USDA – Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program Foundational and Applied Science Program


Deadline: December 31, 2026
Award Amount: $10,000 to $10,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Land Grant Institutions, Hispanic Serving Institutions, Nonprofits, and Businesses
Description: The AFRI Foundational and Applied Science Program supports grants in six AFRI priority areas to advance knowledge in both fundamental and applied sciences important to agriculture. The six priority areas are:

Plant Health and Production and Plant Products; Animal Health and Production and Animal Products; Food Safety, Nutrition, and Health; Bioenergy, Natural Resources, and Environment; Agriculture Systems and Technology; and Agriculture Economics and Rural Communities.

USDA AFRI

NSF – Plant Genome Research Program


Deadline: Rolling until grant funding unavailable.
Award Amount: Unspecified; total grant funding $30,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Higher Education and Nonprofits
Description: The Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP) supports genome-scale research that addresses challenging questions of biological, societal and economic importance. PGRP encourages the development of innovative tools, technologies, and resources that empower a broad plant research community to answer scientific questions on a genome-wide scale. Emphasis is placed on the scale and depth of the question being addressed and the creativity of the approach. Data produced by plant genomics should be usable, accessible, integrated across scales, and of high impact across biology.

Training, broadening participation, and career development are essential to scientific progress and should be integrated in all PGRP-funded projects.

PGRP FUNDING

DOC – Public Works and Economic Adjustment Assistance (PWEAA)


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $100,000 to $30,000,000
Match: Yes
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Nonprofits, Businesses, and Higher Education
Description: Provides funding to support economic development initiatives in distressed communities. These programs aim to enhance infrastructure, promote resilience, and foster job creation through investments in public works and economic adjustment projects. Priority is given to projects that align with EDA’s investment priorities, including equity, workforce development, and environmentally sustainable development.

EDA FUNDING

NSF – Cyberinfrastructure for Public Access and Open Science


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $50,000 to $600,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education, Nonprofits, and Business
Description: The Cyberinfrastructure for Public Access and Open Science, (CIPAOS) program within the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) aims to catalyze new and transformative socio-technical partnerships supporting research data infrastructure ecosystems across domains through early-stage collaborative activities between cyberinfrastructure researchers, scientists, research computing experts, data management experts, research labs, university libraries, and other communities of practice. The CI PAOS program supports the NSF Public Access Initiative by encouraging innovation across the CI ecosystem to address accessibility, discoverability, reliability, reproducibility, sustainability, and utility of data products in alignment with NSF and national goals for public access and open science.

CIPAOS PROGRAM

NSF – Life and Environments Through Time


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education, Nonprofits, and Small Businesses
Description: The Life and Environments Through Time (LET) program supports research that advances knowledge about the patterns and processes relating to the origin and evolution of Earth’s climate, environments, life, and sedimentary record. This research takes place at the molecular, local, regional, and global scales from the Archean Eon through the Holocene epoch. LET-supported research can be useful for predicting and planning for future global change, and for the maintenance and security of ecosystem services and human societies

LET PROGRAM

Grassroots Organizing Grant Program


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Up to $30,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Nonprofits
Description: Two-year general operating support grants for small, constituent-led grassroots groups in the U.S. advancing social & environmental justice through collective action. Eligible organizations must have budgets under $350K and use grassroots organizing as their primary strategy.

BEN & JERRY FOUNDATION

NSF – STEM K-12 Program


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Up to $3,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, and Businesses
Description: The NSF STEM K-12 program in the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) in the Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) supports fundamental, applied, and translational research that advances STEM teaching and learning and improves understanding of education across the human lifespan and a range of formal and informal settings.

STEM FUNDING

NSF – Division of Environmental Biology Funding


Deadline: Rolling until grant funding unavailable.
Award Amount: $5,000 to $5,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Higher Education and Nonprofits
Description: The Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) Core supports research and training on evolutionary and ecological processes acting at the level of populations, species, communities, ecosystems, macrosystems, and biogeographic extents. DEB encourages research that elucidates fundamental principles that identify and explain the unity and diversity of life and its interactions with the environment over space and time.

Research may incorporate field, laboratory, or collection-based approaches; observational or manipulative studies; synthesis activities; phylogenetic discovery projects; or theoretical approaches involving analytical, statistical, or computational modeling. Proposals should be submitted to the core clusters (Ecosystem Science, Evolutionary Processes, Population and Community Ecology, and Systematics and Biodiversity Science).

PGRP FUNDING

The Amerind Museum Artist in Residence


Deadline: Rolling Monthly
Award Amount: $3,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments, Arts/Creatives, and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity seeks emerging Native American artists (visual, performing & literary artists welcomed). The selected artists must reside at the Amerind Museum for 1 month at a time. The selected artist(s) will receive housing, workspace, and a $3,000/month stipend. The artist will be asked to give a public talk about their work and/or hold some open studio hours. While in residence, the artist can sell their work directly to the public. Depending on the nature of the artist’s work, the Amerind Museum may consider an exhibition or similar event by the selected artist. The artist must have reliable transportation.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Skatepark Project Grants


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Up to $25,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Nonprofits
Description: Skatepark Grants empowers community-led projects that create safe and inclusive public skateparks, skate spaces, and skate spots in underserved communities. Organizations seeking to build free, public concrete skateparks in underserved communities are eligible to apply for a grant.

SKATEPARK PROJECT FUNDING

Federal Surplus Property Donation Program


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: N/A
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, or County Governments and Nonprofits
Description: The federal personal property donation program enables certain certain non-federal organizations to obtain property the federal government no longer needs. State agencies for surplus property (SASPs) are state-run organizations that administer the federal program for donating federal surplus property to public, tax-supported entities and eligible private nonprofit tax-exempt organizations.

SURPLUS PROPERTY PROGRAM

USDA – Circuit Rider Program – Technical Assistance for Rural Water Systems


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: City, Township, County or Tribal Governments and Nonprofits
Description: Those applying must serve an area with a population of 10,000 or less. This program provides technical assistance to rural water systems that are experiencing day-to-day operational, financial or managerial issues. Rural water system officials may request assistance from the National Rural Water Association State Association or the local Rural Utilities Service office. Rural Utilities Service staff may also request assistance on behalf of the system.

CIRCUIT RIDER PROGRAM

USDA – Community Facilities Direct Loan & Grant Program in New Mexico


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Dependent upon population and median household income.
Match: Dependent upon population and median household income.
Eligible Entities: City, Township, County or Tribal Governments and Nonprofits
Description: Those applying must be a rural area, classified as having no more than 20,000 residents. This program provides affordable funding to develop essential community facilities in rural areas. An essential community facility is defined as a facility that provides an essential service to the local community for the orderly development of the community in a primarily rural area, and does not include private, commercial or business undertakings.

LOAN & GRANT PROGRAM

Albertsons Foundation – Southwest


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $1,000 to $5,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: K-12 Education and Nonprofits
Description: Albertsons Companies, Safeway and Vons Foundations funds organizations that strengthen the neighborhoods they serve. The Foundation prioritizes projects that align with mission priorities that include: Health and Humans Services, Hunger, Youth and Education, Veterans, and Supporting Diversity and Inclusion.

NOURISHING NEIGHBORS

B:Side Small Business Loans


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $25,000 to $5,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Nonprofits and Businesses
Description: B:Side assists those to gain access to SBA loans and fund, but also assists those that cannot access a traditional bank loan. B:Side offers loans to assist with working capital, debt refinance, leasehold improvements, business acquisition, purchasing equipment, inventory, and furniture, and buying, building, or renovating commercial real estate.

B:Side Capital/Fund

CDEC Charitable Requests


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Unspecified amount
Match: None
Eligible Entities: K-12 Education, Higher Education, and organizations seeking to promote energy efficiency, the environment, and economic development.
Description: Continental Divide aims to serve the following counties in New Mexico: Bernalillo County, Cibola County, McKinley County, Sandoval County, Valencia County.

Continental Divide aims to support organizations that: Promote the efficient use of energy, such as weatherization or toward the planning, development or building of a renewable energy source, promote projects or activities that benefit the environment, promote projects or activities that create economic development, and/or projects or activities that benefit students in grades K-12 or students enrolled at an accredited New Mexico college or university within Continental Divide’s service territory.

CDEC FUNDING

The Yéigo Action Grant


Deadline: Monthly on the 10th
Award Amount: $100 and $5,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments, Film/Media, Arts/Creatives, and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity supports the growing number of Native artists and culture bearers who need financial assistance with a professional development opportunity or a hardship hindering their creative practice. Applicants must be enrolled members of, or provide proof of lineal descendency from, a U.S. federally recognized or U.S. state-recognized tribe or be able to provide evidence of ancestry as an Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian. This program offers grants between $100 and $5,000.

YEIGO GRANT

The Literacy Opportunity Fund


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.

LOF Grant

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.

NEW EARTH FOUNDATION

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.

DAV GRANT TRUST

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 WATER INFRASTRUCTURE

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.

Brownfields Program

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.

On Farm

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.

Entrepreneur Grants

The Economic Hardship Reporting Project Book Grants


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $1,000 to $5,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Film/Media, Arts/Creatives, and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity is for a journalist seeking grant funding for a book project.

EHRP BOOK GRANT

The Economic Hardship Reporting Project Standard Grants


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $500 to $5,000, depending on project.
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Film/Media, Arts/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.

EHRP STANDARD GRANTS

The Economic Hardship Reporting Project Personal Essay/Op-Ed Grants


Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $750 to $1,500
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Film/Media, Arts/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.

EHRP's ESSAY/OP-ED

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.

ADE GRANT FUNDING

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.

SMALL HEALTH SERVICES GRANT

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.

IWMF

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.

PositiveNRG