15 Grant Opportunities for Non-Profits and Entrepreneurs Currently Open – October 5, 2025 

Explore 15 Grant Opportunities for Nonprofits and Entrepreneurs currently open as of October 5, 2025. This curated list features local and international funding calls designed to support innovative ideas, social impact projects, and business growth. Whether you’re leading a community initiative, scaling a social enterprise, or driving change through your nonprofit, these opportunities provide financial support and visibility to help you make a greater impact.

1. AFR100 Land Accelerator Africa Project 2025. 

The AUDA-NEPAD assisting African Member states to achieve this ambitious goal, AFR100 partners (AUDA-NEPAD, WRI & Fledge), launched an accelerator program called The Land Accelerator Africa program. The Land Accelerator is an accelerator program and curated network for entrepreneurs who restore degraded forests and farmland.
Click here to apply | Deadline : Deadline: Oct. 30

2. Technology Youth Power Fund 2026. 

The Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund is a first of its kind philanthropic initiative aimed at supporting youth and intergenerationally led organizations shaping the responsible technology movement.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct.10

3. Alan Hagman Photojournalism Grant 2025. 

The $6,000 Alan Hagman Photojournalism grant is named for the late Los Angeles Times photo editor who served as a mentor and championed the work of photojournalists throughout his career. The annual grant helps to facilitate projects ranging from human rights to environmental issues. A creative approach to important stories that might otherwise go untold is highly valued. The grant is supported by donations from the Hagman family and Alan’s friends and colleagues.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 10

4. Commonwealth Foundation Grants 2026 for Civil Society Organisations. 

The open call grants seek to facilitate constructive engagement between civil society and decision-makers, including civil society participation in policy development and implementation.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 23

5. People-First Al Fund 2025 for Non-profits. 

The People-First Al Fund aims to support frontline and mission-focused nonprofits working at the intersection of innovation and public good. At OpenAl, ensuring broad deployment of benefits and applying an iterative approach to innovation is core to who they are. They believe Al should help solve humanity’s hardest problems, and that we should listen to and learn from organizations already leading that work on the frontlines.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 8

6. Purolator Canada True North Small Business Grant 2025. 

Canada’s small businesses keep the country thriving. This grant is a way of recognizing their resilience and supporting their continued contribution to this nation. And, by encouraging Canadians to make nominations, Purolator Canada is hoping to raise the profiles of small businesses in local communities across the Country.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Nov. 5

7. Education Sub-Saharan Africa (ESSA) Research Grants on Foundational Learning 2025.

Are you a researcher based in Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, or Zambia? Applications are now open for the Education Sub-Saharan Africa (ESSA) Research Grants on Foundational Learning 2025. Up to $15,000 is given to support research that strengthens Foundational Learning (FL) and helps shape education policy and practice.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct.31

8. Wenner-Gren Foundation Post-PhD Research Grant 2025-2026. 

This grant program funds individual research projects undertaken by doctorates in anthropology or a closely related field. Their goal is to support vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of what it means to be human. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, topic, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that integrate two or more subfields and pioneer new approaches and ideas.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Nov. 1

9. Biodiversity Information for  Development (BID)

GBIF-the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, seeks concept notes from eligible organizations in sub-Saharan Africa for project funding through the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Nov. 3

10. Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program 2026. 

The Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program, authorized in the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (NSLA) (42 USC 1751 et seq.), is designed to increase the availability of local foods in Child Nutrition Program (CNP) operations and connect students to the sources of their food through education, taste tests, school gardens, field trips, and local food sourcing for CNP meals. Grants can be used to launch new farm to CNP1 programs or expand existing efforts.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Dec. 5

11. Explorers Club Pathfinder Grant 2025. 

Previously known as “The Exploration Fund Grant,” The Pathfinder Grant is designed to support graduate and post-graduate students, as well as early-career scientists, in pursuing transformative field research. From remote wilderness to ocean depths to the edges of cultural discovery, the Pathfinder Grant helps explorers turn vision into action.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 8

12. 360 Woman Africa Enterprise Fund Women-in-Business Grant 2025. 

This is a bold initiative designed to empower women-led businesses in Nigeria with the resources they need to grow, scale and create businesses. 
Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 5

13. Pulitzer Center Rainforest Reporting Grant 2025. 

The new Rainforest Reporting Grant is an evolution of the Rainforest Journalism Fund (RJF), which was launched in 2018. Over five years, RJF has supported more than 300 projects and 600 journalists who produced 1,700 reports. Their impacts range from: a sanction against corporate mining activities in DRC, a policy revision on a government agriculture program in Indonesia, and international attention on widespread illegal wildlife Trades.
Click here to apply | Deadline: On Rolling Basis

14. AAUW Community Action Grants 2026. 

The AAUW Community Action Grants seek to dismantle barriers to girls’ participation in STEM and create a pipeline of diverse talent in these fields. Community Action Grants fund innovative, community-based programs that create pathways for K-12 girls to develop STEM confidence, skills, and identity – encouraging them to pursue STEM higher education and careers.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 31

15. Craft Research Fund Grant 2026. 

As the Center’s first and longest-running grant program, the Craft Research Fund is dedicated to supporting new and interdisciplinary research about craft in the United States. Since 2005, the program has supported 255 projects in 41 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico by distributing over $1,900,000.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Oct. 17

For more information, visit OD Grants.