Ontario Grants for Non-Profit Organizations: Comprehensive Overview and Opportunities
Non-profit organizations (NPOs) in Ontario play a vital role in supporting social, cultural, and community development. Access to grants and funding opportunities is essential for these organizations to carry out impactful projects that benefit local communities, address social issues, and promote economic growth. Ontario offers various grant programs specifically designed for non-profit organizations, providing crucial financial support for development, innovation, and community services. This article provides an overview of Ontario grant programs for non-profits, highlights the funding options available across Canada, and introduces key resources like Grantwatch for accessing international grant opportunities.

Regional Economic Growth Through Innovation & Southern Ontario Prosperity Program — Indigenous
- No Condition
- All industries

Community Funding - Project Funding
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

Community Funding - Emergency Funding
- No Condition
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Community Funding - Civic Events Funding
- Maximum amount : 3,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Community Funding - Emerging Community Need Funding
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Ontario Transit Investment Fund (OTIF)
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing

Community Funding - Snow Go Programs
- Maximum amount : 450 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance

Community Funding - Sustainability Funding
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Community Funding - Capital Funding
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Cultural Funding - Equity and inclusion in the arts fund
- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Culture Funding - Arts funding program
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Cultural Funding - Heritage Funding Program
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Cultural Funding - Major arts, cultural festivals, agricultural fairs programs
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Cultural Funding - Capacity Building Program
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Cultural Funding - Cultural Facilities Fund
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Community Environmental Projects Grant Program (CEPGP)
- From $200 to $10,500
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Forest Biomass Program — Indigenous bioeconomy partnerships stream
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Ottawa Rural Clean Water Program
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Educational services

INVEST North Program — Innovation – Industrial Research Chair
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

High Volume User Program
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Real estate and rental and leasing

Gasoline used in unlicensed business equipment
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Construction
- Manufacturing

Rural Association Partnership Program
- Maximum amount : 7,500 $
- Retail trade
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Rural Economic Development (RED) program
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- All industries

Adaptation Canada 2026 Opportunity
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Neighbourhood Planting Program
- Maximum amount : 500 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
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Summer Employment Opportunities (SEO) Program
- Maximum amount : 3,741 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services
- Public administration

- From $20,000 to $150,000
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Aboriginal Participation Fund (APF) — Mining conferences funding Sub-Stream
- No Condition
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction

Ontario Trillium Foundation - Capital Grants
- From $10,000 to $200,000
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Programs for Major Arts, Cultural and Agricultural Fairs Festivals - Festivals Program
- No Condition
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Programs for major arts, cultural festivals and agricultural fairs – Program for fairs
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Experience Ontario 2025
- Maximum amount : 125,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Workforce Development Stream
- No Condition
- All industries

OBIO — Early Adopter Health Network (EAHN)
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance

Indigenous Participation Fund - Advanced exploration and development support strean
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- All industries

Community Enhancement Program — Broadband and Cellular Expansion Projects
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Utilities
- Information and cultural industries
- Public administration

Resilient Communities Fund
- Minimum amount : 10,000 $
- All industries

C/AV and Smart Mobility — Stream 2
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 66% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing

Employer Health Tax relief (EHT)
- No Condition
- All industries

People & Talent Program — Workforce Development Stream
- Maximum amount : 35,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

The Norfolk Community Foundation
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Toronto — Capacity Buyback Program
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade
- Retail trade
- Educational services

Leadership and Mentorship Grant
- Maximum amount : 40,000 $
- Health care and social assistance

Forest Biomass Program — Modernization stream
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Brownfields Redevelopment Program - Rehabilitation
- Maximum amount : 3,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Construction
- Real estate and rental and leasing
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

Ottawa Valley Community Foundation - General and Bereavement Funds
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Ottawa Valley Community Foundation - Sports 4 All Fund
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

- No Condition
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Toronto Circular Food Innovators Fund
- From $5,000 to $35,000
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Accommodation and food services

The Marion Ethel Kamm and Frederick John Kamm Foundation
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance
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Grow Ontario Market Initiative
- Maximum amount : 60,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade

Ontario — Biosecurity Enhancement Initiative
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade
- Transportation and warehousing

- Maximum amount : 90,000 $
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing

- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

OTF — System Innovations Grant
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 15% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Northern Ontario Development Program (NODP) — Youth Internships — Not-for-Profit
- No Condition
- All industries

Heritage Property Grant Program - Cost sharing grant
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

OTF — Seed Grant
- From $10,000 to $100,000
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Community Enhancement Program — Rural Enhancement Funding Stream
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- All industries

Toronto Cultural Festivals Funding Program
- No Condition
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Climate and Equity Lab Grants
- From $50,000 to $52,500
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

- No Condition
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Small Business Property Tax Subclass
- No Condition
- Retail trade

The Thames Valley Education Foundation - The Learning Enhancement Fund
- Maximum amount : 500 $
- Educational services

The Thames Valley Education Foundation - The Caring Fund
- Maximum amount : 500 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

OCI — Innovating Digital Health Solutions (IDHS)
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Health care and social assistance

Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) - Indigenous Energy Support Program
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- All industries

- From $100 to $2,500
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Environment Fund Grant
- Maximum amount : 2,000 $
- Other services (except public administration)

Brockville and Area Community Foundation
- From $500 to $11,800
- Other services (except public administration)

Job Opportunity for Youth Grant
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Other services (except public administration)

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

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

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

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

Spark Mentorships & Grants - Northwest Ontario
- From $3,000 to $3,000
- All industries

Articipate — Creation and Development Grant
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Scugog Youth Initiative Grant
- No Condition
- All industries

- No Condition
- All industries

Durham Community Foundation Community Grants
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Fund – Stream 1
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Community Empowerment for Economic Development (CEED) Program
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- All industries

- From $2,500 to $5,000
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

OTF — Youth Innovations Test Grant
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 15% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Casino Rama Cares Community Program
- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)

Safer and Vital Communities Grant
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Arts, Culture and Heritage Fund (ACHF)
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- All industries

Thunder Bay Community Foundation Grants
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- All industries

- No Condition
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

- From $500 to $10,000
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

- From $200 to $500
- All industries

The Sifton Family Foundation
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Petrolia Community Fund Grants
- From $200 to $2,000
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

- No Condition
- All industries

Investments in Forest Industry Transformation (IFIT) — Studies projects
- Minimum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

United Way Simcoe Muskoka - Women United
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

United Way Simcoe Muskoka - Reaching Home
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Health care and social assistance