Grants & Scholarships

Grant Opportunities

Each program has different purposes, application requirements, and deadlines. Carefully review the guidelines provided for each funding opportunity.

To browse through frequently asked questions about our grantmaking please visit the Grant Program FAQs page.

Grants

Community Health and Medicine

Capacity Support for Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose Prevention, Harm Reduction, and Recovery Agencies Grants

Application Closed

This grant program aims to support nonprofit organizations who provide services in Rhode Island for people who use drugs, those who are seeking or in treatment, and those who are in recovery. La versión en Español de este programa de subvenciones está disponible aquí.

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Education Health and Medicine

Clean Competition Fund Grants

Ongoing

Grants from this program are for education, outreach, scientific projects, and clinical or basic research involving appropriate medical uses or long-term health implications of human growth hormone (“hGH”) use or use of other performance-enhancing substances.

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Community

Community Grants

Application Closed

Community Grants support community-building activities in cities and towns throughout Rhode Island.

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Community

Rhode Island ARPA Support Grants

Application Closed

The Rhode Island ARPA Support Grants assist Rhode Island-based nonprofits negatively impacted by COVID-19 that deliver services to address food insecurity, housing issues/homelessness and behavioral health needs.

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Communities of Color

Community Organization Capacity Building Grants

Application Closed

This program is intended to support nonprofits led by Black, Latino, Indigenous, or Asian executive directors or other decision-makers within an organization.

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Education

Grants for Diversifying the Teacher Workforce in Rhode Island

May 01, 2023

This grant program aims to support RI-based nonprofit organizations and/or local education agencies seeking to develop and implement evidence-based/evidence-informed strategies and efforts to increase racial and ethnic diversity among the teacher workforce in Rhode Island.

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LGBTQ

Equity Action Grants

April 13, 2023

Offering two types of grants, Equity Action is committed to enacting social change by championing initiatives and organizations that encourage justice for, provide support to, and improve the quality of life of LGBTQ Rhode Islanders.

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Arts & Culture

Rhode Island Expansion Arts Program

Application Closed

A collaboration between Rhode Island Foundation, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, this program offers funding and organizational assistance to community-based, culturally diverse arts and cultural organizations.

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Human Services

Food & Housing Security Grants

Application Closed

Please note that this grant program will open on March 31, 2023. Grants from this program fund local nonprofit organizations that address housing and/or food insecurity for Rhode Island’s most vulnerable populations.

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Community Health and Medicine

Grants for Community Prevention Services for Youth Opioid Mitigation

Application Closed

This grant program aims to support evidence-based or evidence-informed community-based opioid prevention services targeted towards children and youth (up to age 21). La versión en Español de este programa de subvenciones está disponible aquí.

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Health and Medicine

Fund for a Healthy Rhode Island Grants

Application Closed

Grants from this fund support projects focused on retaining a racially, culturally, ethnically, and linguistically diverse health workforce.

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Community

June Rockwell Levy Foundation Grants

Multiple Deadlines

Grants are made to 501(c )(3) organizations serving the communities of Providence County, with a preference for northern Rhode Island.

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