Government Funding for Established Businesses
Access to funding is crucial for businesses, whether to launch a new project, innovate, or simply grow. In Canada, there are numerous grants and funding programs available to support businesses in their development. This support is provided by various levels of government, as well as private organizations and financial institutions. Understanding the available funding options, knowing how to obtain these grants, and preparing a solid business plan are essential steps to maximize your chances of success.

Nunavut Business Credit Corporation
- From $150,000 to $2,000,000
- Information and cultural industries

TACC Business Equity Program
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- All industries

- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Community Futures Alberta — Entrepreneurs with Disabilities
- No Condition
- All industries

Quebec International — Set up or expand a business
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Finance and insurance
- Health care and social assistance

Alberta — Efficient Grain Handling Program
- From $500 to $100,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Innovative Solutions Canada — Zero emissions technologies for industrial process heating
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Manufacturing

CMF — Distributor Program
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 49% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

Community Futures Program
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Northern Industries Innovation Fund
- From $10 to $50,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

Economic Diversification Fund (FDE) for the MRC des Sources territory
- No Condition
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade
- Retail trade

- No Condition
- All industries

La Ruche — ImpACTE Fund
- From $5,000 to $25,000
- All industries

BDC Advisory Services — Financial Management
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade

- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services
- Other services (except public administration)

Aboriginal Business Investment Fund
- From $150,000 to $750,000
- All industries

- Up to 50% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing

EPRTNT — Structuring the tourism offer
- From $30,000 to $100,000
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Innovation Guelph — Rhyze Up! Program
- From $200,000 to $10,000
- All industries

Prairie Agtech Validation Program
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Tax credit for conversion of a ship
- No Condition
- Transportation and warehousing

Product and Market Development Program — Agricultural Industry Organizations
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade

- Maximum amount : 200 $
- Educational services

Campus Alberta Small Business Engagement (CASBE) Program
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Value-adding Equipment Program
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
Tips to Maximize Your Chances of Obtaining a Grant
Obtaining a grant can be a powerful lever for the development of your business, but the competition is often fierce. To maximize your chances of success, it is essential to prepare a strong application, develop strategic collaborations, and use the funds obtained effectively to ensure sustainable growth. Here are some tips to help you navigate this process successfully.

- Maximum amount : 500 $
- All industries

Support for festivals in the Greater Montréal region
- From $50,000 to $700,000
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Gen AI Call for Projects
- Minimum amount : 750,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Commercial Buildings Retrofit Program
- Maximum amount : 1,250,000 $
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Retail trade
- Real estate and rental and leasing
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Forest Biomass Program — Innovative bioproduct manufacturing stream
- Maximum amount : 5,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing

Indigenous Intellectual Property Program Grant — Small scale initiative stream
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- All industries

ESDC — Apprenticeship Service Program
- From $5,000 to $10,000
- Construction
- Manufacturing

Support program for the development of reserved designations and promotional terms — Component 3
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Livestock Strategy Program — Pollination Expansion
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Investment Attraction Fund
- No Condition
- All industries

Southern Ontario Fund for Investment in Innovation (SOFII)
- From $150,000 to $500,000
- All industries

Rural Economic Diversification and Infrastructure Program (REDIP)
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

CAE Beauce-Chaudière — Traditional Business Loan
- From $25,000 to $300,000
- All industries

Transportation Assets Risk Assessment (TARA) Program
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Transportation and warehousing

CanNor Jobs and Growth Fund — Not-for-Profit
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

Women's Enterprise Centre of Manitoba — Training
- No Condition
- All industries

Supported Employment
- Maximum amount : 7,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

KCFI – Cambridge Bay, Nunavut
- Maximum amount : 450,000 $
- All industries

- No Condition
- All industries

Mineral Exploration Support Program For Critical And Strategic Minerals
- From $40,000 to $400,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction

BioCreate Program
- From $100,000 to $150,000
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

CAAIN — 2024 – 2025 Open Competition
- Maximum amount : 3,000,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Web Presence Assistance
- Maximum amount : 2,500 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Retail trade

Anges Québec Capital Fund
- No Condition
- All industries
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Clean Foundation — Science Horizons Youth Internship
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

SADC Lac-St-Jean Ouest — Relève & transfert loan
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 5% of project cost
- All industries

Enabling Agricultural Research and Innovation
- Maximum amount : 90,000 $
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

First Peoples Economic Growth Fund – Community Economic Expansion Program
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade

Farm Technology Program
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Cooperative Education Incentive
- No Condition
- All industries

- No Condition
- All industries

Collaborative research and development projects
- Maximum amount : 600,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries

Alberta Innovates — Product Demonstration Program
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Doing Business with the Government — British Columbia
- No Condition
- Retail trade
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Tourisme Baie-James — EPRTNT – Hosting
- From $25,000 to $200,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Accommodation and food services

CICE 2023 Directed Call for Innovation — Measurement, Monitoring and Verification (MMV) of Carbon Management
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

Creative Entrepreneurship Program
- No Condition
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

PISAQ – Stream 1
- From $7,000 to $150,000
- Up to 75% of project cost
- All industries

Emissions Performance Standards program
- No Condition
- Manufacturing

Environmental Farm Plan Program
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Export Funding NB
- From $5,000 to $15,000
- Up to 65% of project cost
- All industries

CNBSC – Baffin, Nunavut
- No Condition
- All industries

Canada-Québec initiative to help mitigate the impact of excess rainfall in Québec in 2023 on certain regions and agricultural productions
- From $75 to $350,000
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

VERGE Capital — Startup Fund
- No Condition
- All industries

ESSOR – Component 4: Supporting the internationalization of companies
- Up to 70% of project cost
- All industries

CMF — Conceptualization Program
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

Alberta Innovates — Water Innovation Program
- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Alberta Export Expansion Program (AEEP)
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

- No Condition
- All industries
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Genomic Applications Partnership Program (GAPP)
- From $100,000 to $6,000,000
- Up to 1% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance
- Public administration

Small Business Support Program — Entrepreneur Development Fund
- No Condition
- Retail trade
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services
- Other services (except public administration)

True North Treasure Initiative – Labrador Trough
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities

Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities — National or Regional Component
- No Condition
- All industries

Innovation Canada — Innovation Advisors
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

New Small Business Tax Deduction
- No Condition
- All industries

First Peoples Economic Growth Fund — Entrepreneur Loan Program
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

FRWIP — Small Dams
- From $500 to $75,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Technology showcase - pre-commercialization of innovation
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Finance and insurance

Alberta Innovates — Tech2Farm
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

BDC Financing — Small Business Loan
- Maximum amount : 350,000 $
- All industries

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Fund (EIF) — Non-Profits that Serve Underrepresented Communities
- From $10,000 to $10,000
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Information and cultural industries
- Other services (except public administration)

- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 15% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

Call for Indigenous Producers for ISO Delegation to Content London
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Up to 51% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

SADC Shawinigan — Digital Strategy Fund
- From $10,000 to $50,000
- Information and cultural industries

Nunavut Filmmakers Funding — Short Film Fund
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 27% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

- No Condition
- All industries

Canada's Ocean Supercluster — Program Innovation ecosystem projects and activities
- Up to 75% of project cost
- All industries

Microcrédit Montréal — Loans for entrepreneurs
- From $500 to $50,000
- Information and cultural industries
- Other services (except public administration)

- No Condition
- Retail trade

Tourisme Baie-James — EPRTNT – Attractions, activities and facilities
- From $5,000 to $200,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

TACC Conventional Loan
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 85% of project cost
- All industries

Alberta Innovates — Digital Innovation in Clean Energy (DICE)
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction

Novoclimat — Construction professionals — Homes
- Maximum amount : 4,000 $
- Up to 20% of project cost
- Construction

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Investment Tax Credit (ITC)
- Up to 10% of project cost
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing