Quebec Grants for Non-Profit Organizations: Comprehensive Overview and Opportunities
Non-profit organizations (NPOs) in Quebec 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. Quebec 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 Quebec’s grant programs for non-profits, highlights the funding options available across Canada, and introduces key resources like Grantwatch for accessing international grant opportunities.

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- Maximum amount : 7,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

ÉcoPerformance — Recommissioning of building mechanical systems
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)

NovaScience Program - Support for projects in scientific culture and innovation
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Workforce Training Measure (MFOR)
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- All industries

Export and cultural visibility support program
- Maximum amount : 160,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

Quebec Initiative for Construction 4.0 — Stream 1
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Construction

Community Organization Support Program (PSOC)
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance

Ecocamionnage Program — Logistics Project Component
- No Condition
- Transportation and warehousing

Employee Wage Subsidy
- No Condition
- All industries

Technology and Business Demonstration
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

NovaScience Program — Support for the position of innovation and commercialization manager
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Program Supporting the Development of Tourist Attractions — Stream 2
- From $100,000 to $5,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Accommodation and food services

Employment Consultation - Human Resources Management Support
- Maximum amount : 4,800 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- All industries

Employment Integration Program for Immigrants and Visible Minorities
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Up to 60% of project cost
- All industries

Program Supporting the Development of Tourist Attractions — Stream 1
- From $150,000 to $5,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Financial Compensation Program for the Restaurant Sector
- No Condition
- Accommodation and food services

Program for efficiency in maritime, air, and rail transport - Infrastructure and equipment component
- Maximum amount : 4,000,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing

Maritime, Air, and Rail Transportation Efficiency Program - Pilot Project Component
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing

Roulez Vert — Rebate for charging station at work
- Maximum amount : 49,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Utilities
- Construction
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Fonds Écoleader — Specific implementation support
- Maximum amount : 80,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- All industries

Additional support for the circulation of shows
- Maximum amount : 275,000 $
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Economic development program to help revitalize territories (DEPART)
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Accommodation and food services

Bioénergies — Analysis
- No Condition
- Manufacturing

Support program for the development of reserved designations and promotional terms — Component 1
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

REGI — Business Scale-up and Productivity — CED (QC) – Private sector
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries
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Maritime, Air, and Rail Transportation Efficiency Program - Studies Component
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing

Offensive Tr@ns Num
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Bioénergies — Implementation
- Maximum amount : 5,000,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Educational services

Call for projects to combat homophobia and transphobia
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Quebec Initiative for Construction 4.0 — Stream 2
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Construction

CED — Regional Artificial Intelligence Initiative
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries

- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Technoclimat
- Maximum amount : 3,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing

Support program for positioning Quebec alcohol in the SAQ network
- Maximum amount : 1,950,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Accommodation and food services

NovaScience Program — Support for employment in research and innovation
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

Financial assistance for the hiring of a person to integrate a job on a long-term basis
- No Condition
- Construction
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Energir — Energy efficiency program - Efficient construction
- From $5,000 to $325,000
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Educational services

Biofood Innovation Program Component 2 – Applied research, experimental development and technological adaptation
- From $25,000 to $254,000
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Energir — Energy efficiency program – Feasibility study
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Accommodation and food services

Addressing Racism and Discrimination in Canada’s Health Systems Program
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Commerce-Montreal
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Retail trade
- Accommodation and food services

Healthy Eating Program Component 3 – Support for activities and structural projects
- From $40,000 to $300,000
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Energir — Energy efficiency program – Implementation of efficiency measures
- From $1,000 to $1,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

International Climate Cooperation Program (ICCP)
- No Condition
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

SODEC — Support for promotion and distribution – Component 1b
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

FAQDD — Action-Climat Quebec
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

MAPAQ — Ministerial initiative Proximity — Component 1
- From $7,000 to $50,000
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Aboriginal Aquatic Resource And Oceans Management (AAROM) Program
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Canada Cultural Investment Fund - Endowment Incentives
- From $5,000 to $1,500,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Renewable Natural Gas Production Support Program — Stream 1
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
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Financial Assistance Program for the Promotion of French – Stream 1
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Wholesale trade
- Retail trade
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Financial Assistance Program for the Promotion of French – stream 2
- Maximum amount : 125,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- All industries

Regional defence investment initiative (RDII) – Quebec
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Public administration

Financial support for the integration of foreign-trained employees
- Up to 70% of project cost
- All industries

Visées program — Training
- Maximum amount : 8,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Acting to support growth
- Maximum amount : 270,000 $
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Greater Montreal Climate Fund — 2025-2026 Call for projects
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

MAPAQ — Prime-Vert — Component 2
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

CQRDA — INNOV-R SME
- Maximum amount : 450,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

REGI — Business Scale-up and Productivity — CED (QC) — Not-for-profit
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries

Social Economy Support Fund
- Maximum amount : 20,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

SEAO electronic tendering system
- No Condition
- All industries

MAPAQ — Food Processing Program — Subcomponent 4.2 - Regional, sectoral and environmental challenges facing slaughterhouses and cheese dairies
- From $7,500 to $150,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing

PADAAR — Measure 4051 – Innovation and testing
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Pilot or capital projects in the field
- From $100,000 to $300,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Awareness and promotion projects
- From $10,000 to $75,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Support program for economic development projects (PAPDE) — Component 2 : Support for the development of strategic sectors and regions
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 60% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Anti-Racism Action Program
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

MT Lab — Project financing program — Component 1: Strategic support
- From $5,000 to $12,000
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Accommodation and food services

- Minimum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Financial assistance for infrastructure projects supporting the mining sector (ENIAM)
- From $100,000 to $1,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Transportation and warehousing
- Information and cultural industries

DEL — Expertise Financing Grant
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

MAPAQ — Food Processing Program — Component 1
- From $5,000 to $75,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing

PADAAR — Measure 4074 – Relief group
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

MT Lab — Project Financing Program — Component 2
- Maximum amount : 90,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Accommodation and food services
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Efficient Solutions Program — Small Business Component
- Minimum amount : 500 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- All industries

Regional partnership and digital transformation agreement for tourism 2022-2025 – Digital development of a company
- From $5,000 to $25,000
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Ecocamionnage Program — Technology acquisition component
- No Condition
- Transportation and warehousing

SODEC — Support for book and publishing companies – Component 1
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Information and cultural industries

Ecocamionnage Program — Acquisition of used heavy vehicles component
- No Condition
- Transportation and warehousing

Ambition-Compétences — Training for resilience and competitiveness in employment
- Up to 85% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Canada Book Fund Publishing Support
- Maximum amount : 850,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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