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.

MRC Témiscamingue — Youth Assistance Loan
- From $5,000 to $150,000
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

MRC Charlevoix-Est — Cultural Development
- Minimum amount : 500 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

MRC d'Avignon — Local Investment Funds (FLI) and Local Solidarity Funds (FLS)
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Existing Building Commissioning program
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Utilities
- Real estate and rental and leasing
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Recyc-Québec — Beverage Container Recycling — Stream 2
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

APCHQ — Get financing through the Canada Greener Affordable Housing program: Pre-Retrofit Funding for multi-unit residential buildings
- Maximum amount : 130,000 $
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance

MRC L'Islet — Support fund for cultural cafés
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Quebec Fisheries Fund — Infrastructure
- Maximum amount : 2,500,000 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

MRC Charlevoix-Est — Signature Innovation Fund
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services
- Other services (except public administration)

Regional partnership and digital transformation agreement for tourism 2022-2025 – Studies and consulting services
- From $3,000 to $25,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Accommodation and food services

Rail Transportation Infrastructure and Modal Integration Support Program — Part 3 — Studies
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 66.67% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Construction

SODEXPORT — Component 5: Strategic initiatives
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

- No Condition
- All industries

Mitis MRC — Regional and Rural Fund (RRF) - Component 1
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Transportation and warehousing
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

ARBJ — Economic Development Infrastructure Program (PIDE)
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 35% of project cost
- All industries

RCM de la Mitis — Component 3 : “Signature Innovation” Projects
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Public administration

MRC La Vallée-de-l'Or — Support Program for Structuring Projects (PSPS)
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 60% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Enabling Accessibility Fund – Youth Innovation Component
- Maximum amount : 12,000 $
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services
- Other services (except public administration)

Innovative Communities Fund (ICF)
- No Condition
- All industries

Regional partnership and digital transformation agreement for tourism 2022-2025 – Festivals and events
- From $60,000 to $15,000
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Municipalité des Îles-de-la-Madeleine — Local Investment Fund (FLI) and Local Solidarity Fund (FLS)
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

RCM de la Mitis — Fonds « Développement La Mitis »
- No Condition
- Public administration

Zero Emission Vehicle Awareness Initiative — Light-Duty Vehicle — Not-for-profit
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Utilities
- Transportation and warehousing
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)

Estrie — FRR – Component 1
- Minimum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Applied Research and Development Grants — Industrial Partner
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- All industries
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Biofood market development program — Component 2
- From $50,000 to $750,000
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

MRC de L'Assomption — FLI/FLS
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Genomic Innovations: Energy and Environmental Solutions
- From $300,000 to $750,000
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFW) — Positions in QC
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade

Community Economic Development (CED)
- From $5,000 to $50,000
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Îles-de-la-madeleine — Business support policy (PSE)
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 25% of project cost
- All industries

Artists in Communities program
- No Condition
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Financial assistance program for businesses in physical activities (PAFEMAP)
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

MRC L'Islet — Vitalization fund
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- All industries

RCM de la Mitis — RenoRegion Fund
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- All industries

MRC La Vallée-de-l'Or — Quebec Fund for Social Initiatives (FQIS)
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance

RCM de la Mitis — Component 4 : Support for revitalization and intermunicipal cooperation
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Transportation and warehousing
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Musicaction — International Event
- Maximum amount : 60,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

CQRDA — PSO-v2A
- From $100,000 to $350,000
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Support for the purchase of electric off-road vehicles (VHRE)
- Maximum amount : 49,500 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

RCM de la Vallée-Du-Richelieu — Futurpreneur Canada
- Maximum amount : 60,000 $
- Up to 20% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Évolution-Compétences — Partnership for training and innovation
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Educational services

RCM Vallée-Du-Richelieu — Fonds d'appui à l'entrepreneuriat collectif (FAEC)
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

RCM Vallée-Du-Richelieu — Fonds de soutien à l'entrepreneuriat
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Up to 20% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Information and cultural industries

Transportez vert — Direct current fast charging station
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing

Ecological Gift Program
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Ville de La Tuque — RRF stream 2 - Support for local and regional development skills
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Professional, scientific and technical services

MRC Charlevoix-Est — Sustainable Forest Management Program
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

RCM de la Vallée-Du-Richelieu — Local investment funds (FLI)
- Up to 25% of project cost
- All industries

MRC Témiscamingue — Local Investment Fund Loan
- From $5,000 to $150,000
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services
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Genome British Columbia — Data Access, Integration and Analysis Program (DAIA) 2
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Ville de La Tuque — RRF stream 3 - Innovation Signature
- Maximum amount : 1,051,050 $
- Up to 20% of project cost
- Retail trade

PME MTL — Je relève le défi vert
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Retail trade
- Accommodation and food services

Genome British Columbia — GeneSolve Program
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Professional, scientific and technical services

MRC Haut-Richelieu — FRR – Stream 3
- Maximum amount : 2,139,780 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Public administration

La Ruche — FMC+
- From $10,000 to $50,000
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

MRC Abitibi-Ouest — Local Investment Funds
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 20% of project cost
- All industries

Regional partnership and digital transformation agreement for tourism 2022-2025 – Hosting
- From $30,000 to $75,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Genome British Columbia — Sector Innovation Program
- From $250,000 to $500,000
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Public administration

MRC Collines-de-l'Outaouais — FRR Stream 2
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Social economy enterprises — Support for structuring projects
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Genome British Columbia — Genomics Innovation Fund – Intake 002
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Community Organization Assistance Program (PAOC) – Support for needs determined by the SHQ
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

MRC de Thérèse de Blainville — FLI/FLS
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Alberta Agricultural Societies Program
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Laurentides Tourism — Regional Partnership and Digital Transformation Agreement in Tourism (EPRTNT) – Attractions, activities, and amenities
- From $30,000 to $95,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Indigenous Languages Program - Indigenous Languages Component - Inuit Language Funding Model
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services

MRC L'Islet — SME Propulsion Measurement
- From $3,000 to $25,000
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Accommodation and food services

Évolution-Compétences — Call for projects Parcours Exploration
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

APCHQ — Affordable Housing Innovation Fund
- No Condition
- Construction
- Finance and insurance
- Real estate and rental and leasing
- Health care and social assistance

MRC Bellechasse — Social Economy Enterprise Development Fund (FDEÉS)
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance

MRC des Chenaux — Local Investment Fund (FLI) and Solidarity Fund (FLS)
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

MRC La Vallée-de-l’Or — Support Program for Events and Festivals
- From $500 to $5,000
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

MRC La Matapédia — FLI-FLS
- From $1,000 to $150,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries
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Northern Ontario Development Program — Community Economic Development
- Up to 33% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing

MRC La Vallée-de-l’Or — Regions and Rurality Fund – Component 3 – Market Gardening Program
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Support program for the development of reserved designations and promotional terms — Component 2
- Minimum amount : 5,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

MRC Caniapiscau — FDE
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries

Energy Innovation Program – Advancing Canada’s clean energy future
- No Condition
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

Transportez vert — Coaching for energy management
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing

Financial assistance to promote food security in northern communities
- Maximum amount : 275,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Genomics integration program – Agriculture and biofood, forestry and environment
- From $50,000 to $150,000
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Professional, scientific and technical services

- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

SODEXPORT — Component 3: Collective presence at markets and fairs, and other export activities
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Strategic Science Fund (SSF)
- Up to 15% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

MRC Kamouraska — Regional Outreach Support Program (FRR-1)
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Accommodation and food services

Tourism Innovation Program — Stream 3 - Networking with regional innovation organisations
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Support program for economic development projects (PAPDE) — Component 1 : Supporting the development of entrepreneurship
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 60% of project cost
- All industries

SODEC — Support for innovative initiatives
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

MRC Coaticook — Local Fund FLI/FLS
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

CQRDA — PSO-International
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

MRC L'Érable — FLI - Social economy development
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Cultural Development Fund
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Développement Vaudreuil-Soulanges — FDEÉS
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Zero Emission Vehicle Awareness Initiative - Indigenous stream
- Maximum amount : 450,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

MRC Charlevoix-Est — Intercultural Projects
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

MRC Témiscouata — Signature Innovation Fund - Component 3 - Rurality and Region Fund
- Maximum amount : 218,798 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

MRC L'Islet — Financial assistance program for the restoration of buildings of heritage interest
- From $3,000 to $30,000
- Up to 60% of project cost
- All industries

Community Organization Assistance Program (PAOC) – Support for projects
- Maximum amount : 80,000 $
- Up to 95% of project cost
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration