Grant & Scholarship Opportunities

Opens: September 1, 2025

Closes: September 30, 2025

Grant Award Notification: November 21, 2025

The Community Foundation of North Florida’s (CFNF) mission is to enhance the quality of life in the North Florida community through the promotion and support of charitable giving. Our vision is to serve as an illuminator of community needs while connecting donors to charitable causes they care most to support.

To further our mission and vision, CFNF is launching Helping Today, Shaping Tomorrow (HTST), a small grant program to benefit nonprofit organizations in the Big Bend region. This grant opportunity is designed to provide immediate support to nonprofit organizations that are addressing community needs with programs or services that have the potential for long-term community impact. Nonprofits located in our geographic service area of Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Taylor, and Wakulla counties are eligible to apply.

Our small grant program will provide ten $5,000 grants and place priority on applications from nonprofits providing programs or services in the areas of Education and Social & Human Services (specifically, Basic Needs). These two funding priority areas were selected by the CFNF Board of Directors after reviewing the results of a community needs assessment survey. CFNF asked survey respondents to rank the community’s most pressing needs in seven areas historically supported by its donors. Those areas are Arts & Culture, Social & Human Services, Economic Development, Education, Environment, Health & Wellness, and Social Services. Survey respondents included donors, nonprofits in our 11-county footprint who have received a grant from CFNF within the past 25 years, and community stakeholders who participated in our strategic planning process.

Eligibility Requirements

1. Provide direct services to residents in one or more of the counties listed above.
2. Have at least two years of operating history in one or more of these counties.
3. Have active programs or services that are designed to address community needs in the priority areas of Education and Social & Human Services (specifically, Basic Needs).
4. Have 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status or have a fiscal sponsor with tax exempt status, or are a 509(a)(1) or(2) organization with a letter of determination.

Recipients of the 2024 Helping Today, Shaping Tomorrow grant, please click HERE to complete and submit the required Grant Report Form by December 30, 2025.

Opens: March 4, 2025

Closes: April 4, 2025

Grant Award Notification: May 2, 2025

The Share Your Story Video Challenge Grant provides funding to nonprofit organizations located in Leon County who are currently serving Low-to-Moderate Income (LMI) members of the community. This is your opportunity to demonstrate through a 60-second video story, how your organization provides support to LMI members of the community.

Grant Amount $1,500 per organization

The Community Foundation of North Florida partners with Prime Meridian Bank to offer ten $1,500 unrestricted operations grants to organizations who are serving LMI members of the community.

Eligibility Requirements

1. This grant opportunity is limited to nonprofit organizations located in Leon County and who are currently serving LMI community members.
2. All grants must be made for charitable, religious, scientific, literary, or educational purposes to any organization that is described in Code Section 170(c)(2), 501(c)(3), 2055(a)(2) or 2522(a)(2) (except for private foundations as defined by Code Section 509(a)) (“qualified organization”). Qualified organizations also include schools, religious institutions, or government agencies located in the Big Bend area.

Eligible candidates, please click HERE to apply.