Financial Capital Opportunities
Amplifying opportunities for social innovation
| Organization | Description | Deadline |
|---|---|---|
| Open AI | The 2026 People-First AI Fund will support trusted, local nonprofits that are co-creating with communities and exploring how practical, community-led engagement with AI can reduce barriers to services and information, expand opportunity, and elevate community voice and participation. Community organizations play an essential role in connecting people to services, information, and cultural spaces. Guided by the principle that access is agency, the Fund aims to support nonprofits and communities in shaping how AI is used to advance their missions and in service of local priorities. | July 15th, 2026 |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | 1. NOFO HighlightsThe Youth Homelessness NOFO provides competitive awards to eligible applicants under two different programs-Youth Homelessness System Improvement (YHSI) grants- Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 14.277Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP)- ALN 14.276Under the YHSI grants, HUD will make awards to selected communities to support them in establishing and implementing a response system for youth homelessness or for improving their existing response system. HUD will select approximately 49 communities for YHSI grants.Under the YHDP, HUD will provide funding to communities to implement housing and supportive services projects. HUD anticipates selecting between 26 and 50 communities, with a priority for communities with substantial rural populations in up to sixteen locations.Separate from this NOFO, technical assistance will be available to assist selected communities implement and improve their YHSI and YHDP projects. HUD expects communities to fully participate in any evaluation activities conducted by HUD beginning no earlier than the award announcement.See Section III for additional information about this NOFO. | August 10th, 2026 |
| AI Accountability Fellowships | The Al Accountability Fellowships seek to support journalists working on in-depth AI accountability stories that examine governments' and corporations’ uses of predictive, generative, and surveillance technologies to guide decisions in policing, medicine, social welfare, criminal justice, hiring, and more. | July 12th, 2026. |
| UniHealth Foundation | UniHealth Foundation is excited to launch our Healthy Neighbors Small Grants Program. Our new initiative will fund nonprofits focused on enhancing community health and wellness in Pasadena, Altadena, Sierra Madre, and South Pasadena. Grant awards will range from $5,000 to $10,000, with decisions announced in fall 2026. Priority consideration will be given to organizations with operating budgets of less than $10,000,000. | July 24th, 2026 |
| Lilly Foundation | The Lilly Foundation has launched its 2026 open call for applications. Through its charitable grants, the Lilly Foundation supports U.S. charitable organizations involved in permissible charitable efforts that align with its focus areas of Global Health, K-12 STEM Education and Economic Mobility. | July 3rd, 2026 |
| lululemon Gives | lululemon Gives is a global initiative that advances mental health and wellbeing through movement and mindfulness. At a time when communities are seeking connection and care, this is how we show up and make impact—together. Through grants, partnerships, volunteering, and donations, we support organizations that promote mental health, increase access to physical activity, and address loneliness, bringing us closer to our vision of wellbeing for all. In 2025, we reached our five-year goal, investing $75 million USD and impacting over 10 million people with wellbeing tools and resources that improve physical, mental, and social wellbeing. Looking ahead, we’re committing another $100 million to reach an additional 20 million people by 2030. | July 31st, 2026 |
| Bank of America Neighborhood | "Local nonprofit organizations play an important role in addressing societal challenges and advancing economic opportunity in our communities. Since 2004, our commitment to the Neighborhood Builders® program has reflected Bank of America’s longstanding and continued philanthropic investment in nonprofit leadership development across the U.S. Over two decades, we’ve trained more than 4,000 leaders at nearly 2,000 U.S. nonprofits." | July 1st, 2026 |
| The Impact Fund | "The Impact Fund awards recoverable grants to legal services nonprofits, private attorneys, and small law firms who seek to confront economic, environmental, racial, and social injustice. Since our founding in 1992, the Impact Fund has made more than 800 recoverable grants totaling more than $10 million for impact litigation. We award grants four times per year, most within the range of US$10,000 to US$50,000." | July 7th, 2026 |
| Third Wave Fund | "The Mobilize Power Fund is a rapid response fund that resources gender justice organizations to adapt or pivot their work when met with unanticipated, time-sensitive opportunities or threats to their movement building work and organizing conditions." | July 7th, 2026 |
| LA County CAF | "CAF provides forgivable loans to eligible applicants to purchase vacant, abandoned, under-leased, or under-utilized properties with the goal of restoring them into community-serving commercial uses that help revitalize commercial corridors, reduce small business displacement, and promote equitable economic development throughout Los Angeles County." | June 30th, 2026 |
| Connecting California | "Connecting California supports publicly accessible activities and events that strengthen social connection and cohesion across California’s diverse communities. Funded projects help foster understanding, empathy, and trust by creating opportunities for people to come together across difference and discover shared values, experiences, and aspirations." | July 13th, 2026 |
| Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) | "The Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) is proud to announce the second and final cycle of the A4 Arts Fund, a national grantmaking initiative supported by The Wallace Foundation and in partnership with the National Arts Regranting Partners. This program addresses the critical funding gaps that disproportionately affect Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) arts and culture organizations. A 2025 report by the Asian American Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy revealed that for every $100 awarded by U.S. funders, only 34 cents goes to Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities. In response, these grants will support AAPI arts and culture organizations whose creative work uplifts and serves their communities, while expanding our collective understanding of the AAPI arts and culture landscape nationwide." | July 13th, 2026 |
| Ford | "The Ford Philanthropy Fellowship, powered by Watson Institute, is a fully-funded program designed for entrepreneurs and local leaders who are advancing solutions focused on community development, education, and disaster preparedness and response." | August 15th, 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 |
Would you like to add something to the list?
Email us at team@goldhirshfoundation.org