Financial Capital Opportunities
Amplifying opportunities for social innovation
| Organization | Description | Deadline |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Health Care Services | Through this round of Elevate Youth California (EYC) funding, the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) is making approximately $44 million available to community-based, Tribal, and county behavioral health organizations throughout California to expand youth and young adult substance use prevention through policy, systems, and environmental change. | September 21st, 2026 |
| CA Department of Food and Agriculture | The California Department of Food and Agriculture's (CDFA) Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP) funds projects that enhance the competitiveness of California specialty crops. The SCBGP is designed to support all sectors of California's specialty crop industry and improve the performance of California specialty crops within local, domestic, national, and international markets. | September 21st, 2026 |
| Strategic Growth Council | The Community Resilience Centers Program (CRC) funds planning, development, construction, and upgrades of local facilities to serve as Community Resilience Centers, providing shelter and resources during climate and other emergencies. The program will also fund ongoing year-round community services and programs that build overall community resilience. | September 25th, 2026 |
| Drucker Institute | Inspired by Peter Drucker’s enduring belief that effective organizations are essential to a functioning society, the Prize honors nonprofit leaders whose innovation creates lasting impact and strengthens the communities they serve. Drucker challenged leaders to understand their organization’s purpose, the people it serves, the realities of its environment, and the results it must achieve, and the Prize puts those ideas into practice. The 2026 Prize begins with a focused competition for eligible 501(c)(3) healthcare nonprofit organizations in Southern California, the first chapter in an effort to expand the Prize’s reach to additional organizations, sectors, and geographies in future years. Ten organizations will be selected as finalists. Two finalists will each receive a $25,000 grant from the Drucker Prize Endowment. Through the Prize’s partnership with Esri, all 10 finalists will also receive a one-year grant of Esri’s ArcGIS technology, valued at $31,500 each, and participate in a workshop hosted at Esri Headquarters in Redlands. | September 28th, 2026 |
| The Hunger Center | The Hunger Center is now accepting applications for 2026 K-12 Backpack Grants, offered through the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation. Grants of $1,000 will be awarded to community organizations with established backpack feeding programs. Applications will be accepted between September 1 to September 30, 2026; prompt applications are encouraged. | September 30th, 2026 |
| LA28 Resilience Champions Fund | In recognition of the resilience that drives the Olympic and Paralympic Games, LA28 is launching Round 2 of the LA28 Resilience Champions Fund, a grantmaking initiative designed to invest in a more resilient Los Angeles. The Fund, administered by Community Partners, will distribute grants of up to $100,000 to projects focused on building a more resilient Los Angeles, advancing proven locally led solutions, and creating lasting community benefit at the neighborhood level leading up to and beyond the Games. All the details are in the guidelines below – click on the orange circles to expand each section. The deadline to apply is October 30, 2026. | October 30th, 2026 |
| The Digital Divide Grant Program (DDGP) | The Digital Divide Grant Program will award one grant of $100,000 for rural and urban public schools and two grants of up to $50,000 each for non-profit Community Based Organizations (CBO). The grants will fund digital projects that serve beneficiary public schools/districts and non-profit Community Organizations. Projects may address gaps in broadband networks, affordability, access to personal devices and digital skills training. | October 30th, 2026 |
| Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (DRK) | Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (DRK), in partnership with NextLadder Ventures (NLV), launched a new initiative to back early-stage, impact-first organizations using technology and AI to help low-income Americans navigate economic opportunities and challenges. Tens of millions of low-income Americans qualify for benefits they never receive, sit on housing waitlists that never move, and navigate health systems that were not built for them. Fragmented systems, paper workflows, and overworked navigators combine to leave the people who most need support locked out of programs designed to serve them. AI and modern software create new opportunities to make complex systems and markets easier to navigate for frontline workers – including case managers, legal aid attorneys, career counselors, or community health workers – and the people they serve. To help expand the reach of these solutions, DRK is providing catalytic capital and hands-on support to early-stage companies and nonprofits creating new pathways for economic mobility. | Rolling |
| Microsoft Azure | "Offers eligible nonprofits $2,000 (USD) in Azure service credits annually to enhance cloud capabilities and drive innovation." | Rolling |
| Ability Central | "Ability Central’s Community Impact Grants support nonprofit organizations that expand communication and information access for people who are Deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent. We prioritize short-term, community-based projects that address urgent or critical access needs and promote meaningful inclusion and participation. This includes the use of existing resources to support equitable access and engagement." | Rolling |
| Awesome Foundation | "$1K monthly grants for founders looking to take their idea to the next stage." | Rolling |
| Ben & Jerry's Foundation | "We believe those most impacted by inequity and injustice are in the best position to develop solutions. Our intent is to achieve a better future for all by providing support to community-based, grassroots organizations confronting social and environmental injustice. We are inspired by Civil Rights icon John Lewis’ admonition, “Speak up, speak out, get in the way. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble.” The National Grassroots Organizing Program (NGO) offers two-year unrestricted, general operating support grants of up to $30,000 per year, with an average grant size of $20,000 per year, to small (budgets under $350,000), constituent-led grassroots organizations throughout the United States and its territories." | Rolling |
| Angell Foundation | Rolling | |
| Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation | Rolling | |
| Eisner Foundation | Rolling | |
| First 5 LA | Rolling | |
| Ford Fund Grants | Rolling | |
| Fox Foundation | Rolling | |
| Global Innovation Fund | Rolling | |
| LA City Council Offices | Rolling | |
| LA County Supervisor Offices | Rolling | |
| LA Young Creatives Fund | Rolling | |
| National Institutes of Health | Rolling | |
| Perenchio Foundation | Rolling | |
| QueensCare Charitable Grants | Rolling | |
| RSF Social Finance | Rolling | |
| The Ahmanson Foundation | Rolling | |
| The California Wellness Foundation | Rolling | |
| The Eisner Foundation | Rolling | |
| The Green Foundation | Rolling | |
| The Nathan Cummings Foundation Grant | Rolling | |
| The Ralph M. Parson Foundation | Rolling | |
| U.S. Department of Agriculture | Rolling | |
| United Way of Greater Los Angeles | Rolling | |
| USC Marshall Greif Incubator | Rolling | |
| USC Marshall Venture Fund | Rolling | |
| Wells Fargo | Rolling |
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