Community Grant Opportunities

Community Grant Opportunities

Below is a list of grant opportunities available to community-based organizations such as non-profits, neighborhood groups, civic and business associations, “Friends of” parks groups, and more. Check back for monthly updates to this list.

New Belgium Brewing Company Bicycle Advocacy Small Grant Program
due 3/31/25
To support projects that increase ridership through activities focused bicycle equity and access, safety education, and transportation justice. This program is intended to support projects that will break down barriers and foster support for riders, focus on increasing daily ridership, and/or promote bicycle accessibility in communities facing historical and systemic inequities. $500-$5K.

Keep Virginia Beautiful Green Grants
opens Spring 2025
Keep Virginia Beautiful accepts grant applications in spring each year, and funds thirty awards to schools, parks, counties and towns, environmental groups, associations, nonprofits, and service organizations in four different categories: Litter Prevention, Cigarette Litter Prevention, Community Beautification, and Recycling.  $500-$1,000

The Lawrence Foundation
due 4/30/25
To solve pressing environmental, human services, and other issues, for either general operating or project requests. Generally, awards are issued as unrestricted grants. $5K minimum. 

Network for Landscape Conservation Catalyst Fund
due 5/16/25
To accelerate the pace and practice of collaborative landscape conservation and stewardship by investing in nonprofit landscape conservation partnerships. This program couples financial support with capacity-building support through in-depth peer learning to catalyze partnership efforts to achieve long-term conservation goals and stewardship success. $25K max.

Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants
due 5/13/25
To support projects within the Chesapeake Bay watershed that promote voluntary, community-based efforts to protect and restore the diverse and vital habitats of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Funding will support efforts to achieve water quality improvement, restoration, and protection of key Chesapeake Bay species and their habitats; and the fostering of an engaged citizen and stakeholder presence that will build upon and sustain measurable natural resource improvements. Included in funding priorities is “protecting and enhancing natural and nature-based solutions to improve community resilience” $150K-$1M.

Bank of America Charitable Foundation: Stable Housing and Empowering Communities
due 6/30/25
To support projects that strengthen broader community vitality by addressing needs related to small business resiliency and community development, including working families, youth, seniors, individuals living with disabilities, veterans, and those impacted by the criminal justice system, enabling them to move forward in their goals. Projects must fall under one of the following categories: affordable housing, neighborhood revitalization, small business resiliency.

Clif Family Foundation
due 8/1/25
To build a healthy, just, and ecologically thriving world by supporting nonprofit organizations that are working to transform the food system, revitalize the environment, and enhance community health. The funding agency will work with nonprofit organizations that prioritize people-centered solutions and address urgent gaps and historically underfunded priorities. Funding priorities include: regenerative and organic farming; food production workers’ health and safety, climate justice; healthy food access; inclusive outdoor access; and indoors and outdoors safe from pollution. $5K-$50K

Rolling Admission

Virginia Trees for Clean Water
Rolling until 12/1/25
To encourage the creation of long-term, sustained canopy cover to improve water quality across the Commonwealth. This grant is used to fund tree-planting efforts that raise public awareness of the benefits of trees and impacts on water quality. $1K-50K

The Pollination Project
Rolling admission
$1,000 micro grants
To support grassroots organizations, including informally organized groups and organizations as well as formally registered or incorporated nonprofit organizations, that seek to build a kinder, more compassionate world. This program will provide seed funding to support community-driven grassroots initiatives that empower individuals and inspire others.

The Norman Foundation
Rolling admission; Letter of inquiry required
To support tax-exempt organizations focused primarily on domestic issues seeking to strengthen the ability of communities to enhance their economic, environmental, and social well-being. Funding may be provided for general support, projects, capacity-building efforts, and collaborative efforts. Funding will support projects that promote economic justice and development through community organizing, coalition building, and policy-reform efforts, work to prevent disposal of toxic substances in communities, link environmental issues with economic and social justice, and/or link community-based economic and environmental justice organizing to national and international reform efforts

All Points North Foundation
$60K - $100K
To support nonprofit organizations that have demonstrated measurable success and can showcase the potential for creating significant impact in the areas of education and solar energy in underserved communities.

Chesapeake Bay Trust Mini Urban Trees Grant
Rolling admission
$5K max
To implement small tree planting projects which occur in urban areas with low median household income levels, high unemployment, and neighborhoods with housing projects or that were historically red-lined at any time.

Republic Services Community Grant Program
Rolling admission
To help nonprofit organizations create stronger, cleaner, and healthier places and spaces in the neighborhoods that the funding agency serves. Preference will be given to projects that address neighborhood revitalization, safety, disaster relief, and social services.

Fruit Tree Orchard Grant
Rolling admission
To provide for the planting of fruit tree orchards to improve the surrounding environment and provide a local source of healthy nutrition. Orchards may be planted in places such as community gardens, public schools, city and state parks, low-income neighborhoods, Native American reservations, and animal sanctuaries.

Community First Fund’s Rapid Response Fund
Applications reviewed bi-monthly
$10-$100k
To shift philanthropic practices by distributing responsive resources in a timely way that prioritizes the humanity of black and brown people, the frontline organizations they may lead, and the grassroots organizations that may be accountable to them.