GrantStation Insider | September 4, 2025

Application deadline: None
Description: FundPlay Foundation, born from the youth sports management platform LeagueApps, supports organizations nationwide that use sports to foster youth development. Its Software Grants program provides free access to LeagueApps’ management software, along with training and ongoing support. Grantees also receive a small cash donation, access to a professional community, development events, and Positive Coaching Alliance staff training. Additional benefits include discounts on impact evaluation tools, helping organizations strengthen capacity and measure outcomes effectively.

Application Deadline: None
Average grant: $10,000
Description: The Transgender Law Center and the Emergent Fund have partnered to launch the Action for Transformation Fund, designed to provide rapid response funding for trans-led organizing, healing, and power-building efforts. The fund supports movement-building rooted in collective liberation, political education, and creative resistance, as well as power-building that addresses community survival needs and long-term liberatory visions. Eligible projects include direct actions, healing spaces, storytelling initiatives, cultural organizing, transformative justice, and safety measures. Priority is given to work led by Black, Indigenous, and people of color, rural and geographically isolated groups, disabled and ill leaders, sex worker-led efforts, and emerging organizations with budgets under $1 million.

Application deadline: None
Description: The Elinor Patterson Baker Foundation funds nonprofit organizations across the U.S. that support animal welfare and environmental causes. Its grantmaking interests include animal protection programs, wildlife conservation, and habitat preservation. Grants are typically awarded for general support, giving organizations the flexibility to use funds where most needed. This broad support helps nonprofits address pressing needs in animal care, rescue, and environmental protection.

Application deadline: September 15, 2025
Grant amount: $25,000 to $50,000
Description: The Global Technology Industry Association (GTIA) is a nonprofit that unites and supports IT channel professionals across the globe. Through its grantmaking, GTIA invests in nonprofits and schools using technology to create meaningful change, particularly in under-resourced communities. Funding supports scalable solutions such as broadband expansion, AI learning tools, workforce training, and innovations that advance equity and opportunity. Priority is given to initiatives that improve education, bridge the digital divide, build workforce pathways, and foster tech-driven prosperity.

Application deadline: None
Geographic scope: CO, FL, GA, IL, ID, IA, MI, MN, NE, NC, ND, SC, TN, and WI
Grant amount: Typically $5,000 to $15,000
Description: The Auto Club Group Foundation supports nonprofits across 14 states, focusing on traffic safety, financial literacy, and driver education. Its grants back innovative programs that enhance roadway safety and address emerging transportation challenges. The Foundation invests in K–12 financial literacy education, helping students build lifelong money management skills. It also funds scholarships and programs that expand access to quality driver education in underserved communities, ensuring safer, more prepared drivers.

Application deadline: None
Geographic scope: Massachusetts, New York, and Texas
Grant range: $5,000 to $150,000
Description: The H.L. Brown, Jr. Family Foundation primarily funds nonprofit organizations in New York and Texas, with occasional support to Massachusetts-based groups. Its giving focuses on a wide range of areas, including arts and culture, children and youth, education, the environment, sailing programs, health, and human services. The Foundation provides both project-based and general operating support to strengthen nonprofit capacity. Its broad funding interests allow for diverse organizations to align with its mission.

Application deadline: Letters of Inquiry October 15, 2025
Geographic scope: California and Ohio
Grant average: $10,000 to $50,000
Description: The Foundation focuses on supporting organizations that harness the power of nature to heal the soul, encourage outdoor activity, and advance research on the health benefits of spending time in nature. Grants are awarded to organizations serving Santa Barbara County and Los Angeles County in California and Franklin County, Ohio.

In addition, the Foundation supports efforts to preserve outdoor spaces for future generations and to deepen understanding of why nature is so profoundly beneficial.

Application deadline: None
Geographic scope: Arizona, California, Kansas, Missouri
Grant median: Approximately $25,000 
Description: The Dreiseszun Family Foundation supports nonprofits in the Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Kansas City metropolitan areas. Its funding priorities include children and youth, education, health and medical research, hunger and homelessness, Jewish organizations, and broader social services. The foundation provides both general operating and project-specific support to help organizations address pressing community needs. By focusing on these key areas, it strengthens vital services and opportunities across multiple regions.

Application deadline: October 14, 2025
Description: The Restorative Practices Pilot Sites Program is a 48-month funding opportunity seeking to support, strengthen, enhance, and expand existing restorative practice programs that prevent or address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.  domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, in accordance with the “restorative practices” definition.

Application deadline: September 23, 2025
Description: The purpose of the Disability Grant Program is to provide training, consultation, and information on domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, sexual assault, and abuse by caregivers against individuals with disabilities and Deaf people and to enhance direct services to such individuals.

GrantStation is closely monitoring federal actions and their impact on the nonprofit sector. This article tracks ongoing developments, providing links to source materials.

A recent Executive Order makes substantial changes to the development, decision-making, and disbursement of discretionary grants at the federal level. This article summarizes some of the most salient details for nonprofit organizations.

Some people learn best in an in-person environment. The GrantStation database (Members only) offers a search term for conferences, seminars, and workshops. If you'd like to get support to attend one of these types of events, or to host your own, this search term can help you find interested funders.

Webinar date: September 11, 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Description: Custom AI tools such as GPTs (from ChatGPT) and GEMS (from Gemini) can transform how you manage your workload. Well-developed tools can help in a wide variety of domains—from writing grants and donor communications to analyzing data. During this practical workshop, Alice Ruhnke and David Gates, will show you how to create your own AI “assistants” that reflect your organization’s voice, goals, and structure.

Webinar date: September 16, 2025, 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Description: If your organization has a national or regional orientation, you know the private grants landscape is increasingly competitive. Your foundation prospects accept only a small percentage of new applicants. In this session, Susan Schaefer of Resource Partners will help you navigate the unique obstacles and opportunities you face as a national or multi-state nonprofit when securing major foundation and corporate grants.

Webinar date: September 17, 2025, 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Description: The nonprofit and philanthropic sector is full of amazing people trying to do good work. At the same time, we’re trapped in systems that sometimes make it nearly impossible. In this candid conversation, Vu Le of NonprofitAF joins Alice Ruhnke of GrantStation to explore the key themes of his latest book, challenging long-standing philosophies and practices that may be holding the sector back. Expect Vu’s trademark sense of humor, sharp analysis, and refreshing honesty.

We received over 245 excellent entries in this year’s Winning Grant Proposal Competition. They reflected grant proposals with compelling narratives, succinct and engaging executive summaries, strong and workable plans, and well-defined budgets. We are appreciative of the work and efforts of each entrant.

A complete list of winners and many of the prize-winning grant proposals are available on the GrantStation website.

Congratulations to Grand Prize Winner Julia Mascioli at Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop!

GrantStation provides comprehensive tools for every step of your grantseeking journey. Membership gives you access to diverse grant opportunities, detailed funder & grant profiles, reliable and up-to-date data, and affordable professional-grade tools.

Two days only, September 16 & 17, at TechSoup.

GrantStation shares database profiles of local, national, Canadian, and international grantmakers with upcoming deadlines each week. Information on featured funders is available on the GrantStation homepage.