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September 2026
- New York City Council's contracts chair proposes 11 steps to get nonprofits paid on timeLaw & Policy
- Minnesota awards its first Farm to Food Security grants: $1.3 million for 22 projects that buy food from local farmsFood & Housing
- California law will require investment firms to notify nonprofits named as beneficiaries on securities accountsLaw & Policy
- White House cancels $810 million Congress approved, including grants for refugee services and housing counselingHuman Services
- Erie Gives raises a record $12.1 million for 546 nonprofits serving Erie CountyPhilanthropy
- Arkansas Community Foundation launches a $10 million fund for nonprofit work on food insecurityFood & Housing
- Tax Court holds Tennessee charity founder liable for $1.3 million in excise taxes on $590,000 sent to his companyLaw & Policy
- 49 Maryland houses of worship, schools and community centers receive $8.6 million in federal security grantsFaith
- Austin extends $4.1 million in social service contracts for a year while it reworks how it funds nonprofitsHuman Services
- Connecticut's PGA Tour event says its 2026 tournament generated a record $5 million for 290 charitiesPhilanthropy
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
- LeFrak and Simon families give $2 million to 40 Jersey City nonprofits and pledge $1 million a year for five more yearsPhilanthropy
- South Carolina awards more than $29 million to groups that help crime victims, starting Oct. 1Justice & Rights
- Wabash Valley Community Foundation gives $4.6 million to push stalled projects forward in three Indiana countiesPhilanthropy
- NBCUniversal gives $2.5 million in unrestricted grants to 80 small nonprofits in 11 TV marketsPhilanthropy
- Dubuque Racing Association, the nonprofit behind an Iowa casino, has given $1.5 million to 67 groups this yearPhilanthropy
- Howard County bill would require audits, a two-year track record and a public database from nonprofits that receive county grantsLaw & Policy
- Maryland's NourishMD program offers $3.67 million to food retailers in food deserts, with applications due Nov. 2Food & Housing
- FEMA's nearly $180 million in mitigation grants includes $1.5 million for earthquake work by nonprofits and universitiesCommunity
- Publix Charities gives $25 million to more than 350 food banks and hunger groups in eight statesFood & Housing
- Orlando Magic Youth Foundation awards $775,000 to 21 youth nonprofits, the first part of $1.8 million this seasonYouth & Sports
- Florida Blue Foundation awards $3.1 million to eight Florida nonprofits working on food insecurityFood & Housing
- Justice Department asks appeals court to revive IRS deal letting two churches address candidates in worship servicesLaw & Policy
- Microsoft offers King County nonprofits 25 grants of $20,000 in the first round of its Community-First GrantsCommunity
- California bill would deny the charity property tax exemption to detention facilities, a break an ICE center's nonprofit owner has receivedLaw & Policy
- Thirty states have opted into the federal scholarship tax credit, and the charities that will run it await Treasury's rulesEducation
- Florida's ban on local DEI spending, in force Jan. 1, puts Miami-Dade advisory boards and a girls' program grant in questionLaw & Policy
- Two federal judges set aside EPA's cancellation of the $7 billion Solar for All programEnvironment
- Alabama arts council awards $3.9 million to 201 organizations and schools for the year starting Oct. 1Arts & Culture
- House bill would let federal security grants pay for nonprofits' own guards and the staff who apply for themFaith
- Louisiana invites nonprofits to apply for AmeriCorps grants for 2027-28, with applications due Feb. 28Community
- Judge vacates the Education Department directive used to cancel teacher training grants over DEI, but does not restore themEducation
- Duffield Foundation commits $250 million to veterinary care for pets and opens grants to nonprofit clinicsAnimals
- North Texas Giving Day passes last year's midnight count with more than $76 million for over 3,300 nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- Charities named in donors' IRAs say some financial firms take months or years to release the moneyPhilanthropy
- HUD's homelessness grant competition goes ahead, with applications due Sept. 30, after an appeals court vacates the ruling that stopped itFood & Housing
- New tracker counts $177 billion in federal funding canceled, frozen or slowed since January 2025Law & Policy
- Metro Atlanta arts nonprofits can apply from Oct. 1 for a share of more than $1 million in unrestricted grantsArts & Culture
- Nine foundations commit $25 million to Nonprofits Insurance Alliance, which insures more than 25,000 nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- The Dayton Foundation reports a record 367 new charitable funds and nearly $121 million in grants for its fiscal yearPhilanthropy
- Community West Foundation gives $1.37 million to 34 Ohio nonprofits for health care, disability services and addiction recoveryHealth
- Billion-dollar foundations paid out a median 5.1% in 2024, a report finds, as it calls for doubling the legal minimumPhilanthropy
- Alameda County supervisors' grants to nonprofits will need a majority vote, a stated public purpose and a public log under a new state lawLaw & Policy
- Justice Department lawyers say limits on religious activity in HHS-funded programs are unconstitutionalFaith
- Juneau Assembly shelves a plan to make nonprofits charge the city's sales taxLaw & Policy
- VA grants totaling $1.17 billion to fight veteran homelessness begin Oct. 1Veterans
- Taco Bell Foundation gives $32 million to 700 youth nonprofits nominated by the chain's franchiseesYouth & Sports
- Salesforce announces $27 million in education grants, with $9 million for nine nonprofits that train teachers or prepare students for careersEducation
- Gates Foundation commits at least $1 billion to AI for health care, schools and farms, and education experts question the classroom sharePhilanthropy
- Appeals court hears challenge to Illinois law requiring large grantmaking nonprofits to post board demographicsLaw & Policy
- North Carolina Arts Council awards nearly $11 million in 340 grants reaching all 100 countiesArts & Culture
- HUD proposes to reward transitional housing, sober housing and police partnerships in its homelessness grant competitionFood & Housing
- United Way of Central Indiana plans a shared health plan for nonprofits statewide, to start Jan. 1 if Indiana approvesHealth
- House Democrats propose church-style limits on IRS audits of colleges and universitiesLaw & Policy
- Olivia and Tom Walton commit $100 million to a campaign to halve U.S. maternal deaths in five yearsHealth
- Humanity AI opens a $10 million grant call for community-led work on how artificial intelligence is built and usedScience & Jobs
- Dollar General Literacy Foundation awards more than $4.1 million in youth literacy grants to schools, libraries and nonprofitsEducation
- Atlanta Women's Foundation funds 19 metro Atlanta nonprofits in a $1.418 million investment in women, girls and familiesHuman Services
- Pennsylvania bill would strip nonprofit corporations of the power to spend on elections and ballot questionsLaw & Policy
- Illinois local food grants buy cold storage and delivery trucks for farms, food banks and urban growersFood & Housing
- Citi Foundation offers 50 grants of $500,000 to nonprofits preparing low-income youth for work shaped by AIScience & Jobs
- Michigan Nonprofit Association builds a network, with $1.4 million from three foundations, to help residents keep MedicaidHealth
- New York sends $70 million in security grants to 290 nonprofits at risk of hate crimesFaith
- Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco awards a record $10 million in economic development grants across three statesCommunity
- The Columbus Foundation reports a record $477.4 million in grants to more than 5,200 nonprofits in 2025Philanthropy
- More than 700 grant makers have signed Unite in Advance, a pledge to defend one another's freedom to givePhilanthropy
- Healing Illinois closes its fifth grant round, with awards of up to $50,000 for community healing projects due in late OctoberJustice & Rights
- South Carolina budget writers agree that nonprofit earmarks must go through a city or county from next yearLaw & Policy
- House bill would write due process rights for nonprofits under IRS examination into the tax codeLaw & Policy
- Treasury and IRS propose to end the tax exemption of private schools that consider race in any programLaw & Policy
- Pinellas County pays for seven nonprofit grants from reserves for one more year after commissioners weighed ending the programHuman Services
- Iowa attorney general's office awards its first opioid settlement grants, $1.6 million to five recipientsHealth
- Aiken philanthropist pledges $1 million to the Community Foundation for the CSRA's grants endowment if the region raises $1 million firstPhilanthropy
- Jewish nonprofits now spend more than $1 billion a year on security, federations' study estimatesFaith
- Stopgap spending law bars OMB from finalizing its rewrite of federal grant rules until Dec. 11Law & Policy
- San Antonio's budget plan would end $5.1 million in city grants to 48 nonprofit programs in fiscal 2028Human Services
- Massachusetts awards nearly $7 million in food infrastructure grants to 72 farms, fisheries and food organizationsFood & Housing
- Indiana congregations and their community partners seek $2.5 million in grants, with decisions due Nov. 6Faith
- Technology trade group GTIA awards $3.2 million to 73 nonprofits, with a second referral round open until Oct. 2Philanthropy
- Green Bay Packers Foundation gives $1.6 million to 402 Wisconsin groups in the first year of a new grant cyclePhilanthropy
- Senate Democrats ask Treasury and IRS to account for a reported plan to strip left-leaning nonprofits of tax exemptionLaw & Policy
- Wisconsin takes applications until Oct. 1 for $5 million in grants to buy food made or grown in the stateFood & Housing
- After Dolly Parton's death, three states weigh paying more for her Imagination LibraryEducation
- FirstEnergy Foundation doubles its hunger grants to $5 million for 140 food banks and pantriesFood & Housing
- New York opens a $75 million round of community center grants for nonprofits and municipalitiesCommunity
- California puts $34.9 million into outreach by community groups that teach workers their rights, and adds 15 granteesJustice & Rights
- Florida's rewritten nonprofit corporation law, in effect since July 1, sets new duties for officers and new default rules for boardsLaw & Policy
- 17 parents, 29 books and the questions that are hard to answerABCs of Growing Up Foundation, Citrus Heights, Calif.
- California extends its nonprofit security grants to marches, festivals and other events away from homeFaith
By state
Alabama
- Publix Charities gives $25 million to more than 350 food banks and hunger groups in eight statesFood & Housing
- Alabama arts council awards $3.9 million to 201 organizations and schools for the year starting Oct. 1Arts & Culture
Alaska
Arizona
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
- Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco awards a record $10 million in economic development grants across three statesCommunity
Arkansas
- Arkansas Community Foundation launches a $10 million fund for nonprofit work on food insecurityFood & Housing
California
- California law will require investment firms to notify nonprofits named as beneficiaries on securities accountsLaw & Policy
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
- California bill would deny the charity property tax exemption to detention facilities, a break an ICE center's nonprofit owner has receivedLaw & Policy
- Alameda County supervisors' grants to nonprofits will need a majority vote, a stated public purpose and a public log under a new state lawLaw & Policy
- Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco awards a record $10 million in economic development grants across three statesCommunity
- California puts $34.9 million into outreach by community groups that teach workers their rights, and adds 15 granteesJustice & Rights
- 17 parents, 29 books and the questions that are hard to answerABCs of Growing Up Foundation, Citrus Heights, Calif.
- California extends its nonprofit security grants to marches, festivals and other events away from homeFaith
Colorado
Connecticut
- Connecticut's PGA Tour event says its 2026 tournament generated a record $5 million for 290 charitiesPhilanthropy
Florida
- Publix Charities gives $25 million to more than 350 food banks and hunger groups in eight statesFood & Housing
- Orlando Magic Youth Foundation awards $775,000 to 21 youth nonprofits, the first part of $1.8 million this seasonYouth & Sports
- Florida Blue Foundation awards $3.1 million to eight Florida nonprofits working on food insecurityFood & Housing
- Florida's ban on local DEI spending, in force Jan. 1, puts Miami-Dade advisory boards and a girls' program grant in questionLaw & Policy
- Pinellas County pays for seven nonprofit grants from reserves for one more year after commissioners weighed ending the programHuman Services
- Florida's rewritten nonprofit corporation law, in effect since July 1, sets new duties for officers and new default rules for boardsLaw & Policy
Georgia
- Publix Charities gives $25 million to more than 350 food banks and hunger groups in eight statesFood & Housing
- Metro Atlanta arts nonprofits can apply from Oct. 1 for a share of more than $1 million in unrestricted grantsArts & Culture
- Atlanta Women's Foundation funds 19 metro Atlanta nonprofits in a $1.418 million investment in women, girls and familiesHuman Services
- Aiken philanthropist pledges $1 million to the Community Foundation for the CSRA's grants endowment if the region raises $1 million firstPhilanthropy
Idaho
Illinois
- Dubuque Racing Association, the nonprofit behind an Iowa casino, has given $1.5 million to 67 groups this yearPhilanthropy
- Appeals court hears challenge to Illinois law requiring large grantmaking nonprofits to post board demographicsLaw & Policy
- Illinois local food grants buy cold storage and delivery trucks for farms, food banks and urban growersFood & Housing
- Healing Illinois closes its fifth grant round, with awards of up to $50,000 for community healing projects due in late OctoberJustice & Rights
Indiana
- Wabash Valley Community Foundation gives $4.6 million to push stalled projects forward in three Indiana countiesPhilanthropy
- United Way of Central Indiana plans a shared health plan for nonprofits statewide, to start Jan. 1 if Indiana approvesHealth
- Indiana congregations and their community partners seek $2.5 million in grants, with decisions due Nov. 6Faith
Iowa
- Dubuque Racing Association, the nonprofit behind an Iowa casino, has given $1.5 million to 67 groups this yearPhilanthropy
- Iowa attorney general's office awards its first opioid settlement grants, $1.6 million to five recipientsHealth
Kentucky
- Publix Charities gives $25 million to more than 350 food banks and hunger groups in eight statesFood & Housing
Louisiana
Maryland
- 49 Maryland houses of worship, schools and community centers receive $8.6 million in federal security grantsFaith
- Howard County bill would require audits, a two-year track record and a public database from nonprofits that receive county grantsLaw & Policy
- Maryland's NourishMD program offers $3.67 million to food retailers in food deserts, with applications due Nov. 2Food & Housing
- FirstEnergy Foundation doubles its hunger grants to $5 million for 140 food banks and pantriesFood & Housing
Massachusetts
- Massachusetts awards nearly $7 million in food infrastructure grants to 72 farms, fisheries and food organizationsFood & Housing
Michigan
Minnesota
- Minnesota awards its first Farm to Food Security grants: $1.3 million for 22 projects that buy food from local farmsFood & Housing
Montana
Nevada
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
- Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco awards a record $10 million in economic development grants across three statesCommunity
New Jersey
- LeFrak and Simon families give $2 million to 40 Jersey City nonprofits and pledge $1 million a year for five more yearsPhilanthropy
- After Dolly Parton's death, three states weigh paying more for her Imagination LibraryEducation
- FirstEnergy Foundation doubles its hunger grants to $5 million for 140 food banks and pantriesFood & Housing
New Mexico
New York
- New York City Council's contracts chair proposes 11 steps to get nonprofits paid on timeLaw & Policy
- New York sends $70 million in security grants to 290 nonprofits at risk of hate crimesFaith
- New York opens a $75 million round of community center grants for nonprofits and municipalitiesCommunity
North Carolina
- Publix Charities gives $25 million to more than 350 food banks and hunger groups in eight statesFood & Housing
- North Carolina Arts Council awards nearly $11 million in 340 grants reaching all 100 countiesArts & Culture
North Dakota
Ohio
- The Dayton Foundation reports a record 367 new charitable funds and nearly $121 million in grants for its fiscal yearPhilanthropy
- Community West Foundation gives $1.37 million to 34 Ohio nonprofits for health care, disability services and addiction recoveryHealth
- The Columbus Foundation reports a record $477.4 million in grants to more than 5,200 nonprofits in 2025Philanthropy
- FirstEnergy Foundation doubles its hunger grants to $5 million for 140 food banks and pantriesFood & Housing
Oregon
Pennsylvania
- Erie Gives raises a record $12.1 million for 546 nonprofits serving Erie CountyPhilanthropy
- Pennsylvania bill would strip nonprofit corporations of the power to spend on elections and ballot questionsLaw & Policy
- After Dolly Parton's death, three states weigh paying more for her Imagination LibraryEducation
- FirstEnergy Foundation doubles its hunger grants to $5 million for 140 food banks and pantriesFood & Housing
South Carolina
- South Carolina awards more than $29 million to groups that help crime victims, starting Oct. 1Justice & Rights
- Publix Charities gives $25 million to more than 350 food banks and hunger groups in eight statesFood & Housing
- South Carolina budget writers agree that nonprofit earmarks must go through a city or county from next yearLaw & Policy
- Aiken philanthropist pledges $1 million to the Community Foundation for the CSRA's grants endowment if the region raises $1 million firstPhilanthropy
Tennessee
- Publix Charities gives $25 million to more than 350 food banks and hunger groups in eight statesFood & Housing
- After Dolly Parton's death, three states weigh paying more for her Imagination LibraryEducation
Texas
- Austin extends $4.1 million in social service contracts for a year while it reworks how it funds nonprofitsHuman Services
- North Texas Giving Day passes last year's midnight count with more than $76 million for over 3,300 nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- San Antonio's budget plan would end $5.1 million in city grants to 48 nonprofit programs in fiscal 2028Human Services
Utah
Virginia
- Publix Charities gives $25 million to more than 350 food banks and hunger groups in eight statesFood & Housing
- FirstEnergy Foundation doubles its hunger grants to $5 million for 140 food banks and pantriesFood & Housing
Washington
West Virginia
- FirstEnergy Foundation doubles its hunger grants to $5 million for 140 food banks and pantriesFood & Housing
Wisconsin
- Dubuque Racing Association, the nonprofit behind an Iowa casino, has given $1.5 million to 67 groups this yearPhilanthropy
- Green Bay Packers Foundation gives $1.6 million to 402 Wisconsin groups in the first year of a new grant cyclePhilanthropy
- Wisconsin takes applications until Oct. 1 for $5 million in grants to buy food made or grown in the stateFood & Housing
Wyoming
National
- White House cancels $810 million Congress approved, including grants for refugee services and housing counselingHuman Services
- Tax Court holds Tennessee charity founder liable for $1.3 million in excise taxes on $590,000 sent to his companyLaw & Policy
- NBCUniversal gives $2.5 million in unrestricted grants to 80 small nonprofits in 11 TV marketsPhilanthropy
- FEMA's nearly $180 million in mitigation grants includes $1.5 million for earthquake work by nonprofits and universitiesCommunity
- Justice Department asks appeals court to revive IRS deal letting two churches address candidates in worship servicesLaw & Policy
- Thirty states have opted into the federal scholarship tax credit, and the charities that will run it await Treasury's rulesEducation
- Two federal judges set aside EPA's cancellation of the $7 billion Solar for All programEnvironment
- House bill would let federal security grants pay for nonprofits' own guards and the staff who apply for themFaith
- Judge vacates the Education Department directive used to cancel teacher training grants over DEI, but does not restore themEducation
- Duffield Foundation commits $250 million to veterinary care for pets and opens grants to nonprofit clinicsAnimals
- Charities named in donors' IRAs say some financial firms take months or years to release the moneyPhilanthropy
- HUD's homelessness grant competition goes ahead, with applications due Sept. 30, after an appeals court vacates the ruling that stopped itFood & Housing
- New tracker counts $177 billion in federal funding canceled, frozen or slowed since January 2025Law & Policy
- Nine foundations commit $25 million to Nonprofits Insurance Alliance, which insures more than 25,000 nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- Billion-dollar foundations paid out a median 5.1% in 2024, a report finds, as it calls for doubling the legal minimumPhilanthropy
- Justice Department lawyers say limits on religious activity in HHS-funded programs are unconstitutionalFaith
- VA grants totaling $1.17 billion to fight veteran homelessness begin Oct. 1Veterans
- Taco Bell Foundation gives $32 million to 700 youth nonprofits nominated by the chain's franchiseesYouth & Sports
- Salesforce announces $27 million in education grants, with $9 million for nine nonprofits that train teachers or prepare students for careersEducation
- Gates Foundation commits at least $1 billion to AI for health care, schools and farms, and education experts question the classroom sharePhilanthropy
- HUD proposes to reward transitional housing, sober housing and police partnerships in its homelessness grant competitionFood & Housing
- House Democrats propose church-style limits on IRS audits of colleges and universitiesLaw & Policy
- Olivia and Tom Walton commit $100 million to a campaign to halve U.S. maternal deaths in five yearsHealth
- Humanity AI opens a $10 million grant call for community-led work on how artificial intelligence is built and usedScience & Jobs
- Dollar General Literacy Foundation awards more than $4.1 million in youth literacy grants to schools, libraries and nonprofitsEducation
- Citi Foundation offers 50 grants of $500,000 to nonprofits preparing low-income youth for work shaped by AIScience & Jobs
- More than 700 grant makers have signed Unite in Advance, a pledge to defend one another's freedom to givePhilanthropy
- House bill would write due process rights for nonprofits under IRS examination into the tax codeLaw & Policy
- Treasury and IRS propose to end the tax exemption of private schools that consider race in any programLaw & Policy
- Jewish nonprofits now spend more than $1 billion a year on security, federations' study estimatesFaith
- Stopgap spending law bars OMB from finalizing its rewrite of federal grant rules until Dec. 11Law & Policy
- Technology trade group GTIA awards $3.2 million to 73 nonprofits, with a second referral round open until Oct. 2Philanthropy
- Senate Democrats ask Treasury and IRS to account for a reported plan to strip left-leaning nonprofits of tax exemptionLaw & Policy
By desk
Faith
- 49 Maryland houses of worship, schools and community centers receive $8.6 million in federal security grantsFaith
- House bill would let federal security grants pay for nonprofits' own guards and the staff who apply for themFaith
- Justice Department lawyers say limits on religious activity in HHS-funded programs are unconstitutionalFaith
- New York sends $70 million in security grants to 290 nonprofits at risk of hate crimesFaith
- Jewish nonprofits now spend more than $1 billion a year on security, federations' study estimatesFaith
- Indiana congregations and their community partners seek $2.5 million in grants, with decisions due Nov. 6Faith
- California extends its nonprofit security grants to marches, festivals and other events away from homeFaith
Education
- Thirty states have opted into the federal scholarship tax credit, and the charities that will run it await Treasury's rulesEducation
- Judge vacates the Education Department directive used to cancel teacher training grants over DEI, but does not restore themEducation
- Salesforce announces $27 million in education grants, with $9 million for nine nonprofits that train teachers or prepare students for careersEducation
- Dollar General Literacy Foundation awards more than $4.1 million in youth literacy grants to schools, libraries and nonprofitsEducation
- After Dolly Parton's death, three states weigh paying more for her Imagination LibraryEducation
Human Services
- White House cancels $810 million Congress approved, including grants for refugee services and housing counselingHuman Services
- Austin extends $4.1 million in social service contracts for a year while it reworks how it funds nonprofitsHuman Services
- Atlanta Women's Foundation funds 19 metro Atlanta nonprofits in a $1.418 million investment in women, girls and familiesHuman Services
- Pinellas County pays for seven nonprofit grants from reserves for one more year after commissioners weighed ending the programHuman Services
- San Antonio's budget plan would end $5.1 million in city grants to 48 nonprofit programs in fiscal 2028Human Services
Arts & Culture
- Alabama arts council awards $3.9 million to 201 organizations and schools for the year starting Oct. 1Arts & Culture
- Metro Atlanta arts nonprofits can apply from Oct. 1 for a share of more than $1 million in unrestricted grantsArts & Culture
- North Carolina Arts Council awards nearly $11 million in 340 grants reaching all 100 countiesArts & Culture
- 17 parents, 29 books and the questions that are hard to answerABCs of Growing Up Foundation, Citrus Heights, Calif.
Health
- Community West Foundation gives $1.37 million to 34 Ohio nonprofits for health care, disability services and addiction recoveryHealth
- United Way of Central Indiana plans a shared health plan for nonprofits statewide, to start Jan. 1 if Indiana approvesHealth
- Olivia and Tom Walton commit $100 million to a campaign to halve U.S. maternal deaths in five yearsHealth
- Michigan Nonprofit Association builds a network, with $1.4 million from three foundations, to help residents keep MedicaidHealth
- Iowa attorney general's office awards its first opioid settlement grants, $1.6 million to five recipientsHealth
Youth & Sports
- Orlando Magic Youth Foundation awards $775,000 to 21 youth nonprofits, the first part of $1.8 million this seasonYouth & Sports
- Taco Bell Foundation gives $32 million to 700 youth nonprofits nominated by the chain's franchiseesYouth & Sports
Food & Housing
- Minnesota awards its first Farm to Food Security grants: $1.3 million for 22 projects that buy food from local farmsFood & Housing
- Arkansas Community Foundation launches a $10 million fund for nonprofit work on food insecurityFood & Housing
- Maryland's NourishMD program offers $3.67 million to food retailers in food deserts, with applications due Nov. 2Food & Housing
- Publix Charities gives $25 million to more than 350 food banks and hunger groups in eight statesFood & Housing
- Florida Blue Foundation awards $3.1 million to eight Florida nonprofits working on food insecurityFood & Housing
- HUD's homelessness grant competition goes ahead, with applications due Sept. 30, after an appeals court vacates the ruling that stopped itFood & Housing
- HUD proposes to reward transitional housing, sober housing and police partnerships in its homelessness grant competitionFood & Housing
- Illinois local food grants buy cold storage and delivery trucks for farms, food banks and urban growersFood & Housing
- Massachusetts awards nearly $7 million in food infrastructure grants to 72 farms, fisheries and food organizationsFood & Housing
- Wisconsin takes applications until Oct. 1 for $5 million in grants to buy food made or grown in the stateFood & Housing
- FirstEnergy Foundation doubles its hunger grants to $5 million for 140 food banks and pantriesFood & Housing
Animals
Environment
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
- Two federal judges set aside EPA's cancellation of the $7 billion Solar for All programEnvironment
Community
- FEMA's nearly $180 million in mitigation grants includes $1.5 million for earthquake work by nonprofits and universitiesCommunity
- Microsoft offers King County nonprofits 25 grants of $20,000 in the first round of its Community-First GrantsCommunity
- Louisiana invites nonprofits to apply for AmeriCorps grants for 2027-28, with applications due Feb. 28Community
- Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco awards a record $10 million in economic development grants across three statesCommunity
- New York opens a $75 million round of community center grants for nonprofits and municipalitiesCommunity
Justice & Rights
- South Carolina awards more than $29 million to groups that help crime victims, starting Oct. 1Justice & Rights
- Healing Illinois closes its fifth grant round, with awards of up to $50,000 for community healing projects due in late OctoberJustice & Rights
- California puts $34.9 million into outreach by community groups that teach workers their rights, and adds 15 granteesJustice & Rights
Veterans
Philanthropy
- Erie Gives raises a record $12.1 million for 546 nonprofits serving Erie CountyPhilanthropy
- Connecticut's PGA Tour event says its 2026 tournament generated a record $5 million for 290 charitiesPhilanthropy
- LeFrak and Simon families give $2 million to 40 Jersey City nonprofits and pledge $1 million a year for five more yearsPhilanthropy
- Wabash Valley Community Foundation gives $4.6 million to push stalled projects forward in three Indiana countiesPhilanthropy
- NBCUniversal gives $2.5 million in unrestricted grants to 80 small nonprofits in 11 TV marketsPhilanthropy
- Dubuque Racing Association, the nonprofit behind an Iowa casino, has given $1.5 million to 67 groups this yearPhilanthropy
- North Texas Giving Day passes last year's midnight count with more than $76 million for over 3,300 nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- Charities named in donors' IRAs say some financial firms take months or years to release the moneyPhilanthropy
- Nine foundations commit $25 million to Nonprofits Insurance Alliance, which insures more than 25,000 nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- The Dayton Foundation reports a record 367 new charitable funds and nearly $121 million in grants for its fiscal yearPhilanthropy
- Billion-dollar foundations paid out a median 5.1% in 2024, a report finds, as it calls for doubling the legal minimumPhilanthropy
- Gates Foundation commits at least $1 billion to AI for health care, schools and farms, and education experts question the classroom sharePhilanthropy
- The Columbus Foundation reports a record $477.4 million in grants to more than 5,200 nonprofits in 2025Philanthropy
- More than 700 grant makers have signed Unite in Advance, a pledge to defend one another's freedom to givePhilanthropy
- Aiken philanthropist pledges $1 million to the Community Foundation for the CSRA's grants endowment if the region raises $1 million firstPhilanthropy
- Technology trade group GTIA awards $3.2 million to 73 nonprofits, with a second referral round open until Oct. 2Philanthropy
- Green Bay Packers Foundation gives $1.6 million to 402 Wisconsin groups in the first year of a new grant cyclePhilanthropy
Law & Policy
- New York City Council's contracts chair proposes 11 steps to get nonprofits paid on timeLaw & Policy
- California law will require investment firms to notify nonprofits named as beneficiaries on securities accountsLaw & Policy
- Tax Court holds Tennessee charity founder liable for $1.3 million in excise taxes on $590,000 sent to his companyLaw & Policy
- Howard County bill would require audits, a two-year track record and a public database from nonprofits that receive county grantsLaw & Policy
- Justice Department asks appeals court to revive IRS deal letting two churches address candidates in worship servicesLaw & Policy
- California bill would deny the charity property tax exemption to detention facilities, a break an ICE center's nonprofit owner has receivedLaw & Policy
- Florida's ban on local DEI spending, in force Jan. 1, puts Miami-Dade advisory boards and a girls' program grant in questionLaw & Policy
- New tracker counts $177 billion in federal funding canceled, frozen or slowed since January 2025Law & Policy
- Alameda County supervisors' grants to nonprofits will need a majority vote, a stated public purpose and a public log under a new state lawLaw & Policy
- Juneau Assembly shelves a plan to make nonprofits charge the city's sales taxLaw & Policy
- Appeals court hears challenge to Illinois law requiring large grantmaking nonprofits to post board demographicsLaw & Policy
- House Democrats propose church-style limits on IRS audits of colleges and universitiesLaw & Policy
- Pennsylvania bill would strip nonprofit corporations of the power to spend on elections and ballot questionsLaw & Policy
- South Carolina budget writers agree that nonprofit earmarks must go through a city or county from next yearLaw & Policy
- House bill would write due process rights for nonprofits under IRS examination into the tax codeLaw & Policy
- Treasury and IRS propose to end the tax exemption of private schools that consider race in any programLaw & Policy
- Stopgap spending law bars OMB from finalizing its rewrite of federal grant rules until Dec. 11Law & Policy
- Senate Democrats ask Treasury and IRS to account for a reported plan to strip left-leaning nonprofits of tax exemptionLaw & Policy
- Florida's rewritten nonprofit corporation law, in effect since July 1, sets new duties for officers and new default rules for boardsLaw & Policy