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.

Territorial and sectoral development program — Stream 2.1
- From $5,000 to $250,000
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Canada Periodical Fund - Business Innovation
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- All industries

Help for community media operations
- No Condition
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Community Interaction Program — Awareness-raising
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Other services (except public administration)

Partnered Initiatives
- No Condition
- All industries

ARBJ — Business start-up, expansion and succession program (PDERE)
- Maximum amount : 125,000 $
- Up to 35% of project cost
- All industries

Innov'Action agroalimentaire Program
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

CQRDA — SI2TEC
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

Contributions Program for Non-Profit Consumer and Voluntary Organizations
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- All industries

Business Assistance — Immigrant Investor Program
- Up to 10% of project cost
- All industries

Call for Proposals: Improving Access to Primary Care for Vulnerable Communities in Quebec
- No Condition
- All industries

PISAQ – Stream 4
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Quebec Housing Industry Development Program (PADIQH)
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Up to 66.67% of project cost
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Évolution-Compétences — Innovation and knowledge component
- Up to 100% of project cost
- All industries

Aboriginal Fisheries Strategy (AFS)
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

SODEC — Development Aid Program
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

General Class Contribution Program
- Maximum amount : 3,000,000 $
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Chantier de l'économie sociale Trust — Operations Patient Capital Loan
- From $50,000 to $250,000
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance

Data standardization support program
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

ECHO Foundation — Mental health
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance

Assistance program for setting up offices in Old Saint-Jean
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Civil Remedies Grant Program
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- All industries

DEPS — Local Investment Fund
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- All industries

Community Donations
- No Condition
- All industries

Fonds local d’investissement
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- All industries
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Capital project: Retrofit of existing municipal buildings
- Maximum amount : 10,000,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Public administration

Private Archives Processing Support Program
- From $5,000 to $20,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Public administration

Job integration contract
- No Condition
- All industries

Protecting habitats
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Capitalization of Social Economy Enterprises (CAES) — Stream 2
- From $50,000 to $2,000,000
- Up to 80% of project cost
- All industries

SODEC — Assistance for businesses in the arts and crafts sector — Stream 4
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Tourism Business Development Fund (TBDF)
- From $50,000 to $500,000
- Up to 10% of project cost
- Accommodation and food services

Programme d’appui au développement des secteurs stratégiques et des créneaux d’excellence (PADS)
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Fonds Développement La Mitis - Regional Fund
- No Condition
- All industries

Social Development Fund of the City of Trois-Rivières
- No Condition
- All industries

Indigenous cultural partnership
- From $5,000 to $1,500,000
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

City Grant Program - Health, Social and Safety
- No Condition
- All industries

United Way Hastings & Prince Edward Inc. - Community Impact Fund
- Minimum amount : 5,000 $
- All industries

Private Archives Support Program
- Maximum amount : 85,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

New Mobility Assistance Program (NOMO) – Stream 1
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

Territorial and sectoral development program — Stream 2.3
- From $5,000 to $200,000
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Tourisme Côte-Nord — EPRTNT – Structuring the tourism offer
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

SODEC — Production support
- Maximum amount : 4,000,000 $
- Up to 65% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

Financial assistance program for regional service units in the areas of recreation, sports, outdoor activities, and physical activity (PAFURS)
- Up to 100% of project cost
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

ECHO Foundation — Environment
- No Condition
- Health care and social assistance
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

DEPS — Social Economy Development Fund
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Health care and social assistance

Gatineau — Green Fund
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- All industries

My First Games
- Maximum amount : 1,000 $
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Support program for economic development projects (PAPDE) — Component 3 : Promotion of foreign trade and prospecting for foreign investments
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

La Ruche — Positive Footprint Fund
- From $5,000 to $100,000
- All industries
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- No Condition
- All industries

Equity and Inclusion in The Arts Fund - Sustain
- Up to 90% of project cost
- All industries

Quantum Quebec
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Young Canada Works in Both Official Languages — Not-for-Profit
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Celebration and Commemoration Program - Celebrate Canada
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 100% of project cost
- All industries

Panel innovation platform (PIP)
- From $100,000 to $375,000
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

ARBJ — Pre-start-up program (PPE)
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Adoption Prep Grants
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- All industries

Community Environmental Fund
- From $1,000 to $10,000
- All industries

Bringing Circularity to Life in the Bioeconomy: From Envisioning to Planning
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Field of Dreams Grants
- No Condition
- All industries

Quebec Economic Development Program (QEDP)
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

Quebec Fisheries Fund — Science partnerships
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
Commemorative Partnership Program - Community Engagement
- Maximum amount : 50 $
- All industries

Housing & Homelessness Grants
- Maximum amount : 10,000 $
- Up to 60% of project cost
- All industries

Community Investment Program - Food Security Fund
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 25% of project cost
- All industries

CED Aerospace Regional Recovery Initiative — Indigenous stream
- No Condition
- Manufacturing

Community Investment Program - B3 Fund
- Maximum amount : 60,000 $
- All industries

Non-profit SMART Grants
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- All industries
Subventions pour des projets qui favorisent de saines habitudes de vie dans les écoles primaires du Québec
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Educational services

MRC Collines-de-l'Outaouais — FRR Stream 1
- Maximum amount : 3,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Biofood Innovation Program Component 1 – Financial support for research, transfer and dissemination organizations
- Maximum amount : 3,500,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

MRC Brome-Missisquoi — Petits établissements accessibles (PEA) program
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Retail trade
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Accommodation and food services
- Other services (except public administration)

EPRTNT — Digital development of a company
- From $10,000 to $30,000
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Accommodation and food services

EPRTNT — Festivals and events
- From $50,000 to $35,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services
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Northern Isolated Community Initiatives (NICI) Fund
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

La Ruche — Mille et UN Fund
- From $5,000 to $100,000
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Grants and Loans
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- All industries

EPRTNT — Hosting
- From $50,000 to $100,000
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Accommodation and food services

The Accelerator
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- All industries

Agricultural and Sector Show Support Program – Stream 1.3
- Maximum amount : 115,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Charitable Giving - Partner Grant Program
- Maximum amount : 3,000 $
- All industries

Loisir et Sport Montérégie — Transport Fund
- No Condition
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Forest Operations Modernization Program
- From $5,000 to $250,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
Bourses d’études supérieures pour des étudiants de deuxième et de troisième cycle
- From $7,500 to $10,000
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Commemorate Canada Program
- No Condition
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Financial Assistance Program from the Fonds de la sécurité routière
- Maximum amount : 350,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing

- No Condition
- All industries

Sustainable Development Support Program for Mining Sector Companies — Stream D
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction

Public transit development assistance program – Stream 1 : Financial assistance for urban public transit
- Up to 65% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing
- Public administration

Fund to support attraction and sustainable settlement in Côte-Nord
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Educational services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Official Languages Economic Development Initiative in Quebec — Not-for-profit
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

- Up to 80% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Ville de La Tuque — RRF stream 4 - Support for vitality
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Retail trade
- Accommodation and food services
- Other services (except public administration)

Economic Development Organization Operating Support Program (PAFODE) — Component 1 : Operating support for organizations supporting entrepreneurship
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 60% of project cost
- All industries

Mission Inclusion - Support for Quebec Organizations - Community Projects
- Maximum amount : 55,000 $
- Other services (except public administration)

AgriAssurance Program — Kosher and Halal Investment – Not-for-profit
- Maximum amount : 350,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Emergency And Climate Change Adaptation Fund
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 90% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

REGI — Jobs and Growth Fund — CED (QC) — Not-for-profit
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Canadian Cancer Society - Research Training Awards
- No Condition
- All industries