Funding Opportunities

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OVC FY25 Emergency and Transitional Pet Shelter and Housing Assistance for Victims of Domestic Violence Program

Application Deadline: August 15, 2025

This funding will provide funding for shelter and transitional housing and other assistance to victims of domestic violence and their companion animals (i.e., pets, service animals, emotional support animals, and horses).


OVC FY25 Services for Victims of Crime

Application Deadline: August 15, 2025

This funding will provide funding to support the development, expansion and strengthening of victim service programs for all victims of crime throughout the United States and its territories in the following categories: Services to Child and Youth Victims; Services to Victims of Elder Abuse, Fraud, and Exploitation; Services to Other Crime Victims.


OVC FY25 Services for Victims of Technology-Facilitated Abuse

Application Deadline: August 15, 2025

This NOFO will provide funding to support services to victims of technology-facilitated abuse, defined as the use of technology and the Internet to bully, harass, stalk, intimidate, or control a victim.


OVC FY25 Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program Development and Operation Guide (Second Edition)

Application Deadline: August 15, 2025

This funding will provide funding to support the updating of the OVC Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program Development and Operation Guide to ensure the field of forensic nursing remains responsive to the needs of survivors of sexual assault.


OVC FY25 Technology to Support Services for Victims of Crime

Application Deadline: August 15, 2025

This funding will provide funding to develop, expand, and strengthen victim services programs for all victims of crime throughout the United States and its territories in the following categories: Advancing the Use of Technology to Assist Victims of Crime; Building State Technology Capacity to Serve Victims of Crime.


OVC FY25 VOCA Victim Assistance Formula Grant

Application Deadline: August 15, 2025

OVC will award each eligible state and territory victim assistance program an annual grant to support eligible crime victim assistance programs in that state or territory. All states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands are eligible to receive an annual VOCA victim assistance formula grant.


OVC FY25 VOCA Victim Compensation Formula Grant

Application Deadline: August 15, 2025

OVC will award each eligible state victim compensation program an annual grant equal to 75 percent of the amount the program awarded in state-funded victim compensation payments during the fiscal year two years prior to the present fiscal year, other than amounts awarded for property damage.


OVC FY25 National Crime Victim Crisis Hotlines

Application Deadline: August 20

This funding will provide funding to maintain, enhance, or expand the capacity of national hotlines that are essential for providing crisis intervention services, safety planning, information, referrals, and resources for victims of crime in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories.


OVC FY25 Increasing Availability of Medical Forensic Examinations for Victims of Sexual Assault

Application Deadline: August 29, 2025

This funding will provide funding to support the establishment or expansion of SANE/SAFE programs; increase the number of trained and certified SANEs to perform medical forensic exams through hiring and development programs; establish or enhance coordination between law enforcement agencies, healthcare facilities, and victim advocates; and retain SANE nurses by addressing vicarious trauma and burnout.


Safe Communities Program Grant

Application Deadline: September 22, 2025 (Forecasted)

Established in 1967, The Miami Foundation is the foundation for people who are passionate about Miami. The Miami Foundation is focused on building a stronger Miami forever. The Safe Communities Program strives to ensure safety and opportunity for all Greater Miami residents. We do this by investing in education and economic mobility, health services to overcome substance dependence, and collective action to improve community safety. The Fund is particularly focused on supporting survivors of human trafficking, gun violence, and other crimes as well as people who were previously involved in the justice system.


Slave 2 Nothing Foundation Grants

Deadline: November 1, 2025

The Slave 2 Nothing Foundation’s mission is to free people from being enslaved to any person or substance. We fulfill our mission by providing financial support to organizations in our communities that: 1) Create, educate and assist in solutions to eliminate human trafficking, and 2) Assist individuals and their families to gain freedom and healing from substance abuse.


Creag Foundation Grant

Rolling Deadline

The Creag Foundation is focused on innovation in the industry. We will consider proposals from 501(c)(3) organizations that are finding new ways to address societal issues facing the nonprofit community. Applications to the Creag Foundation are by invitation only. If you believe that your organization fits our funding criteria, you are welcome to submit a letter of inquiry.


Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

Rolling Deadline

DRK Foundation funds early-stage social impact organizations solving the world’s biggest social and environmental problems using bold, scalable approaches. Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation accepts applications for funding year round. Completing an application is the first step of our process and allows us to get to know you and your social enterprise so we can begin assessing your organization’s alignment with our funding thesis.


ECMC Foundation

Rolling Deadline

We make grants and investments that fit within one of our three strategic priorities, and we are particularly interested in those proposals that focus on implementing systemic reforms to improve postsecondary outcomes for students from underserved backgrounds.

If you believe you have a project which fits within an existing initiative and you meet one of our three strategic priorities, please use the process outlined below to apply. Staff will determine, based on the submitted letter of inquiry, whether a request fits with an existing initiative or falls under our strategically responsive grantmaking.


Edge Fund

Rolling Deadline

Edge Fund began from the ground up as a participatory grantmaking fund in 2012. The people who set it up had experience as activists or funders, and many as both. If community organising and community development could involve the people affected by decisions, then why couldn’t funding happen the same way? The capitalist system and the culture surrounding it creates winners and losers. It’s time for the voices of those who have been oppressed and marginalised. If we continue to leave decisions about funding to those who hold the wealth and power, real system change will not occur.


National Lottery Heritage Grants

Rolling Deadline

National Lottery Heritage Grants is our funding programme for all types of heritage projects in the UK. They fund projects that value, care for and sustain heritage for everyone across the UK, now and in the future. Heritage can mean different things to different people. It can be anything from the past that you value and want to pass on to future generations. This could include nature and habitats, historic buildings and environments, or cultures, traditions and people’s memories.


W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Rolling Deadline

We accept applications at any time. There are no deadlines or specific grantmaking cycles.

To help you get to know us better, we recommend our Who We Are and Priorities pages to give you sense of our mission, history and grantmaking priorities. We also encourage you to visit our DNA page, which details how the foundation’s commitments to advancing racial equity and racial healing, to developing leaders and to authentically engaging communities are part of everything we do, and everything we fund.

The information on the tabs that follow will help you know what to expect as you apply for a grant. We are always looking for creative ideas from organizations seeking to create lasting, transformational change for children.


If you know of any funding opportunities, please email them to gahtscholars@gmail.com.