Community Grant Opportunities

Community Grant Opportunities

Below is a list of grant opportunities available to community-based organizations such as non-profits, neighborhood groups, civic and business associations, “Friends of” parks groups, and more. Check back for monthly updates to this list.

Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation
due 11/12/24
$1,000 to $20,000
To support museums, cultural and performing arts programs; schools and hospitals; educational, skills-training and other programs for youth, seniors, and persons with disabilities; environmental and wildlife protection activities; and other community-based organizations and programs.

Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC): EJ4Climate: Environmental Justice and Climate Resilience Grant Program
due 11/14/24
$175,000 CAD
To support community-led education programming to increase environmental justice and climate adaptation knowledge. The program is dedicated to empowering underserved and vulnerable communities, as well as Indigenous communities, across North America to help prepare them for climate-related impacts and advance environmental justice. Proposed projects may promote the development of climate adaptation knowledge related to the following themes: Extreme weather impacts, transition to clean energy sources, conservation or restoration initiatives, and traditional ecological knowledge to address climate change impacts and/or food sovereignty.

Hispanic Access Foundation Nuestros Bosques: Faith-Based and Strategic Local Investments
due 11/15/24
$50K-$1M
To invest in disadvantaged communities with nature-based, community-led solutions aiming to addressing unmet social and environmental challenges. Projects must incorporate one or more of the following: urban and community forestry planning, tree planting and maintenance activities, and community engagement - improving community mental health and promoting access to nature.

Southface Good Use Grants
due 11/29/24
Up to $40k
To assist nonprofit organizations in reducing utility costs and reinvesting savings into their programs by supporting facility and operational upgrades that increase resource efficiency, lower expenses, and improve indoor health. The program will help organizations identify areas for high-impact energy and water savings and indoor air improvements, assist with project implementation, and ensure upgrades are delivering results. By reducing operating costs, the program builds capacity within awarded organizations so they can focus on their mission and better serve their communities. Funding applies to existing buildings for any utility efficiency upgrades, excluding solar.

Chesapeake Bay Trust Youth Environmental Education Grant Program
due 1/16/25
$5K-$10K
To engage youth and students in outdoor education activities that raise public awareness and participation in the restoration and protection of the Chesapeake Bay and coastal bays and their rivers. This program provides accessible funds to schools, organizations, and agencies for youth environmental education and educator support focused on natural and aquatic resources, their local watersheds, and how they can make a difference in natural resource health. 

The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment
due 1/31/25
Up to $25K
To support a wide variety of projects that strive to protect living resources and their habitats. The program will provide general project support, as well as support for capacity building and capital campaigns.

Rolling Admission

The Pollination Project
Rolling admission
$1,000 micro grants
To support grassroots organizations, including informally organized groups and organizations as well as formally registered or incorporated nonprofit organizations, that seek to build a kinder, more compassionate world. This program will provide seed funding to support community-driven grassroots initiatives that empower individuals and inspire others.

The Norman Foundation
Rolling admission; Letter of inquiry required
To support tax-exempt organizations focused primarily on domestic issues seeking to strengthen the ability of communities to enhance their economic, environmental, and social well-being. Funding may be provided for general support, projects, capacity-building efforts, and collaborative efforts. Funding will support projects that promote economic justice and development through community organizing, coalition building, and policy-reform efforts, work to prevent disposal of toxic substances in communities, link environmental issues with economic and social justice, and/or link community-based economic and environmental justice organizing to national and international reform efforts

Virginia Trees for Clean Water
Rolling admission until 12/1/24
$1K-50K
To encourage the creation of long-term, sustained canopy cover to improve water quality across the Commonwealth. This grant is used to fund tree-planting efforts that raise public awareness of the benefits of trees and impacts on water quality.

All Points North Foundation
$60K - $100K
To support nonprofit organizations that have demonstrated measurable success and can showcase the potential for creating significant impact in the areas of education and solar energy in underserved communities.

Chesapeake Bay Trust Mini Urban Trees Grant
Rolling admission
$5K max
To implement small tree planting projects which occur in urban areas with low median household income levels, high unemployment, and neighborhoods with housing projects or that were historically red-lined at any time.

Republic Services Community Grant Program
Rolling admission
To help nonprofit organizations create stronger, cleaner, and healthier places and spaces in the neighborhoods that the funding agency serves. Preference will be given to projects that address neighborhood revitalization, safety, disaster relief, and social services.

Fruit Tree Orchard Grant
Rolling admission
To provide for the planting of fruit tree orchards to improve the surrounding environment and provide a local source of healthy nutrition. Orchards may be planted in places such as community gardens, public schools, city and state parks, low-income neighborhoods, Native American reservations, and animal sanctuaries.

Community First Fund’s Rapid Response Fund
Applications reviewed bi-monthly
$10-$100k
To shift philanthropic practices by distributing responsive resources in a timely way that prioritizes the humanity of black and brown people, the frontline organizations they may lead, and the grassroots organizations that may be accountable to them.