Deadline: Rolling Monthly: November 30, 2025
Award Amount: $10,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Businesses
Description: WomensNet founded the “Amber Grant” in 1998. The grant was set up with one goal in mind: to honor the memory of a very special young woman, Amber Wigdahl, who died at just 19 years old — before realizing her business dreams.

Today, WomensNet carries on that tradition, proudly giving away at least $30,000 every month in Amber Grant money.

Deadline: Rolling: June 27, September 19, December 5, April 4.
Award Amount: Dependent upon project.
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Nonprofits
Description: Kroger believes strong communities are everyone’s responsibility. Each year, Kroger helps hundreds of local nonprofit organizations that are working to make our communities better places to live and work.

Kroger is specifically interested in these focus areas: Zero Hunger & Zero Waste, Diversity & Inclusion, Health & Nutrition, Education & Youth Development, Disaster Relief, and Building Stronger Communities.

Deadline: December 31, 2025
Award Amount: Up to $5,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Businesses
Description: Independent retail stores or entrepreneurs who soon plan to open a retail store can win a $5,000 grant in Faire merchandise to help stock their store. Applicants need to provide a few details and submit a short video on how the grant money would help.

Deadline: Rolling: February 1 to April 15, May 1 to July 15, August 1 to October 15, November 1 to December 31
Amount: $250 to $5,000
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Nonprofits, Fire, Public Safety, Education
Description: Walmart aims to support organizations that create opportunity and strengthen their community, and advance sustainability. Examples include creating economic opportunity, preserving nature, reducing plastic, food, and textile waste, easing access to healthier foods, and disaster preparedness and response.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Up to $500
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Nonprofits
Description: This program awards daily micro-grants to grassroots changemakers worldwide, offering seed funding to support early-stage, volunteer-led projects that aim to spark positive change in their communities. It also provides capacity-building support, peer connections, and opportunities to grow beyond the initial grant.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $250,000 to $1,000,000
Match: Yes
Eligible Entities: Businesses and Nonprofits
Description: Provides low-interest loans to eligible commercial entities for energy efficiency upgrades. The loan proceeds can be used for energy efficiency audits, upgrades, and retrofits that improve overall energy consumption. Loans are offered at a fixed interest rate of 2% and may range from $250,000 to $1,000,000, with terms not exceeding the useful life of the project or 15 years. Applicants must demonstrate that more than 50% of their revenue is earned in New Mexico or that more than 50% of their services are provided in the state.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: 65% discount on eligible broadband connectivity expenses for eligible rural health care providers (HCPs)
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Nonprofits, Higher Education, State, City, Township, County or Tribal Health Department/Agency
Description: The Healthcare Connect Fund (HCF) Program provides a 65% discount on eligible broadband connectivity expenses for eligible rural health care providers (HCPs). You can apply as an individual health care provider or as a consortium, i.e., a group of HCPs that can be both rural and non-rural.

Deadline: Rolling Quarterly
Award Amount: Up to $2,500
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Businesses
Description: Provides funding each quarter to U.S.-based for-profit businesses to support expenses like rent, inventory, software, marketing, and professional development. Applicants must have been operating for at least two years, generate a minimum of $50,000 annually, and employ one to two people, including the owner.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Nonprofits
Description: Supports nonprofit organizations that create stable jobs, affordable housing, and vibrant communities. Grants are awarded in three focus areas: “Work” (workforce education and economic prosperity), “Home” (neighborhood stability and revitalization), and “Play” (arts, culture, and places to foster joy). The program aims to address immediate needs and systemic economic barriers to success.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $15,000 to $25,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Fire, and Public Safety
Description: Provides financial, equipment, and training assistance to firefighters, police officers, and EMTs to enhance their safety and effectiveness. It also supports the mental wellness of first responders, offers home modifications for severely wounded personnel, and provides aid to families of fallen heroes. The program’s goal is to ensure first responders and their families have the resources and support they need to serve their communities.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Higher Education and Nonprofits
Description: The Structure and Physics of the Solid Earth Program (SPSE) aims to advance fundamental knowledge about the ongoing dynamical processes over the age of the Earth that evolve the structure of planet Earth and underpin geohazards. SPSE supports research at all temporal and spatial scales, from the Earth’s core to its crust. Through laboratory, field, theoretical, and computational studies, the program encompasses a wide range of disciplines including structural geology, tectonics, and geophysics.

Deadline: Applications accepted as long as funds available.
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments and Nonprofits
Description: The RHP supports individuals in recovery on their path to self-sufficiency by providing stable housing and recovery services. Specifically, it funds the development or maintenance of housing and related support for those impacted by substance use disorders.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Up to $50,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Arts/Creatives
Description: The Foundation provides unrestricted financial resources to exceptional visual artists. The grants can be used in any way that allows an artist to meaningfully pursue their practice. Grants are typically used to create new work, acquire supplies, rent studio space, prepare for exhibitions, attend a residency, and offset living expenses.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education, and Nonprofits
Description: Supports fundamental, applied, and translational research to advance STEM teaching and learning in both formal (pre-K–12) and informal settings, encouraging innovative, multidisciplinary projects that leverage emerging technologies like AI to develop tools, frameworks, and new insights in STEM education.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $750
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Arts/Creative
Description: This initiative will support the creation of community murals that celebrate and honor local art, history, and culture. Recipients must maintain the mural for three years.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $5,000 to $15,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Arts/Creatives
Description: Provides one-time financial assistance to painters, printmakers, and sculptors with at least 10 years of mature artistic practice who have experienced unforeseen, catastrophic events such as fires, floods, or emergency medical needs.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Dependent upon program.
Match: None
Eligible Entities: K-12 Education
Description: The afterschool snack component of the National School Lunch Program fills the afternoon hunger gap for school children. State agencies operate the snack service through agreements with local school food authorities (SFAs). SFAs are ultimately responsible for the administration of the snack service.

The NSLP Afterschool Snack Service offers cash reimbursement to help SFAs provide a nutritional boost to children enrolled in afterschool activities. Participating SFAs receive cash subsidies from the USDA for each reimbursable snack they serve (up to one reimbursement per participant per day). In return, they must serve snacks that meet federal requirements and must offer free or reduced price snacks to eligible children.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

Deadline: Rolling Monthly
Award Amount: $500, Fellows may be eligible to receive $2,500 grant at the end of the year.
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Businesses
Description: Every month, the Freed Fellowship selects a U.S. small business owner to become a Freed Fellow. Fellow’s receive feedback and recommendations on how to grow their business. When applying, applicants must prepare to answer questions related to the 5 C’s: Context, Content, Community, Chemistry, and Commerce.

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.

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.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Up to $1,000,000
Match: Not required, but encouraged.
Eligible Entities: City, Township, County or Tribal Governments with populations below 40,000 and Nonprofits
Description: This program helps eligible communities prepare, or recover from, an emergency that threatens the availability of safe, reliable drinking water. Applicants must show that a major decline in quantity or quality of water occurred within two years of the date of the application. Grants are also awarded when a significant decline in quality and quantity of water is imminent. A federal disaster declaration is not required in order to qualify.

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.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments and Nonprofits
Description: This grant provides fully funded marker or plaque signage for public properties and historic districts that have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The program covers design, fabrication, shipping, and inscription costs, allowing communities to commemorate and publicize their historic designation.

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.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Up to $250,000
Match: 5% non-federal share.
Eligible Entities: Tribal
Description: This program provides funding to 1994 Land Grant Institutions (Tribal Colleges) to make capital improvements to their educational facilities and to purchase equipment. Funds may be used for infrastructure improvements, to purchase equipment, and to develop essential community facilities. These community facilities include: Schools, education equipment, libraries, dorms, vehicles and major equipment, education and cultural projects, and renovations and improvements.

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.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $500 to $5,500,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Businesses
Description: The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) helps small businesses get funding by setting guidelines for loans and reducing lender risk. These SBA-backed loans make it easier for small businesses to get the funding they need.