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.

Financial assistance to improve infrastructure and ensure safe off-road vehicle use
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Public administration

Tourism Cooperative Marketing Fund
- From $2,500 to $50,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Eva Henderson Memorial Fund
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance

Sharon Morrison Memorial Indigenous Education Fund
- No Condition
- All industries

Assurance Systems Program
- No Condition
- Manufacturing

Mary Beth Miller Memorial Fund
- From $1,000 to $7,000
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Community Justice Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

Legacy Community Development Grants
- From $5,000 to $25,000
- All industries

Yukon Cultural Industries Training Fund (CTIF)
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Holy Family Lutheran Legacy Fund
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

Arts Across Canada — Translation
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Gardens for Good
- From $6,500 to $6,500
- All industries

Gladys and Albert Eggenberger Agricultural Fund
- From $1,000 to $12,000
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

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

- No Condition
- All industries

Get Her Elected Fund
- Maximum amount : 2,000 $
- Public administration

SHRF — Solutions Program – Innovation + Impact Grants
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

Gary Robinson Memorial Fund
- From $1,000 to $8,000
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Chris Argue Memorial Fund
- From $1,000 to $7,000
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Sponsorships & Partnerships
- No Condition
- All industries

MRC Joliette — Business Assistance Fund (FAE) – Stream 1
- Maximum amount : 7,000 $
- All industries

Law for the Future Fund
- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)

- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

Weaving Justice Grants
- Maximum amount : 10,000,000 $
- All industries
Robert and Judith Clark Foundation for Animal Rights
- From $5,000 to $25,000
- All industries
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- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Utilities
- Transportation and warehousing
- Educational services
- Public administration

Nunavut Arts Program
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Job Opportunity for Youth Grant
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Other services (except public administration)
First Nations Market Housing Fund
- No Condition
- Real estate and rental and leasing

Trade Mission Support Program
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Information and cultural industries

Community Conservation Fund
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Saskatchewan REALTORS Care®
- No Condition
- All industries

The Land for Wildlife Fund
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Higher Learning
- No Condition
- All industries

Assistance program for organizations working for the economic development of Quebec (PAODEQ)
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Training on the Job — Nunavut
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

SVP Vancouver
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

Investment Banking — Corporate Finance
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

BC Festival of the Arts Legacy Fund Grants
- No Condition
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

School bus electrification program – Stream 2 : Financial assistance for the acquisition and installation of charging infrastructure for electric school buses
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing
- Educational services

Healthy Community Grants
- From $500 to $100,000
- All industries

- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance

PrairiesCan — Economic Development Initiative
- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Program to support the fight against climate change in the bio-food sector – Component A
- From $40,000 to $330,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
Boissevain and Morton Foundation
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Annual Foundation Grants
- Maximum amount : 4,000 $
- Other services (except public administration)

Whistler Blackcomb Foundation - General Funding
- No Condition
- All industries

Community Cultural Engagement and Planning Grant Program
- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

City Grant Program - Arts and Culture - Operating Assistance
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- All industries

The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
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- No Condition
- All industries

- Maximum amount : 2,500 $
- Up to 25% of project cost
- All industries

Built Together
- From $50,000 to $50,000
- All industries

MusiCounts - MusiCounts Band Aid Program
- From $5,000 to $20,000
- All industries

SODEC — Support for entrepreneurial development — Stream 1
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

Alberta Security Infrastructure Program Grant
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- All industries

Astley Family Foundation - Community Grants
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- All industries

MusiCounts - SiriusXM Soundwaves MusiCounts Community Fund
- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- All industries

Dutton Dunwich-West Elgin Community Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

Agricultural and Sector Show Support Program – Stream 2
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Astley Family Foundation - Learning Grants
- From $5,000 to $25,000
- All industries

Delta Community Foundation
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance

ScienceUpFirst Community Engagement Grant Program
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

SK Startup Institute — Business Advising
- No Condition
- All industries

Trade Commissioner Service — CanExport Associations
- From $20,000 to $250,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

Alberta Innovates — Bitumen Beyond Combustion (BBC) Program
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing

FESBC — 2025-27 Fibre Utilization Funding
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Public administration

Kanta Marwah Research Innovation Fund
- From $5,000 to $80,000
- All industries

Greater Sudbury Charities Fund and Social Investment Partnership (SIPS)
- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- All industries

Graduate to Opportunity (GTO) Program
- Up to 25% of project cost
- All industries

Port Coquitlam Community Foundation - Capacity Building Grant
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Women Entrepreneurship Strategy’s Ecosystem Fund
- From $250,000 to $3,000,000
- Retail trade
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Cultural Supports Program — Community Events Stream
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services
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Port Coquitlam Community Foundation - Projects Grant
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

- No Condition
- All industries

Port Coquitlam Community Foundation - Professional Development Grant
- Maximum amount : 1,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

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

Port Coquitlam Community Foundation - Theatre Society Legacy Fund Grant
- No Condition
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

City Grant Program - Environmental Enhancement and Food Security Grant
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- All industries

Winkler Community Foundation - Darlene Gale Peters Endowment Fund Grants
- From $1,000 to $10,000
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Alberta Innovates — Recovery Technologies Program
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction

Winkler Community Foundation - Community Fund
- From $1,000 to $10,000
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Toronto Main Street Innovation Fund
- From $25,000 to $100,000
- All industries

National Chapter of Canada IODE 100th Anniversary Grant Program
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Health care and social assistance
The Nunalingni Piruqpaalirut Fund
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- All industries

2021 Scientific Research Grant: Call for Proposals
- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Arc'teryx Community Grant Program
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Fund to stimulate international business tourism – Stream 3 - Support the implementation of incentives designed to attract international business events to Quebec
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Up to 20% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Community Self-Determination Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

Alberta Innovates — Land and Biodiversity Program
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Health Care Unburdened Grant Program
- From $500,000 to $1,000,000
- Health care and social assistance

Community Compass Grant
- From $10,000 to $40,000
- All industries

True Patriot Love Foundation - Captain Nichola Goddard Fund
- No Condition
- All industries

Fonds Mon virage écologique
- From $2,000 to $15,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

- From $500 to $3,000
- All industries

Love My Hood Matching Grant
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- All industries

IBM Sustainability Accelerator
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Vision Fund - Grants for Flourishing Ministry Programs
- No Condition
- All industries