Alabama

The Selma-based Black Belt Community Foundation (BBCF) has announced the launch of its 2025 Arts and Community Grants Cycle. BBCF is offering grants ranging from $500 to $3,500 in support of arts organizations across its 12-county service area, which includes Bullock, Choctaw, Dallas, Greene, Hale, Lowndes, Macon, Marengo, Perry, Pickens, Sumter, and Wilcox counties. The deadline to apply is January 24, 2025.

Arizona

The Santa Cruz Community Foundation, an affiliate of the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, has awarded a total of $89,800 in grants to 18 organizations. Recipients include Apache Jazz Boosters, Community Homes of Patagonia, Literacy Connects, and Santa Cruz Training Programs.

California

The California Community Foundation has announced it will reinforce its Wildfire Recovery Fund to address the ongoing wildfires in and around Los Angeles. Established in 2003, the fund has distributed more than $32 million to help wildfire-affected communities across the state. The program complements immediate relief, addressing the long-term recovery needs of neighborhoods.

Illinois

The Iowa-based Quad Cities Community Foundation has announced that the Brissman Foundation, a private foundation it administers, has awarded grants totaling nearly $160,000 to organizations in and serving the residents of Milan, Illinois. Recipients include Ballet Quad Cities, EveryChild, Figge Art Museum, and Rock Island Milan Little League.

Louisiana

In the aftermath of the New Year’s Day terrorist attack on Bourbon Street, the Greater New Orleans Foundation (GNOF) has awarded grants totaling $45,000 to six local nonprofits through the endowed Gayle and Tom Benson Disaster Relief Fund, established in 2024 by the Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation to bolster GNOF’s capacity to provide first-responding nonprofits with rapid financial support. Recipients include Children’s Bureau, New Orleans Family Justice Center, Silence is Violence, and Wake.

New York

The Bronx Community Foundation has announced the recipients of its latest participatory grantmaking round for 2024—a $150,000 investment in 15 nonprofits leading efforts to tackle systemic challenges in the borough of New York City. This round focused on advancing health equity and community by expanding access to health and mental health services, promoting food sovereignty through pantries and community gardens, fostering safer environments, arts and culture, and increasing community nutrition and wellness education. Recipients include Street Lab, Upbeat NYC, Van Cortlandt Park Alliance, and AIRnyc.

Brooklyn Org, formerly known as the Brooklyn Community Foundation, has announced the five winners of its 2025 Spark Prize for nonprofits advancing racial justice in New York City’s largest borough. Each nonprofit will receive a $100,000 ‘no strings attached’ grant and be honored at an event on February 25. The winners are Brooklyn Book Bodega, Brownsville Community Culinary Center, Community Help in Park Slope, Good Call, and Technology for Families in Need.

West Virginia

The Parkersburg Area Community Foundation has announced a $1,000 grant by Rob Fouss, through its Robert E. Fouss Memorial Fund—named for Fouss’s father—to the Creed Collins Elementary School in support of its clothing closet program. The grant will enable the purchase of new shoes for students, bolstering on-site efforts to meet the needs of economically disadvantaged students.