Government Grants for Businesses in Québec
From training programs to research initiatives, discover the diverse range of activities in Quebec that benefit from various forms of support.
In Quebec, as across Canada, there are numerous grants and financing options available to help foster the growth of communities and organizations. This diverse funding landscape draws from both federal and provincial sources, offering specific opportunities tailored to each province, from British Columbia to Quebec. Whether you're looking to develop a project, launch an initiative, or expand a program, these resources are designed to support your endeavors and contribute to regional development.

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

Quebec Fisheries Fund — Innovation
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

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

Grant for seniors to pay municipal taxes
- No Condition
- 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

Tax credit for taxes paid by an environmental trust – Businesses
- No Condition
- All industries

Wildlife Workshop
- No Condition
- Educational services

Musicaction — Event in Canada
- Maximum amount : 85,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

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

MRC Joliette — Business Assistance Fund (FAE) – Stream 2
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)

Musicaction — Artist career, skills and business development
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

SADC Lac-St-Jean Ouest — Youth Strategy Fund
- No Condition
- All industries

Quebec International — International recruiting
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Finance and insurance
- Health care and social assistance

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

Community Donations
- No Condition
- All industries
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Quebec businesses can access a variety of grants and funding to support their growth and innovative projects. Specific programs exist for initiatives ranging from energy efficiency to ecological transition, and sustainable development. Companies can also benefit from specialized advice and mentorship services to maximize their chances of success in grant applications. Online resources, detailed guides, and training workshops are available to assist them throughout the process.

Fonds local d’investissement
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- All industries

Snow clearing assistance for seniors and persons with reduced mobility
- No Condition
- All industries

FTQ — Business Financing
- From $100,000 to $5,000,000
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

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

- 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

Sustainable Growth Investment — Growth Support Plus
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- All industries

Financial Assistance Program for the Development of Private Woodlots
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

Rouyn-Noranda — Structuring Projects Fund (FPS)
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 5% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services

FTQ — Local Funds
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- All industries

Collective recovery support program (PSRC)
- Maximum amount : 11,000 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries

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

Fonds Mauricie Fonds Mauricie — Women Entrepreneurs Fund
- From $750 to $20,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Revitalising and developing business establishments in the city centre
- Maximum amount : 30,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Retail trade

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

SOCCA — Term loan for Indigenous businesses
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Aboriginal Business Financing Program (ABDP) — Community project
- Up to 75% of project cost
- All industries

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

Desjardins — Agriculture loans and financing
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Finance and insurance

Indigenous cultural partnership
- From $5,000 to $1,500,000
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
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- No Condition
- All industries

Development Capital — Debt financing
- No Condition
- All industries

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

- No Condition
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction

Musicaction — Album production
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

CRIBIQ-BIOnext
- Maximum amount : 15,000 $
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

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

- No Condition
- All industries

innovÉÉ — PARTENAR-IA — Academic
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- All industries

Accord D Business financing
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- All industries

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

Youth Strategy
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- All industries

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

MRC L'Islet — RénoRégion and home adaptation programs (PAD)
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 95% of project cost
- All 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

Social economy support program (PSES) – Stream 3
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Advisory Services Program — Component 1 - Support for the use of advisory services by businesses
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Educational services
- Other services (except public administration)

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

Make your business a model of sustainable mobility
- No Condition
- All industries

- No Condition
- All industries
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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

MRC Témiscamingue — Tourism Attraction Fund
- From $5,000 to $20,000
- Up to 15% of project cost
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Accommodation and food services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

La Ruche — Positive Footprint Fund
- From $5,000 to $100,000
- All industries

OASIS Program
- From $1,000,000 to $25,000,000
- Public administration

- No Condition
- All industries

ESM — Digital Acceleration
- Maximum amount : 27,000 $
- Up to 45% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

FIJE Fund
- Maximum amount : 50,000 $
- All industries

Development Capital — Equity financing
- Minimum amount : 5,000,000 $
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Public transit development assistance program – Stream 3 : Financial assistance for intercity bus transportation
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Transportation and warehousing
- Public administration

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

Quebec Business Women's Award
- No Condition
- All industries

Tax credit for the production of sound recordings
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Information and cultural industries

Gaspésie and Maritime Provinces
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

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

Le Fonds de développement économique LaPrade St-Maurice — Financing
- From $5,000 to $100,000
- All industries

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

Tax credit for a new financial services corporation
- No Condition
- Finance and insurance

Développement Vaudreuil-Soulanges — Futurpreneur Canada
- Maximum amount : 60,000 $
- All industries

MRC Deux-Montagnes— Regional and Rural Fund (FRR) – Stream 2
- From $5,000 to $150,000
- Up to 20% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Arts, entertainment and recreation
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Waste Heat Recovery — Stream 1: Feasibility study
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Utilities

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