Grants and Funding for non-profits in British Columbia
Non-profits in British Columbia have access to a wide range of grants to support their missions. From community programs to arts and culture, funding opportunities are available across the province.
British Columbia is home to a vibrant non-profit sector, with over 29,000 non-profit organizations operating across the province. These organizations provide vital services – from social support and healthcare to arts, culture, sports, and environmental conservation – that benefit communities and enrich the quality of life for residents. To sustain and expand their impact, non-profits rely on a diverse range of funding sources. Grants are a cornerstone of this funding mix, enabling charities and community groups to launch new programs, reach underserved populations, and strengthen their operations.

City of Kelowna Grants
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- All industries

Indigenous Priorities Fund
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- All industries

B.C. Employer Training Grant (ETG)
- From $300,000 to $300,000
- Up to 80% of project cost
- All industries

Communities and Artists Shifting Culture
- From $2,500 to $15,000
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Childcare Program Development Grants
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance

Cultural Operating Funding (COF)
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Cultural Equity and Accessibility Funding (CEAF)
- From $15,000 to $40,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Cultural Indigenous Funding (CIF)
- From $15,000 to $40,000
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

MyPG Community Grant
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- All industries

Community Workforce Response Grant — Workforce Shortages Stream
- From $15,000 to $300,000
- All industries

PAC and DPAC Grants - for Parent Advisory Councils
- No Condition
- All industries

Hastings Legacy Fund (HLF) Community Grant Program
- Maximum amount : 40,000 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Childcare Research, Policy Development, and Innovation Grants
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

- From $2,000 to $30,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing

Community Places Program
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Summer Student Farm Worker Bursary
- From $1,500 to $3,000
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Cultural Infrastructure Program
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Economic Infrastructure Program
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing

Fabulous Festivals and Events Program
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Childcare Enhancement Grant program
- Maximum amount : 27,000 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Civil Forfeiture Grant Program - Gender-Based Violence
- Maximum amount : 40,000 $
- All industries

British Columbia Arts Council Funding
- No Condition
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Community Workforce Response Grant — Community Response Stream
- From $20,000 to $300,000
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

ArtStarts in Schools Society - Artists in the Classroom (AIC) Grants for Schools
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Core Support Grants (CSG)
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration
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Become a Partner Agency
- No Condition
- All industries

Marketing Initiative Program
- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Recreation Infrastructure Program
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Capital Project Grants - Downtown Eastside (DTES) Plan Grants
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

School Food Grants
- No Condition
- Educational services

Buy BC Partnership Program — Industry Associations, Boards or Councils
- From $5,000 to $75,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade
- Retail trade

Allen and Loreen Vandekerkhove Family Foundation
- No Condition
- Other services (except public administration)

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

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

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

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

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

Homelessness Services Grants
- Maximum amount : 3,000 $
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

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

Agriculture Water Infrastructure Program – Stream 3
- From $20,000 to $200,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

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

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

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

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)

- No Condition
- Educational services

Recruitment, Retention and Innovative Skills
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Falls prevention and healthy aging grant
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

WorkBC — Wage Subsidy Program
- From $3,600 to $12,000
- Up to 85% of project cost
- All industries

Communities and Artists Shifting Culture (CASC) - Cultural Project Grants Program
- From $2,500 to $15,000
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
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B.C. Indigenous Agriculture Development Program – Stream 2
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- Up to 51% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Resiliency Grants
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Council Discretionary Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

Heritage Grants - Heritage Façade Rehabilitation Program
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade
- Retail trade
- Information and cultural industries

Community Justice Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

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

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

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

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

- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance

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

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

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

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

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

Caring for our Community Grant Program
- From $10,000 to $50,000
- Health care and social assistance

City of Fort St. John - Grants in Aid
- Up to 20% of project cost
- Real estate and rental and leasing
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Coastal GasLink Community Fund
- No Condition
- All industries

Strong Roots Community Grant Program
- From $10,000 to $50,000
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Small Food Processor Scale-Up Program (SFPS)
- From $25,000 to $150,000
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Manufacturing

First Nations Well Being Fund
- Maximum amount : 35,000 $
- Transportation and warehousing
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Public administration

RDN Grants - Community Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

Community Salmon Program
- From $1,000 to $25,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries
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PlanH - Healthy Public Policy Grants
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- Health care and social assistance
- Public administration

- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Knowledge and Technology Transfer Program
- No Condition
- All industries

SportPG Hosting Grant Program
- No Condition
- All industries

CleanBC Industry Fund - Innovation Accelerator Request for Proposals
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing

ViaSport - BC Ferries Sport Experience Program
- Maximum amount : 7,500 $
- All industries

Outdoor Recreation Fund
- From $2,000 to $10,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

BC Winter Games Legacy Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

RDN Grants - Oceanside Community Safety Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

Spruce Credit Union Legacy Grant
- No Condition
- Other services (except public administration)

Prince George & Region Prosperity Fund
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance

Sports for Kids Grant
- From $500 to $20,000
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Fraser-Fort George Endowment Fund Grants
- Maximum amount : 4,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Vision Zero in Road Safety Grant Program
- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- Public administration

- No Condition
- Educational services

Building Safer Communities Program - Organizational and Youth Sector Capacity-building Project Grants
- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

Building Safer Communities Program - Youth Engagement Project Grants
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

ViaSport - BC Ferries Disability Sport Experience Program
- No Condition
- All industries

SurreyCares Community Foundation - Community Prosperity Fund
- Maximum amount : 25,000,000 $
- All industries

- Maximum amount : 6,000 $
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Youth Centred Communities Grant
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

General Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

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

Economic Trust of the Southern Interior BC (ETSI-BC) - Developing Human Capital
- No Condition
- All industries