Grants for Nonprofits

Triangle Community Foundation is honored to connect nonprofits that are meeting community needs with funding to support vital work being done in our region. Since our community's earliest days, nonprofits have been an essential part of building a vibrant Triangle for all.

The Foundation values and appreciates the important work your organization is leading. If you are a nonprofit looking for funding, please scroll through the grant opportunities below. We look forward to partnering with you.

Grant Opportunities

Browse the list of all current grant opportunities at the Foundation or search by keyword. Click on the grant names for more information.

  • GSK IMPACT Awards

    This annual awards program will honor up to 10 local nonprofit organizations with $50,000 each in recognition of their exceptional achievements in contributing to a healthier Research Triangle Region.

    Amount: $50,000

    Status: Mid-cycle

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  • The Paul Green Foundation

    Funding awarded to nonprofits to support dramatic productions, projects and programs or publications that reflect the life's work and values of Paul Green.

    Amount: $500 - $2,500

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  • Our Impact | Environmental Resilience

    Funding from the Foundation is available to increase awareness of and education around conservation and/or climate issues and increase climate resiliency, particularly of low-income communities.

    Amount: $40,000

    Status: Mid-Cycle

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  • Send A Kid To Camp

    Funding will support nonprofit organizations that provide summer camps, with a focus on increasing access to summer camps for those who might otherwise be unable to attend due to financial constraints and combating summer learning loss.

    Amount: $40,000

    Status: Mid-Cycle

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  • Durham Cerebral Palsy Foundation Fund

    Provides assistance to children ages birth through 18 years with cerebral palsy living in NC through grants to three identified nonprofits.

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  • Our Impact | Land Transaction

    Provides funding to support donated and purchased land acquisition transactions and related stewardship expenses in order to increase the pace of conservation in the Triangle. The Land Transaction Grant Program is by invitation only. Each property funded with these grants must be permanently protected through a Conservation Easement or Notice of Acceptance of Property for Conservation Purposes.

    Amount: Up to $12,000

    Status: Mid-Cycle

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  • Triangle Capacity-Building Network Grant

    A joint project of funders across the Triangle, with organizational capacity-building funding available to nonprofit organizations led by and working with communities of color.

    Amount: $35,000

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  • Our Impact | Cultural Arts

    Funding will support general operations of nonprofit organizations that are helping increase culturally representative arts programming and/or increasing the arts in public and community spaces.

    Amount: $20,000

    Status: Mid-Cycle

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  • Our Impact | Education & Youth

    Funding will support nonprofit organizations serving youth ages 5–24 that are prioritizing advancing youth-led and youth-informed initiatives, increasing the number of youth successfully completing their current educational track, and increasing the percent of youth who are able to access and complete post-secondary education.

    Amount: $40,000

    Status: Mid-Cycle

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  • Our Impact | Economic Resilience

    The Economic Resilience cycle of the Sustainable Communities grant program will fund nonprofit organizations that are supporting populations seeking to overcome barriers to family-sustaining employment.

    Amount: $40,000

    Status: Mid-Cycle

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  • Our Impact | Responsive Grantmaking

    Triangle Community Foundation is re-launching our Responsive Grantmaking program to respond to nonprofit needs in this season of uncertainty. Funding will be offered as one-time, project support grants of up to $20,000 each to nonprofits to help maintain their capacity through a period of organizational change. Nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organizations based in and serving one or more Triangle Counties (Wake, Durham, Orange, Chatham) are eligible to apply. See full RFP for additional eligibility criteria.

    Amount: Up to $20,000

    Status: Opening soon

    Open Date: April 20, 2026

    Close Date: June 1, 2026

  • Strategic Initiative | Housing Affordability

    Aligned with our strategic plan, Triangle Community Foundation has identified housing affordability as a key issue in our region. This grant cycle will help us begin to deploy discretionary funding to nonprofits addressing housing affordability, testing out hypotheses we have around how the Foundation can best leverage our financial resources and convening power to help create measurable change on this issue in the coming years.

    Amount: $25,000

    Status: Mid-Cycle

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Connect With Us!

While we'd love to meet with every nonprofit serving our four-county geographic area, we are not able to say "yes" to all requests for meetings. But we do host monthly office hours where we invite staff working in nonprofits serving the Triangle (Chatham, Durham, Orange, and Wake counties) to hear more about how funding works at Triangle Community Foundation, meet some of the staff on our team, and answer any questions you may have relevant to your organization. Monthly office hours will be held the third Tuesday of each month at 3:00pm. Registration is required to join. We recommend only registering for/attending one session, as the same information will be provided at each session.