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.

DRDC Defence Research Partnerships
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Public administration

Indigenous Reconciliation Initiative - Economic Stream
- No Condition
- All industries

Labour Force Management Strategies Initiative (LFMSI)
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Community Recreation Enhancement Grant
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- All industries

Building BC - Building BC: Indigenous Housing Fund
- No Condition
- All industries
Sport Funding Programs
- No Condition
- All industries

Community Grant and Vibrancy Fund
- Maximum amount : 2,500 $
- All industries

Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Association - Get Moving Grant
- No Condition
- All industries

- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Financial Assistance Program for Recreational and Sports Facilities (PAFIRS)
- Maximum amount : 28,000,000 $
- Up to 66% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Public administration

Impact Canada Challenge Hub
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Health care and social assistance
- Public administration

Agri-food Funding
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Community Partnership Capital Programs - Community Partnership Major Capital Program
- No Condition
- All industries

NRC — Laser processing and surface modification facility
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Museums Assistance Program - Exhibition Circulation Fund
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- All industries

Ontario Trillium Foundation - Grow Grants
- From $100,000 to $600,000
- All industries

Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Association - Framework In Action Grant
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- All industries

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

Capital Project Grants - Social Policy - School-Age Care Expansion Capital Grants
- Maximum amount : 2,500 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

People & Talent Program — Indigenous Workforce Development Stream
- Maximum amount : 52,500 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- All industries

Small Capital Sponsorship Program
- From $2,500 to $30,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Market Opportunities and Diversification Program
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

- No Condition
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Food Security and Supply Chain Fund
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
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- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Youth Mental Health Fund
- No Condition
- All industries

Indigenous Languages and Cultures Program — Indigenous Languages Component
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Public administration

Renter Services Grants
- From $5,000 to $50,000
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

- No Condition
- All industries

Interactive Fund
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Search and Rescue New Initiatives Fund
- Up to 95% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

ACOA — Regional Homebuilding Innovation Initiative (REGI)
- No Condition
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Educational services
- Public administration

Biofood Innovation Program Component 5 – Support for knowledge transfer and dissemination
- From $8,000 to $143,750
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

- No Condition
- All industries

NRC — Aluminium Technology Centre
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Call for Proposals: Collaboration centre for strengthening Integrated Youth Services across Canada
- No Condition
- All industries

Motorola Solutions Foundation
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Public administration

Hydro-Québec program for the enhancement of natural environments
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

TAO — TAC Accessibility Grant
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Business and Community Services
- No Condition
- All industries

NRC — Energy, Mining and Environment Research Centre
- No Condition
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

Territorial and sectoral development program — Stream 2.2
- From $5,000 to $250,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

NRC — Advanced, non-linear optical imaging and microscopy (CARSLab)
- No Condition
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

Strategic Innovation Fund — Digital Generator – Stream 2
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Building Safer Communities Program Grants (BSCP) - Organizational and Youth Sector Capacity-building Project Grants
- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

CBDC Community Development Fund
- Maximum amount : 225,000 $
- All industries

Collective entrepreneurship financing
- Minimum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- All industries

NGen — Advanced Manufacturing Quantum Program
- From $1,000,000 to $2,000,000
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Synchronex
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
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- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- All industries

Lakeshore Community Benefit Fund Grant
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Community Action Initiative (CAI) - Youth Wellness Grant
- Maximum amount : 80,000 $
- All industries

Agricultural and Sector Show Support Program – Stream 1.1
- Maximum amount : 225,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

VERGE Capital — Breakthrough Fund
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Retail trade
- Health care and social assistance

- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Community Investment Program - Revolving Capital Loan
- No Condition
- 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)

Co-operators - Co-operators Community Funds
- No Condition
- All industries

AgriMarketing Program — Kosher and Halal Investment
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

innovÉÉ — Accord
- From $100,000 to $350,000
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Provincial Funding for French Language Services
- No Condition
- All industries

Drilling Technology Challenge
- From $250,000 to $8,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Regional Economic Growth Through Innovation & Southern Ontario Prosperity Program — Indigenous
- No Condition
- All industries

Community Funding - Project Funding
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

Formations de courte durée (COUD) — Water professions
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Utilities

Justice and Reconciliation Fund
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- All industries

PANAM recognition program
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Startup Zone Accelerator Program
- No Condition
- All industries

Community Funding - Emergency Funding
- No Condition
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Enfant Soleil - Care Environment Fund
- No Condition
- All industries

Community Funding - Civic Events Funding
- Maximum amount : 3,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Vision Fund - Seed Grants for Innovative Ministry
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- All industries

Community Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador - Community Fund
- Maximum amount : 2,000 $
- Other services (except public administration)

- No Condition
- All industries
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Community Funding - Emerging Community Need Funding
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program — CleanBC Communities Fund
- No Condition
- Utilities

Ontario Transit Investment Fund (OTIF)
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing

Rangeland Sustainability Program (RSP)
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Community Funding - Snow Go Programs
- Maximum amount : 450 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance

Community Economic Development Fund
- Maximum amount : 3,000,000 $
- All industries

Community Funding - Sustainability Funding
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Community Funding - Capital Funding
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Medium to Large-Scale Festivals Program
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 10% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

Professional Arts Organizations Operating Grant Program
- No Condition
- All industries

Circular Initiatives Awards
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)

Cultural Funding - Equity and inclusion in the arts fund
- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Emerging Opportunities Program
- From $2,000,000 to $1,000,000
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

City of Kelowna Grants
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- All industries

NRC — Construction Research Centre
- No Condition
- Construction
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Enhancement of Official Languages Program - Promotion of Linguistic Duality Component - Appreciation and Rapprochement
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- All industries

Enhancement of Official Languages Program - Second Language Learning Component
- No Condition
- All industries

Culture Funding - Arts funding program
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

NRCAN — Mining Decarbonization Demonstration
- From $1,000,000 to $5,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction

Cultural Funding - Heritage Funding Program
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Ethnocultural Support Program
- Maximum amount : 1,000 $
- All industries

Canada Travelling Exhibitions Indemnification Program
- No Condition
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Cultural Funding - Major arts, cultural festivals, agricultural fairs programs
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Indigenous Priorities Fund
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- All industries