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.

Rural Growth Initiative - Community Revitalization Program
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- All industries

Goodspark Fund
- No Condition
- All industries

Knowledge Sharing and Mobilization (KSM) Grant
- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

Rural Growth Initiative - Community Capacity Building Program
- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- All industries

Anti-racism Grants Program
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- All industries

Ontario Power Generation - Province-wide Empowerment Grant Program
- No Condition
- All industries

Build Strong
- From $2,500 to $25,000
- All industries

Local Community Support - Donations and Sponsorships
- No Condition
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Social Policy Capital Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

Partnership Development Grants
- From $75,000 to $200,000
- All industries

Community Relations and Partnerships
- No Condition
- All industries

Longo Brothers Fruit Markets Inc. - Store Community Giving Program
- No Condition
- Retail trade

ISC Community Giving Program
- Up to 1.5% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Registered Heritage Structure Revitalization Grant
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Good Food, Good Life Community Program
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Great-EST Needs Grants
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Public administration

Aide financière aux festivals et aux événements touristiques - Stream 4: One-time Events
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 25% of project cost
- All industries

Stephen and Michelene Worobetz Foundation Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

Longo Brothers Fruit Markets Inc. - Sponsorship and Corporate Giving Program
- No Condition
- All industries

CPKC Has Heart Community Fund
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- All industries
Corporate Sponsorships and Donations
- No Condition
- All industries

Grants, Giving & Corporate Sponsorship Support
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance

Good Neighbour Program
- No Condition
- All industries

Aide financière aux festivals et aux événements touristiques - Stream 1: Festivals and Major Tourist Events
- Maximum amount : 1,250,000 $
- All industries

- Minimum amount : 1,000 $
- All industries
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Aide financière aux festivals et aux événements touristiques - Stream 2: Festivals and Events of Tourist Scope
- From $90 to $750,000
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Construction

Balancing our Triple Bottom Line
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries

Exchanges Canada Program - Youth Exchanges Canada
- No Condition
- All industries

Contributions to Canada Healthcare Organizations
- No Condition
- All industries

Northern Youth Cultural Fund
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- All industries

Museum Grant Program
- From $1,500 to $50,000
- All industries

- From $1,500 to $3,000
- All industries

United Way Greater Toronto - Jane Finch Community Action Grants
- From $25,000 to $75,000
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Wholesale trade

Spirit of Coquitlam Grant
- No Condition
- All industries

Community Sustainability Micro-Grant Program
- No Condition
- All industries

BMO Gives
- No Condition
- All industries

Tourism, Culture and Sport Enhancement Fund
- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- All industries

Community Funding Program - Project Funding
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- All industries

Social Meals Enhancement Grant
- From $10,000 to $50,000
- All industries

Anti-Racism Impact Grant
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- All industries

Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program - Projects component
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- All industries

International Development Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

GTA Community Grants Program
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- All industries

Children, Youth & Families Grants
- From $10,000 to $100,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Indigenous Youth
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 10% of project cost
- All industries

Canada Cultural Investment Fund - Limited Support to Endangered Arts Organizations
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- All industries

Museums Assistance Program - Access to Heritage
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Metcalf Foundation - Performing Arts Program: Internships
- Maximum amount : 40,000 $
- All industries

Metcalf Foundation - Performing Arts Program: Strategic Experimentation Fund
- Maximum amount : 40,000 $
- All industries
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Community Partnership Capital Programs - Community Partnership Minor Capital Program
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Museums Assistance Program - Canada-France Agreement
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- All industries

Enhancement of Official Languages Program - Promotion of Linguistic Duality Component - Promotion of Bilingual Services
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- All industries

Community Development Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

Community Culture Grants - Community Culture Development Fund
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- All industries

Fonds Communautaire Du Grand-Havre
- From $4,000 to $4,000
- All industries

Rural Community Building Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

- No Condition
- All industries

Community Change Grants
- Maximum amount : 2,000 $
- All industries

Heritage Preservation Partnership Program - Heritage Awareness Grants
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

SickKids Foundation - Community Conference Grants
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- All industries

Environment - Addressing the Freshwater Challenge
- No Condition
- All industries

SickKids Foundation - SickKids WomenPowered
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- All industries

CFNS VISIONS Fund
- No Condition
- All industries

Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund (OCAF)
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Alberta Conservation Association - ACA Research Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

Alberta Conservation Association - Minister’s Special Licence (MSL) Resident Draw Grants
- From $3,750 to $50,000
- All industries

Community Investment Operating Grant
- From $500 to $15,000
- Up to 100% of project cost
- All industries

BC Conservation and Biodiversity Awards
- From $10,000 to $50,000
- All industries

Looking Forward Grants
- Maximum amount : 35,000 $
- All industries

Community Investment Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

Church-Based Grants
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Stark Family Fund
- From $1,500 to $12,875
- All industries

Arts & Culture Grants - Community Public Art Grants
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- All industries

Community Action Initiative (CAI) - Community Counselling Grants
- Maximum amount : 120,000 $
- All industries
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Community Action Initiative (CAI) - Gathering Our Voices: Northern Indigenous Communities Convening Grant
- From $10,000 to $10,000
- All industries

Community Action Initiative (CAI) - Capacity Building Grant for First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Urban Indigenous led Bed-based Treatment and Recovery Operators
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- All industries

Community Action Initiative (CAI) - Lived and Living Experience Employment Grant
- Maximum amount : 60,000 $
- All industries

MacArthur Foundation
- No Condition
- All industries

Weston Family Foundation - Rapid Response Program
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- All industries

Weston Family Foundation - Northern Conservation Program
- From $450,000 to $1,500,000
- All industries

Indigenous Arts & Culture Fund
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- All industries

Civil Forfeiture Grant Program - Indigenous Healing
- Maximum amount : 40,000 $
- All industries

- No Condition
- Other services (except public administration)

Civic Engagement for Social Change
- From $10,000 to $50,000
- All industries

Cultural Grants Program - Cultural Indigenous Funding (CIF)
- From $15,000 to $40,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Cultural Grants Program - Cultural Operating Funding Program (COF)
- No Condition
- All industries

Taylor Taliesin Foundation
- No Condition
- All industries

Age-Friendly Newfoundland and Labrador Communities Program
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- All industries

Call for Applications: Youth Civic Engagement
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 200% of project cost
- All industries

Re-Imagine Downtown Activation Grant
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- All industries

Resident Directed (ReDi) Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

Early Childhood Educator Wage Subsidy Program
- No Condition
- All industries

International Sustainable Development Program
- No Condition
- All industries

Small-scale Ecosystem Grants
- Maximum amount : 80,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- All industries

PollinateTO Community Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

Major arts, cultural festivals, agricultural fairs programs - Festivals Program
- No Condition
- All industries

Major arts, cultural festivals, agricultural fairs programs - Fairs Program
- No Condition
- All industries

Youth Endowment Saskatoon Grants
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- All industries

Research Grants and Fellowships
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- All industries