Grants and Funding for non-profits in Canada
Canada's non-profit organizations (NPO) benefit from grants and funding that support innovation and sustainability
Canadian non-profits benefit from a wide range of grants and funding programs designed to support their mission-driven initiatives and community services. These financial aids enable organizations to enhance their operations, expand their outreach, and ensure sustainable growth in addressing various social, environmental, and cultural needs.

Supporting the Charitable and Nonprofit Sector
- No Condition
- All industries

Arts Abroad — Translation
- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements (DFAA)
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing

Indigenous Employment Training Partnerships Program
- No Condition
- All industries

Rio Tinto Alcan Canada - Diavik Communities Contribution Programme
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Responsive Community Grants
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- All industries

HIV Community Wellness Initiative
- From $25,000 to $50,000
- All industries

2025 International Overdose Awareness Day Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

Public transit development assistance program – Stream 4 : Other financial assistance
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing
- Public administration

Job Creation Partnership Northwest Territories
- No Condition
- All industries

Food Processing Growth Fund (FPG)
- From $100,000 to $1,000,000
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Manufacturing

- From $10,000 to $35,000
- All industries

The Ontario Trillium Foundation - Grow Grants
- Maximum amount : 600,000 $
- All industries

Taking Action on Tower Renewal Program (TATR)
- Maximum amount : 5,000,000 $
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Real estate and rental and leasing

Inclusive Women Venture Capital Initiative
- No Condition
- All industries

OVIN — Content Partnerships Program
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Educational services

- No Condition
- All industries

- From $1,000 to $7,500
- All industries

Community Enhancement Employment Program
- No Condition
- All industries

Community Facilities Improvement Program
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- All industries

- No Condition
- All industries

National Cost-Sharing Program for Heritage Places
- No Condition
- All industries

Sustainable New Agri-Food Products & Productivity Program — Productivity Enhancement
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

Support program for remote communities
- Maximum amount : 950,000 $
- All industries
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Fondation Choquette-Legault
- No Condition
- All industries

Child Sexual Abuse Programme
- From $25,000 to $7,000,000
- All industries

CAAIN — 2024 Smart Farm Network Competition
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Scale AI — STEM Youth Awareness Program
- No Condition
- Educational services

Canada Music Fund - New Musical Works Component
- No Condition
- All industries

NRC — Automotive and Surface Transportation
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Public administration

Special Milk Class Permit Program
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade
- Retail trade

Advisory Services Program — Component 2 – Support for the dissemination of information and business co-development activities
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Educational services

Cultural Facilities Operational Support Grant
- No Condition
- All industries

- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- All industries

Epson's Focused Giving Community Relations Program
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Alberta Innovates — Bioenergy and Circular Economy
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

- From $2,000 to $50,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

- From $5,000 to $20,000
- All industries

- No Condition
- All industries

Alberta Innovates — Summer Research Studentships
- From $50,000 to $1,900,000
- Health care and social assistance

Business Foundations
- From $2,000 to $10,000
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

Newfoundland and Labrador Multiculturalism Grant Program (NLMGP)
- Maximum amount : 1,500 $
- All industries

Culture and Heritage Grants and Contributions Program - Toponomy
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- All industries

Upskilling for Industry Initiative (UII)
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Music PEI Funding Program
- No Condition
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Culture and Heritage Grants and Contributions Program - Community Radio
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- All industries

Work Commissioning Assistance Grant
- From $1,000 to $3,000
- All industries

Grassroots Growth Program
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Regional Tile Drainage Initiative
- Maximum amount : 500 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries
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Inclusive Spaces Program Grant
- Up to 10% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

- No Condition
- All industries

Atlantic Fisheries Fund — Science Partnerships
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Skills Development Fund (SDF) — Capital Stream — SEED Pathway
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Recreation Grant - Operational Funding
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- All industries

TD — Friends of the Environment Foundation Grant (TD FEF)
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Public administration

Bell Canada - Bell Let's Talk Community Mental Health Fund
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- All industries

Canada Arts Presentation Fund - Development
- No Condition
- All industries

Business / Arts - artsvest Regional
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Ontario Labour Market Partnerships (OLMP)
- No Condition
- All industries

Québec city — Supporting the development of the Saint-Roch district
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Finance and insurance
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Partners for Places Grant
- From $45,000 to $150,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Rural Growth Initiative - Inclusive Communities Program
- Maximum amount : 2,500 $
- All industries

Original Peoples Investment Program
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- All industries

Genome Prairie — Canadian Biotechnology Innovation and Commercialization (CBIC) Initiative
- From $100,000 to $2,000,000
- Up to 33% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

NRC — Medical device facilities
- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

- Up to 80% of project cost
- All industries

- From $5,000 to $50,000
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFW) — Express Entry
- No Condition
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Health care and social assistance

Elders Grants
- Maximum amount : 8,000 $
- All industries

REGI — Regional Innovation Ecosystems — CED (QC) — Not-for-profit
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)

United Way Winnipeg - Organizational Development Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

Community, Youth and Cultural Funding Program - Operating Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

Resiliency Grant Program
- From $250,000 to $500,000
- All industries

Arts Across Canada — Arts Festivals and Presenters
- Up to 60% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
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- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- All industries

MaLoi25
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Public Voice Fund
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Other services (except public administration)

Territorial and sectoral development program — Stream 1.2
- From $5,000 to $300,000
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Aide financière aux festivals et aux événements touristiques - Stream 3: Development and growth
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Up to 30% of project cost
- All industries

Consolidating the entrepreneurial life cycle in the ecological transition
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services
- Educational services

CMF — Regional Production Funding
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

Agriculture Development Fund
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

OTF — Family Innovations Scale Grant
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

MLSE Foundation - Community Spaces
- No Condition
- All industries

Early Child Development
- No Condition
- All industries

Indigenous Strategy
- No Condition
- All industries

Child & Youth Diabetes
- No Condition
- All industries

Agriculture Awareness Initiative Program (AAIP)
- From $250 to $50,000
- Up to 75% of project cost
- 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

Coast Funds - Stewardship Operations Funding
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- All industries

- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- All industries

Financial assistance program for the development of active transportation in urban areas (TAPU)
- Maximum amount : 3,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Educational services
- Public administration

Coast Funds - Stewardship Project Funding
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- All industries

Special Opportunity Grants Program
- No Condition
- All industries

Economic Trust of the Southern Interior BC (ETSI-BC) - Building Economic Development Capacity
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- All industries

Community - Store Giving Program
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)

Operate - Sustain
- Maximum amount : 550,000 $
- All industries

Toronto Arts Council - Strategic Funding Programs
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Première Ovation - Visual Arts, Media Arts, and Crafts
- No Condition
- All industries