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.

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.

Wells Fargo Freeman Family Foundation
due 5/31/25
There are no program limitations; however, the foundation focuses on improving communities in Virginia by supporting organizations that benefit the arts, children, and the environment. $5K-$20K. 

Nathan Cumming Foundation Advancement Grants
due 6/30/25; reopen 10/1/25
To advance racial, economic, and environmental justice (REEJ), with a focus on the U.S. South. Multi-year funding will support movements, organizations, and individuals pursuing justice for people and the planet. Funds will be used to support project-based work and can also be used to help scale organizations and promising solutions. Letters of Inquiry will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. $50K-$250K 

Virginia Environmental Endowment: Virginia Program
due 6/15/25 
To improve local rivers and protection of water quality, restore the Chesapeake Bay, develop innovative land conservation and sustainable land use practices, and conduct environmental literacy and public awareness. The funding agency encourages collaborations and collective impact and, whenever possible, seeks to support applicants with a demonstrated track record of success. 1:1 match required. 

Virginia Environmental Endowment: James River Water Quality Improvement Program
due 6/15/25
To support proposals that produce significant water quality benefits in the James River watershed through on-the-ground investments and initiatives. Priorities areas include riparian buffer installation, accelerating implementation of agricultural pollution reduction practices, construction of living shorelines, stream restoration, investments in Jamestown region and surrounding jurisdictions. $100K minimum

Mary’s Pence Grants
due 6/15/25
To support nonprofit women's organizations that are working with their local community to create long-term systemic change. The organizations eligible for funding are small, with budgets under $250,000; they collaborate with diverse populations, advocate to change unjust policies, and educate to build skills and increase capacity. This program will connect award recipients with other like-minded organizations and helpful resources. Applicant organizations should be women-led, community-centered, working to enact long term sustainable change at the community level, and focused on social justice values.

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.