Deadline: Monthly on the 10th
Award Amount: $100 and $5,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments, Media, Art/Creative, 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.

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: May 15, 2025
Award Amount: $100,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity empowers artists, curators, and community collaborators to address social change issues through a Native lens. The program supports innovative community-driven projects created in partnership with an organization that uplifts Native communities, promotes self-determination, and drives transformative change, paving the way for a resilient and thriving Indigenous future. SHIFT provides multi-year support, including a $100,000 two-year award, professional development, project evaluation, documentation, and marketing support.

Deadline:  May 15, 2025
Award Amount: $15,000 to $25,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity provides grants to feature-length non-fiction projects that address social issues and inspire others. It supports documentaries that “Educate, Inspire, and Enrich.” The Fund supports filmmaking in advanced development (up to $15,000), production, and post-production stages (up to $25,000).

Deadline: May 15, 2025
Award Amount: $5,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity seeks to provide funding to nonprofits focusing on one of three areas: Meeting Basic Needs, such as hunger, shelter, and adult-self sufficiency; Supporting Community Vitality through community development, cultural enrichment, or disaster relief and recovery; or Volunteer-Driven Causes.

Deadline: May 15, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $10,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments and Nonprofits
Description: The focus of this opportunity is “Health and Wellness.” Nonprofits must have programming or activities that encourage participation in programs that value personal development, an active and healthy lifestyle, or mental health and have scholarships that provide full or partial funding for such involvement. Funding of up to $10,000 can be requested.

Deadline: May 15, 2025
Award Amount: $350,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Health, Tribal Governments, and Nonprofits
Description: The foundation is interested in projects that evaluate the effects of environmental hazards on infants and young children. Applied research projects that document the impact of, or ameliorate effects of, environmental hazards on the growth and development of infants and young children are the focus of this area of interest. Projects should focus on issues faced by care providers that, when implemented, will improve the health, nutrition, and/or developmental outcomes for infants and young children. The board is particularly looking for practical solutions that can be easily and rapidly implemented on a broad scale with a predictable time frame to clinical application. The foundation seeks projects that will result in ‘new’ information, treatments, or tools that will result in a change in practice. The board rarely funds projects that are focused on sharing current information with parents or caregivers (parent or provider educational programs).

Deadline: May 15, 2025
Award Amount: $50,000 to $250,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments and Nonprofits.
Description: GFI seeks to fund the identification and characterization of fermentation-derived ingredients that enhance alternative protein-based (AP) meat products to increase their adoption through improved taste, lowered cost, and nutritional benefits. These ingredients can be specific protein or protein classes that enhance the organoleptic properties of an AP meat, or a biomass product that contributes a significant percentage of the protein level as well as functionality/organoleptic benefit.

Deadline: May 19, 2025
Award Amount: $60,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments, Media and Nonprofits
Description: This program provides journalists with an opportunity to explore a broad vision of health and well-being and the inadequacy of a health framework that focuses primarily on disease. Media Fellows can play an essential role in translating research findings and analyses for a range of audiences, combining data with stories that inform the public and engage policymakers to change attitudes. This cycle, Nova is specifically interested in proposals covering: “Health of Children and Adolescents, Mental Health and Emotional Well-being, Health Inequities and Vulnerable Populations, and Transdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches to Health.” Media Fellows will each receive $60,000 disbursed over 12 months, with up to an additional $7,500 reimbursed for expenses such as travel and conference fees.

Deadline: May 19, 2025
Award Amount: TBD, with $100,000,000 available
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Businesses, Higher Education Institutions, and Nonprofits
Description: This funding opportunity supports USDA’s new comprehensive strategy to curb highly pathogenic avian influenza, protect the U.S. poultry industry, and lower egg prices as described in the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture’s February 26, 2025, press release, USDA Invests Up To $1 Billion to Combat Avian Flu and Reduce Egg Prices. Funding Priorities: APHIS will make available up to $100,000,000 in funds to support projects that address the funding priorities described in Appendix 1 of the Full Announcement. There is no commitment by USDA to fund any application or to make any Federal award as a result of this announcement. Type of Assistance Instrument: Awards will be funded via cooperative agreements; interagency agreements will be used if the recipient is a federal agency. Cooperative agreements may include substantial involvement by APHIS to assist in the completion of the goals and objectives of the work. Competitive Process: Funds will be awarded to the highest quality proposals through a merit-based competitive review and award process. The proposal review process is described in Section 6. The number of awards is contingent on the submission of a sufficient number of meritorious applications. Final funding decisions are at the discretion of USDA. Based on reviewer recommendations, APHIS may award less than the requested amount of funds for a project. In these cases, applicants may accept or decline the award that is offered. If applicants accept a reduced funding level, applicants will submit a revised application that addresses reviewer concerns and aligns with the award amount. APHIS will provide additional guidance to applicants in these situations.

Deadline: May 20, 2025
Award Amount: $1,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments, Nonprofits, and Small Businesses
Description: This opportunity allows eligible small businesses to receive funding in the form of $1,000 micro-grants. Applicants must identify as an LGBTQIA+ business owner, have an active U.S.-based business, have between 2 to 100 employees, and have a minimum of 1 year in business.

Deadline: May 20, 2025
Award Amount: $10,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments, Media, Nonprofits
Description: This exciting competition will allow six filmmakers to produce a short film addressing social justice issues. The winning filmmakers will each receive a $10,000 grant to produce a short film with the NAACP Hollywood Bureau and NAACP+ Studios. In addition, ALL the filmmakers in this year’s cohort will receive an all-expense paid trip to Los Angeles to attend the 57th NAACP Image Awards, where they will walk the red carpet and attend informational meetings with industry executives.

Deadline: May 22, 2025
Award Amount: Three funding levels are available: Level I: $75,000, Level II: $150,000, and Level III: $350,000, with an additional $100,000 in matching funds.
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments, Higher Education, and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities.

Deadline: May 23, 2025
Award Amount: $25,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: This competition is open to all eligible filmmakers who would like to compete to win a $25,000 grand prize for your short climate documentary. Film must address the urgency of climate change and be under ten minutes, including the credits, and the film must be in English or have English subtitles. The top five films will be shown, and the winner announced shortly after, at the Bloomberg Green Docs Film Festival in Seattle, WA in July, 2025.

Deadline: May 27, 2025
Award Amount: Up to $15,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments, Media, and Nonprofits
Description: Grants up to $15,000 will be awarded to support journalism in any medium that centers on environmental justice and environmental racism in the United States. This could include coverage of the disproportionate harms to disadvantaged communities from pollution, the effects of climate change, or other relevant topics. The Kozik grant has allowed critical investigative reporting and storytelling to occur where needed most in local communities vulnerable to climate injustice.

Deadline: May 30, 2025
Award Amount: $25,000 to $150,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments, Nonprofits, Higher Education, Local Governments
Description: This opportunity provides funding to help strengthen and increase the impact of organizations on the communities they serve. These grants support work around three key issues: tactics, talent, and tools. Tactics, which can include “program design and implementation, creation or expansion of a strategic plan, or succession planning.” Talent, which can include “hiring new staff, professional development and/or skill development for existing staff, and/or leadership development for board members.” Tools, which can include “technology improvements, program evaluation tools, and/or program supplies/materials.”

Deadline: May 30, 2025
Award Amount: Grand Prize: $50,000, Runners-Up: $10,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments and Small Businesses
Description: This opportunity awards $100,000 in funding to up to six outstanding woman owned small businesses. One recipient will receive a $50,000 grant, and five additional recipients will each receive $10,000. Selected recipients will also receive expert support through a year of complimentary tax preparation, bookkeeping, payroll, and business structure analysis services to help build a solid foundation for growth.

Deadline: May 9-30, 2025
Award Amount: $675,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments and Nonprofits
Description: For the first time, providers of alternative technologies, such as low earth orbit (LEO) satellite and unlicensed fixed wireless will be eligible to seek BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) grants. As in Round 1, Tribal communities, non-profits, internet service providers, cooperatives and other entities may submit Prequalification Applications. BEAD applicants must submit a Prequalification Application to apply for BEAD funding. Round 2 will focus on remaining project areas and locations that did not receive a bid in the first round, which ran from January 3-March 24. Beginning May 9, entities that want to build infrastructure for unserved communities may submit the Prequalification Applications to OBAE. Those submissions will help the state determine whether an entity has the technical capability and financial stability to deploy broadband and meet federal and state requirements.

Deadline: May 31, 2025
Award Amount: $2,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Arts/Creatives, Media, Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: This is a unique photography competition and a renowned platform for discovering and exhibiting contemporary photography. Gain widespread exposure, have your work exhibited worldwide, and win cash prizes. The theme for this competition is “Youth.” Life is an exploration, and we’re molded in our youth: dreams, fears, freedom, experimentation, and play. The theme is as broad as you want it to be. The only limitation is to capture a scene or a detail that shows the young’s habits, experiences, or behavior. Portraiture, studio, candid, conceptual, documentary, street. All genres are welcome. Show youthhood from any perspective! $2,000 will be awarded to the first-prize winners. All winners receive a written review. All entrants can request detailed, constructive feedback written by industry professionals. Choose how many images to enter (Entry Fee: $20 for one image, $30 for three images, $40 for six images.)

Deadline: May 31, 2025
Award Amount: $2,500 to $20,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, and Small Businesses
Description: This opportunity was launched to support Latino/a winemakers and aspiring winemakers looking to grow their success in the wine industry. There are 14 grants available. Grant use may include, “education in business, technical wine-related courses, or language courses, vineyard or winery equipment purchases, grape, dry-good, and barrel purchases.” Grants may also be used to “develop wine brand or for permitting, licensing, or legal advisory costs for brand or winery establishment.” To apply, please thoroughly respond to all questions, clearly outlining how you will use the grant money should you be selected.

Deadline: May 31, 2025
Award Amount: $1,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Small Businesses and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity empowers businesses and nonprofits to drive positive community change by providing accessible financial support. It is believed that every organization, regardless of size or sector, has the potential to make a meaningful impact. Their commitment is to facilitate this impact through grants of $1,000, fostering innovation, sustainability, and social responsibility. Their core values are inclusivity, transparency, and collaboration. They are dedicated to promoting a supportive ecosystem where businesses and nonprofits can access the resources they need to bring their ideas to life.

Deadline: May 31, 2025
Award Amount: TBD
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Local Governments, Tribal Governments, and Nonprofits
Description: The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) is soliciting applications from municipalities, counties, and sovereign governments (Qualified Applicants) for grant funds that were appropriated to the NMDOT under the Laws of 2024, Chapter 66, Section 33, Part 94. Grant funds must be used for equipment and installation of commercial-grade Direct Current (DC) fast charging equipment (EVSE) with a minimum of 150-kilowatt (kW) per charge port. EV charging stations must be accessible to the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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 9, 2025 in Grants.gov; June 11, 2025 in JustGrants
Award Amount: Applicants proposing support services only: up to $400,000; Applications proposing housing and support services or housing only: up to $500,000.
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments, Local Governments, Public Safety, and Nonprofits
Description: The OVW Transitional Housing Assistance Grants for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program (OVW Transitional Housing Assistance Grant Program) funds transitional housing and support services for victims who are homeless or in need of transitional housing or other housing assistance as a result of a situation of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Eligible applicants are Tribal, state, and local governments and organizations with a documented history of effective work concerning domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.

Deadline: June 16, 2025 in Grants.gov; June 18, 2025 in JustGrants
Award Amount: $500,000 to $1,000,000 over 36 months.
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments, Local Government, Public Safety, and Nonprofits
Description: The Grants to Improve the Criminal Justice Response Program (ICJR Program) assists state, local, and Tribal governments, and courts to improve the criminal justice response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking as serious violations of criminal law, and to seek safety and autonomy for victims.

Deadline: Jun 20, 2025
Award Amount: $25,000 to $200,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments and Nonprofits.
Description: The Tribal Wildlife Grants Program provides technical and financial assistance to federally recognized Tribes for the development and implementation of programs that benefit fish and wildlife and their habitats. Funding may be used for conserving any plant or animal species of interest to a Tribe, including those of Native American cultural or traditional importance. The TWG Program is an adaptable resource supporting tribal conservation priorities. Species targeted in an award are not restricted to those that are hunted, fished, or gathered, listed as threatened or endangered, or identified in a conservation plan. Activities may include, but are not limited to: planning for wildlife and habitat conservationfish and wildlife conservation and management actionsfish and wildlife related laboratory and field researchnatural history studieshabitat mappingfield surveys and population monitoringhabitat protection and enhancementconservation educationProgram funds may be used for salaries, equipment, consultant services, subawards, materials, and travel costs. For more information, see the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Tribal Wildlife Grants Home Page.

Deadline: June 24, 2025 in Grants.gov; June 26, 2025 in JustGrants
Award Amount: $500,000 to $750,000 up to 36 months.
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments, Local Governments, Public Safety, and Nonprofits
Description: The Sexual Assault Forensic Exam (SAFE) Hiring and Training program supports efforts to establish or expand access to pediatric and/or adult/adolescent sexual assault forensic exams by funding the salaries of full- and part-time sexual assault nurse/forensic examiners (SANEs/SAFEs) providing forensic exams or serving as a regional preceptor or as a SANE/SAFE instructor. Eligible applicants include State, Tribal, or local governments, sexual assault examination programs, State or Territorial sexual assault coalitions, health care facilities, and community-based programs.

Deadline: June 25, 2025 in Grants.gov; July 01, 2025 in JustGrants
Award Amount: Up to $156,000,000
Match: 25% non-federal cost share required
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments, Public Safety, and Local Government
Description: The 2025 COPS Hiring Program is a competitive grant program designed to provide funds directly to law enforcement agencies to hire new or rehire existing career law enforcement officers and to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts.  All local, state, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies that have primary law enforcement authority are eligible to apply.

Deadline: June 26, 2025
Award Amount: $100,000 to $25,000,000
Match: Yes
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher
Education Entities, Nonprofits
Description: The purpose of this notice is to solicit applications for Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grants. Funds for the fiscal year (FY) 2025 SS4A grant program are to be awarded on a competitive basis to support planning and demonstration activities, as well as projects and strategies to prevent death and serious injury on roads and streets involving all roadway users. Applicants must submit their applications via Valid Eval. Grants cover planning, demonstration, and implementation.

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: July 1, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $3,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments
Description: Grants may be used only to establish, expand or improve Veterans cemeteries that are owned and operated by a state, territory or tribal government on trust land. Aid is granted only to states, U.S. territories and federally recognized tribal governments, not to private organizations, counties, cities or other government agencies. VA can provide up to 100 percent of the development cost for an approved project. For establishment of new cemeteries, VA can provide for operating equipment as well. VA cannot pay for acquisition of land. The administration, operation, and maintenance of a VA-supported state cemetery is solely the responsibility of the state, territory or tribal government. VA is authorized to pay a “plot allowance” of $978 to a state, territory or tribal government for expenses incurred in the burial of an eligible Veteran without charge. The program is administered by the Veterans Benefits Administration. A State or Tribal Organization seeking a grant for the establishment, expansion, or improvement of a State or Tribal veterans cemetery must submit a preapplication to the Director, Veterans Cemetery Grants Service.

Deadline: July 8, 2025 in Grants.gov; July 10, 2025 in JustGrants
Award Amount: $500,000 to $950,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Local Governments, Public Safety, Tribal Governments, and Nonprofits
Description: The Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program (Rural Program) enhances the safety of rural victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking by supporting projects uniquely designed to address and prevent these crimes in rural areas. This program supports cooperative efforts among law enforcement officers, prosecutors, victim service providers, and other community partners to investigate and prosecute sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking; treatment, advocacy, counseling, legal assistance, or other victim services for victims in rural communities; or programs addressing sexual assault. Eligible applicants are states and territories, Indian Tribes, local governments, and nonprofit (public or private) entities, including Tribal nonprofit organizations. The Rural Program also includes a Rural SANE Initiative to support the implementation of new SANE services in communities where they previously did not exist.

Deadline: September 30, 2025
Award Amount: Maximum $5,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments, Nonprofits
Description: This Notice provides Tribes with program requirements and instructions on how to apply for Indian Community Development Block Grant (ICDBG) Imminent Threat (IT) funding. This Notice also increases ceilings for ICDBG-IT grants.

Deadline: Rolling Basis
Award Amount: $100,000 to $5,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Federally recognized tribes
Description: EDA supports bottom-up strategies that build on regional assets to spur economic growth and resiliency. EDA encourages its grantees throughout the country to develop initiatives that present new ideas and creative approaches to advance economic prosperity in distressed communities.

Deadline: LOI January 14, 2025 Full Application February 26, 2025
Award Amount: Varies
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Businesses
Description: The Federal SBIR STTR Programs were reauthorized on September 30, 2022, when the SBIR/STTR Extension Act of 2022 became law. This Act extends the SBIR STTR Programs through to September 30, 2025.