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.
Etsy Emergency Relief Fund at CERF+
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $2,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: All Etsy sellers are eligible for a grant if they have experienced a federally declared natural disaster within the past year, have been an active seller on Etsy for at least one year, and their accounts with Etsy are in good standing.
Description: Etsy is committed to helping its creative entrepreneurs recover when disasters disrupt their businesses. They’ve partnered with CERF+, a nonprofit organization focused on helping artists prepare for and recover from emergencies and disasters, to create a disaster relief fund just for Etsy sellers. Each quarter, they work with CERF+ to award grants to a select number of eligible sellers. Any Etsy seller who has experienced a federally declared disaster within the past year may apply for a grant as long as they’ve been active on Etsy for at least one year and their accounts with Etsy are in good standing. Grants of $2,000 are available to sellers when they apply.
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.
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.
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.
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.
DOT – SBIR Grants
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program is a highly competitive award system that provides qualified domestic small businesses with opportunities to pursue research on and develop innovative solutions to our nation’s transportation challenges.
DOD – SBIR/STTR Grants
SBIR and STTR grant funding opportunities offer small business entrepreneurs a chance to obtain non-dilutive funding for early-stage research and development. Applications are accepted throughout the year.
NIH – SBIR/STTR Grants
SBIR and STTR grant funding opportunities offer small business entrepreneurs a chance to obtain non-dilutive funding for early-stage research and development. Applications are accepted three times a year.
NASA SBIR/STTR
The NASA Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) program is part of America’s Seed Fund, the nation’s largest source of early-stage non-dilutive funding for innovative technologies. Through this program, entrepreneurs, startups, and small businesses with less than 500 employees can receive funding and non-monetary support to build, mature, and commercialize their technologies, advancing NASA missions and helping solve important problems facing our country. Whether your destination is the Moon, Mars, or the marketplace, the NASA SBIR/STTR program wants to help get you there!
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.
Harbor Freight Tools for Schools
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.
NMFA – Local Government Planning Fund
Deadline: Ongoing
Award Amount: Up to $50,000
Eligible Entities: Local Governments, including tribal entities and mutual domestic water consumers associations
Description: The Local Government Planning Fund funds critical planning documents for a variety of public infrastructure projects. Eligible plans include Preliminary Engineering Reports, Feasibility Studies, Environmental Information Documents, Comprehensive Plans, Asset Management Plans, Water Conservation Plans, Master Plans, Local Economic Development Act Plans and Metropolitan Redevelopment Act Plans. Applications are accepted monthly and grants are made on a reimbursement basis.
NMFA – Drinking Water Loan Fund
Deadline: Ongoing
Amount: Loans of up to 30 years at a fixed, below-market interest rates
Eligible Entities: Municipal and Community Water Systems
Description: For water projects that are shovel ready, local government agencies can access to millions of dollars in low interest loans and even get some grant funding depending on median household income levels.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
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.
NMPED – Adult Education & Literacy
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.
NMDFA – New Mexico Match Fund
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $75 million appropriation
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments
Description: DFA offers three grant programs providing eligible entities with a reliable and nimble source of funding to increase competitiveness for hundreds of federal grant program opportunities that require local match.
Matching Grant – for eligible entities that require additional funding to meet the minimum match requirement for a federal grant (at least 40% of available funds are reserved for rural, frontier, and tribal governments).
Project Implementation Grant – for recipients of a Matching Grant that require capacity funding to fully implement the federally funded project associated with the Matching Grant.
(Only available if awarded a Matching Grant)
Apply for Federal Compliance Offset Grant – for eligible entities that demonstrate higher project costs due to compliance with federal funding requirements, such as requirements related to worker wages and sourcing American-made materials.
M.S. Doss Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: 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.
Description: The M.S. Doss Foundation, Inc. was founded by M.S. and Meek Lane Doss and was established in 1984. The Dosses had a heart for people, and the Foundation continues to give unselfishly to organizations throughout Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. Organizations interested in applying for funding need to communicate via phone or email with the Grants Manager for instructions on how to apply.
