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.

Entrepreneurial grant
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Finance and insurance

Ecocamionnage Program — Collaborative shared electric delivery project
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing

Northern Scientific Training Program (NSTP)
- Maximum amount : 6,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

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

Aquatic Ecosystems Restoration Fund
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)

Northern Integrated Commercial Fisheries Initiative (NICFI) - Harvester Training
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Northern Integrated Commercial Fisheries Initiative (NICFI) - Capacity Building (Business Development)
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Access to Justice in Both Official Languages Support Fund
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Le Fonds d’initiatives locales (FIL) Village
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Retail trade
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Aquatic Habitat Restoration Fund (AHRF)
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Official Languages Support Programs
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Fabrication Process Development Challenge
- From $200,000 to $1,500,000
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Canada Book Fund Publishers Business Development — Business Planning
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

Zero Emission Vehicle Infrastructure (ZEVIP) — Delivery Organizations
- Maximum amount : 5,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Public administration

Zero Emission Vehicle Awareness Initiative — Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles and Clean Fuels
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Educational services

Rural Economic Development program — Economic Diversification and Competitiveness Stream
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Retail trade
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Public administration

Energy Innovation Program — Off-Site Construction Challenge
- No Condition
- Construction
- Manufacturing

Extend the employment periods of your staff — Seasonal employment extension component
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

International Association of Fire Fighters, Canada Hazardous Materials Training Initiative
- No Condition
- Public administration

Capital Retrofits
- 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

Business case: Community Energy Systems
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Utilities
- Public administration

Capital project: Organic Waste-to-Energy
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Utilities
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services
- Public administration

Study: Organic Waste-to-Energy
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Utilities
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services
- Public administration

Business case: Organic Waste-to-Energy
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Utilities
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services
- Public administration

Canada Book Fund Publishing Support
- Maximum amount : 850,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
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Financial assistance for businesses located in areas affected by major infrastructure projects
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Up to 5% of project cost
- All industries

Laurentides Tourism — Regional Partnership and Digital Transformation Agreement in Tourism (EPRTNT) – Digital development of a company
- From $10,000 to $95,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Regions and Rurality Fund (RRF) - Component 1 - Support for regional outreach
- From $100,000 to $3,000,000
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing

Indigenous Habitat Participation Program - Capacity-building, Engagement, and Collaboration component
- Up to 15% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Financial support program for government initiatives in community and volunteer action
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Propel – Student Work Placement Program
- Maximum amount : 7,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services
- Other services (except public administration)

Support for commercial arteries — Component 1 - Support for urban revitalization projects
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 65% of project cost
- All industries

Cyber Security Cooperation Program 2025
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Public administration

Call for projects in social innovation
- Maximum amount : 800,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

- From $5,000 to $200,000
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

EPRTNT — Studies and consulting services
- From $10,000 to $50,000
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Accommodation and food services

Canada Music Fund - Collective Initiatives
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Évolution-Compétences -Partnership for training and innovation
- Maximum amount : 50 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Educational services

Gaspésie Tourism — EPRTNT 2025-2027 – Structuring the regional tourism offering
- From $50,000 to $200,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

The Indigenous Partnerships for Species at Risk (IPSAR)
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Social and Community Initiatives Support Program (SCISP) – Social Initiatives Component
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Canada Book Fund - Support for Organizations
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries

Forest Sector Investment and Innovation Program (IFIT) — Business projects
- From $3,000,000 to $3,000,000
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Local Journalism Initiative - Changing Narratives Fund
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries

Cyber Security Innovation Network
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Digital Citizen Research Program - Digital Citizen Contribution Program
- Maximum amount : 380,000 $
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)

BC Agriculture and Food Export Program
- From $5,000 to $75,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Exchanges Canada - Youth Exchanges Canada
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Exchanges Canada - Youth Forums Canada
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Indigenous Languages Program - Indigenous Languages Component - First Nations Languages Funding Model
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration
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Canada Service Corps Program - Micro-grants Diversity stream
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Research Training and Talent Development
- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Public administration

QEPD — Diversify your economy - CED (QC)
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Indigenous Languages Program - Northern Aboriginal Broadcasting
- Maximum amount : 2,500,000 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

Support for commercial arteries — Component 2 – Support for economic development projects
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 65% of project cost
- All industries

Environmental Damages Fund
- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services
- Educational services
- Public administration

Renovation subsidy for retail businesses on Rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Retail trade

Rénoclimat
- From $50 to $3,750
- All industries

Project Grant Program
- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries

Support for commercial arteries — Component 3 – Support for the operations and projects of a business association and commercial streets
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 65% of project cost
- All industries

MAPAQ — Prime-Vert — Component 3.1
- Maximum amount : 107,950 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Regions and Rurality Fund (RRF) - Component 4 – Soutien à la vitalisation et à la coopération intermunicipale : Axe Vitalisation
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Celebration and Commemoration Program
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Zero Emission Vehicle Infrastructure (ZEVIP) — owners and operators
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Utilities
- Construction
- Transportation and warehousing
- Public administration

Zero Emission Vehicle Infrastructure (ZEVIP) — Indigenous organizations
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Utilities
- Construction
- Transportation and warehousing
- Other services (except public administration)

Community Action Support Program for Families – Component 1 – Support for the overall mission of community family organizations (CFOs)
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Construction Sector Digitalization and Productivity Challenge program – Call for proposals
- Maximum amount : 850,000 $
- Construction

Southwestern Ontario Development Fund — Community economic development projects
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Alberta Innovates — Agriculture & Environment (AE) Program
- Maximum amount : 750,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Public administration

Regional Defence Investment Initiative in Atlantic Canada
- No Condition
- Public administration

Community Action Support Program for Families – Component 3 – Support for Family Partners
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Grant for a circular economy assessment
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services
- Other services (except public administration)

National Adaptation Strategy & Hydrologic prediction and innovation
- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Accommodation and food services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration
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BizPaL
- No Condition
- All industries

MAPAQ — Prime-Vert — Component 3.2
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Social and Community Initiatives Support Program (SCISP) – Community Action and Volunteerism Component
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Smart Renewables and Electrification Pathways Program (SREP) - Critical Regional Priorities (CRP) Stream
- No Condition
- Public administration

Regional partnership and digital transformation agreement in tourism
- No Condition
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Regional Tariff Response Initiative (RTRI) — Northern Canada
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Regional Tariff Response Initiative (RTRI) — Prairie Provinces
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

- Maximum amount : 3,500 $
- Retail trade

Sports Support Program - National Multisport Services Organization
- No Condition
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

MAPAQ — Ministerial initiative for the development of greenhouses and large tunnels
- From $10,000 to $50,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Trois-Rivières — Affordable Housing Development Support Program
- Maximum amount : 600,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Real estate and rental and leasing
- Health care and social assistance

Trois-Rivières — Redevelopment of the first neighborhoods – Stream 2: Renovation of heritage buildings
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Construction
- Real estate and rental and leasing

Supporting Artistic Practice — Literary Publishers
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Trois-Rivières — Redevelopment of the first neighborhoods – Stream 3: Management and disposal of contaminated soil and dry materials
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Public administration

Petits établissements accessibles
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Retail trade
- Accommodation and food services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Trois-Rivières — Revitalization of certain serviced land and recycling of certain buildings
- Up to 100% of project cost
- All industries

Community Action Support Program for Families – Component 2 – Support for National and Regional Groups
- No Condition
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Trois-Rivières — Revitalization of commercial arteries in the city's oldest neighborhoods – Stream 3: Revitalization and development of local businesses
- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Retail trade
- Real estate and rental and leasing
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Digital Citizen Research Program - Joint Initiative for Digital Citizen Research
- From $7,000 to $50,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Public administration

Justice Partnership and Innovation Program
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Public administration

FAQDD — Reducing air and noise pollution – Component 2
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

Hosting Program - International Major Multisport Games (IMMG)
- No Condition
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

PRIMA — Call for Projects
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Health care and social assistance

Study: Community Energy Systems
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Utilities
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Public administration

Digital Skills Internships
- Maximum amount : 21,500 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services