20 Grant Opportunities for Nonprofits,  Entrepreneurs and Professionals  Currently Open –  February 22, 2025

Are you looking for funding to scale your nonprofit, business, or professional endeavors? We’ve curated 20 grant opportunities currently open for applications, covering various sectors, including social impact, entrepreneurship, and professional development. Explore these opportunities and take the next step toward securing the support you need!

1. Mastercard Foundation & University of Cambridge Climate Resilience and Sustainability Research Fund 2025.  (up to £50,000)

The Fund aims to catalyse new and strengthen existing collaborations between researchers in Africa and Cambridge and support high quality training activities. The focus of the scheme is research on climate resilience and sustainability.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 21

2. Nehemiah Davis’ Greatness Grant 2025 up to ( $2,500)

Are you an aspiring or new entrepreneur with big ideas but lacking the funding to bring them to life? The Greatness Grant by Nehemiah Davis is here to help you turn your vision into reality. Nehemiah Davis created this grant -to give back and empower the next generation of business owners to chase greatness and achieve success.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 1

3. Association of American Educators Foundation (AAEF) National Scholarship & Grant Program 2025.

Teacher scholarships and classroom grants are competitive awards available to all educators. The Association of American Educators Foundation (AAEF) is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that provides teachers and leaders with opportunities, information, and funds to reform and improve the education of America’s
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 1

4. Legal Foundation of Washington Race Equity Grants 2025. 

The Race Equity Grants provide multiyear funding to advance racial justice in civil legal aid and build power in communities most impacted by structural racism and oppression. They use a community-driven grantmaking model designed to center the voices of communities most impacted by grantmaking decisions.
Click here to apply | Deadline: April 15

5. Doc Society Climate Story Fund 2025 (up to $125,000)

The Doc Society Climate Story Fund supports compelling independent media storytelling and impact strategies from around that world that can help audiences envision the just transition and activate them to make these visions a reality.
Click here to apply | March 10

6. EJN Story Grants to Support Reporting on the Marine Environment in the Adriatic Region 2025.

Internews’ Earth Journalism Network is pleased to announce a new story grant call to support in-depth reporting on the marine environment in the Adriatic region-including illegal, underreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, pollution, coastal development issues and the biodiversity crisis-as well as solutions to the climate and environmental threats confronting this ecosystem, such as the establishment of marine protected areas, new regulations to curb IUU fishing, community-based marine conservation initiatives and enhanced monitoring and enforcement.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Feb 27

7. McKinsey & Company Fast Grants 2025. 

McKinsey & Company (“McKinsey”) is a global Management Consulting Firm that seeks to create positive, enduring change in the world. Through the Fast Grants initiative, McKinsey’s Chicago office helps local organizations with underrepresented founders tackle their toughest challenges and achieve sustainable, inclusive growth at scale. Underrepresented founders include first generation business owners and/or founders from economically disadvantaged communities.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Feb 28

8. Turn Your Story into $1,000 and a Documentary with Prototipe Media

Have you been working on a story that you think deserves to be adapted into a documentary or docu-series? Get your idea out of your notebook and onto the big screen with Prototipe. They will hold your hand every step of the way, from development to production. Apply to join Prototipe’s free community of journalists for a chance to be awarded a $1,000 stipend and to work with their team to develop your IP into doc/doc-series/feature film.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Unspecified

9. The Accerta Health Access Foundation (the Accerta Foundation) improves the lives of those in need and actively gives back to the communities where they work and live. The Accerta Foundation amplifies the work that charitable organizations across Canada do to drive people toward better health, independence, and productivity.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Feb 28

10. Lung Cancer Research Foundation (LCRF) Research Grant on Prevention and Early Detection in Lung Cancer 2025. 

Given the significance and need for early detection of lung cancer and advancements in molecular screening, LCRF continues to offer a funding mechanism to support research projects that facilitate or advance the understanding and characterization of approaches for early detection of lung cancer. Work supported through this mechanism addresses important questions in non-small cell and small cell lung cancer.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 3

11. NASW Peggy Girshman Idea Grants Spring 2025. 

NASW invites proposals from individuals or groups for grants of up to $5,000 to support projects and programs that will help science writers in their professional lives and benefit the field of science writing. Projects must be aligned with NASW’s mission and should be accessible to U.S.-based science writers.
Click here to apply | Deadline: April 4

12. Homeworld Collective Garden Grants 2025: Biotech in Greenhouse Gas Removal (up to $150k

Get your best ideas about greenhouse gas removal off the shelf. Apply now for the Homeworld Collective Garden Grants 2025. The Homeworld Collective is funding ambitious, early-stage projects at the intersection of biotechnology and greenhouse gas removal.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Feb 28

13. Pulitzer Center Civil Society Micro-Grant 2025: COP30 Call for Proposal (up to $4,000)

Climate and environmental issues have been at the core of the Pulitzer Center’s work since its founding in 2006. The Center has supported breakthrough journalism that led to real-world impact: engaging and mobilizing communities, prompting demands for change, influencing decisions to halt environmentally destructive practices, and many more.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Feb 15

12. 

Grand Challenges Canada is launching a new portfolio, Play Learn Thrive, to respond to gaps in current Early Childhood Development in Emergencies (ECDiE) and Education in Emergencies (EiE) approaches.
Click here to apply | Deadline: April 25

13. Investing in Innovation (i3) Africa Program 2025.

Investing in Innovation (13) is a pan-African commercialization support program that aims to help scale 5-fifteen (15) African healthtech startups who are working to advance healthcare access and delivery in Africa.
Click here  to apply | Deadline: Feb 28

14. Jerome Foundation New York City Film Production Grant 2025 (up to $30,000)

Powered every two years, Jerome Foundation’s NYC Film Production Grant provides New York City – based early career film directors production grants for short or long – form film projects in the ever – expanding creative genres of experimental, narrative, animation, or documentary genres or in any hybrid combination of these forms.
Click here to apply | Deadline: April 3

15.  ETH4D Doctoral Mentorship Grants 2025. 

ETH for Development (ETH4D) provides grants for mentoring doctoral candidates from low- and lower-middle-income Countries.
Click here to apply | Deadline : Deadline: March 30

16. Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme 2025 for African Entrepreneurs ($5,000 Seed Funding and more)

Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme 2025 for African Entrepreneurs. The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF)-Africa’s leading philanthropy focused on empowering African entrepreneurs -is looking for the most innovative business ideas across the African continent.
Click here for to apply | Deadline: March 1

17. DWF Foundation Grant Programme 2025. 

The DWF Foundation is offering grants to registered charities working to make a positive impact in their communities. This exciting opportunity could provide your organization with funding of up to £5,000 to support your valuable work.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Feb 28

18. NSERC College and Community Social Innovation Fund Grants 2025 (up to $120,000)

CCSIF grants are intended to foster community innovation by connecting the talent, facilities and capabilities of Canada’s colleges and polytechnics with the research needs of community organizations. CCSIF proposals should facilitate collaborative and innovative research that brings together researchers, students and partners to address challenges in community innovation in the social sciences, humanities, health sciences, natural sciences and engineering research fields.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Feb 26

19. Ashoka Power of Local Challenge 2025. (Up to $60,000)

They are looking for small business ecosystem builders – organizations that provide small businesses with diverse and equitable opportunities like resources, tools, networking, and more. If this sounds like you, then you’re in the right place!
Click here to apply | Deadline: Feb 26

20.  Black Artists Grant 2025.

The Black Artists Grant (BAG) offered by Creative Debuts as a no-strings attached financial support to help Black artists. They can spend the grant on whatever they want – be that make new work, buy equipment or materials, travel, research, visit exhibitions or conferences, or to even just cover some life expenses.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Rolling Basis

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