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.

H.S. Varley Fund for Rural Life Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

Carbon Capture Kickstart
- Maximum amount : 5,000,000 $
- Up to 10% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Public administration

Nordic Incubator-Accelerator — Stream 1 — Support Pathway
- No Condition
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Lotteries Yukon Funding Programs - Funding for travel assistance
- Maximum amount : 400 $
- All industries

National Bank Financial Group - Donations
- No Condition
- All industries

Community Facility Enhancement Program (CFEP) Small
- Maximum amount : 125,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

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

Pauw Foundation True Sport Youth Fund
- No Condition
- All industries

Canada Arts Presentation Fund (CAPF) – Soutien à la programmation : Festivals artistiques et diffuseurs de saisons de spectacles professionnels
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

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

Research Investment Opportunities: Transformative Programs
- No Condition
- All industries

Community Environmental Projects Grant Program (CEPGP)
- From $200 to $10,500
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Buyandsell.gc.ca — Procurement Assistance Canada Coaching Service
- No Condition
- All industries

Alberta Innovates — Strategic Networking and Development Program
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Revitalization Project Macro-Grant
- From $2,501 to $20,000
- All industries

Forest Biomass Program — Indigenous bioeconomy partnerships stream
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Ottawa Rural Clean Water Program
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Educational services

Clean Leadership Summer Internships — Nova Scotia
- Up to 60% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Transportation and warehousing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

INVEST North Program — Innovation – Industrial Research Chair
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Arts Funding Program - Project Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

High Volume User Program
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Real estate and rental and leasing

- Minimum amount : 100,000 $
- All industries

- No Condition
- Utilities

Accompaniment and technical support for Québec forestry companies (MASTE)
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

B.C. Employer Training Grant (ETG)
- From $300,000 to $300,000
- Up to 80% of project cost
- All industries
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Program for financial contributions to the ecological transition
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Transportation and warehousing
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

NRC — Aerospace Research Centre
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Public administration

Saint-Hyacinthe Technopole — FLI/FLS
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

PISAQ – Stream 2
- From $2,000 to $30,000
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

PacifiCan — Lytton Business Restart Program
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Retail trade
- Health care and social assistance
- Accommodation and food services
- Other services (except public administration)

Gasoline used in unlicensed business equipment
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Construction
- Manufacturing

Agriculture Research and Innovation — Agriculture Technology Advancement
- Maximum amount : 80 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Rural Association Partnership Program
- Maximum amount : 7,500 $
- Retail trade
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Economy & Environment Program
- No Condition
- All industries

Strategic Energy Management for Industry (SEMI)
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Construction

- No Condition
- All industries

Communities and Artists Shifting Culture
- From $2,500 to $15,000
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Indigenous Relations Office Sponsorships
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Program to support the fight against climate change in the bio-food sector – Component B
- From $57,142 to $330,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

SaskJobs — Employer Services
- No Condition
- All industries

Childcare Program Development Grants
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance

Rural Economic Development (RED) program
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- All industries

Regional Economic Growth through Innovation — Regional Innovation Ecosystems — ACOA
- No Condition
- All industries

Cultural Operating Funding (COF)
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

MRC Caniapiscau — Structuring projects
- Up to 80% of project cost
- All industries

Cultural Equity and Accessibility Funding (CEAF)
- From $15,000 to $40,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

RDAR — Accelerating Agricultural Innovations 2.0
- Up to 60% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Territorial and sectoral development program — Stream 2.1
- From $5,000 to $250,000
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

NRC — Medical Devices Research Centre
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

Cultural Indigenous Funding (CIF)
- From $15,000 to $40,000
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
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Operating Grant Program
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance

Canada Periodical Fund - Business Innovation
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- All industries

Student Work Placement Program
- No Condition
- All industries

Help for community media operations
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

MyPG Community Grant
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- All industries

Adaptation Canada 2026 Opportunity
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Community Workforce Response Grant — Workforce Shortages Stream
- From $15,000 to $300,000
- All industries

Community Interaction Program — Awareness-raising
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Other services (except public administration)

Partnered Initiatives
- No Condition
- All industries

ARBJ — Business start-up, expansion and succession program (PDERE)
- Maximum amount : 125,000 $
- Up to 35% of project cost
- All industries

The Joyce Family Foundation
- No Condition
- All industries

Calgary Flames Foundation - Inclusion Program
- No Condition
- All industries

Community Initiatives Program (CIP) - Operating Grant
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

AFA — Organization Activation Projects Funding
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Innov'Action agroalimentaire Program
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

CQRDA — SI2TEC
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

Manitoba — Research and Innovation
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Yukon bids&tenders
- No Condition
- All industries

Contributions Program for Non-Profit Consumer and Voluntary Organizations
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- All industries

Community Initiatives Program (CIP) - Project Based
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Manitoba Accessibility Fund
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 10% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Public administration

Business Assistance — Immigrant Investor Program
- Up to 10% of project cost
- All industries

Call for Proposals: Improving Access to Primary Care for Vulnerable Communities in Quebec
- No Condition
- All industries

Cultural Heritage Initiatives Program
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

PISAQ – Stream 4
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
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Quebec Housing Industry Development Program (PADIQH)
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Up to 66.67% of project cost
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

PAC and DPAC Grants - for Parent Advisory Councils
- No Condition
- All industries

Other Initiatives Program (OIP)
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Participant Funding Program
- No Condition
- All industries

Scotiabank — Credit Line for business
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Finance and insurance

Canada-Alberta Job Grant (CAJG)
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- All industries

Évolution-Compétences — Innovation and knowledge component
- Up to 100% of project cost
- All industries

Targeted Labour Market Programs
- No Condition
- Educational services

- From $75,000 to $1,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

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

Aboriginal Fisheries Strategy (AFS)
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Neighbourhood Planting Program
- Maximum amount : 500 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Summer Employment Opportunities (SEO) Program
- Maximum amount : 3,741 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services
- Public administration

SODEC — Development Aid Program
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

Programme de bibliothèque de recherche
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Workforce Training and Employment — Wage Subsidy
- No Condition
- All industries

First Nations and Inuit Summer Work Experience Program
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Educational services

General Class Contribution Program
- Maximum amount : 3,000,000 $
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Workplace Education Initiative (WEI)
- No Condition
- All industries

- From $20,000 to $150,000
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Supporting Artistic Practice — National Arts Service Organizations
- Up to 60% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Chantier de l'économie sociale Trust — Operations Patient Capital Loan
- From $50,000 to $250,000
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance

Scotiabank — Term Loan for business
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Finance and insurance

Heritage Legacy Fund (HLF) - Heritage Conservation Program
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

NRCAN — National Energy Systems Modelling
- From $300,000 to $1,000,000
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Utilities
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services