Grants and Funding in Canada in 2026
Find Canadian grants, loans, and tax credits that match a real project
Canada offers a wide mix of grants, tax credits, loans, and contribution programs for businesses and non-profits working on hiring, commercialization, export, digital transformation, equipment, clean technology, artificial intelligence, and community-impact projects. This 2026 guide helps you quickly understand which funding paths are most relevant based on the project you are actually trying to move forward.
Instead of treating funding as a generic list of programs, use this page to compare the most common Canadian options by project type, eligibility, and timing. Whether you are growing a business, launching a new initiative, or preparing a major investment, the goal is to help you identify realistic programs and avoid the mistakes that most often weaken an application.

Municipal Financial Programs

County of Simcoe Student Bursary Program


PacifiCan — Lytton Business Restart Program


Financial assistance for ISO 50001 in commercial and institutional buildings

Canadian Relations Support Program

Gasoline used in unlicensed business equipment

Lead Pipe Replacement Program

Gold medal for engineering students

Agriculture Research and Innovation — Agriculture Technology Advancement

PAC — Help for Small and Medium Enterprises

Compagnons ingénieurs Canada

Rural Association Partnership Program

Economy & Environment Program

Alberta Innovates — Commercialization Associates Program

Trellis Foundation Discipleship Grants

Biodiesel Fund Grant Regulation, M.R. 91/2010

Me Squared Cancer Foundation Financial Assistance Program


Affordable housing incentives – not-for-profit affordable rental and co-op housing incentive (pilot) and affordable rental housing fee waiver

AFA — Art Acquisitions by Application
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Healthy Communities Initiative Regions

Women's Economic Recovery Challenge Grant

Rural Economic Development (RED) program

Save on Energy Small Business Lighting Program


Request for Tree Planting on Municipally Owned Properties
Community Grant and Sponsorship Program

Regional Economic Growth through Innovation — Regional Innovation Ecosystems — ACOA

PrairiesCan — Francophone economic development in the Prairie provinces
Downtown Community Improvement Plan (CIP)
Bourse de voyage Anica Bitenc

Payroll tax credit – CFI

Town of Arnprior Community Improvement Plan (CIP) – Financial Incentive Programs

MRC Caniapiscau — Structuring projects

MEDTEQ+ — Impact
Chacko and Lize Simon Scholarship Fund

Charity Science Foundation of Canada — Effective Legacies


2025 Emergency and Transformation Funding


Participant Funding for Regulatory Oversight Report - Uranium and Nuclear Facilities
Annual Scholarship in Fundamental Science of the Aco

Canadian Career Apprenticeship Experience (CCAI)
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Impact Your Business — Start-Up Loans

Operating Grant Program

Price for support given to women in engineering

2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations — Bursary Program
Combatting fossil fuel hydrocarbon projects

CDAP — Youth Wage Subsidies

National award for an engineering project or achievement

Gill Foundation — LGBTQ Equality Funding


RDAR — On-Farm Climate Action Fund (OFCAF)

Neighbourhood Grant Program - Celebration and Activity Grant

Adaptation Canada 2026 Opportunity

Alberta Innovates — Methane Emissions Reduction Program

MyPG Community Grant

Community Interaction Program — Awareness-raising

ARTA-ORBIT Insurance Services Scholarships

Community Workforce Response Grant — Workforce Shortages Stream

Partnered Initiatives

Opportunities New Brunswick — Mentorship

Green Construction through Wood (GCWood) Program

The Joyce Family Foundation
Fonds de bourses d'études os et téléphones

Calgary Flames Foundation - Inclusion Program
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Self-Employment Benefit — Workforce Expansion

Alberta Innovates — Industry R&D Associates Program

Local Initiatives Fund – Departmental Project

AFA — Organization Activation Projects Funding

Innov'Action agroalimentaire Program

Emerging Curator Fellowship

Manitoba — Research and Innovation

Strategic Energy Management for Industry (SEMI)

Honorific grants 2024 — Entreprendre ici

Organ Donation and Transplant Research Foundation of BC/CDTRP Venture Grants

Yukon bids&tenders

Alberta Innovates — Alberta Scaleup and Growth Accelerators Program

Participant Funding Program (PFP) - Regulatory Oversight Report for Uranium and Nuclear Substance Processing Facilities 2021

Apprenticeship START

Contributions Program for Non-Profit Consumer and Voluntary Organizations

Sylva Gelber Music Foundation Awards


Alberta Community Partnership (ACP)


Active communities grant program

Participant Funding Program - SRB Technologies Licence Renewal

Manitoba Child Benefit Regulation, M.R. 85/2008
