GrantStation Insider: July 10, 2025

Application deadline: September 3, 2025
Grant amount: Up to $300,000
Description: Category 1 offers up to $100,000 over two years to strengthen the capacity of organizations or clinical settings to conduct research on healthcare strategies that address community firearm violence or firearm suicide. Category 2 provides up to $300,000 over two years to support new or expanded research on evidence-informed healthcare practices or clinical care models targeting these same issues. Both categories aim to advance the role of healthcare systems in understanding and mitigating firearm-related harm in communities.

Application deadline: Mini Grants: July 25, 2025; Standard Grants for Community Partner Applicants: August 1, 2025; Standard Grants for Tribal Applicants August 22, 2025.
Grant amount: Mini Grants: Up to $10,000; Standard Grants: $10,001-$75,000
Description: The Collaborative Capacity Program for Forests & Communities invests in the resources, skills, tools, and support activities that make collaboration for forest stewardship successful. Funding must support collaboration or collaboration-based activities that aim to benefit forests and grasslands that are currently managed by the U.S. Forest Service through the National Forest System. 

Application deadline: September 1, 2025
Grant amount: $10,000 to $250,000
Description: The Bolger Foundation offers U.S. nonprofits grants for capital projects. Funding supports initiatives in conservation, underserved populations, health (including mental health), community, and education. Eligible expenses include construction, building improvements, capital equipment, furnishings, and other one-time physical needs. The foundation’s goal is to empower organizations that make a lasting community impact.more outdoor activities that help create healthier communities.

Application deadline: September 15, 2025
Grant amount: $500 - $50,000
Description: The Robert Lehman Foundation provides grants to museums, arts organizations, educational institutions, and other nonprofit cultural groups with the goal of advancing the visual arts in both American and global culture. It supports a wide array of projects, including museum exhibitions, scholarly publications, art history lectureships, and art education programs. A key focus of its giving is expanding access to art education in underserved communities where arts learning opportunities are limited or nonexistent.

Application deadline: August 31, 2025
Geographic scope: Communities where company employees live and work in MN, WI, IA, MI, TX, AZ, VA, and PA 
Grant amount: Typically between $5,000 to $50,000 for general operating and program/project requests
Description: The Foundation prioritizes housing access and stability, health equity and access, hunger relief through food security, and education equity (particularly in trades and industrial programs). Its focus includes services like affordable housing, mental health care, culturally relevant food distribution, and elevating vocational education.

Application deadline: August 1, 2025 and November 1, 2025
Geographic scope: AL, CA, GA, KY, NY, OH, TN, TX
Grant amount: The Foundation will consider requests of $25,000 and above and the Corporate Giving Program will consider requests up to $25,000
Description: The Brown-Forman Foundation and Corporate Giving Program primarily support nonprofits in communities where the company operates, with a strong focus on Louisville, KY. Funding priorities include arts and culture, essential living standards like education and social services, and responsible living through alcohol harm reduction and environmental sustainability.

LOI deadline: September 10, 2025
Geographic scope: OR and greater Pacific Northwest, with an emphasis on Portland, OR
Grant amount: $1,000 - $30,000
Description: The Autzen Foundation provides funding that supports small nonprofit organizations focusing on social services, arts and culture, education, environmental initiatives, and youth-centered missions. Support is available for projects, general operations, capital campaigns, and capacity building. Eligible applicants must have held 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status for at least two years.

LOI deadline: September 10, 2025
Geographic scope: Primarily the coastal regions of ME, MA, and RI, with a focus on southeastern Massachusetts
The Island Foundation supports marine conservation, climate resilience, sustainable livelihoods, environmental justice, and gender equity, with special attention to womxn and girls of color. It funds programs in Southeastern New England and New Bedford focused on youth development, food security, immigrant support, civic engagement, education, and nonprofit capacity-building.ips.

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This tool sample is a board member job description that can be used to set expectations for individuals and the board as a whole, or be shared by the board as a nonprofit begins its recruitment process.

If your organization serves the local community, don't forget to research sources of funding available through the local city or county government. Many city and county websites provide information on grant opportunities offered by local government entities.

Webinar date: July 14, 2025, 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Description: The demand for funding is increasing. The Request for Proposals (RFP) is your map to crafting a competitive proposal. But it’s more than just a checklist—it communicates priorities, tone, and strategy. During this session, you’ll learn how to dig deeper into funder guidelines to fully align your proposal, even if the language is vague or inconsistent.

Webinar date: July 15, 2025, 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Description: Fundraising can feel like nonstop adulting—chasing metrics, wrangling CRMs, and drowning in “pivot tables of doom.” Teams often over-engineer every campaign and forget the mission that brought them here in the first place. In this webinar, 20+ year fundraising veteran Patrick Kirby will help you break free from the rut of solicitation fatigue. He’ll show weary fundraisers how to swap burnout with playground-level enthusiasm by revisiting ten timeless traits we all had in 5th grade—like fearless asks, curious questioning, and friendly stewardship.

Webinar date: July 16, 2025, 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Description: Is your nonprofit stuck in the “spray and pray” messaging trap—sharing generic updates and hoping something resonates? You're not alone. Many nonprofit leaders are so focused on delivering services that strategic communications take a back seat. But thoughtful messaging doesn’t require a marketing degree—it just requires the right approach. During this webinar, Marie Palacios of Funding for Good will share practical, proven strategies to communicate your nonprofit’s impact in ways that inspire action.

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