GrantStation Insider: June 5, 2025

Application deadline: July 27, 2025
Grant amount: First-time grantees may apply for up to $10,000, while returning grantees are eligible to request up to $25,000.
Description: NEXT for AUTISM’s grants program supports initiatives in the United States that empower autistic adults to lead fulfilling and productive lives. Grants fund autistic-led and community-based initiatives creating meaningful change in four areas: work, with a focus on enhancing employment opportunities for autistic adults; home, including improving living environments for autistic individuals; social engagement, with a focus on fostering connections, friendships, and community integration; and health and well-being, including promoting access to healthcare, mental health support, and wellness resources for autistic individuals.

Application deadline: July 2, 2025
Grant amount: Up to $75,000 per year for up to two years
Description: The Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE) is accepting applications to support U.S. community-based organizations’ capacity to address opioid use disorder and overdose mortality in local communities. The Community-Driven Responses to Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose Mortality 2025 request for proposals will fund specific activities or projects designed to strengthen an organization’s operations, leadership, technology, programmatic, and administrative capacity. Requests may propose to enhance operational effectiveness, strengthen communication, strengthen and evaluate programming, foster collaborations, or include other activities. Nonprofit and fiscally sponsored community-based organizations are eligible to apply.

Application deadline: The remaining 2025 deadlines are August 1 and October 24.
Grant amount: There is no set minimum or maximum; the average size is $75,000.
Description: The Nasdaq Foundation's Quarterly Grant Program seeks to support under-resourced communities in the U.S. by equipping communities with the financial knowledge needed to share in the wealth that markets create. Grants focus on organizations and programs that enhance financial literacy among under-resourced communities, with an element of teaching participants how to invest in the capital markets; that improve access to knowledge and tools for investing and wealth creation among under-resourced communities; and that support entrepreneurs from under-resourced communities with mentoring and resources or by improving access to capital.

Application deadline: July 1, 2025
Grant amount: Two $100,000 prizes and four $25,000 prizes will be awarded.
Description: The Hunger to Health Collaboratory's 2025 Prizes for Innovation recognize organizations working to drive systemic change in food and nutrition and advance health equity for youth in the U.S. Two $100,000 prizes will be awarded to organizations advancing health equity for youth through food and nutrition policy change. In collaboration with Newman’s Own Foundation, four $25,000 prizes will be awarded to organizations working in nutrition education and school food and Indigenous food justice for youth. Nonprofit programs and projects based in the United States and focused on youth up to age 18 that align with the prize categories are eligible.

Application deadline: July 14, 2025
Geographic scope: Louisiana
Grant amount: Up to $7,500
Description: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation promotes, preserves, perpetuates, and encourages the music, culture, and heritage of communities in Louisiana. The Foundation’s Community Partnership Grants of up to $7,500 support music and art education programs, cultural events put on by Louisiana arts-based nonprofits, new artistic works that interpret Louisiana culture, and other projects. Support is provided to schools, artists, and arts-based nonprofit organizations throughout the state in the following categories: In-School Education Programs in Music, Arts, and Cultural Traditions; After-School and Summer Education Programs in Music, Arts, and Cultural Traditions; Presenting: Festivals and Concerts in Music and Performing Arts; Media: Documentation & Creation; and Louisiana Cultural Equity Arts & Creation.

Application deadline: Foundation grant applications are due July 1, 2025, and Career Pathways for Young People applications are due July 31, 2025.
Geographic scope: Foundation grants focus on AK and HI; Career Pathways grants are available in specific counties in CA, OR, and WA.
Grant amount: $5,000 to $20,000
Description: The Alaska Airlines Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations located in Alaska and Hawaii, with a focus on underserved communities, that connect young people to career opportunities and help them envision their full potential. Programs should serve young people between the ages of ten and 24 and focus on one or more of the following: career exploration and career connected learning experiences; mentorships; soft skills, critical thinking, empowerment, job training, and leadership development; and advanced degree or career and technical certification or preparation. In addition, Alaska Airlines' Career Pathways for Young People program supports career readiness programs for young people 11 to 24 in specific counties of California, Oregon, and Washington. The focus is on career exploration and career connected learning experiences, as well as soft skills, critical thinking, empowerment, job training, and leadership development.

Application deadline: None
Geographic scope: Communities served by Wegmans
Description: Wegmans Corporate Contributions Program provides support to nonprofit organizations in the communities the company serves in DE, DC, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, PA, and VA to help improve lives and make neighborhoods stronger. Areas of interest include health, including improving the physical, emotional, and mental health of communities by increasing access to food and resources for healthy living; education and youth support, including job and mentorship opportunities, support of after-school programs, and tuition assistance; and economic mobility, including employment skills programs.

Application deadline: The next deadline is August 15, 2025.
Geographic scope: Ohio
Description: The Ohio State Bar Foundation's grant program supports Ohio nonprofit organizations with law-related projects that promote the pursuit of justice or public understanding of the rule of law. Grants are awarded each spring and fall to address specific, unmet legal needs in Ohio communities. Past grants have supported the creation of legal materials, new websites, campaigns, clinics, conferences, trainings, presentations, and more. The first step in the application process is a pre-submission conference with Foundation staff. Additional information, including contact information, is available on the Foundation's website.

GrantStation is closely monitoring recent federal actions and their impact on the nonprofit sector. This article tracks ongoing developments, providing links to source materials. We will update the article at least once a week, and in cases of significant developments, we will provide updates as quickly as possible.

Deadline: July 9, 2025
Description: The Public Impact Projects Celebrating America's 250th Anniversary program awards grants to assist cultural organizations in expanding the scope, reach, and excellence of public programs that examine the founding of the nation and the significance of the Declaration of Independence, including projects that focus on public interpretation of the Founding Era and the lasting impact of the people and events that propelled the Revolution. Supported activities must be designed to connect audiences to the ideas of the American Revolution through the synthesis of scholarship from fields in the humanities.

Nonprofit leaders are facing an increasing number of challenges. What are these challenges and what are their impacts on the functioning of organizations? The State of Nonprofits 2025: What Funders Need to Know may provide some insights. Published by the Center for Effective Philanthropy, this report aims to elevate the perspectives of nonprofit leaders and provide a clearer understanding of the pressures they are facing pursuing their missions in a complex environment shaped by the current political climate and future economic uncertainty.

Are you wondering about the size of grants that organizations similar to yours have received? GrantStation's Benchmarker has updated information from the most recent State of Grantseeking survey to let you compare yourself to other organizations in your field.

Webinar date: June 12, 2025, 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern Time
Description: Clear, compelling writing is vital to all your on-the-job writing projects—not just grant proposals. During this hands-on webinar, writing coach and grant professional Maryn Boess will fill your toolkit with a host of simple, powerful techniques that can help you write more clearly, quickly, and confidently, right away.

Webinar date: June 16, 2025, 2:00 to 2:45 PM Eastern Time
Description: In today’s funding environment, accountability and transparency are more critical than ever for building trust with grantmakers. In this TargetED, Alice Ruhnke will provide practical guidance on developing advanced reporting frameworks that go beyond surface-level data. You’ll learn how to track, measure, and communicate program impact in a way that aligns with funder expectations and reinforces long-term partnerships.

Webinar date: June 18, 2025, 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern Time
Description: Before you start to raise funds, it is important to assess what your organization should build and what it can sustain. For most organizations, this means completing a needs assessment followed by a feasibility study. During this webinar, Kevin Wallace and Melissa Sais of CampaignCounsel.org will show how you can determine your current and future capacity and demand, the external factors that will impact both, and what you need to do to understand the financial capacity of your organization and its donor prospects.

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• Were you awarded a grant in the past year?
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If so, submit your proposal by June 30, 2025, for a chance to be featured and celebrated!

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Don’t forget to check out the additional Funding Spotlights on our homepage—you don't want to miss them! Current opportunities include the Sovereign Equity Fund: Green Horizons Project (U.S. national), Adams Bank & Trust Community Involvement Program (U.S. local: communities in CO, KS, and NE), Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (Canada), and Spyware Accountability Initiative (global).