Opportunities for Funding
The Impact Fund awards recoverable grants to legal services nonprofits, private attorneys, and small law firms who seek to confront social, economic, and environmental injustice.
Rolling deadlines each year: upcoming 7/16/24, 10/8/2
The Hearst Foundations fund direct-service organizations that tackle the roots of chronic poverty by applying effective solutions to the most challenging social and economic problems. The Foundations prioritize supporting programs that have proven successful in facilitating economic independence and in strengthening families. Preference is also given to programs with the potential to scale productive practices in order to reach more people in need.
Once applications are started on their portal, they must be completed within 3 months.
Halton Foundation grants are awarded to a non-profit organization researching how to improve human wellbeing in indoor environments or by organizations that develop solutions for better indoor environmental quality.
Please note that the Halton Foundation will only allow 10% of project costs to be allocated for overhead and administrative expenses. This is non-negotiable, and all successful applicants must meet this requirement.
The 2025 grant application will open from July 1st, 2025 to September 1st 2025.
We fund food and agriculture science that addresses large-scale challenges to develop actionable knowledge and solutions. We fund research focusing on our cross-cutting Priority Areas.
Another important aspect of our grants are the public-private partnerships. Some funding opportunities require applicants and grantees to secure matching funds. In other cases, we secure matching funds before announcing the opportunity. Please consider potential matching funders when proposing a research concept.
Our Funding & Approval Process begins with collecting broad input, includes a rigorous review process and culminates with funding the highest-quality research. Hearing from the agriculture community ensures that our research is relevant to American farmers and scientists. As such, we are interested in hearing your research concept.
Accepts proposals year-round
Addressing Unanticipated Threats
The Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research (ROAR) program deploys urgent funding to support research and outreach in response to emerging or unanticipated threats to the nation’s food supply or agricultural systems.
Plant and animal pests and pathogens can strike quickly, devastating crops, livestock and livelihoods. When such events occur, it often takes months before an effective response can be mounted. Researchers must first understand these pests and pathogens before developin an effective solution. While the initial period after pest or pathogen detection is critical to stopping the threat, conventional research funding opportunities take significant time and effort to pursue.
To address these outbreaks quickly, FFAR’s ROAR Program funds rapid research related to response, prevention or mitigation of new pests and pathogens. ROAR’s one-year funding fills urgent research gaps until traditional, longer-term funding can be secured.
ROAR grants are swift, diverse and far-reaching. In the past, we have awarded ROAR grants to combat invasive weevils, lettuce wilt, swine viruses and cattle ticks, among other pests and pathogens.
ROAR applications are subject to a rigorous scientific review process and matching funding requirements. We encourage applicants to form broad-based coalitions to increase research collaboration and maximize the adoption of new knowledge and practices by the agriculture sector.
What to know when applying
The ROAR program is open year-round to eligible applicants. FFAR awards one-year grants, up to $150,000, in response to an outbreak for the development of diagnostics, monitoring and mitigation strategies. Matching funds are required for this opportunity.
Applicants are required to submit a one-page concept note via FFAR’s Grants Management portal outlining:
The research team members;
The source and amount of matching funds; and
A brief description of the pest or pathogen threat and why it should be considered for rapid funding.
Based on the concept note, FFAR may invite applicants to apply for the ROAR program. Upon invitation, applicants will have eight weeks to apply.
Submit a ROAR concept note
Concept paper required; if invited to apply, applicants have 8 weeks to submit their full application.
Special consideration is given to programs with transdisciplinary approaches and addressing the needs of youth, who are disadvantaged economically, geographically, culturally, environmentally, or through gender conformity expectations. The foundation is in support of programs which help young people become productive, healthy adults.
Our giving strategy focus is:
STEAM education across science, mathematics, engineering, and creative problem solving with a strong emphasis on developing skills and experience across multiple disciplines
Applying trans-disciplinary skills to real problems to enable career opportunities
Programs with a focus on youth 7 to 19 years of age
Special consideration for programs targeting youth, who are disadvantaged economically, geographically, culturally, environmentally, or through gender conformity expectations
Applications accepted year-round.
The BoatUS Foundation Grassroots Grants Program provides grants to nonprofit organizations, boating clubs and student groups for projects that promote safe and/or clean boating.
Applicants must first submit a Letter of Intent (LOI).
The National Grassroots Organizing Program (NGO) offers two-year flexible, general operating support grants of up to $30,000 per year, with an average grant size of $20,000 per year, to small, non-profit grassroots constituent-led grassroots organizations throughout the United States and its territories.
The focus of the NGO program is to support grassroots activists working in their communities to achieve clearly defined social and environmental justice objectives. We are inspired by the Civil Rights legend John Lewis’ admonition: “Speak up, speak out, get in the way. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.”
While we recognize the importance of direct service programs for those impacted by poverty and inequity, our priority is to support grassroots organizing activities that address the causes of those inequities. Therefore, we will not consider requests to support direct services to individuals.
Website states 2024 application will open mid-January 2024. They do not fund organizations with an annual operating budget over $350,000.
We understand the importance of effective medical equipment in providing the best care for owned and adoptable pets. Veterinary Medical Equipment Grants provide financial support to nonprofit animal organizations and local/state government agencies to purchase veterinary medical equipment for on-site animal shelter veterinary clinics, low-cost veterinary practices, mobile veterinary units, disaster relief vehicles, etc.
Applications are accepted quarterly in February, May, August, and November and awards are announced the following month.
Applications accepted in February, May, August, and November
We are here to help our nonprofit partners assist pets in need when — not if — the next disaster strikes. Disaster Relief Grants provide financial support to nonprofit animal organizations and local/state government agencies whose communities have suffered the impact of natural or other disasters.
Applications may be submitted at any time.
Applications accepted at anytime.