Federal funding opportunities
This page collects every federal funding item The Drawdown has covered, newest first. Most are grant opportunities from Grants.gov, filtered to calls that nonprofits can apply for. Others are releases of money already awarded, such as partial funding under a continuing resolution. Each item lists the agency, the deadline and the Assistance Listing Number, a number such as 93.569 that identifies the program and is how the award will appear on your schedule of expenditures of federal awards.
Before you apply, confirm that your SAM.gov registration is active and will stay active through the award (2 CFR 25.200). Read whether a cost share or match is required, and decide where it would come from before you commit. Some agencies, including the Department of Justice, have two deadlines, one for Grants.gov and one for their own system. Past deadlines stay on this page as a record of what was offered and when.
Week of November 16, 2026
For your finance office: ORR plans about 50 awards of $2 million to $5.6 million for shelter, group home and transitional foster care beds. You must already hold the state license for that care when you apply, and current grantees not in their final year can only propose a new site. Due Dec 29.
For your finance office: 501(c)(3) nonprofits can apply for up to $500,000, and EPA expects about 30 awards. The money pays for site inventories, environmental assessments and reuse planning, not cleanup. EPA posted four related brownfield calls, including cleanup and revolving loan fund grants, all due Jan 21, 2027.
For your finance office: HUD expects about 143 awards of $272,250 to $816,750 to pay service coordinators who link public and Indian housing residents to education, job training and health services. Housing authorities, tribes, resident associations and nonprofits can apply. A match is required, so confirm where it comes from before you commit. Due Jan 5, 2027.
For your finance office: This is maintenance money for primary care residencies HRSA already supports at community-based outpatient centers, with about 12 awards of up to $2.88 million. If you don't already run an accredited residency, it isn't for you. Due Dec 11.
For your finance office: Nothing is open yet. HRSA expects to post it around March 29, 2027, with applications due around May 28 and a single award of up to $1 million. Nonprofits and for-profits can both apply. With one award nationally, apply only if rural health IT is already core to your work.
For your finance office: Only marine mammal stranding network participants and their collaborators can apply. FWS expects about 21 awards of up to $150,000, and a cost share is required. Due Nov 30. If that's you, check this week that your SAM.gov registration is active, because an expired one blocks the Grants.gov submission.
For your finance office: Two awards of up to $3 million each, out of $5 million total, for groups that train OVC-funded anti-trafficking task forces and legal service providers. It's training money, not direct services. OJP has two deadlines: Grants.gov by Dec 1 and the full application in JustGrants by Dec 8.
For your finance office: OCS released $150.5 million in partial first-quarter CSBG funds on Oct 22 under the stopgap spending law that runs through Dec 11. Expect your state's pass-through to come in pieces, and plan cash around the gap. You can still use the income limit of up to 200 percent of poverty where your state allows it.
For your finance office: ED draws on these priorities when it sets up discretionary grant competitions. The proposal adds areas such as youth in foster or kinship care, child care for student parents and Registered Apprenticeships. If you apply for ED grants, expect to see them in future competition notices. Comments close Dec 7.