March 2025 is packed with 20+ grant opportunities for Canadian charities! Whether you need funding for capital projects, community programs, environmental initiatives, or youth services, there’s something here for you.
I’ve rounded up this month’s grant deadlines so you don’t have to spend hours searching. If any of these look like a good fit for your organization, I’d love to help you put together a strong application—just reach out for a free consultation!
Here’s what’s available this month:
Deadline: March 3, 2025
Description: Projects can apply for capital funding in three categories: recreation, environmental conservation and urban agriculture.
Amount: Up to $150,000
Location: BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba
Deadline: March 5
Description: Capital Grants provide funding over one year to help organizations respond to the capital needs of Ontario’s communities.Â
Amount: Up to $200,000
Location: Ontario
Deadline:Â February 4 to March 4, 2025, or until the first 200 applicants are received.
Description: Provides flexible grant funding to Indigenous-led programs supporting Indigenous Peoples in Canada across all provinces and territories.
Amount: Up to $25,000
Deadline: March 31
Description: The B.C. Employer Training Grant provides funding to small, medium and large enterprises to support skills training for their workforces, including prospective new hires.  Â
Location: B.C.
Amount: Receive up to $300,000 for Skills Training. Employers can apply as often as they need and receive 80 per cent of the cost of training up to $10,000 per employee, with a maximum annual amount per employer of $300,000.
Deadline: Friday, March 21
Description: The Foundation will fund time-limited projects that improve access to justice for people and communities in BC through the creation of new programs or the expansion of existing ones. To be eligible for funding, projects must also fall within one or more of the Foundation’s five statutory mandate areas: Legal aid, Legal education, Legal research, Law reform, Law libraries
Amount: Up to $250,000
Location: B.C.
Deadline: Applications close March 31 @ 11:59 pm PST
Description: Addresses a wide variety of health, social, cultural, educational, and environmental needs while keeping a pulse on the issue areas that are specific to our North Okanagan region.
Location:Â North Okanagan, BC
Amount: Grant levels start at $500 and go up to $30,000 (average grants are $5,000-$10,000). Organizations are encouraged to have 50% of their funding coming from other sources.
Deadline: March 7
Location: Canada-Wide
Description: The RCMP Family Violence Initiative Fund helps communities respond to relationship and family violence and victim issues. Funds are allocated to the RCMP by the Public Health Agency of Canada, under the federal Family Violence Initiative.
Amount:Â Up to $25,000
Deadline: March 18
Description:Â Supports the development of healthy, happy, and resilient children between the ages of 6 and 12 across BC. The focus is to ensure children are safe, protected, and enjoy healthy and culturally nutritional snacks in the critical afterschool hours, while participating in activities that support them to reach their full potential.
Location:Â BC
Description: Funds that encourage innovation and address system gaps will be available to Community-Based Seniors' Services (CBSS) agencies in 2025-26 as one-year Enhancement Grants. Funds fall under three categories: Aging in motion, social meals, volunteer coordination
Location:Â BC
Amount:Â Ranging from $10,000 - $100,000
Home Depot Grant
Deadline: March 7
Description: The Home Depot Canada Foundation is committed to preventing and ending youth homelessness in Canada. We offer grants for youth-focused programs expanding stable housing, job readiness, and wrap-around support.
Location:Â Canada-Wide
Deadline: March 31
Description: Supports organizations focused on building the STEM workforce of tomorrow, safety education, or developing a clean and sustainable future.Â
Location: BC
Amount: $2,000 - $10,000
Description: Funds projects related to social justice, education, and environmental sustainability.Â
Deadline: March 15 & September 15
Amount: Varies
Location: Canada
Deadline: March 15
Description: Supports equity, inclusion, reconciliation, and animal welfare projects.Â
Amount: Up to $10,00
Location: Canada- wide
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Deadline: March 15
Description: EPCOR helps non-profits and charities ensure youth in need have a chance at a better tomorrow. Whether it be through improving literacy, helping youth finish high school or inspiring the next generation of STEM professionals
Location:Â Canada-wide
Amount:Â Up to $50,000
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Deadline:Â March 31
Description:Â Supports charities across BC whose projects are aligned to one or more of their areas of focus: community health, social care or environmental impact. Note: they provide funding for capital items only.
Amount:Â up to $20,000
Location:Â British Columbia
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Deadline: March 11
Description: Supports the long-term resilience of local communities by providing eligible organizations in Victoria with flexible, general operating funding. The program prioritizes organizations that: Are led by or serve equity-deserving groups; Are locally based and operating within the capital region; Demonstrate strong financial need.
Amount:Â Up to $30,000
Location:Â Victoria, BC
Deadline: March 19
Description: Provides non-profit arts and cultural organizations to access or deliver learning opportunities that will build and strengthen skills, knowledge, relationships, and experience. The goal is to strengthen organizational, sectoral, or individual arts and leadership practices.
Amount:Â Up to $20,000
Location:Â City of Vancouver, BC
Funds mental health of young people, prevention-based mental health programs that increase resilience, practical programs that serve Black, Indigenous, and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities.Â
Rolling application, no funding limit given. More information
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Grants for projects focused on improving perinatal mental health—the mental health of women and birthing people in the pregnancy and postpartum stage & improving quality of life for people with or at risk of bipolar disorder through early intervention and/or increased access to psychosocial supports. Rolling application, no funding limit given.
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IMAGINE Grants | Northern Health Authority (Northern Health region)
Amount: For projects up to $10,000
Location: Northern, BC
Deadline: Applications accepted between March 3, 2025 and April 12, 2025
If you don’t see anything here that’s quite the right fit, don’t worry—I can help with that. I offer custom grant research to dig deeper and find the best funding opportunities for your organization. Sometimes the right grant isn’t in the obvious places, but trust me, I’ll find it!
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