Deadline: May 14, 2025
Award Amount: $125,000 to $500,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, and Nonprofits
Description: The foundation supports rigorous, intellectually ambitious, and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education; it also seeks to support scholarship that develops new foundational knowledge that may have a lasting impact on educational discourse. The program supports proposals from multiple disciplinary and methodological perspectives, both domestically and internationally, from scholars at various stages in their careers. The program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. The foundation anticipates that proposals will span a wide range of topics and disciplines and innovatively address questions central to education, including education, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, sociology, law, economics, history, and neuroscience.

Deadline: Applications open June 1, 2025
Award Amount: $5,000 – $40,000
Match: Required 2:1 match. The match can include any combination of cash and/or in-kind (See FAQ page 8 for more details). NO match required if you meet special criteria.
Eligible Entities: Tribes, Pueblos, and Nations; municipalities; counties; nonprofits; K-12 schools/districts; colleges/universities.
Description: This grant invests in conservation-minded shovel-ready projects that are open to the public, increase access to outdoor opportunities, and demonstrate a clear economic benefit to the community through improved quality of life, better public health outcomes, and/or increased eco-tourism. Grants are available to tribal, rural, acequia/land grant, and urban communities.

Deadline: June 30, 2025 in Grants.gov; July 2, 2025 in JustGrants
Award Amount: Up to $500,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments, Local Governments, Education, Public Safety, and Nonprofits
Description: The Grants to Prevent and Respond to Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Sex Trafficking Against Children and Youth Program (Children and Youth Program) supports comprehensive, community-based efforts to develop or expand prevention, intervention, treatment, and response strategies to address the needs of children and youth (ages 0-24) impacted by domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking.

Deadline:  applications are accepted quarterly – Quarter 1: Feb 1 – April 15 / Quarter 2: May 1 – July 15 / Quarter 3: August 1 – October 15 / Quarter 4: November 1 – December 31
Amount:  $250 to $5,000
Eligible Entities:  Nonprofits, state, county or city agencies, including law enforcement or fire departments, education agencies.
Description:  There are 8 areas of funding: 1) Community and Economic Development, 2) Diversity and Inclusion, 3) Education, 4) Environmental Sustainability, 5) Health and Human Service, 6) Hunger Relief and Healthy Eating, 7) Public Safety, 8) Quality of Life

Deadline:  Ongoing
Eligible Entities:  For Profit companies, Nonprofit Organizations
Description: Supporting organizations and initiatives that have a meaningful and direct impact on the community in 4 main areas: Choice & Education, Community, Resilience & Sustainability, and Well-Being.

Deadline:  Ongoing
Eligible Entities:  Educational Agencies
Description:  As a program of The Smidt Foundation, we work to leverage and propel excellent skilled trades education in U.S. public high schools by investing in efforts where ingenious people and ideas converge. Humility is the through line of our outlook and approach. We seek to make a difference, and to learn and share.

Description:  Children can thrive when surrounded by an ecosystem of support that makes it easy to access quality education, health care and food. And when parents thrive, children thrive, so their ecosystem must also include equitable job opportunities and career pathways. The ability to face the future with confidence, assured of equitable opportunities, rounds out the ecosystem.  Education, health, food and workforce systems are interconnected in serving what children need to thrive, and we aim to support holistic solutions across these integrated systems.

Submission Details:  Mellon only accepts proposals by invitation. If you have not received an invitation and are interested in funding from Mellon, you can submit an inquiry.

Eligibility:  Mellon makes most of its grants to organizations in the United States that have been determined by the IRS to be section 501(c)(3) charities. As a rule, the Foundation does not fund tuition, K-12 education and programming, fundraising events, or provide direct unrestricted funding for individuals.

Areas of Interest:
Arts and Culture
Higher Learning
Humanities in Place
Public Knowledge
Presidential Initiatives

Description:  AEFLA seeks to create a partnership between states, the Federal government, and local adult education providers to help adults get the basic skills they need including reading, writing, math, English language proficiency, and problem-solving to be productive workers, family members, and citizens.

Description: area of interest include – Children’s Homes, Boys & Girls Clubs/Scouts, YMCA/YWCA, Counseling and Therapy Center, Behavioral and Mental Health Centers, Rehabilitation Centers, Domestic Violence, CASA, and Advocacy Centers, Food Banks & Food Pantries, Homelessness, Veterans, Meals on Wheels and Sr. Citizen Centers, Theatres & Symphony, and more.
How to Apply:  Organizations interested in applying for funding need to communicate via phone or email with the Grants Manager for instructions on how to apply.
Lori Bagwell, Grants Manager
Lori@msdoss.org