Instrumentl starts at $299 a month. GrantStation lists at $699 a year. A nonprofit running on under a million dollars cannot justify either one to find out what closes next month. So here is the deadline half, free, from the same public source those tools start from.
Counted from the current dataset on August 31, 2026, not from a brochure. Rebuild the pipeline and these numbers change with it.
Every Monday, the next thirty federal grant deadlines in the categories a small nonprofit actually works in: education, health, human services, community development, arts, and food and nutrition. Each one carries the closing date, the agency, the opportunity number, the award size and expected number of awards where the notice published them, a one line plain English note on who the notice says can apply, and a direct link to the notice itself.
One source: the Grants.gov Search2 API at api.grants.gov, the
government's own index of open federal funding opportunities. It is public, it needs no
key, and every figure in a digest is copied out of it. No language model writes a
listing. Nothing is scored, ranked by preference, or sponsored, and no agency pays to
appear.
The eligibility line is a summary, not the rule. It is shortened from the notice's own eligibility text and from the applicant types the agency tagged. Shortening loses conditions, and the conditions are usually where a small organization finds out it does not qualify. Open the notice and read its eligibility section before you spend a day on an application. Where this digest and the notice disagree, the notice is right.
Two things are deliberately left out. Anything already closed, and anything closing more than 120 days out, because a deadline you cannot act on is noise. NIH investigator-initiated research announcements, the PA, PAR, PAS and RFA series, are also filtered out: they list nonprofits as eligible, so no eligibility setting removes them, but they fund university research rather than program work, and left in they were about 109 of the 177 notices in this window.
The weekly deadline digest stays free. A paid tier at $15 a month is planned for the things a digest cannot do: the full open list rather than the next thirty, filters by state and cause area, and a reminder before a deadline you marked. It does not exist yet. Subscribing to the free digest is how you hear when it does.
One email a week. The next thirty deadlines, grouped by the week they close in, with the eligibility line and a link to each notice. No cost, no card, and one click to stop.
Published August 31, 2026. Also in the archive.
The next 30 federal grant deadlines for small nonprofits, grouped by the week they close in. Issue of August 31, 2026.
Every deadline below comes from the Grants.gov Search2 API, the government's own index of open federal funding opportunities. Nothing here is a recommendation and nothing has been rewritten. The dates, dollar figures, award counts and eligibility wording are copied from the notice as the API returned it on August 31, 2026.
Check the notice. The eligibility line under each grant is a summary. It is shortened from the notice's own eligibility text and from the applicant types the agency tagged, and shortening loses conditions. Before you spend a day on an application, open the notice and read its eligibility section yourself. If the summary here and the notice disagree, the notice is right.
This issue carries 30 deadlines out of 68 currently open in the categories we track: education, health, human services, community development, arts, and food and nutrition. Closed opportunities and anything closing more than 120 days out are left off.
17 deadlines.
Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits, nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status and tribal organizations, and 6 more applicant types, for education work. $50,000 to $250,000 an award and about 5 awards expected.
Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits, nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status and tribal organizations, and 11 more applicant types, for human services work. $250,000 to $450,000 an award and about 21 awards expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: Eligible applicants are limited to local organizations and entities or consortia, with the capacity to develop and implement Competitive PREP projects in in states and territories that do not accept FY2026 allocations for State PREP.
Open to state governments, other applicant types named in the notice and federally recognized tribal governments, for human services work. $50,000 to $200,000 an award and about 20 awards expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: State IV-E agencies and Tribal IV-B/IV-E agencies. Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from the merit review and funding under this funding opportunity. Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible for awards under this funding opportunity.
Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits, nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status and tribal organizations, and 12 more applicant types, for health work. About 2 awards expected.
Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits, tribal organizations and public colleges and universities, and 3 more applicant types, for health work. Up to $300,000 an award and one award expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: Hospitals
Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits, nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status and tribal organizations, and 13 more applicant types, for human services work. $2,700,000 to $2,900,000 an award and one award expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: The statutory authority for this funding opportunity does not limit eligible entities to receive this funding. Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from the merit review and funding under this funding opportunity.
Cost sharing or matching is required.
Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits and public colleges and universities, for health work. $1 to $500,000 an award and one award expected.
Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits, county governments and special district governments, and 3 more applicant types, for health work. $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 an award and about 32 awards expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: Eligible applicants include experienced nonprofit organizations, states and local governments, and public housing authorities that have at least 3 years of experience in providing services to elderly adults. Nonprofit organizations are Internal Revenue Service recognized 501(c)(3) organizations. Applicants must satisfy the threshold requirements contained in Section III for their application to be considered.
Open to other applicant types named in the notice, for health work. $24,000,000 across the whole program and about 4 awards expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: Eligible applicants are limited to one or more public or private hospitals and/or corporate health systems. For the purposes of this NOFO, a corporate health system is defined as an organized, coordinated, and collaborative network that (1) links various health care providers, via common ownership or contract, across three domains of integration - economic, noneconomic, and clinical - to provide a coordinated, vertic...
Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits, private colleges and universities and public colleges and universities, for arts work. $80,000 to $100,000 an award and one award expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: The following organizations are eligible to apply: ● Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations ● Public and private educational institutions
Open to school districts, public colleges and universities and federally recognized tribal governments, and 4 more applicant types, for human services work. $350,000 to $500,000 an award and about 14 awards expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from the merit review and funding under this funding opportunity. Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible for awards under this funding opportunity.
Cost sharing or matching is required.
Open to tribal organizations and federally recognized tribal governments, for human services work. $350,000 to $600,000 an award and about 7 awards expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: Eligible applicants are Indian Tribes and tribal organizations, as such terms are defined in section 4 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. § 1603).Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity announcement.Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligi...
Open to other applicant types named in the notice, for human services work. $30,000 to $600,000 an award and about 7 awards expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: State Units on Aging and federally recognized Tribal Organizations funded under Title VI of the Older Americans Act who received a Major Disaster Declaration issued by the President of the United States under the Robert T. Stafford Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. Foreign entities are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement.
Open to other applicant types named in the notice and public colleges and universities, for health work. $1,000,000 to $1,625,000 an award and about 8 awards expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: To determine eligibility, HRSA uses the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis (NCHWA) projections1 through 2038, which indicate there are 41 states with a projected shortage of primary care physicians.
Cost sharing or matching is required.
Open to other applicant types named in the notice, for education work. $450,000 to $500,000 an award and one award expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: ● US and foreign not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations ● Public and private educational institutions ● Public International Organizations and Governmental institutions. ● Have demonstrated experience developing and administering similar programs. ●
Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits, tribal organizations and federally recognized tribal governments, and 1 more applicant type, for health work. $250,000 to $750,000 an award and about 2 awards expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: Federally recognized Indian Tribes An Indian Tribe as defined by 25 U.S.C. 1603(14). The term "Indian Tribe" means any Indian Tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community, including any Alaska Native village or group, or regional or village corporation, as defined in or established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (85 Stat. 688) [43 U.S.C.
Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits, private colleges and universities and public colleges and universities, for health work. $1 to $100,000 an award and one award expected.
8 deadlines.
Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits and other applicant types named in the notice, for human services work. $100,000 to $800,000 an award and about 21 awards expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: To be eligible for the CED program, an applicant must meet three conditions:1. Applicant must be a private, non-profit CDC with 501(c)(3) status;2. Applicant must have articles of incorporation or bylaws demonstrating that the CDC has, as a principal purpose, the planning, developing, or managing of low-income housing or community economic development activities; and3.
Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits, nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status and tribal organizations, and 2 more applicant types, for human services work. $200,000 an award and about 25 awards expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from the merit review and funding under this funding opportunity. Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible for awards under this funding opportunity.
Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits, nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status and tribal organizations, and 11 more applicant types, for human services work. $125,000 to $425,000 an award and about 12 awards expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: These awards intended to fund collaborative research projects between a CCDF Lead Agency and their research partner(s) (e.g., institutions of higher education, research organizations, and other organizations with proven expertise conducting policy and evaluation research). Therefore, eligible applicants may be either the CCDF Lead Agency or research partner organizations.
Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits, nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status and tribal organizations, and 2 more applicant types, for human services work. $300,000 to $3,000,000 an award and about 17 awards expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: An eligible grant recipient shall be a nonprofit organization that focuses primarily on issues of domestic violence and meets other statutory requirements for resource centers, the National Indian Resource Center, Special Issue Resource Centers, and State Resource Centers (42 U.S.C. §10410(c)(1)).
Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits, nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status and tribal organizations, and 5 more applicant types, for community development work. $8,300,000 across the whole program and about 100 awards expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: Faith-Based and Community Organizations
Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits, nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status and tribal organizations, and 2 more applicant types, for human services work. $300,000 to $350,000 an award and about 60 awards expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: An entity shall be a local agency, a nonprofit private organization (including faith-based and charitable organizations, community-based organizations, and voluntary organizations), or a tribal organization, with a demonstrated record of serving victims of family violence, domestic violence, or dating violence and their children (42 U.S.C. §10412(b)).
Open to other applicant types named in the notice, for health work. $350,000 an award and about 357 awards expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: You can apply if you are a Health Center Program award recipient with an active H80 award. A Health Center Program (H80) award is funded under section 330(e) of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act.Individuals are not eligible applicants under this NOFO.
Open to other applicant types named in the notice, for education work. $185,000 to $200,000 an award and one award expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: • US and foreign not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations • Public and private educational institutions • Public International Organizations and Governmental institutions. • Have demonstrated experience developing and administering similar programs. •
5 deadlines.
Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits, school districts and state governments, and 6 more applicant types, for arts work. $1,000 to $100,000 an award.
Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits, other applicant types named in the notice and federally recognized tribal governments, for human services work. $1,000,000 to $2,000,000 an award and about 14 awards expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: The following types of organizations are eligible to receive direct awards from DDDRP: CSBG state associations, tribes and territories that were funded directly by the CSBG in FY 2025.If a state does not have a CSBG state association or the CSBG state association is not willing to apply for funding, an individual community action agency from the state may apply with the support of a majority of all the CAA's in the s...
Cost sharing or matching is required.
Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits, nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status and tribal organizations, and 12 more applicant types, for health work. About 2 awards expected.
Open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits, nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status and tribal organizations, and 8 more applicant types, for human services work. $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 an award and about 10 awards expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: State governments are not eligible to apply to this NOFO.Organizations currently receiving funding from ORR to support the Program of Initial Resettlement, including through subaward, are not eligible to apply to this NOFO. Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from the merit review and funding under this funding opportunity.
Open to other applicant types named in the notice, for education work. Up to $100,000 an award and about 6 awards expected.
Eligibility, summarized from the notice: See Section C in the Notice