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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01-Jul-26 | Racial Equity Research Grants | Spencer Foundation | Funds research projects that aim to increase racial equity in education. Prioritizes projects that focus on youth and educator mental health, community-based approaches to workforce development and quantitive methods. | Principal investigator must have a doctorate and be affiliated with a nonprofit organization or public institution | Up to $75,000 | International |
| 01-Jul-26 | LSPA Environmental Justice Grant | Licensed Site Professionals Association (LSPA) | Funds community-driven projects in Massachusetts that address a wide variety of environmental concerns including water conservation, hazardous waste collection, natural habitat restoration, and education. | Nonprofit or community-based organizations. | Up to $5,000 | Massachusetts |
| 03-Jul-26 | Native Voices Rising | Common Counsel Foundation | Supports native-led groups that use collective action to fight for social change. | Nonprofit organizations or native-led groups. | $30,000 | United States and its territories |
| 06-Jul-26 | Climate Story Fund | Doc Society | Funds production, post-production, and impact-related expenses for film projects focused on climate themes, such as racial equity, Indigenous knowledge, forced migration, agriculture, housing, technology, and conservation. | 18+ years or older; producer or director must have prior work released | Up to $125,000 | International |
| 10-Jul-26 | 2026 Environment Grant | Roy A Hunt Foundation | Funds projects that address the environmental concerns such as renewable energy, clean water and toxic waste at national or regional levels and offers public policy solutions. | 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations or fiscally sponsored projects | $25,000 to $75,000 | United States |
| 14-Jul-26 | The Indigenous Tomorrows Fund | Native Americans in Philanthropy | Funds organizations or projects that support youth leadership, serve indigenous communities and focus on the following areas: intergenerational knowledge, cultural expression, healing, indigenous foodways, and building collective power. | Native-led and Native-serving nonprofit organizations and collectives, Tribal Nations, and fiscally sponsored projects. | $25,000 to $100,000 | United States and its territories |
| 15-Jul-26 | Spark Good Local Grants 2026 | Walmart | Funds projects that serve a community near a Walmart facility and address a societal concern such as hunger relief. | Public charities, non-profit organizations, schools, or faith-based organizations. Must have a Spark Good account. | $250 to $5000 | United States |
| 23-Jul-26 | Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants | The Burroughs Wellcome Fund | Funds projects or research that foster new partnerships and focus on the intersection of climate and health including public health, climate communication, biomedicine, and natural disaster response. | Nonprofit organizations, or teams from degree-granting institutions. | $2,500 - $50,000 | United States or Canada |
| 24-Jul-26 | Community Wellbeing Grant | Lululemon Gives | Funds projects that promote inclusive access to wellbeing practices and movement programming. | Nonprofit organization or charity with annual budget below $3MM. | Up to $50,000 | Australia, Canada, China Mainland, France, Germany, Hong Kong SAR, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Macau SAR, Malaysia, Mexico, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, USA, and/or Vietnam |
| 24-Jul-26 | JTHershey LOI | Jacob & Terese Hershey Foundation | Provides operating, project and capital grants for up to two years for organizations or projects focused on animal welfare, environmental education or community parks. | 501(c)3 organizations | Up to $150,000 | Greater Houston and central Texas |
| 30-Jul-26 | 2026 Emerging Justice Fund Grant | Social Justice Fund Northwest | Unrestricted funds to support BIPOC led organizations who've been targeted by federal or local policies. | Nonprofit grassroots organizations with annual budgets $500,000, Tribal agencies or fiscally sponsored projects. | $10,000 | Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and/or Wyoming. |
| 31-Jul-26 | JustPax Fund Grant | JustPax Fund | Funds projects that support changes to uplift gender, environmental, and economic justice. | Open to individuals and nonprofit organizations | Up to $25,000 | United States and its territories |
| 31-Jul-26 | Healthy Food Financing Initiative FARE Fund | Reinvestment Fund; U.S. Department of Agriculture | Funds projects that promote access to healthy foods, for underserved communities and provides technical assistance to SNAP authorized healthy food retailers. | Nonprofit organizations, for-profit organizations, tribal nations, state and local governments, academic institutions. | $20,000-$250,000; $75,000 for technical assistance related to the project | United States; eligible underserved areas |
| 01-Aug-26 | Clif Family Grant | Clif Family Foundation | Funds operating costs for organizations that focus on health, regenerative farming, healthy food access, and climate justice. | 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations with annual budgets below $8MM or fiscally sponsored projects. | $5,000-$50,000 | United States and its territories |
| 01-Aug-26 | First Solar Community Giving Fund LOI | Greater Toledo Community Foundation | Funds projects that promote environmental education initiatives, access to clean energy and water in underserved communities, and sustainable technology development. | 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations | $10,000 to $15,000 | United States, Malaysia and Vietnam |
| 15-Aug-26 | SFNTC Grant Proposal | The Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Foundation | Funds organizations or project that promote Indigenous entrepreneurs, community building, education, and cultural preservation. | Nonprofit organizations that serve indigenous communities | $10,000 – $20,000 | United States |
| 19-Aug-26 | Vermont Grant Program | Ben and Jerry's Foundation | Funds programs that focus on social, racial, economic and environmental justice. | Nonprofit organization with budget under $500,000 or fiscally sponsored project | Up to $15,000 | Vermont |
| 21-Aug-26 | Community Investment Fund: Capacity Builder Award | Endeavor Health | Funds 1-2 year project that serve Endeavor Health service areas and build capacity and resource for community-based organizations. | Nonprofit organizations or fiscally sponsored projects. | $100,000 to $500,000 per year, up to 2 years | Local or national organizations; must serve Endeavor Health service areas (Chicago Metropolitan): Evanston, Glenbrook, Highland Park, Northwest Community, Skokie, Swedish, Edward, Elmhurst, and Linden Oaks |
| 31-Aug-26 | Global Innovation Challenge 2026 | Social Shifters | Funds youth-led projects or startups that focus on social or environmental issues. | Founds must be 18-30 years old | Up to $15,000 | International |
| 30-Oct-26 | Community Action Fund | NDN Collective | Supports travel, equipment, or contractual services for non-violent direct actions that prioritize Indigenous communities, rights, land and natural resources. | Grassroots organizers, community-based groups, tribes, frontline groups, nonprofit organizations or fiscally sponred projects. | Up to $15,000 | US, Canada, Mexico, Hawai’i, Borikén/Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. |
| 22-Jan-27 | Ama OluKai Grant | Ama OluKai Foundation | Funds programs that promote Hawaiian culture and serve Hawaiian communities. | 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations with an annual budget below $750,000 | Varied | Hawai'i |
| Rolling | Tier 1 Grants | Rasmuson Foundation | Funds small capital investment and one-time expenses such as renovation, equipment, and technology upgrades. | Alaska-based nonprofit organizations, Tribes, state and local government entities | Alaska-based nonprofit organizations, Tribes, state and local government entities | Alaska |
| Rolling | Digital Resiliency Grants | CIVICUS | Rapid-response grant; supports initiatives that increase safe technology use and build digital resilience for civic society groups | Civil society organizations or social movements | Up to $10,000; Up to $20,000 for joint collaborations | Global South |
| Rolling | RKMF Grant | Richard King Mellon Foundation | Funds operating costs or projects for organizations focused on conservation, economic development, and health and well-being. | Nonprofit organizations and fiscally sponsored projects | $10,000 to $5MM | Conservation: United States; other categories: Allegheny and/or Westmoreland counties (Southwestern Pennsylvania) |
| Rolling | Nominations for Black Voices For Black Justice Fund | Black Voices for Black Justice Fund | Awards black leaders who fight against racism and injustice within education, healthcare, jobs, and voting. | Black social entrepreneurs, activists and leaders. | Varied | United States |
| Rolling | Colcom Grant LOI | Colcom Foundation | Supports environmental and conservation projects in southwestern Pennsylvania. | Nonprofit organizations | Varied | Southwestern Pennsylvania: Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Blair, Butler, Cambria, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Lawrence, Somerset, Washington, and Westmoreland. |
| Rolling | NCF Grant | Nathan Cummings Foundation | Supports organizations that are committed to fighting racial economic, and environmental injustice. | 501(c)3 organizations | $50,000 to $250,000 | United States and its territories; mainly U.S. South: AL, AR, GA, KY, MO, OK, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV |
| Rolling | The Indigenous Power & Light Fund | Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy | Provides rapid-response grants to address energy crises on Indigenous land. Funds can be used to electrify homes, replace diesel systems, and strengthen infrastructure. | Tribal leaders/governments and nonprofit organizations pursuing projects that impact Indigenous land or communities. | $5,000 - $500,000 | U.S. and its territories |
| Rolling | Social Impact Fund | American Heart Association | Funds projects that address the social determinants of health so that people and communities can have access to food security, good-quality health care and economic opportunities. | Mission driven for-profits or non-profit organizations | Up to $250,000 | Florida, West Virginia, Minnesota, Chicago (IL), Los Angeles (CA), Minnesota, New York City (NY), Philadelphia (PA), and Toledo (OH) |
| Rolling | The Commonwealth Fund LOI | The Commonwealth Fund | Funds research projects that encourage experts of various backgrounds and disciplines to address health care disparities, including equitable access to quality care. | Tax-exempt non-profit organizations. | $37,000 - $450,000 | International |
| Rolling | DRK Grant | Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation | Funds early-stage projects that focus on social impact and environmental problems. | Non-profit organizations or mission-driven for-profit entities. | Up to $300,000 | Africa, Europe, India, and the United States |
| 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 | 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 |