Deadline: Rolling: January 3, April 1, July 1, October 1.
Award Amount: Up to $6,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity helps US-based nonprofit organizations do their work in transforming lives through adult literacy. The grant funds organization’s general operating expenses, such as salaries or teacher stipends, supplies or equipment, space rental, and more.
Environmental Peace Project
Deadline: Rolling: July 1, February 1
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Nonprofits
Description: NEF invites applications for innovative projects with the potential to enhance life on the planet, brighten the future, and advance peace. To that end, the foundation will award grants in support of pioneering yet practical projects in many endeavors, including but not limited to environmental initiatives that are working to eliminate pollution and save the planet’s ecosystems, community efforts that create models of social sustainability, educational innovations that prepare youth to become the socially responsible leaders, and strategies that offer economic improvement and opportunities. The foundation particularly seeks projects with the potential to be replicated so excellent ideas and work can multiply and benefit many.
DAV Charitable Service Trust Grant Program
Deadline: Rolling: Final business day of January, April, July, and October.
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Nonprofits
Description: To support U.S. nonprofit organizations delivering direct services to sick, wounded, disabled, homeless, at-risk, or aging veterans—or their families and caregivers. Projects may include rehabilitation, mobility, therapeutic activities, shelter, food assistance, career training, and legal or educational services.
NMED – Water Infrastructure Projects and Funding
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Dependent upon project.
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Nonprofits, Community Water Systems
Description: With the increase in demand and federal requirements for the DWSRF, The State of New Mexico will continue to choose the projects to fulfill the federal equivalency requirements. Additionally, the schedule by which the priority lists will be published will remain semi‐annual. Lists are produced in December and May with supplemental lists published in September and February if project interest and urgency exist. Criteria for project interest and urgency are included in this IUP to clarify when the supplemental lists will be produced. Project priority ranking criteria for emerging contaminants were updated to reflect increased value on providing water service to underserved communities or where wells are contaminated by emerging contaminants.
NMED – Brownfields Program
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Dependent upon project.
Match: Dependent upon project.
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments and Nonprofits.
Description: A brownfield is a property whose redevelopment is complicated by the presence of contamination or perceived contamination. Examples include old gas stations, vacant motels, former industrial sites or abandoned dumps. Cleaning up and reinvesting in these properties can restore the environment, reduce health risks, eliminate blight, revitalize downtowns, create jobs, increase local tax bases, and create a sense of community pride.
NMED offers free environmental evaluations of brownfield properties. Services include: Phase I & II environmental site assessments; Environmental investigations (sampling and analysis); Asbestos and lead paint surveys: Clean-up planning: and Remediation cost estimates. NMED also offers the Brownfield Clean-Up Revolving Loan Fund.
USDA – On-Farm Labor Housing Loans
Deadline: Until funds are depleted.
Award Amount: Loan maximum is 100 percent of the allowable total development cost.
Eligible Entities: Individual farm owners, family farm partnerships, family farm corporations, and associations of farmers.
Description: It provides affordable financing to develop or rehabilitate affordable rental housing for very-low to moderate income domestic, migrant, and seasonal farm laborers. It also provides funding used to increase the supply of affordable housing for farm labor; and the ability of the farmer to provide affordable, decent, sage and sanitary housing for farm workers.
Sky’s The Limit Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Up to $2,500 monthly
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Small Businesses, Nonprofits, Startups
Description: This opportunity awards startup grants of up to $2,500 monthly to entrepreneurs. They also offer additional funding opportunities to registered members, such as one-on-one mentorship, tools and resources, special events, and human support.
The Economic Hardship Reporting Project Book Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $1,000 to $5,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Media, Arts/Creatives, and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity is for a journalist seeking grant funding for a book project.
The Economic Hardship Reporting Project Standard Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $500 to $5,000, depending on project.
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Media, Art/Creatives, and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity is for a journalist seeking grant funding for a news story, narrative feature, investigative report, documentary, nonfiction comic or illustrated work, photo essay, podcast, or radio feature. Small grants are currently distributed that are not intended to cover the entire cost of these projects.
The Economic Hardship Reporting Project Personal Essay/Op-Ed Grants
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $750 to $1,500
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Media, Art/Creatives, and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity is for a journalist seeking grant funding for a completed or close-to-completed personal essay or op-ed. The grants for personal essays range from $750–$1,500, depending on your experience and the amount of reporting involved. First-time contributors to EHRP typically receive $750.
The Audience Innovations Fund – For Filmmakers
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $5,000 to $50,000. Amount applied for should not exceed 50% of the overall marketing budget for the film(s).
Match: 50%
Eligible Entities: Businesses and Nonprofits that can demonstrate previous experience distributing and marketing independent feature films.
Description: The Audience Innovation Fund is a new program that promotes fresh strategies to grow audiences for independent film releases by awarding grants for bold experiments around distribution and marketing, and by providing educational resources for film teams to encourage a renewed focus on audiences. In a challenging time for film, the Fund’s strategy aims to offset the risk of testing new methodologies to strengthen the engagement with thought-provoking films in media culture.
AHRQ Small Health Services Research Grant Program
Deadline: July 17, 2029
Award Amount: Up to $10,000 for a project period not to exceed 2 years
Eligible Entities: Higher Education Institutions, Nonprofits, Governments, including Tribal, ISDs, Housing Authorities.
Description: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Small Research Grant Program supports different types of health services research projects, including: Pilot and feasibility studies, secondary analysis of existing data, small, self-contained research projects, development of research methodology, and development of new research technology.
International Women’s Media Foundation
Deadline: Dependent upon grant.
Award Amount: Dependent upon grant.
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Dependent upon grant.
Description: The media is not truly free and representative without the equal voice of women and nonbinary people. IWMF seeks to empower women and nonbinary journalists with the training, opportunities, and support to become leaders in the news industry through various forms of grant funding.
PositiveNRG Program
Deadline: Ongoing
Eligible Entities: For Profit companies, Nonprofits
Description: The positiveNRG program gives preference to organizations and initiatives that have a meaningful and direct impact on the community, and nonprofit organizations and initiatives that are supported in partnership with the community. PositiveNRG encourages investing in initiatives that strengthen community involvement and inclusiveness.