Grants for Small businesses - Private

This program provides financial support to small businesses in the Inner Sunset neighborhood for storefront improvements, technical assistance, and activating vacant commercial spaces to enhance the local economy and community vibrancy.

This program provides matching funds to property owners and tenants in Downtown Warsaw for enhancing the visual appeal and integrity of their commercial façades, promoting revitalization and historic preservation.

This program provides financial support to local Chamber members for projects and events that enhance the Polson-area business community and promote economic engagement.

This funding program provides financial support and resources to innovative startups focused on clean energy and environmental sustainability solutions that benefit communities within Exelon's service areas.

This grant provides funding to nonprofits and community initiatives in Vermont that aim to improve economic equity, education, health, and community leadership to help close the opportunity gap.

This grant provides funding for innovative research projects that improve sustainable solid waste management practices, focusing on climate change, emerging contaminants, and materials recycling.

This funding initiative provides financial support for researchers in the U.S. and Canada to publish impactful animal welfare studies in open-access journals, ensuring their work reaches a wider audience.

This program provides financial support to small retail businesses in downtown Baltimore for professional consulting services and interior renovations to enhance their storefronts and attract more customers.

This grant provides funding for collaborative projects in the planning phase that seek to create systemic change in community health by addressing complex issues through equity-focused solutions.

This program provides financial assistance to small businesses in Boone, Campbell, and Kenton Counties, Kentucky, to help them recover from recent severe weather and improve their operations.

This program provides financial assistance to commercial property owners and tenants in Clay and Kanawha Counties, West Virginia, for exterior improvements that enhance the appearance and accessibility of businesses along the Elk River Trail.

This funding opportunity supports independent retail shop owners in Oklahoma who want to create community-focused projects that enhance public spaces outside their businesses.

This funding initiative supports ambitious artificial intelligence research projects led by Utah higher education institutions that aim to deliver significant public benefits and improve the well-being of communities across the state.

This funding opportunity supports collaborative projects between U.S. and Israeli companies, academic institutions, and research organizations focused on innovative technologies in fossil fuels, energy storage, and the energy-water nexus.

This program provides financial assistance for energy audits to help New Hampshire's agricultural producers and rural small businesses improve energy efficiency and reduce costs.

Beyond Open is a competitive small business grant program focused on enhancing economic mobility within Charlotte's Corridors of Opportunity. It aims to support diverse-owned small businesses, including those owned by minorities, women, veterans, LGBTQ individuals, and persons with disabilities. The grant can be used for capital assets such as equipment, technology, inventory, and real estate, and does not require repayment. Administered by FFTC Partners For Empowering Communities, a supporting organization of the Foundation For The Carolinas, and funded by the Wells Fargo Open for Business Fund, Beyond Open has awarded over $10 million in grants to nearly 300 small businesses during its first two rounds. The third round will distribute approximately $5 million in grants. The program aims to retain jobs, encourage job growth, and inspire new entrepreneurial endeavors in areas with low economic mobility and among historically underrepresented groups. It also seeks to create opportunities for small businesses to provide goods or services in affluent areas where minority business owners have been under-represented.

The Outdoor Equity Fund aims to enhance safe, equitable access to outdoor spaces and nature-based learning for Wabanaki, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in Maine, unceded land of the Wabanaki. The fund addresses systemic barriers that BIPOC communities face in accessing outdoor spaces by supporting organizations working on land-based cultural preservation, land-back projects, leadership development, farming and gardening programs, outdoor accessibility, expeditions, learning, and therapeutic programs. It operates with a Community Advisory Committee guiding its efforts and employs a participatory grantmaking process. Selected organizations for the 2023 cohort will receive $30,000 over three years for general operating support, alongside opportunities for peer learning and capacity-building activities.

This grant provides $5,000 to small businesses looking to innovate and improve their operations through new products, renovations, or equipment purchases.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to technology companies focused on improving access to digital financial services and connectivity for underserved communities around the world.

The Chesapeake Oyster Innovation Award Program, offered by the Chesapeake Bay Trust and supported by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, aims to increase knowledge of the value of oysters, advance technologies for increasing oyster populations or aquaculture production, and improve oyster population monitoring techniques. This program supports projects in Maryland and Virginia and welcomes requests from members of the Chesapeake Oyster Alliance, including community organizations and both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. The grant awards up to $10,000, with applications due by September 19, 2024. Match is encouraged but not required.