to navigate them to mitigate harm and advance health equity;
Dream big and challenge conventional wisdom to surface possibilities and uncover new paths to dismantle structural racism and build a more equitable future.
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.
The J.W. Couch Foundation
The J.W. Couch Foundation supports nonprofit organizations in the United States in the areas of preservation, education, and wellness. For 2025, unsolicited grant applications are accepted in the following focus areas: animal well-being, including organizations that nurture compassion and respect for all living animals; early childhood education, with a focus on schools that provide young children with a creative and balanced approach to education; teachers, with a focus on teams helping teachers succeed in educating future generations; and getting outside, including organizations that facilitate and encourage more outdoor activities that help create healthier communities.
The Liz Blake Giving Fund
Leveraging a two-generation investment model, the Liz Blake Giving Fund partners with like-minded funders, nonprofits, and researchers to collectively address key points of vulnerability that perpetuate cycles of economic immobility for Atlanta’s children and their families.
Proposals may be considered if they address one of three issue areas:
Early Childhood Education (ECE)
Financial Empowerment and Workforce Development
Mental and Behavioral Health for Mothers and Children
Ball Foundation
Ball Foundation grantmaking focuses on programming that aligns strongly with recycling, education in STEM, and disaster relief and preparedness. The Foundation prefers grant requests for specific, measurable projects and programs as opposed to sponsorships.
Geographic scope: Company communities in AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, HI, IN, KY, MD, MN, MO, NM, NY, OH, PA, TX, VA, WA, DC, WI
McDonald’s Golden Grants
The Golden Grants program aims to help education and non-profit organizations that serve children from ages 5 -18, including those in grade levels K-12.
Grants are available for each area in the amounts of:
$20,000
$10,000
$1,000
Qualifying activities include the following, as long as need is demonstrated:
Arts activities
Education initiatives
Mentorship and empowerment programs
After-school programs
Community service
Sports activities
Technology
Maryland Affordable Housing Trust
Nonprofits, public housing authorities, governments, and profit-motivated entities may apply for loans or grants to support capital costs of rental and ownership housing; financial assistance for nonprofit-developer capacity building; supportive services for occupants of affordable housing; and operating expenses of affordable housing developments. Projects must serve households earning less than 50% of area or Statewide median income. Past grants have been in the range of $30,000-$75,000.
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American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) Foundation Access to Care Grants
A wide variety of nonprofits, educational institutions, government agencies, and dental health groups may apply to support community-based initiatives that provide dental care to underserved children. The maximum grant is $30,000.
Lilah Hilliard Fisher Foundation FY25 Grants
Nonprofit organizations in the northeastern United States may apply for support in regenerative agriculture, soil health, biodiversity, nutrient-dense foods, and nutrition education efforts. Recent past awards have ranged from $10,000-$90,000.
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The Paul Green Foundation Arts and Human Rights Grants
501(c)3 organizations seeks proposals for long- or short-term projects that reflect the life's work and values of playwright and social justice activist Paul Green, centered on the arts, human rights, and racial equity. Grants range from $500-$2,500.
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The Dale Junior Foundation FY25 Monetary and In-Kind Donations
Nonprofits may request support for programs that empower underprivileged individuals, with a focus on youth, by providing resources that will boost confidence, provide safe homes for children needing a new start, enhance education, support wellness and health services, address youth hunger, and create hope. Support to nonprofit organizations will be provided in the form of funding or in-kind donations of items for auctions or raffles.
Rolling Deadline: Requests for in-kind donations must be received at least 8 to 12 weeks prior to the proposed event date.
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) Housing Affordability Planning Program Small Grants.
Grants are intended to assist with a variety of housing (rental and ownership) pre-development, project implementation activities, housing policy studies, or land use reform tasks that have the potential to increase the amount of housing opportunities near transit that are accessible to those with lower incomes. Any nonprofit developer working on transit-oriented housing developments (with a letter of support from a COG member jurisdiction) may apply for direct financial assistance up to $75,000.
U.S. Venture/Schmidt Family Foundation
Grants are available to organizations working in education, economic development, family support, health, and human services. Support may include program funding, operating costs, capital grants, and sponsorships.
Geographic scope: Communities served in AL, AZ, AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, IA, KS, MD, MI, MN, MO, NE, NV, NY, NC, OH, PA, SD, TX, UT, WI
Requires a letter of support or similar endorsement from a US Ventures employee or shareholder.
Worthington Industries Community Grant Support
The Worthington Industries Foundation supports nonprofits through volunteerism and financial contributions, prioritizing education, civic organizations, health and human services, and arts and culture, with support available for operations, programs, and capital campaigns.
Geographic scope: Communities with company presence in CA, CT, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MD, MI, MO, NV, NJ, NY, OH, RI, TN, TX, WI
The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
The Babcock Foundation invites proposals from local, statewide, regional and national nonprofits serving the South that have track records of helping people and places move out of poverty and achieve greater social and economic justice. We look for the most promising opportunities to support power building work to advance racial equity and social and economic justice. The Foundation funds work that builds power to advance racial equity across an 11-state Southern footprint: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
We are pleased to receive organizational summaries year round from organizations that meet our eligibility requirements and fit with our program description. The board of directors reviews proposals and approves grants each February, June and October.
Diverse City Fund’s 2025 Fall Grant
Diverse City Fund is a grantmaking organization dedicated to racial justice that invests financial and social capital to transform systems in DC.
We fund and support efforts led by and rooted in communities of color to realize liberation, spark solutions, organize against oppression of all kinds to create systemic change.
American Association of University Women
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) funds Community Impact programs that create hands-on STEM learning experiences for girls in grades K–12. These initiatives often include mentorship, family involvement, and activities designed to build confidence. AAUW places special emphasis on projects that serve rural and under-resourced communities. By supporting these efforts, AAUW works to expand equity and opportunities for young girls in STEM fields.
Grant amount: Up to $75,000
James G. Hanes Memorial Fund
The James G. Hanes Memorial Fund primarily supports nonprofit organizations in Winston-Salem, across North Carolina, and, secondarily, in the southeast and nationally. The Fund’s areas of interest are wide-ranging, including arts and cultural initiatives, community-based programs, environmental conservation, health and education, and social services. Grants are awarded for diverse purposes such as project support, seed funding, land acquisition, equipment, facilities, matching and challenge grants, planning, research, and general operating needs. Median grant: $30,000
Geographic scope: First Winston-Salem, NC; Second NC, Third Southeast; and Fourth Nationally.
Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation
The Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation focuses on conserving natural resources in eastern North America and the Caribbean Basin, with priority funding in south Florida and Alabama. Its major program areas include marine resource conservation—especially fisheries—and ecosystem protection in key Florida regions such as the Everglades, Biscayne Bay, and the Florida Keys. Additional funding priorities address Alabama environmental issues, as well as pre-selected initiatives in Washington, DC, and global population-environment programs. Site-specific grants are strictly limited to south Florida and Alabama.
Geographic scope: Priority in Florida and Alabama
Average grant: $15,000 to $20,000
Catholic Campaign for Human Development
he Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) is the U.S. Catholic bishops’ domestic program aimed at addressing the root causes of poverty through community-driven solutions and education. It empowers low-income individuals and communities to break cycles of poverty by supporting self-help organizations and fostering participation in decision-making. CCHD offers two main types of funding: Community Development Grants, which strengthen solidarity and leadership among people living in poverty, and Economic Development Grants, which support community-based businesses that create jobs and build assets. Grant awards typically range from and may include general support, seed funding, capacity building, technical assistance, and implementation support.
Grant range: $25,000 to $75,000
RWJF: Rapid Response: Reinvesting in Racial and Indigenous Health Equity Research
Rapid Response Research funding is exclusively available to applicants who have already received federal funding (e.g., from the NIH, CDC, NSF) for their health equity research, but have since had their funding partially or fully rescinded due to federal administrative actions. While we will not re-scrutinize the scientific merits of projects that have lost federal funding, our intent is to support research consistent with Evidence for Action’s mission to advance community-centered, action-oriented racial and Indigenous health equity research that focuses on structural solutions that are innovative, push beyond the status quo, and target root causes.
Awards may range from $50,000 to $200,000 each.
Amphion Foundation
The Amphion Foundation aims to encourage the performance of contemporary concert music, particularly by American composers, through support to performing, presenting, and music service organizations. The Foundation’s fall grant cycle is open to presenting and music service organizations for activities including professional development programs, educational initiatives, presenting concerts and festivals, artist residency programs, and archival activity. (The Foundation’s spring grant cycle supports performing organizations.) General operating support is available for organizations with a history of substantial commitment to contemporary American concert music and plans to continue that commitment, while project support is available for exceptionally important activities relating to contemporary concert music that are out of the scope of an organization’s regular programming. Applicants must have 501(c)(3) nonprofit status (or the foreign equivalent) or have a fiscal sponsorship, and have two or more years of performance or program history as an organization.
The fall deadline is September 25, 2025. (New applicants must submit an account request by September 19, 2025.)
The Growing Justice Fund
The Growing Justice Fund (GJF) is proud to announce the launch of its 2025 Request for Proposals (RFP). With grants ranging from $25,000 to $250,000, this opportunity will resource Tribal, Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian, and immigrant communities leading and benefiting from efforts to transform institutional food procurement into a values-aligned system that builds community power, equity, and sustainability across the food chain.
Grant seekers are strongly encouraged to complete the Eligibility Quiz by Monday, October 6th, at 5 pm PT/8 pm ET to allow ample time to receive an invitation and submit an application.
Mobilize Power Fund
The Mobilize Power Fund is a rapid response fund that resources gender justice organizations to adapt or pivot their work when met with unanticipated, time-sensitive opportunities or threats to their movement building work and organizing conditions.
The Mobilize Power Fund prioritizes organizations that are responding to specific incidents or changes of circumstances that have occurred in the last six months. This can include rapid response mobilizations, healing justice work, conflict resolution/conflict transformation, community accountability, mutual aid, direct actions, emergency safety, security, and defense needs, and more. This fund prioritizes groups and organizations who are experiencing an unanticipated incident. Because of this, organizations applying on behalf of a budget shortfall or preplanned events or ongoing programming will not be prioritized.
Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation
The Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation seeks to impact the lifesaving capabilities and the lives of local heroes and their communities by providing lifesaving equipment and prevention education tools to first responders, nonprofits, and public safety organizations in the United States. Funding areas include lifesaving equipment, prevention education, disaster relief, support to military veterans, and scholarships and continuing education for individuals pursuing a career in public safety. Fire departments, law enforcement agencies, EMS organizations, municipal and state organizations, public safety organizations, nonprofit organizations, and schools are eligible to apply. Grants average $15,000 to $25,000.
The Foundation accepts the first 600 applications for each open cycle.
City of Atlanta: HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM
The City of Atlanta’s Department of Grants and Community Development (DGCD) is pleased to announce that it is seeking applications for funding to address challenges faced by low-income to moderate-income residents, homeless residents, and overall community development in the City of Atlanta for the FY 2025 entitlement funding received from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME).HOME provides formula grants to states and local governments, which are often used in partnership with nonprofit organizations, to support a range of eligible activities. These include building, purchasing, and rehabilitating affordable housing for rent or homeownership, as well as providing direct rental assistance to low-income households. HOME is the largest federal block grant exclusively dedicated to the creation and preservation of affordable housing for low-income individuals and families.
HOME Investment Partnerships Program NOFA Walkthrough on Wednesday, June 25, 2025 @ 2:00PM. (Attendance Required to Apply)
Delta Community Credit Union: 2026 Philanthropic Fund
The Delta Community Credit Union Philanthropic Fund offers an annual grant-making program which provides financial support to registered 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organizations whose purpose is to help families manage their household finances and improve the physical and financial well-being of young people.
The Philanthropic Fund will award a total of $150,000 to 20 deserving organizations.
City of Atlanta: Municipal Support for the Arts Grant
The Municipal Support for the Arts program is the City of Atlanta’s means of granting public funding to the arts. MSA awards contracts related to the production, creation, presentation, exhibition and management of artistic and cultural services in the city of Atlanta. The program recognizes that the presence of artists and non-profit organizations involved in the arts are critical to Atlanta’s cultural vitality. The arts enrich the creative development of the city’s diverse populations and contribute positively to the social and economic well being of Atlanta and the region.
Funding categories include: Grants to Major Arts Organizations, Grants to Arts Organizations, Grants to Community Cultural Development, Grants to Artist Projects, Awards to Emerging Artist, and Grants to Neighborhood Arts.
The Elevance Health Foundation
The Elevance Health Foundation will prioritize funding for programs that improve clinical health outcomes for individuals with diet-related conditions and increase access to nutritious foods for populations experiencing food/nutrition insecurity.
Elevance Health will consider proposals from qualified organizations across the U.S. with an emphasis on:
National programs- Promoting scalable and sustainable systemic change. OR Local programs- Implementing relevant interventions in California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Virginia.
Grant Program Goals: Improving clinical outcomes for individuals with diet-related conditions experiencing high social riskIncreasing access to nutritious foods for populations experiencing high social risk and food/nutrition insecurity
South Arts: Cross-Sector Impact Grants
The value of partnership and working together across sectors brings new opportunities, increased effectiveness, and greater depth to our collective work. Through this program, South Arts seeks to provide significant support to projects developed by partners that harness the power of “Arts & …” (these are projects at the intersection of arts and other sectors).
Over the next three years, South Arts is committed to one community impact area – Health and Wellness. Eligible projects must focus on the “Arts & Health and Wellness” theme - for example, arts & mental wellness or arts & physical health. Matching grants of up to $15,000 will be awarded to support approximately 18 projects. We anticipate funding these 18 projects for three grant cycles and expect applicants to commit to the collaborative work for a three-year duration. Funding will be awarded in three separate fiscal years with streamlined, grant renewal forms submitted for cycles two and three. Matching grants of up to $10,000 will be awarded to continue or advance the project with the same two partners in cycles two and three.
The Racial Equity to Accelerate Change (REACH) Fund
For this year’s RFP, the REACH Fund will continue our approach to accelerating change, with a focused eye toward supporting not just practitioners, but practitioner-led organizing. We’re looking for practitioners organizing within and across movements, especially those whose work builds power, deepens solidarity, and shapes new ways of being.
We are offering a range of funding amounts so practitioners can request what actually makes sense for where they are. Applicants may apply for anywhere from $30,000 to $150,000 over two years.
2025 Gainbridge Assists
In honor of the $5,000 check Billie Jean King used to start the Women’s Sports Foundation® 51 years ago, Gainbridge®, Parity, and the WSF will award 32 total grants of at least $5,000 each, totaling $222,000, to organizations and Parity Athletes dedicated to advancing girls and/or women in sports and/or education. In addition to the community grants, a $50,000 grant will be awarded in Billie Jean King's honor to one standout organization.
Organizations and Parity Athletes* are encouraged to apply for a grant. To be considered for a grant, applicants must:
Focus on supporting girls and/or women in sports and/or education
Be located in the U.S.
Be able to share their impact through storytelling and social media
Implement the grant in November 2025
Ecolab Foundation Grants
To qualify for a community grant from the Ecolab Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization must fall within one of our four strategic areas and deliver services in the St. Paul, MN area where our corporate office is located, or in one of Ecolab U.S. regional communities where we have larger operations.
Focus Areas of Giving:
Youth and Education: programs that promote youth development, particularly for youth who have been traditionally underserved
Civic & Community Development: affordable housing, work readiness, crisis assistance and hunger relief
Environment & Conservation: hands-on environmental learning programs; conservation and environmental organizations, with a focus on water
Arts & Culture: arts education for children and youth as well as support for museums and the performing arts
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta: Extra Wish
Extra Wish funding is intended to support unique and tangible items beyond an organization’s operating budget, especially for small or mid-sized organizations. Extra Wish is a resource for those “hard to fund” things that make an impact for staff, volunteers or people the organization serves. Through this program, donors have given grants for everything from backpacks to snakes, and baby monitors to washing machines.
Extra Wish provides monetary contributions for specific expenses (not staff or general operations) that contribute in a clear way to the success of organizations and the populations they serve. Extra Wish requests cannot exceed $10,000. Inclusion in Extra Wish is not a guarantee of funding - creative, compelling and innovative requests have the best chance of receiving support from a Community Foundation donor.
The AmeriHealth Caritas Foundation
The AmeriHealth Caritas Foundation is dedicated to preventing and mitigating adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), which will help drive positive outcomes for children's health and help set a stronger foundation for a lifetime of wellness. In addition to preventing and mitigating ACEs, it promotes protective and compensatory childhood experiences (sometimes referred to as “PACEs”), which can counteract the effects of ACEs.
Grants are made based on three pillars:
Empowered families
Healing behaviors
Access to health care
The Foundation expects to make one-year project-specific grants totaling up to $1.945 million, with awards ranging from $100,000 to $250,000.
The LOI includes general information, financial information, and a narrative for the proposed program or project (1,000 words maximum).
USDA: Local Food Promotion Program
LFPP offers four types of projects, 24-month Planning, 36-month Implementation, 24-month Turnkey Marketing and Promotion, and 24-month Turnkey Recruitment and Training. Planning projects range from $25,000 to $100,000, while implementation projects range from $100,000 to $500,000. Each of the turnkey project options is available for a defined set of activities, with funding amounts ranging from $50,000 and $100,000.
Eligible entities may apply if they support local and regional food business enterprises that process, distribute, aggregate, or store locally or regionally produced food products.
The program requires cost share contributions in an amount equal to 25 percent of the total Federal portion of the grant.
CFGA 2025 Housing Stability Grant
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta is offering grants focused on Housing Stability for 2025, with particular emphasis on eviction prevention and services for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. Eligible focus areas include, but are not limited to:
Eviction prevention services and financial assistance
Legal support for housing instability
Homelessness services (transitional housing, shelters, rapid rehousing)
Permanent supportive housing
Fair housing education and advocacy
Tenants' rights education and advocacy
Award range: $20,000 - $50,000
Geographic focus: Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, and Gwinnett counties (Policy work may address statewide initiatives)
Hunger to Health Collaboratory 2025 Prizes for Innovation
The Hunger to Health Collaboratory (H2HC) is calling for applications for its 2025 Prizes for Innovation. We will award two $100,000 prizes to organizations advancing health equity for youth through food and nutrition policy change. New this year, in collaboration with Newman’s Own Foundation, we will also award four $25,000 prizes to organizations working in nutrition education and school food and Indigenous food justice for youth.
JustPax Fund
The JustPax Fund provides financial and logistical support to individuals and organizations working for effective change in the realm of gender justice, environmental justice, and/or economic justice. Through monetary grants, JustPax invests in projects and initiatives that bring innovative and novel approaches to justice advocacy, research, and implementation. We anticipate awarding up to $600,000 in grant funding this year.
The JustPax Fund welcomes proposals that seek to create space for critical inquiry, generating awareness, and promoting solutions to some of the most complex societal challenges facing the global community. The JustPax Fund seeks to bolster the capacity of passionate and creative agents for change by providing the financial resources necessary for their work.
Shipt: Accessible food grants
Shipt is accepting applications for the Community Impact & Innovation Grant program, supporting nonprofits working to ensure that all people, regardless of zip code, have access to fresh, nutritious, and culturally relevant food.
We invite nonprofits leading community-driven solutions aligned with our 2025 impact areas to apply. Applications are open to eligible 501(c)(3) nonprofits nationwide, with priority given to organizations serving the following metro areas: Birmingham, AL; Detroit, MI; Dallas, TX; Baltimore,MD; and Phoenix, AZ.
This year, we’re investing in two high-impact program models that address food insecurity and strengthen community access to fresh, nutritious foods:
Teaching Farms: Innovative programs that strengthen the relationship between impacted communities and access to sustainable urban agriculture systems and production
Mobile Markets: Markets on wheels that bring, distribute, and sell food in sustainable, scalable, and community-centered ways in places impacted by food and economic insecurity
The East Lake Neighborhood Community Association Grants
The East Lake Neighborhood Community Association annually gives grants to support 501c(3) nonprofit organizations and schools serving residents of the East Lake community (Atlanta/Decatur, Georgia).
Proposed activities must directly support residents of East Lake/Kirkwood/Edgewood/Oakhurst and/or NPU-O, with a focus on supporting one or more of our primary giving pillars: Community Wellbeing, Education & Youth Development, and Environment and Animal Welfare. Eligible orgs must have an annual operating budget of $1m or less, and/or haven't received funding from ELNCA in the past twelve (12) months.
USDA Agricultural Marketing Service: Regional Food System Partnerships (RFSP)
RFSP funds regional coalitions working to coordinate food systems and align cross-sector efforts.
RFSP offers two types of projects, 24-month Planning and Design and 36-month Implementation and Expansion Projects. Planning and Design projects range from $100,000 to $250,000, while Implementation and Expansion projects range from $250,000 to $1,000,000.
USDA Agricultural Marketing Service: Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP)
LFPP Focuses on intermediaries (aggregators, distributors, processors) in local/regional food chains.
LFPP offers four types of projects, 24-month Planning, 36-month Implementation, 24-month Turnkey Marketing and Promotion, and 24-month Turnkey Recruitment and Training. Planning projects range from $25,000 to $100,000, while implementation projects range from $100,000 to $500,000. Each of the turnkey project options is available for a defined set of activities, with funding amounts ranging from $50,000 and $100,000.
USDA Agricultural Marketing Service: Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP)
The purpose of the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP) is to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops. Specialty crops are defined as “fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, and nursery crops (including floriculture).
Use of funds: market expansion, technical assistance, research, environmental mitigation, access for underserved producers.
USDA Agricultural Marketing Service: Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP)
This grant supports direct-to-consumer sales (farmers markets, CSAs, agritourism, online platforms).
Use of funds: tech upgrades, food safety certifications, marketing, on-farm food waste reduction, value-added production.
FMPP offers four types of projects, 36-month Capacity Building, 36-month Community Development Training and Technical Assistance, 24-month Turnkey Marketing and Promotion, and 24-month Turnkey Recruitment and Training. Capacity Building projects range from $50,000 to $250,000, while Community Development Training and Technical Assistance projects range from $100,000 to $500,000. Each of the turnkey project options are available for a defined set of activities, with funding amounts ranging from $50,000 and $100,000.
NASDAQ Quarterly Grant Program: Empowering entrepreneurs and investors
Driven by Nasdaq’s Purpose to advance economic progress for all, the Nasdaq Foundation works with organizations that promote & support under-resourced communities by reimagining investor engagement and equipping communities with the financial knowledge needed to share in the wealth that markets create. The average size of a grant made by the Foundation is $75,000.
Together Women Rise
Through our Featured Grants Program, Together Women Rise provides funding to organizations that empower and support women and girls in low-income and marginalized communities in the Global South. We feature a different organization/project each month, providing extensive learning materials on the project and the issue being addressed, and promoting it through our nationwide chapters, website, newsletters, and social media. Grantees are assigned to be featured in a specific month based on an issue area and geography.
Levitt Foundation: Music Series Grants
The Levitt Foundation is inviting proposals from U.S.-based nonprofits to present a Levitt Music Series in 2026, 2027 and 2028. These multi-year matching grants of up to $40K/year (up to $120K total) will activate underused public spaces, ensure access to the arts and strengthen the social fabric of communities through creative placemaking, bringing people together of all ages and backgrounds through free, outdoor concert series.
Henry Len DeFoor Charitable Trust
The Henry Len DeFoor Charitable Trust provides grants to organizations for the purpose of supporting small parks, playgrounds or other recreational centers. Preference is given to small parks, playgrounds or other recreational centers located within the City of Atlanta, GA and Fulton County, GA, though other locations within the metropolitan Atlanta area may be considered. Types of support include: Program support, Equipment purchases and Supplies.
Decolonizing Wealth Project: Youth Mental Health Fund
Decolonizing Wealth Project is excited to launch a new culturally responsive care fund focused on supporting and expanding mental health care for youth in the United States, prioritizing access for LGBTQ+ youth and youth of color. The fund will redistribute a minimum of $15 million in grants over three years starting in 2025. Proposals demonstrating youth engagement and voice in strategy and program development will be prioritized. Organizations should have a track record of supporting youth from a variety of backgrounds, including BIPOC and LGBTQ+.
There are two grant types organizations can apply for:
Anchor Grants: General operating support grants ranging from $100,000-$250,000 for youth mental health organizations or projects that have been operating for 5 years or more with organizational budgets over $2,000,000.
Opportunity Grants: 1) General operating support grants ranging from $30,000– $100,000 for organizations or projects that have been operating for less than 5 years; or 2) Project-specific grants for new innovative solutions, pilots, convenings, one-time special opportunities, etc.
Vilcek Foundation
The Vilcek Foundation invites applications for grants to support nonprofit organizations that work with immigrant artists and communities, and that promote diversity in the arts, sciences, education, and humanities. A portion of the foundation’s grants are identified and initiated directly by the Vilcek Foundation.
The Good Troublemaker Neighborhood Grants
The Good Troublemaker Neighborhood Grants will identify and support community-based organizations that are committed to the same ideals shared by Congressman John Lewis. These grants will be given to organizations with a proven track record of making a difference in their communities.
This grant program focuses on three key areas: Education, Social Justice, and the Environment. Grants are available to eligible 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations that operate and provide services from Congressman Lewis’ district. Eligible organizations will have an annual revenue of $500,000 or less. These grants aim to support community-based programs that foster positive change, advance democracy, and empower communities guided by truth, integrity, and moral clarity.
Selected community-based organizations will be honored at the Good Trouble Gala May 29, 2025.
Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Grant
The purpose and goal of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta’s Metropolitan Atlanta Arts grant is to support and provide resources to strengthen independent arts organizations with annual operating budgets between $25,000 and $2 million. These creative enterprises promote public access and encourage the breadth of arts and cultural programming in our metro Atlanta community. These general operating support grants are intended for programming and operations to allow organizations to increase public engagement as well as provide access to various forms of art across the region.
Max grants of $7,500 for first time grantees and $5,000 for returning grantees.
UpTide Accelerator (through 92NY)
UpTide (through 92NY) will serve a cohort of five nonprofit leaders (Executive Directors / Presidents / CEOs) from diverse, community-building organizations looking to significantly scale the impact of their programs.
UpTide is dedicated to combating the "Crisis of Community"— the growing disconnection and disaffiliation at the root of many societal challenges. Your organization should address the Crisis of Community through your mission and programming.
Program Impact: Your organization directly serves at least 500 people or a meaningful proportion of your community. You must have implemented at least one proven intervention with at least one year of positive impact data that demonstrates that you are achieving the desired outcome.
Applicants must be confident that they can attend all sessions. To receive the $5,000 unrestricted grant, you must attend all virtual sessions, NYC Week, and Showcase Day.
Women's Sports Foundation: Sports 4 Life
Sports 4 Life is a national effort to increase the participation and retention of African-American and Hispanic girls, ages 11-18, in developmental youth sports programs. Through education, public awareness and grants to organizations nationwide, Sports 4 Life seeks to effect sustainable improvement to the overall health and development of girls in these communities.
Funding can be used for coaching, curriculum, equipment, uniforms, transportation, facility rental, tournaments and/or team-building activities, all while fostering the Sports 4 Life benefits: leadership, self-esteem, confidence and perseverance.