Frontline communities have been historically underfunded and underserved, especially when it comes to advancing environmental and climate justice. Outside of our own grant cycles, FRI collects and shares a range of external grant and federal funding opportunities with our extensive network of frontline communities. FRI’s grant resource list will be updated frequently, so please check back often for up-to-date information.
Open Funding Opportunities
| DEADLINE | Grant Title | Organization | Brief Description | Eligibility | Amount (USD) | Location(s) of focus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26-Nov-25 | Impact 100 | Impact 100 | Funds operational needs for small non-profits in the Philadelphia region, such as needs related to infrastructure, salaries, and programming. Must have mission values in one of the following areas: arts and culture, education, environment, family, health and wellness | Non-profit organizations that help under-served communities with a annual budget between $300,000 to $3 milllion. | $100,000 | Pennsylvania counties: Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia |
| 28-Nov-25 | Climate Action & Health Resilience Grants | Sanofi Foundation | Funds projects that aim to resolve issues at the intersection of climate change and health and address the following focus areas: community health systems improvement, inclusivity, sustainable interventions, and technology for climate adaptation. | Registered non-profit or community based organizations in the listed African or Asian countries. | €50,000 to €100,000 | Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, and Pakistan |
| 1-Dec-25 | Community Fund | Claneil Foundation | Funds organizations that focus on hunger, food systems, environment, education, and human services. | Non-profit organizations with annual budget of $1 million or less. | $30,000 for 3 years | Pennsylvania counties: Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia |
| 1-Dec-25 | Do Good Grant | The Joe Burrow Foundation | Funds sustainable projects that focus on mental health support and food insecurity. | Non-profit organizations, public colleges, K12 schools, community centers. | Up to $10,000 | Greater Cincinnati (Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana) and Baton Rouge (Louisiana) |
| 3-Dec-25 | Climate Rural Reporting Grant | Grist | Funds the publication and production of a print, digital, radio, or multimedia story that focuses on rural communities that face obstacles related to climate change or environmental justice. | National newsrooms or freelancers that are willing to publish in English. | Up to $5,000 | United States and Territories |
| 5-Dec-25 | Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant | U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) | Funds projects that improve access to local agricultural producers for children through education, field trips, gardens, and cooking demonstrations. | Non-profit organizations , local/state agencies Indigenous tribal organizations, child nutrition program operators, agricultural producers. | $100,000 to $500,000 | United States |
| 18-Dec-25 (every third thursday) | The Emergent Fund | Emergent Fund | Provides funding for rapid-response and emergent organizing work in response to specific urgent crises or power-building opportunities on a rolling, monthly basis. | Frontline, community-based organizations with 501(c)3 or 501(c)4 status or fiscally sponsored projects. | $10,000-$30,000 | United States |
| 31-Dec-25 | Creative Shorts Fellowship | Vision Media Maker | Funds a short film project (40 minutes or less) that discusses Indigenous culture, history, empowerment, social rights and environmental justice. Fellows also earn free mentorship. | Over 21 years of age, US resident who's either a professional filmmaker or emerging native filmmaker. | Up to $25,000 | United States and Territories |
| 7-Jan-26 | Research Grants on Reducing Inequality | William T. Grant Foundation | Funds research that reduces inequitable practices or policies for vulnerable youth (5-25 years-old) that identify with one of the following minority statuses: race, ethnicity, economic standing, immigrant origin, sexuality, and gender. | Tax-exempt organizations, institutions that serve underrepresented groups. | $100,000 to $600,000 (2-3 years); $25,000–$50,000 (1-2 years) | United States |
| 16-Feb-26 | Community Building Grant Program | Maine Community Foundation | Funds operational needs for organizations or community focused projects related to education, economic development, human services, arts and the environment. | Non-profit or charitable organizations, public schools, Indigenous tribal governments, fiscally sponsored projects. | Up to $10,000 | Maine |
| 18-Feb-26 | Open Space Conservation Grant | New York State Department of Environmental Conservation | Funds projects that preserve open space through climate change mitigation, air and water quality improvement, equitable community development, and habitat conservation. | Non-profit organizations, Indigenous nations, municipalities. | $50,000 to $3,500,000 | New York State |
| Rolling | W.K. Kellogg Foundation | W.K. Kellogg Foundation | Funds projects that support health care, education, food justice, career development, and equitable, anti-racist efforts. | 501(c)(3) or non-profit organization, public or governmental entity, charitable for-profit organization. | Varied, Unspecified | United States, namely Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico and New Orleans; Chiapas and the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico; central and southwest Haiti. |
| Rolling | SNF Grant | The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) | Funds projects or organizations whose values align with arts and culture, education, health and sports, and social welfare. | Non-profit organizations. | Varied, Unspecified | International |
| Rolling | National Grassroots Organizing Grant Program | Ben & Jerry's Foundation | Funds grassroots organizations that address social and environmental injustice through collective action and campaign development. | Grassroots 501(c)(3) non-profits with budgets under $350,000 USD. | Two-year grants of up to $30,000 per year | United States |
| Rolling | Transformative Change on a Human Scale | The Harris & Frances Block Foundation | Funds organizations who work on environmental impact, including environmental justice, or food and farm initiatives. | Grassroots, non-profit organizations who focus on maintain sustainable communities. | Up to $35,000 | Vermont, North Carolina, Southwest Virginia, and New York City |
| Rolling | Latitude Fund | Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation | Funds organizations with a time-sensitive internal capacity needs who focus on environmental justice and education. | Grassroots 501(c)(3) non-profits with budgets under 500,000 USD or fiscally-sponsored projects in Texas. | $2,500-$7,500 | Texas |
| Rolling | Communities First Fund Rapid Response Fund | Communities First Fund | Provides rapid-response funding to frontline and grassroots organizations to help them respond to infrastructure crises, federal rulemaking and funding notices, and other time sensitive issues. | 501(c)3 organizations and fiscally-sponsored projects. | $10,000 to $100,000 | United States, with focus on U.S. South and Midwest. |
| Rolling | De Colores Rapid Response Fund | Peace Development Fund | Provides rapid-response funds for grassroots organizing in communities of color, poor, and working-class. | 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations, non-501(c) organizations, groups, and coalitions. | $500-$1000 | United States |
| Rolling | Security and Well-Being Grants | Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights Asia & Pacific | Supports women and non-binary activists and organizations responding to urgent crises; funds are used to ensure safety from both physical and emotional harm. | Women/Non-binary led, human rights focus, and specifically for addressing urgent crises or threats. | Up to $5,000 | Asia and the Pacific |
| Rolling | Resourcing Resilience | Urgent Action Fund for Women's Rights Asia and Pacific | Funds women and non-binary human rights defenders who are seeking to implement an initiative that would support their activism. | Women or Non-binary Led | Up to $5,000 | Asia and the Pacific |
| Rolling | Environmental and Climate Justice Grants | Urgent Action Fund - Africa | Funds environmental women human rights defenders and woman-led grassroots environmental organizations to confront systemic environmental injustices in Africa. | Woman/trans-led organizations resopnding to urgent situations. | Up to $15,000 | Rainforest Zones Across Africa: Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville), Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Liberia, Ethiopia, Zambia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Angola, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, Togo |
| Rolling | Opportunity Grants | Fondo de Acción Urgente -América Latina | Funds strategic actions to defend women's and LBTIQ+ rights, falling under a broad a range of topics from women's rights to gender, racial, or environmental justice. | Woman/trans-led organizations resopnding to urgent situations. | Up to $5,000 | Latin America and the Caribbean |
| Rolling | Protection and Security Grants | Fondo de Acción Urgente -América Latina | Funds actions focused on protection of women and trans activists (and their organizations) when at-risk due to their work defending human rights and/or land. | Woman/trans-led organizations resopnding to urgent situations. | Up to $5,000 | Latin America and the Caribbean |
| Rolling | Security Grants | Urgent Action Fund | Supports the safety and security of women/trans/non-binary activists in unanticipated, time-urgent situations. | Funds must support women/trans/nonbinary activists in response to unanticipated situations. | Up to $8,000 | Middle East, Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Turkey, Central Asia, Russia, Canada and the United States |
| Rolling | Charity Pot Grant | LUSH | Supports small, grassroots organizations in North America and around the world that are working on the root cause of issues and creating long-term sustainable change. Funds organizations working in areas of animal protection, environmental justice, and human rights | Registered or unregistered organizations/charities, non-profits, or Indigenous and community groups with an annual revenue of $500,000 or less | Up to $25,000 | Worldwide |
| Rolling | EJII Capacity Building Grants | Wisconsin Environmenal Justice Infrastructure Initiative | Supports Wisconsin communities raising community awareness on environmental justice issues | Wisconsin grassroots organizations (501(c)(3) not required) | $200,000 | Wisconsin |
| Rolling | Federal Access Center Grants | Just Transition Fund | Provides financial and technical assistance to communities impacted by the coal economy to access government funding | 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations and local governments serving coal communities | Up to $100,000 | United States |
| Rolling | Seed Grants | New England Grassroots Fund | Funds groups launching new projects or starting to significantly change the direction of an existing project | Groups doing local, grassroots work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island or Vermont (tax status and fiscal sponsor not required) | $500 - $1,000 | New England |
| Rolling | Grassroots Grants | Story of Stuff | Funds projects on water privatization, plastic pollution, and other environmental justice focus areas. | Groups must be led by and serving black, indigenous, and communities of color | Up to $5,000 | United States |
| Rolling | The Catalyst Fund | Roddenberry Foundation | Supports groups anywhere in the world with early-stage idea or project that addresses pressing global challenges | Must be 18 years of age or older and submit an application in English | $2,500 - $15,000 | United States |
| Rolling | Cornell Douglas Foundation Grants | Cornell Douglas Foundation | Funds proposal in the following areas of focus: environmental health and justice, land conservation, mountaintop removal mining, sustainability of resources, watershed protection | $15,000 - $50,000 | United States | |
| Rolling | EDLC Grants | Environmental Defender Law Center (EDLC) | Covers expenses of public interest litigation against those responsible for resource development projects that harm the human rights, health, and environment of communities in developing countries | NA | International | |
| Rolling | Norman Foundation Grants | The Norman Foundation | Promotes economic justice and development through community organizing, coalition building and policy reform efforts; work to prevent the disposal of toxics in communities, and to link environmental issues with economic and social justice; link community-based economic and environmental justice organizing to national and international reform efforts | Priority given to organizations with annual budgets of under $1 million | ~$30,000 | United States |
| Rolling | Petchem Frontline Fund | Center for International Environmental Law | Supports groups and organizations fighting the petrochemical buildout and infrastructure in the United States | NA | United States |