Recap of Funding Opportunities Still Open For Submission

Grants we've sent in July and August that still have open deadlines

We’ve published a lot of new impact funding opportunities recently, so we thought to send a quick recap from previous newsletters.

Summary:

• 22 with rolling applications

• 8 with applications due today or tomorrow, September 15th/16!

• 34 with applications due later in September

• 23 with applications due in October

• 11 with applications due in November

• 8 with applications due in December

• 2 with applications due in January, 2026

And over 50 more we sent out earlier in September!

Funding Opportunities - September 5, 2025

Funding Opportunities - September 12, 2025

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100+ Impact Funding Opportunities with Open Deadlines

Animal Welfare Grants. The Pollination Project.
• Support individuals and groups who are working to protect animals.
• 1) Reducing the consumption of land and sea animals raised using industrial agriculture practices, 2) Advocating for farmed animal welfare and 3) Helping animals that are not usually the focus of animal welfare efforts.
• Open to individuals in all countries with a special focus on Brazil, India and Mexico
• A $1k seed grant.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Startups for Sustainable Development program. Google.
• Supports a global ecosystem of impact-focused startups.
• Connects them to the funding ecosystem, including venture capital and other investment partners.
• Supports them with advisors and technology.
• All countries.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Awesome Foundation Micro Grants. Awesome Foundation.
• Awesome project on wide range of areas including arts, technology, community development, and more.
• Individuals, groups, and organizations working anywhere in the world.
• $1k.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Wildlife Emergency Fund. Brevard Zoo.
• Rapid financial support to conservation-based organizations that are responding to sudden, episodic and unpredictable threats impacting wildlife.
• Applicants from 501(c)3 non-profits (or equivalent), governmental and NGOs that focus on direct in-situ conservation action.
• Global.
• Up to $2,500.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis

Conservation Fund. International Marine Animal Trainers Association (IMATA).
• Conservation-oriented issues that serve marine mammal science through training, public display, research, husbandry, conservation, and education.
• Non-profit organizations.
• Global.
• Up to $5k.
• Applications accepted on rolling basis.

The Explorers Club Impact Grants. The Explorers Club.
• Fieldwork in biological sciences, archaeology, anthropology, paleontology, earth sciences, ecology, and astronomy.
• Exploratory projects that reveal new knowledge about the planet and its inhabitants, including regions undergoing environmental or cultural change.
• Researchers and explorers.
• Global.
• Up to $25k.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

500 Global Flagship Accelerator Program. 500 Global.
• Offering tech-oriented startups and small businesses the opportunity for a four-month accelerator program based in San Francisco in addition to a $150k investment.
• Global.
• $150k for a 6% stake. Program fees of $37,500 deducted from the investment.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

The Egmont Trust EOI. Egmont.
• Innovative ways of combating the impact of HIV & AIDS on children and families and provide financial support and project management advice to local, grassroots organisations.
• NGOs/CSOs.
• Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia & Zimbabwe.
• Up to $20k grant.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

Apply for a Rufford Small Grant. Rufford Foundation.
• Funds nature conservation projects.
• Species you are working on must be considered threatened.
• Early stages of conservation career. Focus on supporting current MSc or PhD students or recent graduates.
• Emerging or developing economy countries.
• Up to £18k.
• Applications accepted on a rolling basis.

The 10th Africa Energy Innovation Challenge (AEIC). NEF.
• Mobilizes early-stage young energy entrepreneurs to develop a prototype for social enterprise, agri-business, fintech solutions or energy management system using local resources.
• Four innovation tracks: 1) Powering Youth Employment & Jobs Creation, 2) Energizing Agribusiness & Social Development, 3) Greening Local Manufacturing & Value Addition and 4) CNG for Transport & Electrified Mobility.
• 18 and 35 years.
• Africa.
• Up to $10k cash prize grants.
• September 15, 2025.

RFPs: Tree and Soil Research Fund Grant Program. TREE Fund.
• Areas of research of interest to the landscape architecture community with special focus in the area of trees and the soils that support them.
• Research proposals and applications from a wide range of academic and technical disciplines, of both a qualitative and a quantitative nature.
• Does not fund grants to individuals and tree planting programs.
• Global.
• Up to $10k.
• September 15, 2025.

John Z. Duling Grant Program. TREE Fund.
• Provide start-up or seed funding to support innovative research and technology transfer projects that have the potential of benefiting the everyday work of arborists.
• Individual grants, municipal tree surveys, tree planting programs, traditional forestry or timber production studies, and product testing that benefits a specific manufacturer are not eligible.
• Open to principal investigators, co-investigators, and student assistants.
• Up to $15k.
• September 15, 2025.

Restoration Returns Grants Program. G20 Global Land Initiative.
• Community-led initiatives aimed at restoring ecosystems with high returns for both people and their environments.
• All countries are eligible. Open to organizations of all sizes.
• $17k.
• September 15, 2025.

Angela Merkel Research and Mobility Grants for European Studies. Fundación Academia.
• Promotes dialogue, collaboration, solidarity, and defends European values such as freedom, human rights, equality, justice, the rule of law, stability, and peace.
• Researchers working on their doctoral thesis.
• EU member states, Western Balkans, Eastern neighbourhood countries, Southern Mediterranean, Asia, Central Asia, Middle East, Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States and Canada.
• €2,500.
• September 19, 2025.

Extreme Weather and Natural Hazards Solutions Grant Program. National Geographic Society.
• Impactful projects driving science-based solutions to the growing threat of extreme weather events and natural hazards such as wildfires, hurricanes, tornados, droughts, floods, heatwaves and severe storms.
• Applicants should demonstrate that they have the expertise, skill and passion to successfully complete their project.
• Applicant must be over the age of 18.
• All countries.
• Up to $50k in funding for a two year project.
• September 19, 2025.

Stanley 1913 Creators Fund. Stanley.
• Uplift emerging leaders as they create and develop innovative ideas that strengthen communities.
• Early-stage nonprofit organizations.
• All countries.
• $50k unrestricted support grant.
• September 19, 2025

International Iguana Foundation Grant Program. International Iguana Foundation.
• Protect, restore, and conserve iguana species and their habitats and to provide critical support to iguana recovery programs.
• Global.
• Up to $25k.
• September 20, 2025.

Giga Accelerator Programme. Giga.
• Scalable, tech-based innovations that tackle school connectivity or related infrastructure challenges, with strong potential for deployment in underserved or unserved regions.
• Organizations based in Spain and women-owned enterprises are encouraged to apply.
• Commercial and not-for-profit organizations.
• Legally registered entity based in or has operations in an ITU Member State.
• Up to $50k non-dilutive grant alongside a mentorship programme.
• September 21, 2025.

Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. Royal Academy of Engineering.
• African innovators developing scalable engineering solutions to local challenges.
• Applicants can apply as an individual or on behalf of a team.
• Sub-Saharan Africa.
• One winner will receive £50k, three runners-up will be awarded £10k each.
• September 23, 2025.

Connecting Indigenous Research Leadership in Canada and the Global South. IDRC.
• Indigenous organizations interested in connecting with First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities in Canada through knowledge-sharing activities.
• West and Central Africa, East and Southern Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa.
• Open to public research institutes, think tanks, universities and not-for-profit organizations with a research mandate.
• ~$72k. (Up to CAD100k each).
• September 23, 2025.

Prize for Innovation in Global Security. Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP).
• Contributions that are advancing bold, creative, and impactful solutions in the field of global security.
• Individual, group of individuals, or organisation (from private or public sectors).
• All countries.
• ~$12,320. (CHF 10k).
• September 25, 2025.

MEST Africa Challenge 2025. MEST.
• Pitch competition for early-stage fintech startups.
• Digital payments, Financial inclusion, Insurance innovation and or value chain financing.
• Botswana, Uganda, Mauritius, Seychelles, Kenya, Mozambique, Zambia and Ghana.
• $50k in equity.
• September 26, 2025.

Community Empowerment Grant Program. Climate Justice Impact Fund for Africa (CJIFA).
• Climate resilience and environmental sustainability while focusing on: 1) Democracy and Rule of Law, 2) Equality and Non-Discrimination, 3) Business and Human Rights and 4) Economic Empowerment.
• Not-for-profit, non-religious, non-governmental, and non-political entities.
• Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Mozambique, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Zambia, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Rwanda, Niger, Cameroon, Malawi, Tunisia, Botswana, Uganda, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Cote D’lvoire, Liberia, Mauritius, Egypt, Tanzania & Morocco.
• Up to $8k.
• September 29, 2025.

Young Environmentalist Innovative Challenge 2025. Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF).
• Support and scale impactful environmental innovations led by young individuals and youth-led organisations.
• Environmental issues such as climate resilience, sustainable agriculture, circular economy, renewable energy, and ecosystem restoration.
• Youth (aged 15–35).
• Kenya.
• Up to ~$38,700. (KES 5,000,000).
• September 30, 2025.

Innovations tackling food safety challenges. Food Safety for Africa (FS4Africa).
• 1) Traceability & authentication of safe food, 2) Mycotoxins​, 3) Pesticide residues, 4) Microbial contamination and 5) Food adulteration.
• Start-ups, SMEs, research organizations and other multidisciplinary actors.
• Africa.
• One entity per proposal (no Consortia allowed).
• Up to €60k.
• September 30, 2025

Support for Energy Communities. European Energy Communities Facility.
• Supports the development of business plans both for energy communities that are setting up their first activity, as well as for communities that already have an activity and would like to develop a business plan for a new activity.
• Formally organised legal entities such as a cooperative, association, limited company, or similar organisation.
• EU, Iceland, Moldova, North Macedonia and Ukraine.
• Up to €45k grant.
• September 30, 2025.

Chemistry for Climate Action Challenge. Elsevier Foundation.
• Individuals and organizations whose projects use green and sustainable chemistry solutions to tackle some of the developing world’s greatest sustainability challenges.
• Chemistry Solutions: 1) Waste Utilization, 2) Alternative Energy Sources, 3) Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health, 4) Climate Change Mitigation, 5) Community Empowerment, 6) Sustainable Agriculture, 7) Water Resource Management and 8) Health and Well-being.
• Applicants can be from anywhere but the project must be applicable in and suitable for low- and middle- income countries.
• 2 prizes of $25k each.
• October 1, 2025.

Coastal Ecosystems for People and Planet Fund. National Geographic Society.
• Conservation, restoration, or research related to blue forests (such as mangroves, seagrass meadows, kelp forests, or coastal salt marshes).
• Primary discipline of Science, and a primary focus area of Ocean.
• Alaska, Arctic, Asia, Baja California, Caribbean, Central America and Colombia, Galapagos, Mediterranean and Azores, Pacific Northwest, Southern Ocean, UK and Ireland.
• Up to $75k.
• October 3, 2025.

Wege Prize challenge competition. Wege Prize.
• A compelling circular solution: 1) Eliminate waste and pollution, 2) Circulate products and materials and 3) Regenerate our natural systems.
• Apply as a team - exactly 5 members (no more, no less).
• Be currently enrolled in a undergraduate, graduate, or post-graduate degree program program at a college, university, or equivalent institution of higher education.
• Global.
• $30k.
• October 5, 2025.

Kokuyo Design Award 2026. Kokuyo.
• Product designs that signify present social circumstances.
• Corporations, organizations, people, and teams are all welcome, no matter age, intercourse, skilled background, or nationality.
• Up to ~$13,530. (¥2,000,000).
• October 8, 2025.

Ocean Exploration and Discovery Program. National Geographic Society.
• Recruiting and supporting early career scientists who can take advantage of one berth space and the research infrastructure aboard SOI’s Falkor (too) research vessel during its 2026 season traversing the east coast of South America.
• Biogeochemistry, Mid-Water Biodiversity Exploration, Physical Oceanography, Mesophotic Ecosystems, Marine Technology, and Underwater Seamounts.
• Experience in marine sciences and the ability to lead ship-based oceanographic science, deep sea research and/or other exploratory research with limited guidance.
• Focus on one geographical region (ocean basin or sea) around all seven continents.
• Up to $20k grant.
• October 8, 2025.

Earth Partner Prize. Earth Partner.
• Work that comments on the ecological crisis.
• Apply with any medium, including, but not limited to, photography projects, docu-style and experimental film, performance art, spoken word, musical compositions, dance, fashion design, new media, app development, and social media projects.
• 14-30 years.
• All countries.
• Up to $10k cash prizes.
• October 10, 2025.

Call for Proposals: Small Scale Projects (SSPs) 2026 in Thailand and Laos. Embassy of the Czech Republic in Bangkok.
• Projects based on the principle of sustainability. Can focus on various sectors.
• Local civil society organizations (including NGOs) and other institutions working at the local level.
• Thailand and Laos.
• Up to ~$23,500. (500k CZK).
• October 10, 2025 for electronic submissions, October 15, 2025 for paper submissions. (Both electronic and paper versions of the submission are required).

Luxury Retail Challenge. Agorize.
• Ready to disrupt the future of digital retail.
• Reimagining the future of premium customer experience through cutting-edge digital innovation.
• Startups with a MVP.
• All countries.
• Up to ~$62,300. (CHF 50k).
• October 13, 2025.

Submissions open for Holohil Grant Program. Holohil.
• Supports research and educational work focused on endangered species.
• Projects that demonstrate strong conservation value and sound scientific design.
• All countries.
• ~$1,800 (CAD 2,500 toward the purchase of Holohil transmitters for selected projects).
• October 15, 2025.

Imminent Research Grants. Imminent.
• To help innovators who share the goal of making it easier for everyone living in our multilingual world to understand and be understood by everyone else.
• 5 grants from these topics: Language economics – Language data – Machine learning algorithms for translation – Human-computer interaction – Neuroscience of language.
• Startuppers, researchers, innovators, authors, university labs, organizations, and companies.
• All countries.
• Up to $20k.
• October 15, 2025.

Commonwealth Youth Awards. The Commonwealth.
• Impactful, sustainable development work in their communities.
• Aged 15 to 29 years old. Must have been engaged in development work for more than 12 months.
• Commonwealth citizen in a Commonwealth country.
• Up to £5k.
• October 17, 2025.

Whitley Awards. Whitley Fund for Nature (WFN).
• Dynamic, mid-career conservationists who are leading wildlife conservation projects in the Global South.
• Locally incorporated NGOs.
• Not accepting pilot projects.
• Up to £50k.
• October 31, 2025.

Live Your Dream Awards. Soroptimist.
• Help women who are the sole financial providers for their families cover tuition costs, purchase books, get transportation, or find reliable childcare.
• To a woman who is enrolled in or has been accepted to a vocational/skills training or an undergraduate degree program.
• Should not have a graduate degree and is not pursuing one currently and is not a Soroptimist member.
• Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Guam, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Northern Mariana Islands, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Taiwan, United States of America and Venezuela.
• Up to $10k.
• November 15, 2025.

Ran and Ginny Fiennes Award 2025-2026. Royal Geographical Society.
• Humanitarian, scientific or instructional tasks which comply with within the Transglobe Expedition’s custom of problem and perseverance.
• Support the next generation of emerging travelers and expeditioners.
• Global.
• Up to £5k.
• November 30, 2025.

Neville Shulman Challenge Award 2025. Royal Geographical Society.
• To further the understanding and exploration of the planet – its cultures, peoples and environments – while promoting personal development through the intellectual or physical challenges involved in undertaking a research project or expedition.
• Will not fund projects that take place in locations to which the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) advise against all travel prior to departure.
• Applications are invited from both individuals and groups.
• Project proposals directly relating to PhD or MSc research will not be accepted.
• Up to €10k.
• November 30, 2025

Call for Applications: TCF Grant Program. Turtle Conservation Fund.
• Support pilot conservation projects focused on tortoise and freshwater turtle species listed as Critically Endangered or Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
• Will also consider proposals for species that are not currently listed but could become priority species with more information on their population status or threats.
• $5k for conservation efforts targeting high-priority species. Smaller grants of $3k or less are also available.
• Organizations or individuals from all countries.
• December 1, 2025.

The Environmental Fellows Program. Harvard University.
• To enable recent doctorate recipients to use and expand Harvard’s extraordinary resources to tackle complex environmental issues.
• Candidates with a doctorate or equivalent in any field are eligible, and they may propose research projects in any discipline.
• Post-doctoral fellowship for recent recipients of a PhD.
• All countries.
• Up to $95k. (Salary of $90,000 per year, employee health insurance eligibility, up to $2,500 reimbursement for relocation expenses, and a $2,500 annual allowance for travel and other professional expenses).
• December 1, 2025.

Research Grants for Innovation in Financial Risks and ERM. International Actuarial Association.
• A new research grant to support original research that advances developments and innovations in financial risks, investments, and enterprise risk management.
• Funded research must result in a scientific paper.
• Academics, practitioners, or mixed teams with relevant expertise.
• All countries.
• Up to ~$21,760. (CAD $20k to $30k).
• December 1, 2025.

Early-Career Scientific Research Grants Program. AABB Foundation.
• Early-career investigator who has completed a terminal research degree or medical residency within the past 10 years of the grant application deadline and has not yet been awarded a substantial research grant.
• 1) Immunology, 2) Hematology, 3) Immunohematology, 4) Infectious Diseases, 5) Biotherapies and 6) Patient Blood Management.
• Must be a doctor (MD or PhD), medical technologist, transfusion medicine or biotherapies professional.
• All Countries.
• Up to $100k.
• December 1, 2025.

World Sustainability Award 2026. MDPI Sustainability Foundation.
• Individuals who have made groundbreaking contributions to sustainability research. Three core categories: Biosphere, Society, and Economy.
• Senior researchers with a robust worldwide observe file in sustainability-associated analysis.
• Submissions should come from third events aware of the nominee’s work and impression.
• Global.
• $50k.
• December 15, 2025.

Local Project Support. Conservation, Food and Health Foundation.
• Funds applied research, pilot projects, new initiatives, training, and technical assistance. That have the potential to advance the field, build local capacity, promote replication, influence public opinion and policy, affect systems change, and benefit people beyond the immediate project and its local context.
• Conservation, Food and Health.
• NGOs, nonprofit organizations; civil society organizations; community-based organizations; and colleges, universities, and other academic institutions.
• Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East.
• Up to $50k.
• December 22, 2025.

Grant Competition for Development Cooperation Projects 2025. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia.
• Support to financing of pre-assessment visits for development cooperation projects in recipient countries designated by the Republic of Latvia.
• It envisages the organising of business trips for feasibility studies in partner countries in order to establish contacts with new partners and draw up an application for a development cooperation project.
• Any institutions of direct and indirect public administration, local governments, derived public persons, other government agencies of the Republic of Latvia as well as associations, foundations, businesses, trade unions and other subjects registered in Latvia.
• EU’s Eastern Partnership countries (Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia), in Central Asian countries (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan) and in African countries.
• Up to $25k.
• December 31, 2025.

NEF Commemorative Grant Fund for Capacity Building of Young Scientists (CGF). Nagao Foundation.
• Helping young scientists grow up as world-class scientists in the fields of conservation of wildlife and ecosystem.
• Under 40 years old, a researcher working in a university or research institution with a PhD or Doctor’s degree.
• Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Fiji, Indonesia, Kiribati, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federal of), Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.
• Up to ~$16,905. (2.5m Japanese yen maximum grant size).
• January 30, 2026.

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