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October 2026
- BECU Foundation awards $4 million in one-time grants to 12 Washington partners facing higher demandPhilanthropy
- Cargill Foundation makes its first grants outside the Twin Cities in 75 years, starting in Atlanta and WichitaPhilanthropy
- Oklahoma weighs letting donors sue over broken endowment terms, which four states already allowLaw & Policy
- John Deere Foundation commits $18.5 million to food banks and the farms that supply them, most of it in IowaFood & Housing
- New York puts $26.4 million into SNAP outreach by 44 community groups as federal work rules tightenFood & Housing
- Public Media Bridge Fund turns from emergency aid to sustainability grants for local stations, with $10 million from Knight FoundationArts & Culture
- California amends its online fundraising platform law to give charities notice before they lose good standingLaw & Policy
- National Philanthropic Trust opens a path for donor-advised fund grants to children's Trump AccountsPhilanthropy
- Wilmington, N.C., weighs replacing its open nonprofit grant round with requests for proposals in two fieldsHuman Services
- Andrew Carnegie Foundation opens a call for peacebuilding and mediation grants of up to $1.5 millionGlobal
- Idaho opens applications for nonprofits that want to give scholarships under the federal tax creditEducation
- Oregon Arts Commission awards $1.3 million in sustaining grants to 317 arts groups, fewer than a year agoArts & Culture
- Wisconsin awards $296,000 in financial literacy grants to schools and community groupsEducation
- Wyoming opens applications for nonprofits seeking to run scholarships under the federal tax creditEducation
- Oklahoma lawmakers study a Texas-style tax credit for business gifts to nonprofits that serve familiesHuman Services
- Texas Women's Foundation gives $900,000 to 25 North Texas nonprofits in its 2026 community grant cyclePhilanthropy
- VA awards $16 million in adaptive sports grants to 91 organizations serving disabled veteransVeterans
- Colorado public school foundations set up scholarship nonprofits to tap the federal tax creditEducation
- Hawaii County Council advances bill to keep its homeless and housing fund running through June 2029Food & Housing
- Wyoming Hunger Initiative and Ellbogen Foundation give $117,998 in unrestricted grants to 36 anti-hunger projectsFood & Housing
- Anne Arundel County offers houses of worship security grants of up to $10,000Faith
- Atlassian Foundation offers up to $1 million each to nonprofit partnerships changing education for the AI eraEducation
- HHS names recipients of up to $27.8 million to spread falls prevention programs for older adultsHealth
- New York will take part in the federal scholarship tax credit, Gov. Kathy Hochul saysEducation
- Foundations gave $1.3 billion for U.S. democracy in 2024, about 1.3% of their grants, Candid findsPhilanthropy
- The Dallas Foundation awards nearly $2.7 million in 97 summer grants, most of it for family economic stabilityPhilanthropy
- Sarasota and Manatee nonprofits plan for county cuts if Florida voters approve Amendment 3 property tax measureHuman Services
- Labor Department says nonprofit employees may volunteer for their employer, but not in their own line of workLaw & Policy
- Illinois nonprofits can apply from Nov. 2 for local food infrastructure grants of up to $250,000Food & Housing
- John Deere Classic says its 2026 tournament generated a record $20.1 million for 492 Quad Cities area charitiesPhilanthropy
- New York City will pay up to 800 nonprofits their small Council awards as grants, within 30 days of signingLaw & Policy
- New York City plans $8.9 million in contracts for gender-affirming care for minorsHealth
- Pennsylvania opens about $420,000 in environmental education grants to nonprofits, with applications due Nov. 13Environment
- Colorado senators introduce Senate version of bill letting federal security grants pay for nonprofits' guards and off-duty policeFaith
- NFWF opens a Great Plains grassland fund backed by Walmart Foundation, with $10 million for ranchland easementsEnvironment
- Houston foundations raise $34 million toward a $48 million plan to resolve homelessness fasterFood & Housing
- ICE investigators reviewed voter registration nonprofits in several states and weighed using undercover agents, records showLaw & Policy
- San Diego Foundation and Bear Creek Fund Advisors set up $100 million to finance construction of affordable homesFood & Housing
- EPA and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announce Chesapeake Bay watershed grants for clean water and restorationEnvironment
- Federal court throws out notices that would have required immigration checks at Head Start, health centers and adult educationLaw & Policy
- Denver council tightens rules for the nonprofits that spend three voter-approved city taxesLaw & Policy
- House bill would have federal security grants paid to nonprofits in advance instead of as reimbursementsFaith
- Georgia offers up to $10 million in federal housing grants that nonprofits can use to repair and build homesFood & Housing
- Comments close on HHS plan to let states set Head Start class sizes and to cut the administrative cost cap to 5%Education
- Bellingcat traces $24.4 million in donor-advised fund grants to two US charities it links to India's RSSPhilanthropy
- Nashville moves to grant $40.2 million to 14 nonprofits for 1,106 affordable homesFood & Housing
- OpenAI Foundation names 163 nonprofits for $50 million in AI grants, with legal aid, arts groups and local newsrooms among themPhilanthropy
- Pennsylvania Senate votes to raise the weekly prize cap for small games of chance to $60,000Law & Policy
- Texas opens applications for $31 million in veterans' assistance grants to nonprofits and local governmentsVeterans
- Sparklight opens its fall Charitable Giving Fund round to nonprofits in its 24 service statesPhilanthropy
- Most Americans who use nonprofits do not count themselves as users, an Indiana University survey findsPhilanthropy
- Agreement creates a $950 million fund for nonprofit children's health programs in DelawareHealth
- New York City doubles its grants for artists and small arts nonprofits to $10,000Arts & Culture
- New York awards $2.7 million to 45 land trusts for trails, staff and land dealsEnvironment
- Texas House committee studies how cities contract with nonprofits for health, safety and homelessness servicesHuman Services
- Treasury and IRS issue the rules for the federal scholarship tax credit, and scholarship charities must register before Jan. 1Education
- BlackRock Foundation awards $13 million to 15 skilled trades training groups in its first national roundScience & Jobs
- Harold Grinspoon Foundation commits $50 million in matching grants to Jewish overnight camps over five yearsYouth & Sports
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America gives Arkansas and Kentucky $10 million each for maternal careHealth
- National Park Service awards nearly $1.18 million in Underrepresented Communities Grants for National Register listingsArts & Culture
- Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation awards $13.7 million to 173 nonprofits in its 2026 grant cyclePhilanthropy
- Federal HIV prevention grants to nearly 100 community groups end as the money moves to health departmentsHealth
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- Senate passes IRS bill that would give organizations a right to appeal a denied or revoked tax exemptionLaw & Policy
- Supreme Court declines to block Delaware law requiring groups that run election ads to name their donorsLaw & Policy
- Federal appeals court upholds Arizona law requiring groups to disclose the original sources of campaign moneyLaw & Policy
- Treasury and IRS list Johnson Amendment and fiscal sponsorship reporting guidance among their priorities for the yearLaw & Policy
- Maryland awards $32 million in ENOUGH grants to 30 high-poverty communitiesHuman Services
- A 50-state nonprofit compliance database opens to AI assistants, free and without registrationLaw & Policy
- Pennsylvania House panel votes to waive the security grant match for nonprofits with revenue under $250,000Faith
September 2026
- Newsom signs law keeping detention facilities out of California's charity property tax exemptionLaw & Policy
- California voters will decide whether nonprofit community clinics must spend 90% of revenue on patient careHealth
- FEMA awards $300 million in security grants to more than 1,600 nonprofits, most of it to houses of worshipFaith
- Florida's governor and Cabinet designate CAIR and two other groups as domestic terrorist organizations under a new state lawLaw & Policy
- Most foundations changed course after federal cuts, but few call their response very effective, a survey findsPhilanthropy
- Massachusetts opens $3.4 million grant round for domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking servicesHuman Services
- VA awards $111.9 million in suicide prevention grants to 191 community organizationsVeterans
- The IRS transition year for existing group exemptions ends Jan. 22, with new rules to meet before thenLaw & Policy
- Microsoft says it deleted some nonprofits' data early after their Business Premium grants ended, and it cannot be recoveredPhilanthropy
- Pennsylvania committees advance bills on prize limits, club proceeds and card payments for raffle ticketsLaw & Policy
- San Angelo Health Foundation awards $1.6 million to nine Concho Valley organizations, $1 million of it for a river trailPhilanthropy
- National Park Service awards $25.2 million in Save America's Treasures grants for historic sites and collectionsArts & Culture
- Visa Foundation opens a $2 million grant call for nonprofits that help small businesses growCommunity
- New York City Council's contracts chair proposes 11 steps to get nonprofits paid on timeLaw & Policy
- Minnesota awards its first Farm to Food Security grants: $1.3 million for 22 projects that buy food from local farmsFood & Housing
- California law will require investment firms to notify nonprofits named as beneficiaries on securities accountsLaw & Policy
- White House cancels $810 million Congress approved, including grants for refugee services and housing counselingHuman Services
- Erie Gives raises a record $12.1 million for 546 nonprofits serving Erie CountyPhilanthropy
- Arkansas Community Foundation launches a $10 million fund for nonprofit work on food insecurityFood & Housing
- Tax Court holds Tennessee charity founder liable for $1.3 million in excise taxes on $590,000 sent to his companyLaw & Policy
- 49 Maryland houses of worship, schools and community centers receive $8.6 million in federal security grantsFaith
- Austin extends $4.1 million in social service contracts for a year while it reworks how it funds nonprofitsHuman Services
- Connecticut's PGA Tour event says its 2026 tournament generated a record $5 million for 290 charitiesPhilanthropy
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
- LeFrak and Simon families give $2 million to 40 Jersey City nonprofits and pledge $1 million a year for five more yearsPhilanthropy
- South Carolina awards more than $29 million to groups that help crime victims, starting Oct. 1Justice & Rights
- Wabash Valley Community Foundation gives $4.6 million to push stalled projects forward in three Indiana countiesPhilanthropy
- NBCUniversal gives $2.5 million in unrestricted grants to 80 small nonprofits in 11 TV marketsPhilanthropy
- Dubuque Racing Association, the nonprofit behind an Iowa casino, has given $1.5 million to 67 groups this yearPhilanthropy
- Howard County bill would require audits, a two-year track record and a public database from nonprofits that receive county grantsLaw & Policy
- Maryland's NourishMD program offers $3.67 million to food retailers in food deserts, with applications due Nov. 2Food & Housing
- FEMA's nearly $180 million in mitigation grants includes $1.5 million for earthquake work by nonprofits and universitiesCommunity
- Publix Charities gives $25 million to more than 350 food banks and hunger groups in eight statesFood & Housing
- Orlando Magic Youth Foundation awards $775,000 to 21 youth nonprofits, the first part of $1.8 million this seasonYouth & Sports
- Florida Blue Foundation awards $3.1 million to eight Florida nonprofits working on food insecurityFood & Housing
- Justice Department asks appeals court to revive IRS deal letting two churches address candidates in worship servicesLaw & Policy
- Microsoft offers King County nonprofits 25 grants of $20,000 in the first round of its Community-First GrantsCommunity
- California bill would deny the charity property tax exemption to detention facilities, a break an ICE center's nonprofit owner has receivedLaw & Policy
- Thirty states have opted into the federal scholarship tax credit, and the charities that will run it await Treasury's rulesEducation
- Florida's ban on local DEI spending, in force Jan. 1, puts Miami-Dade advisory boards and a girls' program grant in questionLaw & Policy
- Two federal judges set aside EPA's cancellation of the $7 billion Solar for All programEnvironment
- Alabama arts council awards $3.9 million to 201 organizations and schools for the year starting Oct. 1Arts & Culture
- House bill would let federal security grants pay for nonprofits' own guards and the staff who apply for themFaith
- Louisiana invites nonprofits to apply for AmeriCorps grants for 2027-28, with applications due Feb. 28Community
- Judge vacates the Education Department directive used to cancel teacher training grants over DEI, but does not restore themEducation
- Duffield Foundation commits $250 million to veterinary care for pets and opens grants to nonprofit clinicsAnimals
- North Texas Giving Day passes last year's midnight count with more than $76 million for over 3,300 nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- Charities named in donors' IRAs say some financial firms take months or years to release the moneyPhilanthropy
- HUD's homelessness grant competition goes ahead, with applications due Sept. 30, after an appeals court vacates the ruling that stopped itFood & Housing
- New tracker counts $177 billion in federal funding canceled, frozen or slowed since January 2025Law & Policy
- Metro Atlanta arts nonprofits can apply from Oct. 1 for a share of more than $1 million in unrestricted grantsArts & Culture
- Nine foundations commit $25 million to Nonprofits Insurance Alliance, which insures more than 25,000 nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- The Dayton Foundation reports a record 367 new charitable funds and nearly $121 million in grants for its fiscal yearPhilanthropy
- Community West Foundation gives $1.37 million to 34 Ohio nonprofits for health care, disability services and addiction recoveryHealth
- Billion-dollar foundations paid out a median 5.1% in 2024, a report finds, as it calls for doubling the legal minimumPhilanthropy
- Alameda County supervisors' grants to nonprofits will need a majority vote, a stated public purpose and a public log under a new state lawLaw & Policy
- Justice Department lawyers say limits on religious activity in HHS-funded programs are unconstitutionalFaith
- Juneau Assembly shelves a plan to make nonprofits charge the city's sales taxLaw & Policy
- VA grants totaling $1.17 billion to fight veteran homelessness begin Oct. 1Veterans
- Taco Bell Foundation gives $32 million to 700 youth nonprofits nominated by the chain's franchiseesYouth & Sports
- Salesforce announces $27 million in education grants, with $9 million for nine nonprofits that train teachers or prepare students for careersEducation
- Gates Foundation commits at least $1 billion to AI for health care, schools and farms, and education experts question the classroom sharePhilanthropy
- Appeals court hears challenge to Illinois law requiring large grantmaking nonprofits to post board demographicsLaw & Policy
- North Carolina Arts Council awards nearly $11 million in 340 grants reaching all 100 countiesArts & Culture
- HUD proposes to reward transitional housing, sober housing and police partnerships in its homelessness grant competitionFood & Housing
- United Way of Central Indiana plans a shared health plan for nonprofits statewide, to start Jan. 1 if Indiana approvesHealth
- House Democrats propose church-style limits on IRS audits of colleges and universitiesLaw & Policy
- Olivia and Tom Walton commit $100 million to a campaign to halve U.S. maternal deaths in five yearsHealth
- Humanity AI opens a $10 million grant call for community-led work on how artificial intelligence is built and usedScience & Jobs
- Dollar General Literacy Foundation awards more than $4.1 million in youth literacy grants to schools, libraries and nonprofitsEducation
- Atlanta Women's Foundation funds 19 metro Atlanta nonprofits in a $1.418 million investment in women, girls and familiesHuman Services
- Pennsylvania bill would strip nonprofit corporations of the power to spend on elections and ballot questionsLaw & Policy
- Illinois local food grants buy cold storage and delivery trucks for farms, food banks and urban growersFood & Housing
- Citi Foundation offers 50 grants of $500,000 to nonprofits preparing low-income youth for work shaped by AIScience & Jobs
- Michigan Nonprofit Association builds a network, with $1.4 million from three foundations, to help residents keep MedicaidHealth
- New York sends $70 million in security grants to 290 nonprofits at risk of hate crimesFaith
- Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco awards a record $10 million in economic development grants across three statesCommunity
- The Columbus Foundation reports a record $477.4 million in grants to more than 5,200 nonprofits in 2025Philanthropy
- More than 700 grant makers have signed Unite in Advance, a pledge to defend one another's freedom to givePhilanthropy
- Healing Illinois closes its fifth grant round, with awards of up to $50,000 for community healing projects due in late OctoberJustice & Rights
- South Carolina budget writers agree that nonprofit earmarks must go through a city or county from next yearLaw & Policy
- House bill would write due process rights for nonprofits under IRS examination into the tax codeLaw & Policy
- Treasury and IRS propose to end the tax exemption of private schools that consider race in any programLaw & Policy
- Pinellas County pays for seven nonprofit grants from reserves for one more year after commissioners weighed ending the programHuman Services
- Iowa attorney general's office awards its first opioid settlement grants, $1.6 million to five recipientsHealth
- Aiken philanthropist pledges $1 million to the Community Foundation for the CSRA's grants endowment if the region raises $1 million firstPhilanthropy
- Jewish nonprofits now spend more than $1 billion a year on security, federations' study estimatesFaith
- Stopgap spending law bars OMB from finalizing its rewrite of federal grant rules until Dec. 11Law & Policy
- San Antonio's budget plan would end $5.1 million in city grants to 48 nonprofit programs in fiscal 2028Human Services
- Massachusetts awards nearly $7 million in food infrastructure grants to 72 farms, fisheries and food organizationsFood & Housing
- Indiana congregations and their community partners seek $2.5 million in grants, with decisions due Nov. 6Faith
- Technology trade group GTIA awards $3.2 million to 73 nonprofits, with a second referral round open until Oct. 2Philanthropy
- Green Bay Packers Foundation gives $1.6 million to 402 Wisconsin groups in the first year of a new grant cyclePhilanthropy
- Senate Democrats ask Treasury and IRS to account for a reported plan to strip left-leaning nonprofits of tax exemptionLaw & Policy
- Wisconsin takes applications until Oct. 1 for $5 million in grants to buy food made or grown in the stateFood & Housing
- After Dolly Parton's death, three states weigh paying more for her Imagination LibraryEducation
- FirstEnergy Foundation doubles its hunger grants to $5 million for 140 food banks and pantriesFood & Housing
- New York opens a $75 million round of community center grants for nonprofits and municipalitiesCommunity
- California puts $34.9 million into outreach by community groups that teach workers their rights, and adds 15 granteesJustice & Rights
- Florida's rewritten nonprofit corporation law, in effect since July 1, sets new duties for officers and new default rules for boardsLaw & Policy
- 17 parents, 29 books and the questions that are hard to answerABCs of Growing Up Foundation, Citrus Heights, Calif.
- California extends its nonprofit security grants to marches, festivals and other events away from homeFaith
By state
Alabama
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- Publix Charities gives $25 million to more than 350 food banks and hunger groups in eight statesFood & Housing
- Alabama arts council awards $3.9 million to 201 organizations and schools for the year starting Oct. 1Arts & Culture
Alaska
Arizona
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- Federal appeals court upholds Arizona law requiring groups to disclose the original sources of campaign moneyLaw & Policy
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
- Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco awards a record $10 million in economic development grants across three statesCommunity
Arkansas
- Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America gives Arkansas and Kentucky $10 million each for maternal careHealth
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- Arkansas Community Foundation launches a $10 million fund for nonprofit work on food insecurityFood & Housing
California
- California amends its online fundraising platform law to give charities notice before they lose good standingLaw & Policy
- San Diego Foundation and Bear Creek Fund Advisors set up $100 million to finance construction of affordable homesFood & Housing
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation awards $13.7 million to 173 nonprofits in its 2026 grant cyclePhilanthropy
- Newsom signs law keeping detention facilities out of California's charity property tax exemptionLaw & Policy
- California voters will decide whether nonprofit community clinics must spend 90% of revenue on patient careHealth
- California law will require investment firms to notify nonprofits named as beneficiaries on securities accountsLaw & Policy
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
- California bill would deny the charity property tax exemption to detention facilities, a break an ICE center's nonprofit owner has receivedLaw & Policy
- Alameda County supervisors' grants to nonprofits will need a majority vote, a stated public purpose and a public log under a new state lawLaw & Policy
- Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco awards a record $10 million in economic development grants across three statesCommunity
- California puts $34.9 million into outreach by community groups that teach workers their rights, and adds 15 granteesJustice & Rights
- 17 parents, 29 books and the questions that are hard to answerABCs of Growing Up Foundation, Citrus Heights, Calif.
- California extends its nonprofit security grants to marches, festivals and other events away from homeFaith
Colorado
- Colorado public school foundations set up scholarship nonprofits to tap the federal tax creditEducation
- Denver council tightens rules for the nonprofits that spend three voter-approved city taxesLaw & Policy
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
Connecticut
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- Connecticut's PGA Tour event says its 2026 tournament generated a record $5 million for 290 charitiesPhilanthropy
Delaware
- EPA and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announce Chesapeake Bay watershed grants for clean water and restorationEnvironment
- Agreement creates a $950 million fund for nonprofit children's health programs in DelawareHealth
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- Supreme Court declines to block Delaware law requiring groups that run election ads to name their donorsLaw & Policy
Florida
- Sarasota and Manatee nonprofits plan for county cuts if Florida voters approve Amendment 3 property tax measureHuman Services
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- Florida's governor and Cabinet designate CAIR and two other groups as domestic terrorist organizations under a new state lawLaw & Policy
- Publix Charities gives $25 million to more than 350 food banks and hunger groups in eight statesFood & Housing
- Orlando Magic Youth Foundation awards $775,000 to 21 youth nonprofits, the first part of $1.8 million this seasonYouth & Sports
- Florida Blue Foundation awards $3.1 million to eight Florida nonprofits working on food insecurityFood & Housing
- Florida's ban on local DEI spending, in force Jan. 1, puts Miami-Dade advisory boards and a girls' program grant in questionLaw & Policy
- Pinellas County pays for seven nonprofit grants from reserves for one more year after commissioners weighed ending the programHuman Services
- Florida's rewritten nonprofit corporation law, in effect since July 1, sets new duties for officers and new default rules for boardsLaw & Policy
Georgia
- Cargill Foundation makes its first grants outside the Twin Cities in 75 years, starting in Atlanta and WichitaPhilanthropy
- Oklahoma weighs letting donors sue over broken endowment terms, which four states already allowLaw & Policy
- Georgia offers up to $10 million in federal housing grants that nonprofits can use to repair and build homesFood & Housing
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- Publix Charities gives $25 million to more than 350 food banks and hunger groups in eight statesFood & Housing
- Metro Atlanta arts nonprofits can apply from Oct. 1 for a share of more than $1 million in unrestricted grantsArts & Culture
- Atlanta Women's Foundation funds 19 metro Atlanta nonprofits in a $1.418 million investment in women, girls and familiesHuman Services
- Aiken philanthropist pledges $1 million to the Community Foundation for the CSRA's grants endowment if the region raises $1 million firstPhilanthropy
Hawaii
- Hawaii County Council advances bill to keep its homeless and housing fund running through June 2029Food & Housing
Idaho
- Idaho opens applications for nonprofits that want to give scholarships under the federal tax creditEducation
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
Illinois
- Illinois nonprofits can apply from Nov. 2 for local food infrastructure grants of up to $250,000Food & Housing
- John Deere Classic says its 2026 tournament generated a record $20.1 million for 492 Quad Cities area charitiesPhilanthropy
- Dubuque Racing Association, the nonprofit behind an Iowa casino, has given $1.5 million to 67 groups this yearPhilanthropy
- Appeals court hears challenge to Illinois law requiring large grantmaking nonprofits to post board demographicsLaw & Policy
- Illinois local food grants buy cold storage and delivery trucks for farms, food banks and urban growersFood & Housing
- Healing Illinois closes its fifth grant round, with awards of up to $50,000 for community healing projects due in late OctoberJustice & Rights
Indiana
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- Wabash Valley Community Foundation gives $4.6 million to push stalled projects forward in three Indiana countiesPhilanthropy
- United Way of Central Indiana plans a shared health plan for nonprofits statewide, to start Jan. 1 if Indiana approvesHealth
- Indiana congregations and their community partners seek $2.5 million in grants, with decisions due Nov. 6Faith
Iowa
- John Deere Classic says its 2026 tournament generated a record $20.1 million for 492 Quad Cities area charitiesPhilanthropy
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- Dubuque Racing Association, the nonprofit behind an Iowa casino, has given $1.5 million to 67 groups this yearPhilanthropy
- Iowa attorney general's office awards its first opioid settlement grants, $1.6 million to five recipientsHealth
Kansas
- Cargill Foundation makes its first grants outside the Twin Cities in 75 years, starting in Atlanta and WichitaPhilanthropy
- Oklahoma weighs letting donors sue over broken endowment terms, which four states already allowLaw & Policy
Kentucky
- Oklahoma weighs letting donors sue over broken endowment terms, which four states already allowLaw & Policy
- Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America gives Arkansas and Kentucky $10 million each for maternal careHealth
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- Publix Charities gives $25 million to more than 350 food banks and hunger groups in eight statesFood & Housing
Louisiana
Maryland
- Anne Arundel County offers houses of worship security grants of up to $10,000Faith
- EPA and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announce Chesapeake Bay watershed grants for clean water and restorationEnvironment
- Maryland awards $32 million in ENOUGH grants to 30 high-poverty communitiesHuman Services
- 49 Maryland houses of worship, schools and community centers receive $8.6 million in federal security grantsFaith
- Howard County bill would require audits, a two-year track record and a public database from nonprofits that receive county grantsLaw & Policy
- Maryland's NourishMD program offers $3.67 million to food retailers in food deserts, with applications due Nov. 2Food & Housing
- FirstEnergy Foundation doubles its hunger grants to $5 million for 140 food banks and pantriesFood & Housing
Massachusetts
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- Massachusetts opens $3.4 million grant round for domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking servicesHuman Services
- Massachusetts awards nearly $7 million in food infrastructure grants to 72 farms, fisheries and food organizationsFood & Housing
Michigan
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- Michigan Nonprofit Association builds a network, with $1.4 million from three foundations, to help residents keep MedicaidHealth
Minnesota
- Cargill Foundation makes its first grants outside the Twin Cities in 75 years, starting in Atlanta and WichitaPhilanthropy
- Minnesota awards its first Farm to Food Security grants: $1.3 million for 22 projects that buy food from local farmsFood & Housing
Mississippi
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
Missouri
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
Montana
- Oklahoma weighs letting donors sue over broken endowment terms, which four states already allowLaw & Policy
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
Nebraska
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
Nevada
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
- Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco awards a record $10 million in economic development grants across three statesCommunity
New Jersey
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- LeFrak and Simon families give $2 million to 40 Jersey City nonprofits and pledge $1 million a year for five more yearsPhilanthropy
- After Dolly Parton's death, three states weigh paying more for her Imagination LibraryEducation
- FirstEnergy Foundation doubles its hunger grants to $5 million for 140 food banks and pantriesFood & Housing
New Mexico
New York
- New York puts $26.4 million into SNAP outreach by 44 community groups as federal work rules tightenFood & Housing
- New York will take part in the federal scholarship tax credit, Gov. Kathy Hochul saysEducation
- New York City will pay up to 800 nonprofits their small Council awards as grants, within 30 days of signingLaw & Policy
- New York City plans $8.9 million in contracts for gender-affirming care for minorsHealth
- EPA and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announce Chesapeake Bay watershed grants for clean water and restorationEnvironment
- New York City doubles its grants for artists and small arts nonprofits to $10,000Arts & Culture
- New York awards $2.7 million to 45 land trusts for trails, staff and land dealsEnvironment
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- New York City Council's contracts chair proposes 11 steps to get nonprofits paid on timeLaw & Policy
- New York sends $70 million in security grants to 290 nonprofits at risk of hate crimesFaith
- New York opens a $75 million round of community center grants for nonprofits and municipalitiesCommunity
North Carolina
- Wilmington, N.C., weighs replacing its open nonprofit grant round with requests for proposals in two fieldsHuman Services
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- Publix Charities gives $25 million to more than 350 food banks and hunger groups in eight statesFood & Housing
- North Carolina Arts Council awards nearly $11 million in 340 grants reaching all 100 countiesArts & Culture
North Dakota
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
Ohio
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- The Dayton Foundation reports a record 367 new charitable funds and nearly $121 million in grants for its fiscal yearPhilanthropy
- Community West Foundation gives $1.37 million to 34 Ohio nonprofits for health care, disability services and addiction recoveryHealth
- The Columbus Foundation reports a record $477.4 million in grants to more than 5,200 nonprofits in 2025Philanthropy
- FirstEnergy Foundation doubles its hunger grants to $5 million for 140 food banks and pantriesFood & Housing
Oklahoma
- Oklahoma weighs letting donors sue over broken endowment terms, which four states already allowLaw & Policy
- Oklahoma lawmakers study a Texas-style tax credit for business gifts to nonprofits that serve familiesHuman Services
Oregon
- Oregon Arts Commission awards $1.3 million in sustaining grants to 317 arts groups, fewer than a year agoArts & Culture
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania opens about $420,000 in environmental education grants to nonprofits, with applications due Nov. 13Environment
- EPA and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announce Chesapeake Bay watershed grants for clean water and restorationEnvironment
- Pennsylvania Senate votes to raise the weekly prize cap for small games of chance to $60,000Law & Policy
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- Pennsylvania House panel votes to waive the security grant match for nonprofits with revenue under $250,000Faith
- Pennsylvania committees advance bills on prize limits, club proceeds and card payments for raffle ticketsLaw & Policy
- Erie Gives raises a record $12.1 million for 546 nonprofits serving Erie CountyPhilanthropy
- Pennsylvania bill would strip nonprofit corporations of the power to spend on elections and ballot questionsLaw & Policy
- After Dolly Parton's death, three states weigh paying more for her Imagination LibraryEducation
- FirstEnergy Foundation doubles its hunger grants to $5 million for 140 food banks and pantriesFood & Housing
South Carolina
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- South Carolina awards more than $29 million to groups that help crime victims, starting Oct. 1Justice & Rights
- Publix Charities gives $25 million to more than 350 food banks and hunger groups in eight statesFood & Housing
- South Carolina budget writers agree that nonprofit earmarks must go through a city or county from next yearLaw & Policy
- Aiken philanthropist pledges $1 million to the Community Foundation for the CSRA's grants endowment if the region raises $1 million firstPhilanthropy
Tennessee
- Nashville moves to grant $40.2 million to 14 nonprofits for 1,106 affordable homesFood & Housing
- Publix Charities gives $25 million to more than 350 food banks and hunger groups in eight statesFood & Housing
- After Dolly Parton's death, three states weigh paying more for her Imagination LibraryEducation
Texas
- Texas Women's Foundation gives $900,000 to 25 North Texas nonprofits in its 2026 community grant cyclePhilanthropy
- The Dallas Foundation awards nearly $2.7 million in 97 summer grants, most of it for family economic stabilityPhilanthropy
- Houston foundations raise $34 million toward a $48 million plan to resolve homelessness fasterFood & Housing
- Texas opens applications for $31 million in veterans' assistance grants to nonprofits and local governmentsVeterans
- Texas House committee studies how cities contract with nonprofits for health, safety and homelessness servicesHuman Services
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- San Angelo Health Foundation awards $1.6 million to nine Concho Valley organizations, $1 million of it for a river trailPhilanthropy
- Austin extends $4.1 million in social service contracts for a year while it reworks how it funds nonprofitsHuman Services
- North Texas Giving Day passes last year's midnight count with more than $76 million for over 3,300 nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- San Antonio's budget plan would end $5.1 million in city grants to 48 nonprofit programs in fiscal 2028Human Services
Utah
Virginia
- EPA and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announce Chesapeake Bay watershed grants for clean water and restorationEnvironment
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- Publix Charities gives $25 million to more than 350 food banks and hunger groups in eight statesFood & Housing
- FirstEnergy Foundation doubles its hunger grants to $5 million for 140 food banks and pantriesFood & Housing
Washington
- BECU Foundation awards $4 million in one-time grants to 12 Washington partners facing higher demandPhilanthropy
- Microsoft offers King County nonprofits 25 grants of $20,000 in the first round of its Community-First GrantsCommunity
West Virginia
- EPA and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announce Chesapeake Bay watershed grants for clean water and restorationEnvironment
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- FirstEnergy Foundation doubles its hunger grants to $5 million for 140 food banks and pantriesFood & Housing
Wisconsin
- Wisconsin awards $296,000 in financial literacy grants to schools and community groupsEducation
- Dubuque Racing Association, the nonprofit behind an Iowa casino, has given $1.5 million to 67 groups this yearPhilanthropy
- Green Bay Packers Foundation gives $1.6 million to 402 Wisconsin groups in the first year of a new grant cyclePhilanthropy
- Wisconsin takes applications until Oct. 1 for $5 million in grants to buy food made or grown in the stateFood & Housing
Wyoming
- Wyoming opens applications for nonprofits seeking to run scholarships under the federal tax creditEducation
- Wyoming Hunger Initiative and Ellbogen Foundation give $117,998 in unrestricted grants to 36 anti-hunger projectsFood & Housing
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
National
- John Deere Foundation commits $18.5 million to food banks and the farms that supply them, most of it in IowaFood & Housing
- Public Media Bridge Fund turns from emergency aid to sustainability grants for local stations, with $10 million from Knight FoundationArts & Culture
- National Philanthropic Trust opens a path for donor-advised fund grants to children's Trump AccountsPhilanthropy
- Andrew Carnegie Foundation opens a call for peacebuilding and mediation grants of up to $1.5 millionGlobal
- VA awards $16 million in adaptive sports grants to 91 organizations serving disabled veteransVeterans
- Atlassian Foundation offers up to $1 million each to nonprofit partnerships changing education for the AI eraEducation
- HHS names recipients of up to $27.8 million to spread falls prevention programs for older adultsHealth
- Foundations gave $1.3 billion for U.S. democracy in 2024, about 1.3% of their grants, Candid findsPhilanthropy
- Labor Department says nonprofit employees may volunteer for their employer, but not in their own line of workLaw & Policy
- Colorado senators introduce Senate version of bill letting federal security grants pay for nonprofits' guards and off-duty policeFaith
- NFWF opens a Great Plains grassland fund backed by Walmart Foundation, with $10 million for ranchland easementsEnvironment
- ICE investigators reviewed voter registration nonprofits in several states and weighed using undercover agents, records showLaw & Policy
- Federal court throws out notices that would have required immigration checks at Head Start, health centers and adult educationLaw & Policy
- House bill would have federal security grants paid to nonprofits in advance instead of as reimbursementsFaith
- Comments close on HHS plan to let states set Head Start class sizes and to cut the administrative cost cap to 5%Education
- Bellingcat traces $24.4 million in donor-advised fund grants to two US charities it links to India's RSSPhilanthropy
- OpenAI Foundation names 163 nonprofits for $50 million in AI grants, with legal aid, arts groups and local newsrooms among themPhilanthropy
- Sparklight opens its fall Charitable Giving Fund round to nonprofits in its 24 service statesPhilanthropy
- Most Americans who use nonprofits do not count themselves as users, an Indiana University survey findsPhilanthropy
- Treasury and IRS issue the rules for the federal scholarship tax credit, and scholarship charities must register before Jan. 1Education
- BlackRock Foundation awards $13 million to 15 skilled trades training groups in its first national roundScience & Jobs
- Harold Grinspoon Foundation commits $50 million in matching grants to Jewish overnight camps over five yearsYouth & Sports
- National Park Service awards nearly $1.18 million in Underrepresented Communities Grants for National Register listingsArts & Culture
- Federal HIV prevention grants to nearly 100 community groups end as the money moves to health departmentsHealth
- Senate passes IRS bill that would give organizations a right to appeal a denied or revoked tax exemptionLaw & Policy
- Treasury and IRS list Johnson Amendment and fiscal sponsorship reporting guidance among their priorities for the yearLaw & Policy
- A 50-state nonprofit compliance database opens to AI assistants, free and without registrationLaw & Policy
- FEMA awards $300 million in security grants to more than 1,600 nonprofits, most of it to houses of worshipFaith
- Most foundations changed course after federal cuts, but few call their response very effective, a survey findsPhilanthropy
- VA awards $111.9 million in suicide prevention grants to 191 community organizationsVeterans
- The IRS transition year for existing group exemptions ends Jan. 22, with new rules to meet before thenLaw & Policy
- Microsoft says it deleted some nonprofits' data early after their Business Premium grants ended, and it cannot be recoveredPhilanthropy
- National Park Service awards $25.2 million in Save America's Treasures grants for historic sites and collectionsArts & Culture
- Visa Foundation opens a $2 million grant call for nonprofits that help small businesses growCommunity
- White House cancels $810 million Congress approved, including grants for refugee services and housing counselingHuman Services
- Tax Court holds Tennessee charity founder liable for $1.3 million in excise taxes on $590,000 sent to his companyLaw & Policy
- NBCUniversal gives $2.5 million in unrestricted grants to 80 small nonprofits in 11 TV marketsPhilanthropy
- FEMA's nearly $180 million in mitigation grants includes $1.5 million for earthquake work by nonprofits and universitiesCommunity
- Justice Department asks appeals court to revive IRS deal letting two churches address candidates in worship servicesLaw & Policy
- Thirty states have opted into the federal scholarship tax credit, and the charities that will run it await Treasury's rulesEducation
- Two federal judges set aside EPA's cancellation of the $7 billion Solar for All programEnvironment
- House bill would let federal security grants pay for nonprofits' own guards and the staff who apply for themFaith
- Judge vacates the Education Department directive used to cancel teacher training grants over DEI, but does not restore themEducation
- Duffield Foundation commits $250 million to veterinary care for pets and opens grants to nonprofit clinicsAnimals
- Charities named in donors' IRAs say some financial firms take months or years to release the moneyPhilanthropy
- HUD's homelessness grant competition goes ahead, with applications due Sept. 30, after an appeals court vacates the ruling that stopped itFood & Housing
- New tracker counts $177 billion in federal funding canceled, frozen or slowed since January 2025Law & Policy
- Nine foundations commit $25 million to Nonprofits Insurance Alliance, which insures more than 25,000 nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- Billion-dollar foundations paid out a median 5.1% in 2024, a report finds, as it calls for doubling the legal minimumPhilanthropy
- Justice Department lawyers say limits on religious activity in HHS-funded programs are unconstitutionalFaith
- VA grants totaling $1.17 billion to fight veteran homelessness begin Oct. 1Veterans
- Taco Bell Foundation gives $32 million to 700 youth nonprofits nominated by the chain's franchiseesYouth & Sports
- Salesforce announces $27 million in education grants, with $9 million for nine nonprofits that train teachers or prepare students for careersEducation
- Gates Foundation commits at least $1 billion to AI for health care, schools and farms, and education experts question the classroom sharePhilanthropy
- HUD proposes to reward transitional housing, sober housing and police partnerships in its homelessness grant competitionFood & Housing
- House Democrats propose church-style limits on IRS audits of colleges and universitiesLaw & Policy
- Olivia and Tom Walton commit $100 million to a campaign to halve U.S. maternal deaths in five yearsHealth
- Humanity AI opens a $10 million grant call for community-led work on how artificial intelligence is built and usedScience & Jobs
- Dollar General Literacy Foundation awards more than $4.1 million in youth literacy grants to schools, libraries and nonprofitsEducation
- Citi Foundation offers 50 grants of $500,000 to nonprofits preparing low-income youth for work shaped by AIScience & Jobs
- More than 700 grant makers have signed Unite in Advance, a pledge to defend one another's freedom to givePhilanthropy
- House bill would write due process rights for nonprofits under IRS examination into the tax codeLaw & Policy
- Treasury and IRS propose to end the tax exemption of private schools that consider race in any programLaw & Policy
- Jewish nonprofits now spend more than $1 billion a year on security, federations' study estimatesFaith
- Stopgap spending law bars OMB from finalizing its rewrite of federal grant rules until Dec. 11Law & Policy
- Technology trade group GTIA awards $3.2 million to 73 nonprofits, with a second referral round open until Oct. 2Philanthropy
- Senate Democrats ask Treasury and IRS to account for a reported plan to strip left-leaning nonprofits of tax exemptionLaw & Policy
By desk
Faith
- Anne Arundel County offers houses of worship security grants of up to $10,000Faith
- Colorado senators introduce Senate version of bill letting federal security grants pay for nonprofits' guards and off-duty policeFaith
- House bill would have federal security grants paid to nonprofits in advance instead of as reimbursementsFaith
- Pennsylvania House panel votes to waive the security grant match for nonprofits with revenue under $250,000Faith
- FEMA awards $300 million in security grants to more than 1,600 nonprofits, most of it to houses of worshipFaith
- 49 Maryland houses of worship, schools and community centers receive $8.6 million in federal security grantsFaith
- House bill would let federal security grants pay for nonprofits' own guards and the staff who apply for themFaith
- Justice Department lawyers say limits on religious activity in HHS-funded programs are unconstitutionalFaith
- New York sends $70 million in security grants to 290 nonprofits at risk of hate crimesFaith
- Jewish nonprofits now spend more than $1 billion a year on security, federations' study estimatesFaith
- Indiana congregations and their community partners seek $2.5 million in grants, with decisions due Nov. 6Faith
- California extends its nonprofit security grants to marches, festivals and other events away from homeFaith
Education
- Idaho opens applications for nonprofits that want to give scholarships under the federal tax creditEducation
- Wisconsin awards $296,000 in financial literacy grants to schools and community groupsEducation
- Wyoming opens applications for nonprofits seeking to run scholarships under the federal tax creditEducation
- Colorado public school foundations set up scholarship nonprofits to tap the federal tax creditEducation
- Atlassian Foundation offers up to $1 million each to nonprofit partnerships changing education for the AI eraEducation
- New York will take part in the federal scholarship tax credit, Gov. Kathy Hochul saysEducation
- Comments close on HHS plan to let states set Head Start class sizes and to cut the administrative cost cap to 5%Education
- Treasury and IRS issue the rules for the federal scholarship tax credit, and scholarship charities must register before Jan. 1Education
- Thirty states have opted into the federal scholarship tax credit, and the charities that will run it await Treasury's rulesEducation
- Judge vacates the Education Department directive used to cancel teacher training grants over DEI, but does not restore themEducation
- Salesforce announces $27 million in education grants, with $9 million for nine nonprofits that train teachers or prepare students for careersEducation
- Dollar General Literacy Foundation awards more than $4.1 million in youth literacy grants to schools, libraries and nonprofitsEducation
- After Dolly Parton's death, three states weigh paying more for her Imagination LibraryEducation
Human Services
- Wilmington, N.C., weighs replacing its open nonprofit grant round with requests for proposals in two fieldsHuman Services
- Oklahoma lawmakers study a Texas-style tax credit for business gifts to nonprofits that serve familiesHuman Services
- Sarasota and Manatee nonprofits plan for county cuts if Florida voters approve Amendment 3 property tax measureHuman Services
- Texas House committee studies how cities contract with nonprofits for health, safety and homelessness servicesHuman Services
- Maryland awards $32 million in ENOUGH grants to 30 high-poverty communitiesHuman Services
- Massachusetts opens $3.4 million grant round for domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking servicesHuman Services
- White House cancels $810 million Congress approved, including grants for refugee services and housing counselingHuman Services
- Austin extends $4.1 million in social service contracts for a year while it reworks how it funds nonprofitsHuman Services
- Atlanta Women's Foundation funds 19 metro Atlanta nonprofits in a $1.418 million investment in women, girls and familiesHuman Services
- Pinellas County pays for seven nonprofit grants from reserves for one more year after commissioners weighed ending the programHuman Services
- San Antonio's budget plan would end $5.1 million in city grants to 48 nonprofit programs in fiscal 2028Human Services
Arts & Culture
- Public Media Bridge Fund turns from emergency aid to sustainability grants for local stations, with $10 million from Knight FoundationArts & Culture
- Oregon Arts Commission awards $1.3 million in sustaining grants to 317 arts groups, fewer than a year agoArts & Culture
- New York City doubles its grants for artists and small arts nonprofits to $10,000Arts & Culture
- National Park Service awards nearly $1.18 million in Underrepresented Communities Grants for National Register listingsArts & Culture
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- National Park Service awards $25.2 million in Save America's Treasures grants for historic sites and collectionsArts & Culture
- Alabama arts council awards $3.9 million to 201 organizations and schools for the year starting Oct. 1Arts & Culture
- Metro Atlanta arts nonprofits can apply from Oct. 1 for a share of more than $1 million in unrestricted grantsArts & Culture
- North Carolina Arts Council awards nearly $11 million in 340 grants reaching all 100 countiesArts & Culture
- 17 parents, 29 books and the questions that are hard to answerABCs of Growing Up Foundation, Citrus Heights, Calif.
Health
- HHS names recipients of up to $27.8 million to spread falls prevention programs for older adultsHealth
- New York City plans $8.9 million in contracts for gender-affirming care for minorsHealth
- Agreement creates a $950 million fund for nonprofit children's health programs in DelawareHealth
- Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America gives Arkansas and Kentucky $10 million each for maternal careHealth
- Federal HIV prevention grants to nearly 100 community groups end as the money moves to health departmentsHealth
- California voters will decide whether nonprofit community clinics must spend 90% of revenue on patient careHealth
- Community West Foundation gives $1.37 million to 34 Ohio nonprofits for health care, disability services and addiction recoveryHealth
- United Way of Central Indiana plans a shared health plan for nonprofits statewide, to start Jan. 1 if Indiana approvesHealth
- Olivia and Tom Walton commit $100 million to a campaign to halve U.S. maternal deaths in five yearsHealth
- Michigan Nonprofit Association builds a network, with $1.4 million from three foundations, to help residents keep MedicaidHealth
- Iowa attorney general's office awards its first opioid settlement grants, $1.6 million to five recipientsHealth
Youth & Sports
- Harold Grinspoon Foundation commits $50 million in matching grants to Jewish overnight camps over five yearsYouth & Sports
- Orlando Magic Youth Foundation awards $775,000 to 21 youth nonprofits, the first part of $1.8 million this seasonYouth & Sports
- Taco Bell Foundation gives $32 million to 700 youth nonprofits nominated by the chain's franchiseesYouth & Sports
Food & Housing
- John Deere Foundation commits $18.5 million to food banks and the farms that supply them, most of it in IowaFood & Housing
- New York puts $26.4 million into SNAP outreach by 44 community groups as federal work rules tightenFood & Housing
- Hawaii County Council advances bill to keep its homeless and housing fund running through June 2029Food & Housing
- Wyoming Hunger Initiative and Ellbogen Foundation give $117,998 in unrestricted grants to 36 anti-hunger projectsFood & Housing
- Illinois nonprofits can apply from Nov. 2 for local food infrastructure grants of up to $250,000Food & Housing
- Houston foundations raise $34 million toward a $48 million plan to resolve homelessness fasterFood & Housing
- San Diego Foundation and Bear Creek Fund Advisors set up $100 million to finance construction of affordable homesFood & Housing
- Georgia offers up to $10 million in federal housing grants that nonprofits can use to repair and build homesFood & Housing
- Nashville moves to grant $40.2 million to 14 nonprofits for 1,106 affordable homesFood & Housing
- Minnesota awards its first Farm to Food Security grants: $1.3 million for 22 projects that buy food from local farmsFood & Housing
- Arkansas Community Foundation launches a $10 million fund for nonprofit work on food insecurityFood & Housing
- Maryland's NourishMD program offers $3.67 million to food retailers in food deserts, with applications due Nov. 2Food & Housing
- Publix Charities gives $25 million to more than 350 food banks and hunger groups in eight statesFood & Housing
- Florida Blue Foundation awards $3.1 million to eight Florida nonprofits working on food insecurityFood & Housing
- HUD's homelessness grant competition goes ahead, with applications due Sept. 30, after an appeals court vacates the ruling that stopped itFood & Housing
- HUD proposes to reward transitional housing, sober housing and police partnerships in its homelessness grant competitionFood & Housing
- Illinois local food grants buy cold storage and delivery trucks for farms, food banks and urban growersFood & Housing
- Massachusetts awards nearly $7 million in food infrastructure grants to 72 farms, fisheries and food organizationsFood & Housing
- Wisconsin takes applications until Oct. 1 for $5 million in grants to buy food made or grown in the stateFood & Housing
- FirstEnergy Foundation doubles its hunger grants to $5 million for 140 food banks and pantriesFood & Housing
Animals
Environment
- Pennsylvania opens about $420,000 in environmental education grants to nonprofits, with applications due Nov. 13Environment
- NFWF opens a Great Plains grassland fund backed by Walmart Foundation, with $10 million for ranchland easementsEnvironment
- EPA and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announce Chesapeake Bay watershed grants for clean water and restorationEnvironment
- New York awards $2.7 million to 45 land trusts for trails, staff and land dealsEnvironment
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
- Two federal judges set aside EPA's cancellation of the $7 billion Solar for All programEnvironment
Community
- Visa Foundation opens a $2 million grant call for nonprofits that help small businesses growCommunity
- FEMA's nearly $180 million in mitigation grants includes $1.5 million for earthquake work by nonprofits and universitiesCommunity
- Microsoft offers King County nonprofits 25 grants of $20,000 in the first round of its Community-First GrantsCommunity
- Louisiana invites nonprofits to apply for AmeriCorps grants for 2027-28, with applications due Feb. 28Community
- Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco awards a record $10 million in economic development grants across three statesCommunity
- New York opens a $75 million round of community center grants for nonprofits and municipalitiesCommunity
Justice & Rights
- South Carolina awards more than $29 million to groups that help crime victims, starting Oct. 1Justice & Rights
- Healing Illinois closes its fifth grant round, with awards of up to $50,000 for community healing projects due in late OctoberJustice & Rights
- California puts $34.9 million into outreach by community groups that teach workers their rights, and adds 15 granteesJustice & Rights
Veterans
- VA awards $16 million in adaptive sports grants to 91 organizations serving disabled veteransVeterans
- Texas opens applications for $31 million in veterans' assistance grants to nonprofits and local governmentsVeterans
- VA awards $111.9 million in suicide prevention grants to 191 community organizationsVeterans
- VA grants totaling $1.17 billion to fight veteran homelessness begin Oct. 1Veterans
Global
- Andrew Carnegie Foundation opens a call for peacebuilding and mediation grants of up to $1.5 millionGlobal
Philanthropy
- BECU Foundation awards $4 million in one-time grants to 12 Washington partners facing higher demandPhilanthropy
- Cargill Foundation makes its first grants outside the Twin Cities in 75 years, starting in Atlanta and WichitaPhilanthropy
- National Philanthropic Trust opens a path for donor-advised fund grants to children's Trump AccountsPhilanthropy
- Texas Women's Foundation gives $900,000 to 25 North Texas nonprofits in its 2026 community grant cyclePhilanthropy
- Foundations gave $1.3 billion for U.S. democracy in 2024, about 1.3% of their grants, Candid findsPhilanthropy
- The Dallas Foundation awards nearly $2.7 million in 97 summer grants, most of it for family economic stabilityPhilanthropy
- John Deere Classic says its 2026 tournament generated a record $20.1 million for 492 Quad Cities area charitiesPhilanthropy
- Bellingcat traces $24.4 million in donor-advised fund grants to two US charities it links to India's RSSPhilanthropy
- OpenAI Foundation names 163 nonprofits for $50 million in AI grants, with legal aid, arts groups and local newsrooms among themPhilanthropy
- Sparklight opens its fall Charitable Giving Fund round to nonprofits in its 24 service statesPhilanthropy
- Most Americans who use nonprofits do not count themselves as users, an Indiana University survey findsPhilanthropy
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation awards $13.7 million to 173 nonprofits in its 2026 grant cyclePhilanthropy
- Most foundations changed course after federal cuts, but few call their response very effective, a survey findsPhilanthropy
- Microsoft says it deleted some nonprofits' data early after their Business Premium grants ended, and it cannot be recoveredPhilanthropy
- San Angelo Health Foundation awards $1.6 million to nine Concho Valley organizations, $1 million of it for a river trailPhilanthropy
- Erie Gives raises a record $12.1 million for 546 nonprofits serving Erie CountyPhilanthropy
- Connecticut's PGA Tour event says its 2026 tournament generated a record $5 million for 290 charitiesPhilanthropy
- LeFrak and Simon families give $2 million to 40 Jersey City nonprofits and pledge $1 million a year for five more yearsPhilanthropy
- Wabash Valley Community Foundation gives $4.6 million to push stalled projects forward in three Indiana countiesPhilanthropy
- NBCUniversal gives $2.5 million in unrestricted grants to 80 small nonprofits in 11 TV marketsPhilanthropy
- Dubuque Racing Association, the nonprofit behind an Iowa casino, has given $1.5 million to 67 groups this yearPhilanthropy
- North Texas Giving Day passes last year's midnight count with more than $76 million for over 3,300 nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- Charities named in donors' IRAs say some financial firms take months or years to release the moneyPhilanthropy
- Nine foundations commit $25 million to Nonprofits Insurance Alliance, which insures more than 25,000 nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- The Dayton Foundation reports a record 367 new charitable funds and nearly $121 million in grants for its fiscal yearPhilanthropy
- Billion-dollar foundations paid out a median 5.1% in 2024, a report finds, as it calls for doubling the legal minimumPhilanthropy
- Gates Foundation commits at least $1 billion to AI for health care, schools and farms, and education experts question the classroom sharePhilanthropy
- The Columbus Foundation reports a record $477.4 million in grants to more than 5,200 nonprofits in 2025Philanthropy
- More than 700 grant makers have signed Unite in Advance, a pledge to defend one another's freedom to givePhilanthropy
- Aiken philanthropist pledges $1 million to the Community Foundation for the CSRA's grants endowment if the region raises $1 million firstPhilanthropy
- Technology trade group GTIA awards $3.2 million to 73 nonprofits, with a second referral round open until Oct. 2Philanthropy
- Green Bay Packers Foundation gives $1.6 million to 402 Wisconsin groups in the first year of a new grant cyclePhilanthropy
Law & Policy
- Oklahoma weighs letting donors sue over broken endowment terms, which four states already allowLaw & Policy
- California amends its online fundraising platform law to give charities notice before they lose good standingLaw & Policy
- Labor Department says nonprofit employees may volunteer for their employer, but not in their own line of workLaw & Policy
- New York City will pay up to 800 nonprofits their small Council awards as grants, within 30 days of signingLaw & Policy
- ICE investigators reviewed voter registration nonprofits in several states and weighed using undercover agents, records showLaw & Policy
- Federal court throws out notices that would have required immigration checks at Head Start, health centers and adult educationLaw & Policy
- Denver council tightens rules for the nonprofits that spend three voter-approved city taxesLaw & Policy
- Pennsylvania Senate votes to raise the weekly prize cap for small games of chance to $60,000Law & Policy
- Senate passes IRS bill that would give organizations a right to appeal a denied or revoked tax exemptionLaw & Policy
- Supreme Court declines to block Delaware law requiring groups that run election ads to name their donorsLaw & Policy
- Federal appeals court upholds Arizona law requiring groups to disclose the original sources of campaign moneyLaw & Policy
- Treasury and IRS list Johnson Amendment and fiscal sponsorship reporting guidance among their priorities for the yearLaw & Policy
- A 50-state nonprofit compliance database opens to AI assistants, free and without registrationLaw & Policy
- Newsom signs law keeping detention facilities out of California's charity property tax exemptionLaw & Policy
- Florida's governor and Cabinet designate CAIR and two other groups as domestic terrorist organizations under a new state lawLaw & Policy
- The IRS transition year for existing group exemptions ends Jan. 22, with new rules to meet before thenLaw & Policy
- Pennsylvania committees advance bills on prize limits, club proceeds and card payments for raffle ticketsLaw & Policy
- New York City Council's contracts chair proposes 11 steps to get nonprofits paid on timeLaw & Policy
- California law will require investment firms to notify nonprofits named as beneficiaries on securities accountsLaw & Policy
- Tax Court holds Tennessee charity founder liable for $1.3 million in excise taxes on $590,000 sent to his companyLaw & Policy
- Howard County bill would require audits, a two-year track record and a public database from nonprofits that receive county grantsLaw & Policy
- Justice Department asks appeals court to revive IRS deal letting two churches address candidates in worship servicesLaw & Policy
- California bill would deny the charity property tax exemption to detention facilities, a break an ICE center's nonprofit owner has receivedLaw & Policy
- Florida's ban on local DEI spending, in force Jan. 1, puts Miami-Dade advisory boards and a girls' program grant in questionLaw & Policy
- New tracker counts $177 billion in federal funding canceled, frozen or slowed since January 2025Law & Policy
- Alameda County supervisors' grants to nonprofits will need a majority vote, a stated public purpose and a public log under a new state lawLaw & Policy
- Juneau Assembly shelves a plan to make nonprofits charge the city's sales taxLaw & Policy
- Appeals court hears challenge to Illinois law requiring large grantmaking nonprofits to post board demographicsLaw & Policy
- House Democrats propose church-style limits on IRS audits of colleges and universitiesLaw & Policy
- Pennsylvania bill would strip nonprofit corporations of the power to spend on elections and ballot questionsLaw & Policy
- South Carolina budget writers agree that nonprofit earmarks must go through a city or county from next yearLaw & Policy
- House bill would write due process rights for nonprofits under IRS examination into the tax codeLaw & Policy
- Treasury and IRS propose to end the tax exemption of private schools that consider race in any programLaw & Policy
- Stopgap spending law bars OMB from finalizing its rewrite of federal grant rules until Dec. 11Law & Policy
- Senate Democrats ask Treasury and IRS to account for a reported plan to strip left-leaning nonprofits of tax exemptionLaw & Policy
- Florida's rewritten nonprofit corporation law, in effect since July 1, sets new duties for officers and new default rules for boardsLaw & Policy
Science & Jobs
- BlackRock Foundation awards $13 million to 15 skilled trades training groups in its first national roundScience & Jobs
- Humanity AI opens a $10 million grant call for community-led work on how artificial intelligence is built and usedScience & Jobs
- Citi Foundation offers 50 grants of $500,000 to nonprofits preparing low-income youth for work shaped by AIScience & Jobs