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.

Adoption Prep Grants
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- All industries

Capital Project Grants - Social Policy - Social Medium Capital Grants
- From $25,000 to $50,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

North American Partnership for Environmental Community Action (NAPECA)
- Maximum amount : 185,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Humanitarian Grants Program - District Grants
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Community Environmental Fund
- From $1,000 to $10,000
- All industries

BarterPay It Forward Foundation
- No Condition
- All industries

First Nations Training to Employment Program
- Up to 51% of project cost
- All industries

Community Impact Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

Golden & District Community Foundation Community Grant Program
- From $1,400 to $5,000
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Workplace Harassment and Violence Prevention Fund (WHVPF)
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Transportation and warehousing
- Information and cultural industries

Jack R. MacDonald Community Fund
- Maximum amount : 8,000 $
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Futurpreneur Canada Start-Up Program
- No Condition
- All industries

CWCF Project Grants
- Maximum amount : 1,500 $
- All industries

Bringing Circularity to Life in the Bioeconomy: From Envisioning to Planning
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Edmonton Arts Council - Connections & Exchanges Initiatives
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

BCAC — Arts Infrastructure Program
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

CHOICES Workplace Safety Incentive Program
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 10% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Construction

Museum Assistance Program - Collections Management
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

CREB® REALTOR® Community Foundation - Community Grants
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance

Field of Dreams Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

ESDC — Women in the Skilled Trades Initiative
- Maximum amount : 3,000,000 $
- Construction
- Manufacturing

Community Engagement Grants
- Maximum amount : 1,000 $
- All industries

Quebec Economic Development Program (QEDP)
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Quebec Fisheries Fund — Science partnerships
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Fondation Ellipse
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
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Commemorative Partnership Program - Community Engagement
- Maximum amount : 50 $
- All industries

Housing & Homelessness Grants
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Up to 60% of project cost
- All industries

Community Climate Action Grants
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Community Investment Program - Food Security Fund
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 25% of project cost
- All industries

CED Aerospace Regional Recovery Initiative — Indigenous stream
- No Condition
- Manufacturing

Community Investment Program - B3 Fund
- Maximum amount : 60,000 $
- All industries

Reaching Each and Every One
- From $2,500 to $25,000
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

- No Condition
- All industries

Non-profit SMART Grants
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- All industries

Disaster Financial Assistance Program — Small Business
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- All industries

Prostate Cancer Foundation Canada - Conference and Event Awards
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

Innovation and Business Development Fund
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities

Homelessness Services Grants
- Maximum amount : 3,000 $
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration
Subventions pour des projets qui favorisent de saines habitudes de vie dans les écoles primaires du Québec
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Educational services

Prostate Cancer Foundation Canada - Grant-in-Aid / Research Awards Program
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

MRC Collines-de-l'Outaouais — FRR Stream 1
- Maximum amount : 3,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Grassland and Rangeland Enhancement Fund
- No Condition
- All industries

Event & Organization Sponsorship
- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Strategic Operating Grant Program
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Accommodation and food services

Ignite Innovation Grants Program
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

Inclusive Diversification and Economic Advancement in the North — Not-For-Profit
- No Condition
- All industries

Organization Grants
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- All industries

- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Agriculture Water Infrastructure Program – Stream 3
- From $20,000 to $200,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
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NRC — Civil infrastructure and related structures testing facilities
- No Condition
- Utilities
- Construction
- Professional, scientific and technical services

- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Biofood Innovation Program Component 1 – Financial support for research, transfer and dissemination organizations
- Maximum amount : 3,500,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

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

MRC Brome-Missisquoi — Petits établissements accessibles (PEA) program
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Retail trade
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Accommodation and food services
- Other services (except public administration)

Theatre Rental Grant Program
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

First Peoples' Cultural Council - Cultural Practices Grant
- From $10,000 to $25,000
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Contaminated Sites On-Reserve program
- No Condition
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services
- Educational services
- Public administration

Tim Hortons — Smile Cookie
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

EPRTNT — Digital development of a company
- From $10,000 to $30,000
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Accommodation and food services

Community Emergency Preparedness Grant
- No Condition
- All industries

First Peoples' Cultural Council - Arts Vitality Grant
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

- No Condition
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Toronto Circular Food Innovators Fund
- From $5,000 to $35,000
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Accommodation and food services

Joan Feynman Climate Change Fund
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

EPRTNT — Festivals and events
- From $50,000 to $35,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) Program
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Northern Isolated Community Initiatives (NICI) Fund
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

GradWorks — Employer Incentive Program
- Maximum amount : 30,360 $
- Up to 66% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Construction

Children's Hospital Aid Society
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance

Capital Project Grants - Social Policy - Childcare Small Capital Grants
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

The Marion Ethel Kamm and Frederick John Kamm Foundation
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance

Multi-Species Research and Development Fund
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Prairieaction Foundation - CARE Grant Program
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Health care and social assistance
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La Ruche — Mille et UN Fund
- From $5,000 to $100,000
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Grants and Loans
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- All industries

Indigenous Genomics Training and Capacity Program – Ontario
- Maximum amount : 400,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

EPRTNT — Hosting
- From $50,000 to $100,000
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Accommodation and food services

2SLGBTQIA+ Beyond Belonging Grant Program
- From $10,000 to $100,000
- All industries

Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage - Community Historical Anniversaries Programming
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Vehicle Retrofit Program — Persons with disabilities
- Maximum amount : 8,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing

Community Facility Enhancement Program Large (CFEP)
- From $125,000 to $1,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

The Accelerator
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- All industries

Human Development Fund
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Other services (except public administration)

- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Tourism Financing Assistance — Operating Loan
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Société de Développement économique de la Colombie-Britanique
- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)

Edmonton Public Teachers Charity Trust Fund
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance

Disaster Response
- No Condition
- All industries

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

Agricultural and Sector Show Support Program – Stream 1.3
- Maximum amount : 115,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Grow Ontario Market Initiative
- Maximum amount : 60,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade

- No Condition
- Educational services

Charitable Giving - Partner Grant Program
- Maximum amount : 3,000 $
- All industries

Canada Book Fund Support for Organizations — Not-for-Profit
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

Flavelle Family Foundation
- From $50 to $10,000
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
Industry Development Partnerships
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Community Economic Development Funding Program
- From $5,000 to $50,000
- All industries

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