Grant Opportunities

Justworks.org Capacity Building Grants are back. They are now accepting applications for their 2025–2027 grant cycle. Over two years, they’ll award three nonprofits $100,000 each to strengthen their operational capacity and scale their impact. Justworks goal: to strengthen small and medium-sized nonprofits, enabling entrepreneurs who face extraordinary challenges in starting and growing their businesses.

The Fostering Collaboration Across Ryan White HIV/AIDS Programs (RWHAPs) to Engage People with HIV in Care project aims to strengthen coordination among RWHAP Parts in select jurisdictions to help end the local HIV epidemic. The project supports RWHAP recipients in developing targeted actions for out-of-care populations, enhancing existing partnerships, and building new collaborations to maximize resources and improve care systems.

The Department of Health and Human Services Indian Health Service, Indian Health Service (IHS) Injury Prevention Program is offering funding to Tribes to help build capacity and strengthen infrastructure in injury and violence prevention. This is an opportunity for Tribes to enhance programs that protect community health and safety. The application deadline is November 13, 2025.

The Centene Foundation invites nonprofit health-related organizations to submit partnership requests for initiatives aligned with three focus areas: healthcare (including social determinants of health), social services, and education. Priority is given to partnerships that can grow over time and organizations with deep community expertise and history.

The Hey Helen Grant is a privately funded initiative by Visionaries that invests in women entrepreneurs building impact-driven, for-profit businesses in the U.S. Each grant cycle, one founder will receive a $10,000 unrestricted cash award — designed to fuel whatever moves your business forward, whether that’s operations, growth, marketing, hiring, or infrastructure. Grant cycles close at the end of April, August, and December. This grant is open to businesses that are 100% women-owned, generate less than $1M in annual revenue, and are legally registered in the United States. Nonbinary applicants assigned female at birth or who feel aligned with the intent of the grant are also welcome to apply.

The Foundation’s ‘Empower’ Grant is a financial assistance grant intended to financially support nonprofits that directly impact victims of violent crime or missing person cases.

The F. M. Kirby Prize for Scaling Impact is an annual global prize of USD $150,000 in unrestricted funds that amplifies and accelerates the work of an enterprise working to scale its impact on social or environmental problems around the world. The Kirby Prize recognizes enterprises pursuing strategic pathways to impact at scale, who are close to the challenges at hand, who center the voice and experience of the populations they serve, who have demonstrated traction, and who embody courageous and collaborative leadership. This prize is open to any legal form, geographic location, and any social or environmental impact area.

The GEICO Philanthropic Foundation strives to support organizations that provide programs and resources to help strengthen our diverse communities across the country. A strong community is one where every individual has access to educational and employment opportunities, can thrive in safe communities, and has the resources to overcome challenges. The GEICO Philanthropic Foundation focuses its funding on three key areas: 1) Education, 2) Engaging the Community, and 3) Promoting equity.

The Hometown Grants Program supports community projects in small towns, villages, and territories across the U.S. T-Mobile awards up to $50,000 for shovel-ready projects that foster local connections, such as technology upgrades, outdoor spaces, the arts, and community centers. The project must be located in towns with less than 50,000 people and should provide a community benefit where it might otherwise be difficult to secure funding.

The Dr. Scholl Foundation is dedicated to providing financial assistance to organizations committed to improving our world. Their primary focus areas include education, social service, healthcare, civic & cultural, and environmental. These categories are not intended to limit the interest of the Foundation from considering other worthwhile projects. In general, the Foundation guidelines are broad to give them flexibility in providing grants.

The Harold McAlister Charitable Foundation makes grants to public charities that provide support for healthcare, education, social services, animal welfare, arts & culture, and the environment. While the Harold McAlister Charitable Foundation primarily focuses on healthcare and education, it also supports social services, animal welfare, arts & culture, and environmental protection. The Foundation is committed to growing and evolving along with its grantee-partners, listening carefully and staying attuned to the realities faced by those it seeks to serve.https://www.mcalisterfoundation.org/apply

The Hometown Grants Program supports community projects in small towns, villages, and territories across the U.S. T-Mobile awards up to $50,000 for shovel-ready projects that foster local connections, such as technology upgrades, outdoor spaces, the arts, and community centers. The project must be located in towns with less than 50,000 people and should provide a community benefit where it might otherwise be difficult to secure funding.

The Gamma Mu Foundation is committed to empowering LGBTQ+ communities by supporting organizations and initiatives that create lasting, positive change. Their grants address the unique challenges faced by rural and underserved populations, funding programs that promote health, education, social support, and equality. They proudly support local LGBTQ+ community organizations, empowering them to expand their reach, enhance services, and build stronger, more inclusive environments. The Foundation’s grants focus on three key program areas: 1) Community Support Services, 2) Public Education and Research, 3) HIV and Health Programs.

In order to expand the number and skills of Women's Health researchers, the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) and participating NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) invite institutional career development award applications for the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) Career Development Program. Each program will support mentoring the research career development of junior faculty members, known as BIRCWH Scholars, who have recently completed clinical training or postdoctoral fellowships, and who will be engaged in interdisciplinary basic, translational, behavioral, clinical, and/or health services research relevant to the health of women and, where appropriate, the use of both sexes to better understand the influence of sex as a biological variable on health and disease.

This opportunity is to leverage NICHD clinical research network infrastructure relevant to infants, children, women, pregnant and lactating individuals, and persons with disabilities to conduct innovative, multisite, investigator-initiated clinical trials and observational studies. This NOFO will utilize a bi-phasic (UG3/UH3), milestone-driven mechanism consisting of a start-up phase (UG3) and a full enrollment and clinical study implementation phase (UH3).

The MrBallen Foundation Honor Grant program provides financial grants to 501c3 organizations that support victims or families of victims who have been affected by a heinous crime. The Honor Grants can be used for a wide range of projects or programs. To qualify, your organization must provide services to victims and/or victims’ families of heinous, egregious, and/or accidental death or dismemberment.

The Foundation provides grants to U.S. nonprofits for programs that directly serve the health, education, development, and welfare of youth. Focus areas include homelessness, child advocacy, scholarships, workshops and conferences, and more. Details on website.

Stater Bros. Charities makes grants to nonprofit organizations that help strengthen the communities where Stater Bros. Markets are located. Focus areas include: children's well-being, education, health, hunger relief, pet well-being, and veterans/active duty

The Desert Healthcare District's grant program supports collaborative processes and invests in the services and programs of Coachella Valley nonprofits, health service providers, and public agencies that align with and advance the District’s mission, vision, and the implementation of the 2021-2026 Strategic Plan. The District has assigned high-priority status to goals 2 (Proactively expand community access to primary and specialty care services), 3 (Proactively expand community access to behavioral/mental health services) and 6 (Be responsive to and supportive of selected community initiatives that enhance the environment in the District’s service area) in the Strategic Plan.

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 Venture Grants are short-term and designed to expedite support to social entrepreneurs with breakthrough, emerging, and innovative solutions. They also serve to mutually explore new relationships and partnerships.

The Ben & Jerry's Foundation's broad goals are to further social and environmental justice, their primary purpose is to support the local leadership and grassroots organizing activities of their grant partners rather than any specific issues the organizations are addressing. They are interested in supporting groups that are carrying out activities that build support and collective action to address impacts of inequity and injustice in their communities. The National Grassroots Organizing Program (NGO) offers two-year unrestricted, general operating support grants to constituent-led grassroots organizations throughout the United States and its territories.

Incyte supports organizations that share our commitment to ensure that students, healthcare providers, patients, caregivers, and patient advocates have access to healthcare information. Eligible requests must be designed to focus on healthcare and align with all Incyte internal and external compliance and regulatory guidelines.

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 Venture grants are short-term and designed to expedite support to social entrepreneurs with breakthrough, emerging, and innovative solutions. They also serve to mutually explore new relationships and partnerships. Enterprise Grants are invitation-only and are designed to provide multi-year, unrestricted funding to partners that have deep alignment across our REEJ focus areas and offer the most opportunity to use all our financial and non-financial resources to support their solutions.

The Cardenas CARES Community Giving Program, offered through the Cardenas Markets Foundation, supports local nonprofit organizations through monetary and in-kind donations. This initiative is designed to uplift and invest in the communities where Cardenas Markets operates. Funding opportunities include monetary donations and in-kind donations.

The Smart & Final Charitable Foundation is committed to giving back, improving quality of life, and nourishing the communities we serve. They focus their giving on Health & Wellness, Education, Hunger Relief, Team Sports & Youth Development, and Disaster Relief.