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Every story we have published, by month, state and desk.
By month
November 2026
- Defense Department service dog program will fund 29 nonprofits that train dogs for veterans in 2027Veterans
- House passes bill to open 403(b) plans of charities, schools and churches to collective investment trustsLaw & Policy
- Medina Foundation, closing in 2027, makes final grants of $1 million to $5 million to 42 Western Washington nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- New Hanover Community Endowment expects nearly $63 million in new grants in 2027 and adds four grants staffPhilanthropy
- Texas attorney general drops his suits to shut down FIEL Houston and the Annunciation House sheltersLaw & Policy
- Ray C. Anderson Foundation starts Live Oak, an effort to steer more climate funding to the Southeast, and names its directorPhilanthropy
- Anthropic puts $50 million into a San Francisco Foundation fund for Bay Area nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- Cigna Group Foundation gives $3.45 million to 23 nonprofits for veterans' housing and mental healthVeterans
- FHLBank Chicago awards $62 million for 1,786 affordable homes in Illinois and WisconsinFood & Housing
- New York City mayor signs law giving certified nonprofits the first chance to buy distressed apartment buildingsFood & Housing
- Press Forward says its funders have put nearly $600 million into local news, two years ahead of its goalPhilanthropy
- Allen Family Philanthropies and ArtsFund award $10 million to 745 small arts groups across WashingtonArts & Culture
- Associated Bank and its foundation commit $2.1 million to Nebraska and Council Bluffs after taking over American National BankPhilanthropy
- Michigan think tank sues over Proposal 2 rules that could require nonprofits to report donors for speech naming candidatesLaw & Policy
- Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo opens 2027 Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Legacy Funds grants to Western New York nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- Education Department grantees, nonprofits among them, must now justify every request for grant moneyEducation
- Honolulu voters create a Food Security Fund for locally grown food, and the city begins deciding how to spend itFood & Housing
- Justice Department has not awarded three quarters of two years of anti-trafficking grants, senator's report findsJustice & Rights
- LA84 Foundation awards $1.7 million to 16 youth sports groups across Southern CaliforniaYouth & Sports
- Oregon Community Foundation awards $5.3 million in fall Community Grants to 259 nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- Washington voters keep the millionaires tax, and its $100,000 cap on charitable deductions stays with itLaw & Policy
- AstraZeneca Foundation gives $1.1 million to six nonprofits in four states to widen access to health careHealth
- California law opens the charity property tax exemption to new moderate-income rentals in three countiesLaw & Policy
- Georgia Council for the Arts awards more than $600,000 for arts programs and arts buildings in 65 countiesArts & Culture
- Howard County executive vetoes the nonprofit property grant bill, calling its $1.5 million threshold arbitraryLaw & Policy
- Maryland's grant data shows about $872 million for nonprofits in fiscal 2025, the first year it marks themLaw & Policy
- Minnesota attorney general settles with two charities serving Native communities over board oversight and lapsed registrationLaw & Policy
- Minnesota opens the first round of its lottery-funded environmental community grants, about $4 million in allEnvironment
- Nonprofits hold nearly a quarter of New Orleans' tax-exempt real estate, and a city watchdog proposes a fee they would payLaw & Policy
- House Rules Committee takes up bill to open 403(b) plans of charities, schools and churches to collective investment trustsLaw & Policy
- Texas Bar Foundation awards $1.06 million to 74 groups for legal aid, reentry and victim servicesJustice & Rights
- White House weighs an order that would label some nonprofits as terror-linked and suspend their tax exemption, report saysLaw & Policy
- Herschend family's giving collective awards nearly $2.6 million to 15 groups in rural southwest MissouriPhilanthropy
- Mobile Beacon opens Wi-Fly grants of Chromebooks, hotspots and two years of internet service to nonprofits, libraries and schoolsPhilanthropy
- Artist says South Carolina Arts Commission threatened to bill her for her grant after she refused to sign its ideology clauseArts & Culture
- Delta Dental Community Care Foundation awards $16.3 million to nonprofits that bring dental care to people who go withoutHealth
- Mississippi Arts Commission awards $3.8 million to repair and build arts venues in 13 countiesArts & Culture
- Montana nonprofits sue to block Initiative 194, the new ban on election spending by nonprofits and corporationsLaw & Policy
- Music Man Foundation awards $5.8 million to 20 music and arts organizationsArts & Culture
- New Mexico opts into the federal scholarship tax credit, and the state now has to certify charities to run itEducation
- Ohio awards more than $2 million to 32 nonprofits serving human trafficking survivorsHuman Services
- Unions and nonprofits ask Congress to keep blocking OMB's rewrite of federal grant rules after Dec. 11Law & Policy
- Montana voters approve Initiative 194, taking away the power of nonprofits and corporations to spend on electionsLaw & Policy
- North Carolina's Healthy Opportunities Pilot will return in early 2027, offering only grocery deliveriesHealth
- Nonprofits hit by Hurricane Isaias in the Florida Panhandle can borrow up to $2 million from the SBACommunity
- United Way awards $7.8 million from Connecticut's cannabis reinvestment program to nonprofits in Danbury, Norwalk and StamfordPhilanthropy
- Unlikely Collaborators awards $7.2 million to 52 nonprofits from its first national open callPhilanthropy
- California voters reject Proposition 44, which would have required nonprofit community clinics to spend 90% of revenue on patient careHealth
- Indiana to award $656,000 in federal preservation grants to 12 projects, from church masonry to an Ohio River shipwreckArts & Culture
- More than 800 New York nonprofits, businesses and funders ask Gov. Hochul in a letter to sign two contracting billsLaw & Policy
- Attorneys general and Catholic bishops weigh in as comments close on the IRS private school race ruleLaw & Policy
- California's civic media program sends $18.75 million to 214 newsrooms in its first round, nonprofits among themArts & Culture
- Washington, D.C., raises the lobbyist registration fee for nonprofits to $250, and New York moves to a yearly feeLaw & Policy
- Federal court has not ruled on CAIR's bid to block Florida's terrorist designation, which takes effect Nov. 5Law & Policy
- Kentucky public school districts sign on with one statewide scholarship nonprofit ahead of the federal tax creditEducation
- Lakewood, N.J., will stop collecting trash from private schools and houses of worship on Jan. 1Faith
- Oregon nonprofits press their suit over fundraising pages a crowdfunding company built in their namesLaw & Policy
- IRS gives nonprofits in 62 Texas counties hit by July storms until Feb. 1 to file their annual returnsLaw & Policy
- Federal tax on nonprofit pay above $1 million now reaches every employee, not only the five highest paidLaw & Policy
- Supreme Court takes up Catholic preschools' challenge to the equal-opportunity rule in Colorado's universal preschool programEducation
- American Indian College Fund builds a seven-year plan around a $70 million gift from MacKenzie ScottEducation
- Boston Celtics owners give more than $200 million to Boston Children's Hospital, the largest gift in its historyHealth
- College associations ask the IRS to withdraw its proposed rule tying tax exemption to race in school programsLaw & Policy
- Indiana Supreme Court says the state was wrong to drop a church day care from the federal child care food programFood & Housing
- Social Finance launches a $21 million fund to invest in local news outlets, with MacArthur and Knight as anchorsPhilanthropy
- Maine's arts and cultural nonprofits support more than 7,300 jobs, a University of Maine study findsArts & Culture
- New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation awards more than $2 million to 513 Louisiana artists and organizationsArts & Culture
- New York City names 33 nonprofit leaders to a council advising the mayor on the sectorLaw & Policy
- Ohio adds $1 million for 55 domestic violence shelters and plans grants pairing victim advocates with policeHuman Services
- Tax Court upholds IRS revocation of a Pennsylvania sportsmen's club's exemption over natural gas royaltiesLaw & Policy
- TD Charitable Foundation opens its $10 million housing grant round to programs that raise renters' incomesFood & Housing
- Giving to women's and girls' organizations passed $12 billion in 2024, Indiana University index findsPhilanthropy
- Alabama opens applications for $2.5 million in veterans' well-being grants to nonprofits and public collegesVeterans
- FEMA rejects California's final appeal for more fire survivor case management money, and the Red Cross steps inHuman Services
- Domestic violence coalitions and nonprofits sue HHS over grant conditions on gender identity, DEI and Housing FirstLaw & Policy
- Howard County Council passes a narrowed nonprofit grant bill that now covers only grants to buy, build on or redevelop propertyLaw & Policy
- Kansas awards more than $10.7 million in federal crime victim grants to 64 organizations and agenciesJustice & Rights
- California offers $2 million in grants to help the Mojave Desert tortoise recoverEnvironment
- New Jersey law lets Green Acres grants pay the full cost of nonprofit projects on state landEnvironment
- Tennessee offers $3 million in competitive grants to prevent gambling among young peopleHealth
- Federal judge blocks West Virginia attorney general's subpoenas to two environmental nonprofitsLaw & Policy
October 2026
- Airbnb will give its own nonprofit 10 cents from every stay, aiming for 1 million free nights of crisis housing a yearFood & Housing
- Delaware's opioid settlement commission approves $12.1 million in grants for prevention, treatment and recoveryHealth
- Maryland turns its community forestry fund into grants of up to $10,000, with one application for several fundersEnvironment
- Poetry Foundation gives $1.52 million in operating grants to 52 poetry groups, presses and magazinesArts & Culture
- San Diego Foundation's grants rose 34% to $137.4 million last fiscal year, with 80% kept in San Diego CountyPhilanthropy
- New Jersey's casino reinvestment authority opens $3 million in grants for Atlantic City nonprofitsCommunity
- CLA Foundation awards $2 million to 156 nonprofits nominated by the firm's employeesPhilanthropy
- Connecticut opens a $19.5 million round of capital grants for nonprofit health and human service providersHuman Services
- Eight federal grant programs for museums close Nov. 13Arts & Culture
- Florida Blue Foundation awards $3.33 million to nine Florida nonprofits for mental health programsHealth
- Maryland offers $25 million to community health centers to keep treating patients who lose coverageHealth
- New Jersey preservation trust backs $7.7 million in no-match grants for five nonprofits on state landEnvironment
- Philadelphia asks nonprofits to bid for its commercial corridor cleaning programCommunity
- Texas appeals court lets Harris County, Houston and Aldine ISD sue over tax breaks for out-of-county housing finance corporationsFood & Housing
- More than 20 foundations launch All In For Jobs, aiming to align $1 billion and connect 500,000 Americans to jobsScience & Jobs
- Anthropic adds a nonprofit plugin to Claude and widens Claude Corps to shorter consulting projectsPhilanthropy
- More nonprofits are raising spending on risk management and compliance, BDO's annual benchmarking survey findsPhilanthropy
- New pooled fund aims to raise $30 million over three years for 18 nonprofits serving boys, young men and fathersPhilanthropy
- Minnesota Historical Society awards $349,104 in small Legacy grants to 21 history projectsArts & Culture
- New York awards $8.3 million to 59 food banks and pantries for trucks, coolers and buildingsFood & Housing
- Rhode Island's ServeRI awards $1.45 million in AmeriCorps grants to eight organizationsCommunity
- Google names 10 recipients of the first $1.25 million in West Memphis Energy Impact Fund grantsPhilanthropy
- Kauai County awards grants of up to $20,000 to 16 nonprofits, from food boxes for seniors to sea turtle guardiansCommunity
- Appeals court leaves in place ruling that blocked HUD's overhaul of fair housing grantsFood & Housing
- Dollar Tree commits $40 million to nonprofits through a new fund at the Hampton Roads Community FoundationPhilanthropy
- Delaware's $950 million children's fund will be run by a five-member committee and publish its grants each yearHealth
- Grants Pass offers $60,000 to nonprofits for homeless service facilities with bathroomsFood & Housing
- Minnesota opens a $10.9 million grant round for communities harmed by cannabis prohibitionCommunity
- New York gives 59 arts nonprofits $1.76 million to build cash reserves, in the second round of its Reserve Fund grantsArts & Culture
- Planetarium director's $2.73 million estate gift will double Rochester foundation's historic preservation grantsArts & Culture
- IRS letter ruling confirms a church's integrated auxiliary need not file Form 990Law & Policy
- Nebraska economic development director says some Omaha recovery grantees ignore reporting rulesCommunity
- Prince George's County gets $7.6 million in council grants back as its auditor examines the council's grants officeLaw & Policy
- Treasury asks for comments on the form charities use to fund Trump Accounts for whole classes of childrenLaw & Policy
- Arlington County opens $1.2 million Opportunities Grant round for nonprofits serving its residentsHuman Services
- Pennsylvania law funds children's advocacy centers with a new fee on people convicted of sex offensesJustice & Rights
- Delta Dental Foundation of North Carolina commits $1 million to dental care and the state's dental workforceHealth
- FHLBank Chicago awards $5 million to train new affordable housing developers in Illinois and WisconsinFood & Housing
- Ford Foundation reorganizes its grantmaking around seven funding areas aimed at protecting democracyPhilanthropy
- Minnesota county challenges federal contract that sends teen pregnancy prevention work to a consulting firmHealth
- Hawaii nonprofits damaged by Hurricane Lowell have until Nov. 6 to ask FEMA for repair aidCommunity
- New York City Council passes bill giving certified nonprofits the first chance to buy distressed apartment buildingsFood & Housing
- West Virginia's attorney general subpoenas environmental nonprofits over climate statements, and two sue to stop himEnvironment
- California awards $2.8 million to 33 groups for free arts events in local parksArts & Culture
- Home Depot Foundation raises its commitment to veteran causes to $1 billion by 2032Veterans
- Illinois treasurer awards $178,210 to 10 small nonprofits for food and job training programsHuman Services
- Katz Amsterdam opens Catalyst grants with $4.5 million for seven young nonprofits in Colorado and Utah mountain townsPhilanthropy
- More than 130 people earn over $1 million a year from Long Island nonprofits, a Newsday analysis of tax filings findsHealth
- Louisiana departments paid nonprofits $3.27 billion in state funds over four years, auditor findsLaw & Policy
- Minnesota Housing opens $2 million in grants for nonprofits building their capacity to solve housing problemsFood & Housing
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards 5.5 million in the first grants for endangered species recoveryEnvironment
- Federal government drops its appeals, leaving a loan forgiveness rule aimed at nonprofit employers struck downLaw & Policy
- Sacramento offers nonprofits nearly $1.5 million in grants to prevent youth violenceJustice & Rights
- SBA awards $5.3 million to five organizations to build statewide women's business center networksCommunity
- Louisiana inspector general asks Treasury to tighten payments on $113.5 million in nonprofit line itemsLaw & Policy
- New York nonprofits press Gov. Hochul to sign two bills on how the state contracts with and pays themLaw & Policy
- Pennsylvania food banks share $17.5 million in tax credits for business contributionsFood & Housing
- Pennsylvania raises the weekly prize cap for small games of chance and lets nonprofits sell raffle tickets by cardLaw & Policy
- Pennsylvania approves $71.6 million in tax credits for business contributions to 443 community projectsCommunity
- Anthropic plans to put 5% of its shares into a fund that could make large gifts to nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- Basic Needs Giving Partnership awards $1.8 million for work on the causes of poverty in northeast WisconsinHuman Services
- Dan Gilbert pledges $1 billion to a new nonprofit that will own and rebuild Detroit's Renaissance CenterCommunity
- Small charities that lost government funding in 2025 lost a median 28% of their revenue, Urban Institute findsPhilanthropy
- Mississippi auditor posts a dashboard of $4.2 billion in state payments to nonprofits since 2020Law & Policy
- Napa Valley Community Foundation opens up to $1.2 million in unrestricted grants for Napa County safety net nonprofitsHuman Services
- Taxpayers who do not itemize can deduct up to $1,000 of cash gifts to charity, starting with tax year 2026Law & Policy
- Arizona receives $28.4 million in federal crime victim funds to pass on to local nonprofits and agenciesJustice & Rights
- California law gives local newsrooms, nonprofit ones included, a refundable tax credit for each journalist they employArts & Culture
- Appeals court rules religious employer exemption does not cover sex bias, in Catholic Relief Services spouse benefits caseLaw & Policy
- DOGE canceled $468.7 million in grants and contracts to tribes and Native organizations, Brookings findsCommunity
- Petition with 50,000 signatures asks Fidelity Charitable to lift its block on grants to the Southern Poverty Law CenterPhilanthropy
- Illinois lawmakers call for more nonprofit security grant money after an alleged plot against a Hindu templeFaith
- Decolonizing Wealth Project gives $1 million to 35 Indigenous climate and conservation efforts and publishes a land return guide for fundersEnvironment
- Few Protestant pastors plan to endorse candidates in worship services even if the IRS allows it, a Lifeway survey findsFaith
- Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation reports a record $73 million in grants for its fiscal yearPhilanthropy
- Ally Charitable Foundation gives more than $2.5 million to 82 nonprofits in Detroit and CharlottePhilanthropy
- Every Voice, Every Vote awards $1.4 million to 46 Philadelphia newsrooms and community groups before the 2027 city electionsCommunity
- IRS gives nonprofits in 27 Florida counties hit by Hurricane Isaias until Feb. 8 to file their annual returnsLaw & Policy
- IRS asks court to dismiss Young America's Foundation challenge to the Schedule B donor listLaw & Policy
- Baltimore and Maryland lawmakers call for background checks on leaders of nonprofits that receive public moneyLaw & Policy
- Pennsylvania opens $950,000 in wildfire grants for rural volunteer fire companiesJustice & Rights
- Portland, Maine, has revoked or denied tax exemptions for nearly 20 nonprofits, and two will ask lawmakers for a fixLaw & Policy
- Seminole County holds back grants to 24 nonprofits until Florida votes on Amendment 3Human Services
- HHS proposes to fold the remaining rules for Administration for Native Americans grants into three sectionsCommunity
- American Legion Child Well-being Foundation awards 23 grants worth $1 million to youth-serving nonprofitsYouth & Sports
- Ball Brothers Foundation awards $5.1 million in fall grants in East Central Indiana, led by Minnetrista and Muncie schoolsPhilanthropy
- Bank groups ask regulators to drop a 15 percent overhead limit on nonprofits in community reinvestment grantsLaw & Policy
- Blackbaud Giving Fund passed more than $536 million to nonprofits in 2025, over half of it company matchesPhilanthropy
- Rockefeller and OpenAI foundations open $50 million call for nonprofits that bring AI into city servicesPhilanthropy
- Companies are growing more selective about which disasters they help with, a survey of corporate giving executives findsPhilanthropy
- Six Beaumont-area charitable trusts share more than $2 million among 78 Southeast Texas nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- Kauai nonprofits hit by Hurricane Lowell can apply for state recovery grants of $5,000 or $10,000Community
- Newman's Own Foundation and partners name 14 recipients of up to $1.4 million in Food Justice for Kids grantsFood & Housing
- NOAA made 229 new grants by Sept. 2, a 74% drop from past years, a grant tracker findsEnvironment
- Education and youth nonprofits get little or no help with most of their capacity needs, a national survey findsPhilanthropy
- Accountants ask the IRS to keep the bank details on its new refund form out of exempt organizations' public returnsLaw & Policy
- BECU Foundation awards $4 million in one-time grants to 12 Washington partners facing higher demandPhilanthropy
- Cargill Foundation makes its first grants outside the Twin Cities in 75 years, starting in Atlanta and WichitaPhilanthropy
- Oklahoma weighs letting donors sue over broken endowment terms, which four states already allowLaw & Policy
- John Deere Foundation commits $18.5 million to food banks and the farms that supply them, most of it in IowaFood & Housing
- New York puts $26.4 million into SNAP outreach by 44 community groups as federal work rules tightenFood & Housing
- Public Media Bridge Fund turns from emergency aid to sustainability grants for local stations, with $10 million from Knight FoundationArts & Culture
- California amends its online fundraising platform law to give charities notice before they lose good standingLaw & Policy
- National Philanthropic Trust opens a path for donor-advised fund grants to children's Trump AccountsPhilanthropy
- Wilmington, N.C., weighs replacing its open nonprofit grant round with requests for proposals in two fieldsHuman Services
- Andrew Carnegie Foundation opens a call for peacebuilding and mediation grants of up to $1.5 millionGlobal
- Idaho opens applications for nonprofits that want to give scholarships under the federal tax creditEducation
- Oregon Arts Commission awards $1.3 million in sustaining grants to 317 arts groups, fewer than a year agoArts & Culture
- Wisconsin awards $296,000 in financial literacy grants to schools and community groupsEducation
- Wyoming opens applications for nonprofits seeking to run scholarships under the federal tax creditEducation
- Oklahoma lawmakers study a Texas-style tax credit for business gifts to nonprofits that serve familiesHuman Services
- Texas Women's Foundation gives $900,000 to 25 North Texas nonprofits in its 2026 community grant cyclePhilanthropy
- VA awards $16 million in adaptive sports grants to 91 organizations serving disabled veteransVeterans
- Colorado public school foundations set up scholarship nonprofits to tap the federal tax creditEducation
- Hawaii County Council advances bill to keep its homeless and housing fund running through June 2029Food & Housing
- Wyoming Hunger Initiative and Ellbogen Foundation give $117,998 in unrestricted grants to 36 anti-hunger projectsFood & Housing
- Anne Arundel County offers houses of worship security grants of up to $10,000Faith
- Atlassian Foundation offers up to $1 million each to nonprofit partnerships changing education for the AI eraEducation
- HHS names recipients of up to $27.8 million to spread falls prevention programs for older adultsHealth
- New York will take part in the federal scholarship tax credit, Gov. Kathy Hochul saysEducation
- Foundations gave $1.3 billion for U.S. democracy in 2024, about 1.3% of their grants, Candid findsPhilanthropy
- The Dallas Foundation awards nearly $2.7 million in 97 summer grants, most of it for family economic stabilityPhilanthropy
- Sarasota and Manatee nonprofits plan for county cuts if Florida voters approve Amendment 3 property tax measureHuman Services
- Labor Department says nonprofit employees may volunteer for their employer, but not in their own line of workLaw & Policy
- Illinois nonprofits can apply from Nov. 2 for local food infrastructure grants of up to $250,000Food & Housing
- John Deere Classic says its 2026 tournament generated a record $20.1 million for 492 Quad Cities area charitiesPhilanthropy
- New York City will pay up to 800 nonprofits their small Council awards as grants, within 30 days of signingLaw & Policy
- New York City plans $8.9 million in contracts for gender-affirming care for minorsHealth
- Pennsylvania opens about $420,000 in environmental education grants to nonprofits, with applications due Nov. 13Environment
- Colorado senators introduce Senate version of bill letting federal security grants pay for nonprofits' guards and off-duty policeFaith
- NFWF opens a Great Plains grassland fund backed by Walmart Foundation, with $10 million for ranchland easementsEnvironment
- Houston foundations raise $34 million toward a $48 million plan to resolve homelessness fasterFood & Housing
- ICE investigators reviewed voter registration nonprofits in several states and weighed using undercover agents, records showLaw & Policy
- San Diego Foundation and Bear Creek Fund Advisors set up $100 million to finance construction of affordable homesFood & Housing
- EPA and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announce Chesapeake Bay watershed grants for clean water and restorationEnvironment
- Federal court throws out notices that would have required immigration checks at Head Start, health centers and adult educationLaw & Policy
- Denver council tightens rules for the nonprofits that spend three voter-approved city taxesLaw & Policy
- House bill would have federal security grants paid to nonprofits in advance instead of as reimbursementsFaith
- Georgia offers up to $10 million in federal housing grants that nonprofits can use to repair and build homesFood & Housing
- Comments close on HHS plan to let states set Head Start class sizes and to cut the administrative cost cap to 5%Education
- Bellingcat traces $24.4 million in donor-advised fund grants to two US charities it links to India's RSSPhilanthropy
- Nashville moves to grant $40.2 million to 14 nonprofits for 1,106 affordable homesFood & Housing
- OpenAI Foundation names 163 nonprofits for $50 million in AI grants, with legal aid, arts groups and local newsrooms among themPhilanthropy
- Pennsylvania Senate votes to raise the weekly prize cap for small games of chance to $60,000Law & Policy
- Texas opens applications for $31 million in veterans' assistance grants to nonprofits and local governmentsVeterans
- Sparklight opens its fall Charitable Giving Fund round to nonprofits in its 24 service statesPhilanthropy
- Most Americans who use nonprofits do not count themselves as users, an Indiana University survey findsPhilanthropy
- Agreement creates a $950 million fund for nonprofit children's health programs in DelawareHealth
- New York City doubles its grants for artists and small arts nonprofits to $10,000Arts & Culture
- New York awards $2.7 million to 45 land trusts for trails, staff and land dealsEnvironment
- Texas House committee studies how cities contract with nonprofits for health, safety and homelessness servicesHuman Services
- Treasury and IRS issue the rules for the federal scholarship tax credit, and scholarship charities must register before Jan. 1Education
- BlackRock Foundation awards $13 million to 15 skilled trades training groups in its first national roundScience & Jobs
- Harold Grinspoon Foundation commits $50 million in matching grants to Jewish overnight camps over five yearsYouth & Sports
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America gives Arkansas and Kentucky $10 million each for maternal careHealth
- National Park Service awards nearly $1.18 million in Underrepresented Communities Grants for National Register listingsArts & Culture
- Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation awards $13.7 million to 173 nonprofits in its 2026 grant cyclePhilanthropy
- Federal HIV prevention grants to nearly 100 community groups end as the money moves to health departmentsHealth
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- Senate passes IRS bill that would give organizations a right to appeal a denied or revoked tax exemptionLaw & Policy
- Supreme Court declines to block Delaware law requiring groups that run election ads to name their donorsLaw & Policy
- Federal appeals court upholds Arizona law requiring groups to disclose the original sources of campaign moneyLaw & Policy
- Treasury and IRS list Johnson Amendment and fiscal sponsorship reporting guidance among their priorities for the yearLaw & Policy
- Maryland awards $32 million in ENOUGH grants to 30 high-poverty communitiesHuman Services
- A 50-state nonprofit compliance database opens to AI assistants, free and without registrationLaw & Policy
- Pennsylvania House panel votes to waive the security grant match for nonprofits with revenue under $250,000Faith
September 2026
- Newsom signs law keeping detention facilities out of California's charity property tax exemptionLaw & Policy
- California voters will decide whether nonprofit community clinics must spend 90% of revenue on patient careHealth
- FEMA awards $300 million in security grants to more than 1,600 nonprofits, most of it to houses of worshipFaith
- Florida's governor and Cabinet designate CAIR and two other groups as domestic terrorist organizations under a new state lawLaw & Policy
- Most foundations changed course after federal cuts, but few call their response very effective, a survey findsPhilanthropy
- Massachusetts opens $3.4 million grant round for domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking servicesHuman Services
- VA awards $111.9 million in suicide prevention grants to 191 community organizationsVeterans
- The IRS transition year for existing group exemptions ends Jan. 22, with new rules to meet before thenLaw & Policy
- Microsoft says it deleted some nonprofits' data early after their Business Premium grants ended, and it cannot be recoveredPhilanthropy
- Pennsylvania committees advance bills on prize limits, club proceeds and card payments for raffle ticketsLaw & Policy
- San Angelo Health Foundation awards $1.6 million to nine Concho Valley organizations, $1 million of it for a river trailPhilanthropy
- National Park Service awards $25.2 million in Save America's Treasures grants for historic sites and collectionsArts & Culture
- Visa Foundation opens a $2 million grant call for nonprofits that help small businesses growCommunity
- 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
- Delta Dental Community Care Foundation awards $16.3 million to nonprofits that bring dental care to people who go withoutHealth
- Nonprofits hit by Hurricane Isaias in the Florida Panhandle can borrow up to $2 million from the SBACommunity
- Alabama opens applications for $2.5 million in veterans' well-being grants to nonprofits and public collegesVeterans
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- 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
- Newman's Own Foundation and partners name 14 recipients of up to $1.4 million in Food Justice for Kids grantsFood & Housing
- Juneau Assembly shelves a plan to make nonprofits charge the city's sales taxLaw & Policy
Arizona
- Cigna Group Foundation gives $3.45 million to 23 nonprofits for veterans' housing and mental healthVeterans
- Arizona receives $28.4 million in federal crime victim funds to pass on to local nonprofits and agenciesJustice & Rights
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- Federal appeals court upholds Arizona law requiring groups to disclose the original sources of campaign moneyLaw & Policy
- 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
- Google names 10 recipients of the first $1.25 million in West Memphis Energy Impact Fund grantsPhilanthropy
- Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America gives Arkansas and Kentucky $10 million each for maternal careHealth
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- Arkansas Community Foundation launches a $10 million fund for nonprofit work on food insecurityFood & Housing
California
- Anthropic puts $50 million into a San Francisco Foundation fund for Bay Area nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- LA84 Foundation awards $1.7 million to 16 youth sports groups across Southern CaliforniaYouth & Sports
- AstraZeneca Foundation gives $1.1 million to six nonprofits in four states to widen access to health careHealth
- California law opens the charity property tax exemption to new moderate-income rentals in three countiesLaw & Policy
- Delta Dental Community Care Foundation awards $16.3 million to nonprofits that bring dental care to people who go withoutHealth
- California voters reject Proposition 44, which would have required nonprofit community clinics to spend 90% of revenue on patient careHealth
- California's civic media program sends $18.75 million to 214 newsrooms in its first round, nonprofits among themArts & Culture
- FEMA rejects California's final appeal for more fire survivor case management money, and the Red Cross steps inHuman Services
- California offers $2 million in grants to help the Mojave Desert tortoise recoverEnvironment
- San Diego Foundation's grants rose 34% to $137.4 million last fiscal year, with 80% kept in San Diego CountyPhilanthropy
- California awards $2.8 million to 33 groups for free arts events in local parksArts & Culture
- Sacramento offers nonprofits nearly $1.5 million in grants to prevent youth violenceJustice & Rights
- Napa Valley Community Foundation opens up to $1.2 million in unrestricted grants for Napa County safety net nonprofitsHuman Services
- California law gives local newsrooms, nonprofit ones included, a refundable tax credit for each journalist they employArts & Culture
- Newman's Own Foundation and partners name 14 recipients of up to $1.4 million in Food Justice for Kids grantsFood & Housing
- California amends its online fundraising platform law to give charities notice before they lose good standingLaw & Policy
- San Diego Foundation and Bear Creek Fund Advisors set up $100 million to finance construction of affordable homesFood & Housing
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation awards $13.7 million to 173 nonprofits in its 2026 grant cyclePhilanthropy
- Newsom signs law keeping detention facilities out of California's charity property tax exemptionLaw & Policy
- California voters will decide whether nonprofit community clinics must spend 90% of revenue on patient careHealth
- 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
- Supreme Court takes up Catholic preschools' challenge to the equal-opportunity rule in Colorado's universal preschool programEducation
- Katz Amsterdam opens Catalyst grants with $4.5 million for seven young nonprofits in Colorado and Utah mountain townsPhilanthropy
- Newman's Own Foundation and partners name 14 recipients of up to $1.4 million in Food Justice for Kids grantsFood & Housing
- Colorado public school foundations set up scholarship nonprofits to tap the federal tax creditEducation
- Denver council tightens rules for the nonprofits that spend three voter-approved city taxesLaw & Policy
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
Connecticut
- Cigna Group Foundation gives $3.45 million to 23 nonprofits for veterans' housing and mental healthVeterans
- United Way awards $7.8 million from Connecticut's cannabis reinvestment program to nonprofits in Danbury, Norwalk and StamfordPhilanthropy
- TD Charitable Foundation opens its $10 million housing grant round to programs that raise renters' incomesFood & Housing
- Connecticut opens a $19.5 million round of capital grants for nonprofit health and human service providersHuman Services
- Newman's Own Foundation and partners name 14 recipients of up to $1.4 million in Food Justice for Kids grantsFood & Housing
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- Connecticut's PGA Tour event says its 2026 tournament generated a record $5 million for 290 charitiesPhilanthropy
Delaware
- Delta Dental Community Care Foundation awards $16.3 million to nonprofits that bring dental care to people who go withoutHealth
- TD Charitable Foundation opens its $10 million housing grant round to programs that raise renters' incomesFood & Housing
- Delaware's opioid settlement commission approves $12.1 million in grants for prevention, treatment and recoveryHealth
- Delaware's $950 million children's fund will be run by a five-member committee and publish its grants each yearHealth
- EPA and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announce Chesapeake Bay watershed grants for clean water and restorationEnvironment
- Agreement creates a $950 million fund for nonprofit children's health programs in DelawareHealth
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- Supreme Court declines to block Delaware law requiring groups that run election ads to name their donorsLaw & Policy
Florida
- Cigna Group Foundation gives $3.45 million to 23 nonprofits for veterans' housing and mental healthVeterans
- Delta Dental Community Care Foundation awards $16.3 million to nonprofits that bring dental care to people who go withoutHealth
- Nonprofits hit by Hurricane Isaias in the Florida Panhandle can borrow up to $2 million from the SBACommunity
- Washington, D.C., raises the lobbyist registration fee for nonprofits to $250, and New York moves to a yearly feeLaw & Policy
- Federal court has not ruled on CAIR's bid to block Florida's terrorist designation, which takes effect Nov. 5Law & Policy
- TD Charitable Foundation opens its $10 million housing grant round to programs that raise renters' incomesFood & Housing
- Florida Blue Foundation awards $3.33 million to nine Florida nonprofits for mental health programsHealth
- SBA awards $5.3 million to five organizations to build statewide women's business center networksCommunity
- IRS gives nonprofits in 27 Florida counties hit by Hurricane Isaias until Feb. 8 to file their annual returnsLaw & Policy
- Seminole County holds back grants to 24 nonprofits until Florida votes on Amendment 3Human Services
- Newman's Own Foundation and partners name 14 recipients of up to $1.4 million in Food Justice for Kids grantsFood & Housing
- Sarasota and Manatee nonprofits plan for county cuts if Florida voters approve Amendment 3 property tax measureHuman Services
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- Florida's governor and Cabinet designate CAIR and two other groups as domestic terrorist organizations under a new state lawLaw & Policy
- 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
- Cigna Group Foundation gives $3.45 million to 23 nonprofits for veterans' housing and mental healthVeterans
- Georgia Council for the Arts awards more than $600,000 for arts programs and arts buildings in 65 countiesArts & Culture
- Delta Dental Community Care Foundation awards $16.3 million to nonprofits that bring dental care to people who go withoutHealth
- Cargill Foundation makes its first grants outside the Twin Cities in 75 years, starting in Atlanta and WichitaPhilanthropy
- Oklahoma weighs letting donors sue over broken endowment terms, which four states already allowLaw & Policy
- Georgia offers up to $10 million in federal housing grants that nonprofits can use to repair and build homesFood & Housing
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- 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
Hawaii
- Honolulu voters create a Food Security Fund for locally grown food, and the city begins deciding how to spend itFood & Housing
- Kauai County awards grants of up to $20,000 to 16 nonprofits, from food boxes for seniors to sea turtle guardiansCommunity
- Hawaii nonprofits damaged by Hurricane Lowell have until Nov. 6 to ask FEMA for repair aidCommunity
- Kauai nonprofits hit by Hurricane Lowell can apply for state recovery grants of $5,000 or $10,000Community
- Newman's Own Foundation and partners name 14 recipients of up to $1.4 million in Food Justice for Kids grantsFood & Housing
- Hawaii County Council advances bill to keep its homeless and housing fund running through June 2029Food & Housing
Idaho
- Idaho opens applications for nonprofits that want to give scholarships under the federal tax creditEducation
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
Illinois
- Cigna Group Foundation gives $3.45 million to 23 nonprofits for veterans' housing and mental healthVeterans
- FHLBank Chicago awards $62 million for 1,786 affordable homes in Illinois and WisconsinFood & Housing
- FHLBank Chicago awards $5 million to train new affordable housing developers in Illinois and WisconsinFood & Housing
- Illinois treasurer awards $178,210 to 10 small nonprofits for food and job training programsHuman Services
- Illinois lawmakers call for more nonprofit security grant money after an alleged plot against a Hindu templeFaith
- Newman's Own Foundation and partners name 14 recipients of up to $1.4 million in Food Justice for Kids grantsFood & Housing
- Illinois nonprofits can apply from Nov. 2 for local food infrastructure grants of up to $250,000Food & Housing
- John Deere Classic says its 2026 tournament generated a record $20.1 million for 492 Quad Cities area charitiesPhilanthropy
- 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
- Indiana to award $656,000 in federal preservation grants to 12 projects, from church masonry to an Ohio River shipwreckArts & Culture
- Indiana Supreme Court says the state was wrong to drop a church day care from the federal child care food programFood & Housing
- Ball Brothers Foundation awards $5.1 million in fall grants in East Central Indiana, led by Minnetrista and Muncie schoolsPhilanthropy
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- 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
- Associated Bank and its foundation commit $2.1 million to Nebraska and Council Bluffs after taking over American National BankPhilanthropy
- John Deere Classic says its 2026 tournament generated a record $20.1 million for 492 Quad Cities area charitiesPhilanthropy
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- 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
Kansas
- Kansas awards more than $10.7 million in federal crime victim grants to 64 organizations and agenciesJustice & Rights
- Cargill Foundation makes its first grants outside the Twin Cities in 75 years, starting in Atlanta and WichitaPhilanthropy
- Oklahoma weighs letting donors sue over broken endowment terms, which four states already allowLaw & Policy
Kentucky
- Kentucky public school districts sign on with one statewide scholarship nonprofit ahead of the federal tax creditEducation
- Oklahoma weighs letting donors sue over broken endowment terms, which four states already allowLaw & Policy
- Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America gives Arkansas and Kentucky $10 million each for maternal careHealth
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- Publix Charities gives $25 million to more than 350 food banks and hunger groups in eight statesFood & Housing
Louisiana
- Nonprofits hold nearly a quarter of New Orleans' tax-exempt real estate, and a city watchdog proposes a fee they would payLaw & Policy
- Delta Dental Community Care Foundation awards $16.3 million to nonprofits that bring dental care to people who go withoutHealth
- New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation awards more than $2 million to 513 Louisiana artists and organizationsArts & Culture
- Louisiana departments paid nonprofits $3.27 billion in state funds over four years, auditor findsLaw & Policy
- Louisiana inspector general asks Treasury to tighten payments on $113.5 million in nonprofit line itemsLaw & Policy
- Louisiana invites nonprofits to apply for AmeriCorps grants for 2027-28, with applications due Feb. 28Community
Maine
- Maine's arts and cultural nonprofits support more than 7,300 jobs, a University of Maine study findsArts & Culture
- TD Charitable Foundation opens its $10 million housing grant round to programs that raise renters' incomesFood & Housing
- Portland, Maine, has revoked or denied tax exemptions for nearly 20 nonprofits, and two will ask lawmakers for a fixLaw & Policy
Maryland
- AstraZeneca Foundation gives $1.1 million to six nonprofits in four states to widen access to health careHealth
- Howard County executive vetoes the nonprofit property grant bill, calling its $1.5 million threshold arbitraryLaw & Policy
- Maryland's grant data shows about $872 million for nonprofits in fiscal 2025, the first year it marks themLaw & Policy
- Delta Dental Community Care Foundation awards $16.3 million to nonprofits that bring dental care to people who go withoutHealth
- TD Charitable Foundation opens its $10 million housing grant round to programs that raise renters' incomesFood & Housing
- Howard County Council passes a narrowed nonprofit grant bill that now covers only grants to buy, build on or redevelop propertyLaw & Policy
- Maryland turns its community forestry fund into grants of up to $10,000, with one application for several fundersEnvironment
- Maryland offers $25 million to community health centers to keep treating patients who lose coverageHealth
- Prince George's County gets $7.6 million in council grants back as its auditor examines the council's grants officeLaw & Policy
- Appeals court rules religious employer exemption does not cover sex bias, in Catholic Relief Services spouse benefits caseLaw & Policy
- Baltimore and Maryland lawmakers call for background checks on leaders of nonprofits that receive public moneyLaw & Policy
- Anne Arundel County offers houses of worship security grants of up to $10,000Faith
- EPA and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announce Chesapeake Bay watershed grants for clean water and restorationEnvironment
- Maryland awards $32 million in ENOUGH grants to 30 high-poverty communitiesHuman Services
- 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
- AstraZeneca Foundation gives $1.1 million to six nonprofits in four states to widen access to health careHealth
- Boston Celtics owners give more than $200 million to Boston Children's Hospital, the largest gift in its historyHealth
- TD Charitable Foundation opens its $10 million housing grant round to programs that raise renters' incomesFood & Housing
- Newman's Own Foundation and partners name 14 recipients of up to $1.4 million in Food Justice for Kids grantsFood & Housing
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- Massachusetts opens $3.4 million grant round for domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking servicesHuman Services
- Massachusetts awards nearly $7 million in food infrastructure grants to 72 farms, fisheries and food organizationsFood & Housing
Michigan
- Michigan think tank sues over Proposal 2 rules that could require nonprofits to report donors for speech naming candidatesLaw & Policy
- Dan Gilbert pledges $1 billion to a new nonprofit that will own and rebuild Detroit's Renaissance CenterCommunity
- Ally Charitable Foundation gives more than $2.5 million to 82 nonprofits in Detroit and CharlottePhilanthropy
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- Michigan Nonprofit Association builds a network, with $1.4 million from three foundations, to help residents keep MedicaidHealth
Minnesota
- Minnesota attorney general settles with two charities serving Native communities over board oversight and lapsed registrationLaw & Policy
- Minnesota opens the first round of its lottery-funded environmental community grants, about $4 million in allEnvironment
- Minnesota Historical Society awards $349,104 in small Legacy grants to 21 history projectsArts & Culture
- Minnesota opens a $10.9 million grant round for communities harmed by cannabis prohibitionCommunity
- Minnesota county challenges federal contract that sends teen pregnancy prevention work to a consulting firmHealth
- Minnesota Housing opens $2 million in grants for nonprofits building their capacity to solve housing problemsFood & Housing
- Cargill Foundation makes its first grants outside the Twin Cities in 75 years, starting in Atlanta and WichitaPhilanthropy
- Minnesota awards its first Farm to Food Security grants: $1.3 million for 22 projects that buy food from local farmsFood & Housing
Mississippi
- Delta Dental Community Care Foundation awards $16.3 million to nonprofits that bring dental care to people who go withoutHealth
- Mississippi Arts Commission awards $3.8 million to repair and build arts venues in 13 countiesArts & Culture
- Mississippi auditor posts a dashboard of $4.2 billion in state payments to nonprofits since 2020Law & Policy
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
Missouri
- Cigna Group Foundation gives $3.45 million to 23 nonprofits for veterans' housing and mental healthVeterans
- Herschend family's giving collective awards nearly $2.6 million to 15 groups in rural southwest MissouriPhilanthropy
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
Montana
- Delta Dental Community Care Foundation awards $16.3 million to nonprofits that bring dental care to people who go withoutHealth
- Montana nonprofits sue to block Initiative 194, the new ban on election spending by nonprofits and corporationsLaw & Policy
- Montana voters approve Initiative 194, taking away the power of nonprofits and corporations to spend on electionsLaw & Policy
- Oklahoma weighs letting donors sue over broken endowment terms, which four states already allowLaw & Policy
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
Nebraska
- Associated Bank and its foundation commit $2.1 million to Nebraska and Council Bluffs after taking over American National BankPhilanthropy
- Nebraska economic development director says some Omaha recovery grantees ignore reporting rulesCommunity
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
Nevada
- Delta Dental Community Care Foundation awards $16.3 million to nonprofits that bring dental care to people who go withoutHealth
- 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 Hampshire
- TD Charitable Foundation opens its $10 million housing grant round to programs that raise renters' incomesFood & Housing
New Jersey
- Cigna Group Foundation gives $3.45 million to 23 nonprofits for veterans' housing and mental healthVeterans
- Lakewood, N.J., will stop collecting trash from private schools and houses of worship on Jan. 1Faith
- TD Charitable Foundation opens its $10 million housing grant round to programs that raise renters' incomesFood & Housing
- New Jersey law lets Green Acres grants pay the full cost of nonprofit projects on state landEnvironment
- New Jersey's casino reinvestment authority opens $3 million in grants for Atlantic City nonprofitsCommunity
- New Jersey preservation trust backs $7.7 million in no-match grants for five nonprofits on state landEnvironment
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- 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 Mexico opts into the federal scholarship tax credit, and the state now has to certify charities to run itEducation
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
New York
- New York City mayor signs law giving certified nonprofits the first chance to buy distressed apartment buildingsFood & Housing
- Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo opens 2027 Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Legacy Funds grants to Western New York nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- Delta Dental Community Care Foundation awards $16.3 million to nonprofits that bring dental care to people who go withoutHealth
- More than 800 New York nonprofits, businesses and funders ask Gov. Hochul in a letter to sign two contracting billsLaw & Policy
- Washington, D.C., raises the lobbyist registration fee for nonprofits to $250, and New York moves to a yearly feeLaw & Policy
- New York City names 33 nonprofit leaders to a council advising the mayor on the sectorLaw & Policy
- TD Charitable Foundation opens its $10 million housing grant round to programs that raise renters' incomesFood & Housing
- New York awards $8.3 million to 59 food banks and pantries for trucks, coolers and buildingsFood & Housing
- New York gives 59 arts nonprofits $1.76 million to build cash reserves, in the second round of its Reserve Fund grantsArts & Culture
- Planetarium director's $2.73 million estate gift will double Rochester foundation's historic preservation grantsArts & Culture
- New York City Council passes bill giving certified nonprofits the first chance to buy distressed apartment buildingsFood & Housing
- More than 130 people earn over $1 million a year from Long Island nonprofits, a Newsday analysis of tax filings findsHealth
- New York nonprofits press Gov. Hochul to sign two bills on how the state contracts with and pays themLaw & Policy
- New York puts $26.4 million into SNAP outreach by 44 community groups as federal work rules tightenFood & Housing
- New York will take part in the federal scholarship tax credit, Gov. Kathy Hochul saysEducation
- New York City will pay up to 800 nonprofits their small Council awards as grants, within 30 days of signingLaw & Policy
- New York City plans $8.9 million in contracts for gender-affirming care for minorsHealth
- EPA and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announce Chesapeake Bay watershed grants for clean water and restorationEnvironment
- New York City doubles its grants for artists and small arts nonprofits to $10,000Arts & Culture
- New York awards $2.7 million to 45 land trusts for trails, staff and land dealsEnvironment
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- 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
- New Hanover Community Endowment expects nearly $63 million in new grants in 2027 and adds four grants staffPhilanthropy
- North Carolina's Healthy Opportunities Pilot will return in early 2027, offering only grocery deliveriesHealth
- TD Charitable Foundation opens its $10 million housing grant round to programs that raise renters' incomesFood & Housing
- Delta Dental Foundation of North Carolina commits $1 million to dental care and the state's dental workforceHealth
- Appeals court rules religious employer exemption does not cover sex bias, in Catholic Relief Services spouse benefits caseLaw & Policy
- Ally Charitable Foundation gives more than $2.5 million to 82 nonprofits in Detroit and CharlottePhilanthropy
- Newman's Own Foundation and partners name 14 recipients of up to $1.4 million in Food Justice for Kids grantsFood & Housing
- Wilmington, N.C., weighs replacing its open nonprofit grant round with requests for proposals in two fieldsHuman Services
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- 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
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
Ohio
- Ohio awards more than $2 million to 32 nonprofits serving human trafficking survivorsHuman Services
- Ohio adds $1 million for 55 domestic violence shelters and plans grants pairing victim advocates with policeHuman Services
- Newman's Own Foundation and partners name 14 recipients of up to $1.4 million in Food Justice for Kids grantsFood & Housing
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- 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
Oklahoma
- Oklahoma weighs letting donors sue over broken endowment terms, which four states already allowLaw & Policy
- Oklahoma lawmakers study a Texas-style tax credit for business gifts to nonprofits that serve familiesHuman Services
Oregon
- Oregon Community Foundation awards $5.3 million in fall Community Grants to 259 nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- Oregon nonprofits press their suit over fundraising pages a crowdfunding company built in their namesLaw & Policy
- Grants Pass offers $60,000 to nonprofits for homeless service facilities with bathroomsFood & Housing
- Oregon Arts Commission awards $1.3 million in sustaining grants to 317 arts groups, fewer than a year agoArts & Culture
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
Pennsylvania
- Cigna Group Foundation gives $3.45 million to 23 nonprofits for veterans' housing and mental healthVeterans
- AstraZeneca Foundation gives $1.1 million to six nonprofits in four states to widen access to health careHealth
- Delta Dental Community Care Foundation awards $16.3 million to nonprofits that bring dental care to people who go withoutHealth
- TD Charitable Foundation opens its $10 million housing grant round to programs that raise renters' incomesFood & Housing
- Philadelphia asks nonprofits to bid for its commercial corridor cleaning programCommunity
- Pennsylvania law funds children's advocacy centers with a new fee on people convicted of sex offensesJustice & Rights
- SBA awards $5.3 million to five organizations to build statewide women's business center networksCommunity
- Pennsylvania food banks share $17.5 million in tax credits for business contributionsFood & Housing
- Pennsylvania raises the weekly prize cap for small games of chance and lets nonprofits sell raffle tickets by cardLaw & Policy
- Pennsylvania approves $71.6 million in tax credits for business contributions to 443 community projectsCommunity
- Every Voice, Every Vote awards $1.4 million to 46 Philadelphia newsrooms and community groups before the 2027 city electionsCommunity
- Pennsylvania opens $950,000 in wildfire grants for rural volunteer fire companiesJustice & Rights
- Pennsylvania opens about $420,000 in environmental education grants to nonprofits, with applications due Nov. 13Environment
- EPA and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announce Chesapeake Bay watershed grants for clean water and restorationEnvironment
- Pennsylvania Senate votes to raise the weekly prize cap for small games of chance to $60,000Law & Policy
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- Pennsylvania House panel votes to waive the security grant match for nonprofits with revenue under $250,000Faith
- Pennsylvania committees advance bills on prize limits, club proceeds and card payments for raffle ticketsLaw & Policy
- 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
Rhode Island
- TD Charitable Foundation opens its $10 million housing grant round to programs that raise renters' incomesFood & Housing
- Rhode Island's ServeRI awards $1.45 million in AmeriCorps grants to eight organizationsCommunity
South Carolina
- Artist says South Carolina Arts Commission threatened to bill her for her grant after she refused to sign its ideology clauseArts & Culture
- TD Charitable Foundation opens its $10 million housing grant round to programs that raise renters' incomesFood & Housing
- Appeals court rules religious employer exemption does not cover sex bias, in Catholic Relief Services spouse benefits caseLaw & Policy
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- 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
South Dakota
- Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation reports a record $73 million in grants for its fiscal yearPhilanthropy
- Newman's Own Foundation and partners name 14 recipients of up to $1.4 million in Food Justice for Kids grantsFood & Housing
Tennessee
- Cigna Group Foundation gives $3.45 million to 23 nonprofits for veterans' housing and mental healthVeterans
- Tennessee offers $3 million in competitive grants to prevent gambling among young peopleHealth
- Google names 10 recipients of the first $1.25 million in West Memphis Energy Impact Fund grantsPhilanthropy
- SBA awards $5.3 million to five organizations to build statewide women's business center networksCommunity
- Nashville moves to grant $40.2 million to 14 nonprofits for 1,106 affordable homesFood & Housing
- 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
- Texas attorney general drops his suits to shut down FIEL Houston and the Annunciation House sheltersLaw & Policy
- Cigna Group Foundation gives $3.45 million to 23 nonprofits for veterans' housing and mental healthVeterans
- Texas Bar Foundation awards $1.06 million to 74 groups for legal aid, reentry and victim servicesJustice & Rights
- Delta Dental Community Care Foundation awards $16.3 million to nonprofits that bring dental care to people who go withoutHealth
- Washington, D.C., raises the lobbyist registration fee for nonprofits to $250, and New York moves to a yearly feeLaw & Policy
- IRS gives nonprofits in 62 Texas counties hit by July storms until Feb. 1 to file their annual returnsLaw & Policy
- Texas appeals court lets Harris County, Houston and Aldine ISD sue over tax breaks for out-of-county housing finance corporationsFood & Housing
- SBA awards $5.3 million to five organizations to build statewide women's business center networksCommunity
- Six Beaumont-area charitable trusts share more than $2 million among 78 Southeast Texas nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- Texas Women's Foundation gives $900,000 to 25 North Texas nonprofits in its 2026 community grant cyclePhilanthropy
- The Dallas Foundation awards nearly $2.7 million in 97 summer grants, most of it for family economic stabilityPhilanthropy
- Houston foundations raise $34 million toward a $48 million plan to resolve homelessness fasterFood & Housing
- Texas opens applications for $31 million in veterans' assistance grants to nonprofits and local governmentsVeterans
- Texas House committee studies how cities contract with nonprofits for health, safety and homelessness servicesHuman Services
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- San Angelo Health Foundation awards $1.6 million to nine Concho Valley organizations, $1 million of it for a river trailPhilanthropy
- 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
- Delta Dental Community Care Foundation awards $16.3 million to nonprofits that bring dental care to people who go withoutHealth
- Katz Amsterdam opens Catalyst grants with $4.5 million for seven young nonprofits in Colorado and Utah mountain townsPhilanthropy
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
Vermont
- TD Charitable Foundation opens its $10 million housing grant round to programs that raise renters' incomesFood & Housing
Virginia
- TD Charitable Foundation opens its $10 million housing grant round to programs that raise renters' incomesFood & Housing
- Arlington County opens $1.2 million Opportunities Grant round for nonprofits serving its residentsHuman Services
- Appeals court rules religious employer exemption does not cover sex bias, in Catholic Relief Services spouse benefits caseLaw & Policy
- EPA and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announce Chesapeake Bay watershed grants for clean water and restorationEnvironment
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- 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
- Medina Foundation, closing in 2027, makes final grants of $1 million to $5 million to 42 Western Washington nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- Allen Family Philanthropies and ArtsFund award $10 million to 745 small arts groups across WashingtonArts & Culture
- Washington voters keep the millionaires tax, and its $100,000 cap on charitable deductions stays with itLaw & Policy
- BECU Foundation awards $4 million in one-time grants to 12 Washington partners facing higher demandPhilanthropy
- Microsoft offers King County nonprofits 25 grants of $20,000 in the first round of its Community-First GrantsCommunity
West Virginia
- Delta Dental Community Care Foundation awards $16.3 million to nonprofits that bring dental care to people who go withoutHealth
- Federal judge blocks West Virginia attorney general's subpoenas to two environmental nonprofitsLaw & Policy
- West Virginia's attorney general subpoenas environmental nonprofits over climate statements, and two sue to stop himEnvironment
- SBA awards $5.3 million to five organizations to build statewide women's business center networksCommunity
- Appeals court rules religious employer exemption does not cover sex bias, in Catholic Relief Services spouse benefits caseLaw & Policy
- EPA and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announce Chesapeake Bay watershed grants for clean water and restorationEnvironment
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- FirstEnergy Foundation doubles its hunger grants to $5 million for 140 food banks and pantriesFood & Housing
Wisconsin
- FHLBank Chicago awards $62 million for 1,786 affordable homes in Illinois and WisconsinFood & Housing
- FHLBank Chicago awards $5 million to train new affordable housing developers in Illinois and WisconsinFood & Housing
- Basic Needs Giving Partnership awards $1.8 million for work on the causes of poverty in northeast WisconsinHuman Services
- Newman's Own Foundation and partners name 14 recipients of up to $1.4 million in Food Justice for Kids grantsFood & Housing
- Wisconsin awards $296,000 in financial literacy grants to schools and community groupsEducation
- 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
- Wyoming opens applications for nonprofits seeking to run scholarships under the federal tax creditEducation
- Wyoming Hunger Initiative and Ellbogen Foundation give $117,998 in unrestricted grants to 36 anti-hunger projectsFood & Housing
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards $13.3 million for big game migration corridors in 11 Western statesEnvironment
National
- Defense Department service dog program will fund 29 nonprofits that train dogs for veterans in 2027Veterans
- House passes bill to open 403(b) plans of charities, schools and churches to collective investment trustsLaw & Policy
- Ray C. Anderson Foundation starts Live Oak, an effort to steer more climate funding to the Southeast, and names its directorPhilanthropy
- Press Forward says its funders have put nearly $600 million into local news, two years ahead of its goalPhilanthropy
- Education Department grantees, nonprofits among them, must now justify every request for grant moneyEducation
- Justice Department has not awarded three quarters of two years of anti-trafficking grants, senator's report findsJustice & Rights
- House Rules Committee takes up bill to open 403(b) plans of charities, schools and churches to collective investment trustsLaw & Policy
- White House weighs an order that would label some nonprofits as terror-linked and suspend their tax exemption, report saysLaw & Policy
- Mobile Beacon opens Wi-Fly grants of Chromebooks, hotspots and two years of internet service to nonprofits, libraries and schoolsPhilanthropy
- Music Man Foundation awards $5.8 million to 20 music and arts organizationsArts & Culture
- Unions and nonprofits ask Congress to keep blocking OMB's rewrite of federal grant rules after Dec. 11Law & Policy
- Unlikely Collaborators awards $7.2 million to 52 nonprofits from its first national open callPhilanthropy
- Attorneys general and Catholic bishops weigh in as comments close on the IRS private school race ruleLaw & Policy
- Federal tax on nonprofit pay above $1 million now reaches every employee, not only the five highest paidLaw & Policy
- American Indian College Fund builds a seven-year plan around a $70 million gift from MacKenzie ScottEducation
- College associations ask the IRS to withdraw its proposed rule tying tax exemption to race in school programsLaw & Policy
- Social Finance launches a $21 million fund to invest in local news outlets, with MacArthur and Knight as anchorsPhilanthropy
- Tax Court upholds IRS revocation of a Pennsylvania sportsmen's club's exemption over natural gas royaltiesLaw & Policy
- Giving to women's and girls' organizations passed $12 billion in 2024, Indiana University index findsPhilanthropy
- Domestic violence coalitions and nonprofits sue HHS over grant conditions on gender identity, DEI and Housing FirstLaw & Policy
- Airbnb will give its own nonprofit 10 cents from every stay, aiming for 1 million free nights of crisis housing a yearFood & Housing
- Poetry Foundation gives $1.52 million in operating grants to 52 poetry groups, presses and magazinesArts & Culture
- CLA Foundation awards $2 million to 156 nonprofits nominated by the firm's employeesPhilanthropy
- Eight federal grant programs for museums close Nov. 13Arts & Culture
- More than 20 foundations launch All In For Jobs, aiming to align $1 billion and connect 500,000 Americans to jobsScience & Jobs
- Anthropic adds a nonprofit plugin to Claude and widens Claude Corps to shorter consulting projectsPhilanthropy
- More nonprofits are raising spending on risk management and compliance, BDO's annual benchmarking survey findsPhilanthropy
- New pooled fund aims to raise $30 million over three years for 18 nonprofits serving boys, young men and fathersPhilanthropy
- Appeals court leaves in place ruling that blocked HUD's overhaul of fair housing grantsFood & Housing
- Dollar Tree commits $40 million to nonprofits through a new fund at the Hampton Roads Community FoundationPhilanthropy
- IRS letter ruling confirms a church's integrated auxiliary need not file Form 990Law & Policy
- Treasury asks for comments on the form charities use to fund Trump Accounts for whole classes of childrenLaw & Policy
- Ford Foundation reorganizes its grantmaking around seven funding areas aimed at protecting democracyPhilanthropy
- Home Depot Foundation raises its commitment to veteran causes to $1 billion by 2032Veterans
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards 5.5 million in the first grants for endangered species recoveryEnvironment
- Federal government drops its appeals, leaving a loan forgiveness rule aimed at nonprofit employers struck downLaw & Policy
- Anthropic plans to put 5% of its shares into a fund that could make large gifts to nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- Small charities that lost government funding in 2025 lost a median 28% of their revenue, Urban Institute findsPhilanthropy
- Taxpayers who do not itemize can deduct up to $1,000 of cash gifts to charity, starting with tax year 2026Law & Policy
- DOGE canceled $468.7 million in grants and contracts to tribes and Native organizations, Brookings findsCommunity
- Petition with 50,000 signatures asks Fidelity Charitable to lift its block on grants to the Southern Poverty Law CenterPhilanthropy
- Decolonizing Wealth Project gives $1 million to 35 Indigenous climate and conservation efforts and publishes a land return guide for fundersEnvironment
- Few Protestant pastors plan to endorse candidates in worship services even if the IRS allows it, a Lifeway survey findsFaith
- IRS asks court to dismiss Young America's Foundation challenge to the Schedule B donor listLaw & Policy
- HHS proposes to fold the remaining rules for Administration for Native Americans grants into three sectionsCommunity
- American Legion Child Well-being Foundation awards 23 grants worth $1 million to youth-serving nonprofitsYouth & Sports
- Bank groups ask regulators to drop a 15 percent overhead limit on nonprofits in community reinvestment grantsLaw & Policy
- Blackbaud Giving Fund passed more than $536 million to nonprofits in 2025, over half of it company matchesPhilanthropy
- Rockefeller and OpenAI foundations open $50 million call for nonprofits that bring AI into city servicesPhilanthropy
- Companies are growing more selective about which disasters they help with, a survey of corporate giving executives findsPhilanthropy
- NOAA made 229 new grants by Sept. 2, a 74% drop from past years, a grant tracker findsEnvironment
- Education and youth nonprofits get little or no help with most of their capacity needs, a national survey findsPhilanthropy
- Accountants ask the IRS to keep the bank details on its new refund form out of exempt organizations' public returnsLaw & Policy
- John Deere Foundation commits $18.5 million to food banks and the farms that supply them, most of it in IowaFood & Housing
- Public Media Bridge Fund turns from emergency aid to sustainability grants for local stations, with $10 million from Knight FoundationArts & Culture
- National Philanthropic Trust opens a path for donor-advised fund grants to children's Trump AccountsPhilanthropy
- Andrew Carnegie Foundation opens a call for peacebuilding and mediation grants of up to $1.5 millionGlobal
- VA awards $16 million in adaptive sports grants to 91 organizations serving disabled veteransVeterans
- Atlassian Foundation offers up to $1 million each to nonprofit partnerships changing education for the AI eraEducation
- HHS names recipients of up to $27.8 million to spread falls prevention programs for older adultsHealth
- Foundations gave $1.3 billion for U.S. democracy in 2024, about 1.3% of their grants, Candid findsPhilanthropy
- Labor Department says nonprofit employees may volunteer for their employer, but not in their own line of workLaw & Policy
- Colorado senators introduce Senate version of bill letting federal security grants pay for nonprofits' guards and off-duty policeFaith
- NFWF opens a Great Plains grassland fund backed by Walmart Foundation, with $10 million for ranchland easementsEnvironment
- ICE investigators reviewed voter registration nonprofits in several states and weighed using undercover agents, records showLaw & Policy
- Federal court throws out notices that would have required immigration checks at Head Start, health centers and adult educationLaw & Policy
- House bill would have federal security grants paid to nonprofits in advance instead of as reimbursementsFaith
- Comments close on HHS plan to let states set Head Start class sizes and to cut the administrative cost cap to 5%Education
- Bellingcat traces $24.4 million in donor-advised fund grants to two US charities it links to India's RSSPhilanthropy
- OpenAI Foundation names 163 nonprofits for $50 million in AI grants, with legal aid, arts groups and local newsrooms among themPhilanthropy
- Sparklight opens its fall Charitable Giving Fund round to nonprofits in its 24 service statesPhilanthropy
- Most Americans who use nonprofits do not count themselves as users, an Indiana University survey findsPhilanthropy
- Treasury and IRS issue the rules for the federal scholarship tax credit, and scholarship charities must register before Jan. 1Education
- BlackRock Foundation awards $13 million to 15 skilled trades training groups in its first national roundScience & Jobs
- Harold Grinspoon Foundation commits $50 million in matching grants to Jewish overnight camps over five yearsYouth & Sports
- National Park Service awards nearly $1.18 million in Underrepresented Communities Grants for National Register listingsArts & Culture
- Federal HIV prevention grants to nearly 100 community groups end as the money moves to health departmentsHealth
- Senate passes IRS bill that would give organizations a right to appeal a denied or revoked tax exemptionLaw & Policy
- Treasury and IRS list Johnson Amendment and fiscal sponsorship reporting guidance among their priorities for the yearLaw & Policy
- A 50-state nonprofit compliance database opens to AI assistants, free and without registrationLaw & Policy
- FEMA awards $300 million in security grants to more than 1,600 nonprofits, most of it to houses of worshipFaith
- Most foundations changed course after federal cuts, but few call their response very effective, a survey findsPhilanthropy
- VA awards $111.9 million in suicide prevention grants to 191 community organizationsVeterans
- The IRS transition year for existing group exemptions ends Jan. 22, with new rules to meet before thenLaw & Policy
- Microsoft says it deleted some nonprofits' data early after their Business Premium grants ended, and it cannot be recoveredPhilanthropy
- National Park Service awards $25.2 million in Save America's Treasures grants for historic sites and collectionsArts & Culture
- Visa Foundation opens a $2 million grant call for nonprofits that help small businesses growCommunity
- 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
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Faith
- Lakewood, N.J., will stop collecting trash from private schools and houses of worship on Jan. 1Faith
- Illinois lawmakers call for more nonprofit security grant money after an alleged plot against a Hindu templeFaith
- Few Protestant pastors plan to endorse candidates in worship services even if the IRS allows it, a Lifeway survey findsFaith
- Anne Arundel County offers houses of worship security grants of up to $10,000Faith
- Colorado senators introduce Senate version of bill letting federal security grants pay for nonprofits' guards and off-duty policeFaith
- House bill would have federal security grants paid to nonprofits in advance instead of as reimbursementsFaith
- Pennsylvania House panel votes to waive the security grant match for nonprofits with revenue under $250,000Faith
- FEMA awards $300 million in security grants to more than 1,600 nonprofits, most of it to houses of worshipFaith
- 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
- Education Department grantees, nonprofits among them, must now justify every request for grant moneyEducation
- New Mexico opts into the federal scholarship tax credit, and the state now has to certify charities to run itEducation
- Kentucky public school districts sign on with one statewide scholarship nonprofit ahead of the federal tax creditEducation
- Supreme Court takes up Catholic preschools' challenge to the equal-opportunity rule in Colorado's universal preschool programEducation
- American Indian College Fund builds a seven-year plan around a $70 million gift from MacKenzie ScottEducation
- Idaho opens applications for nonprofits that want to give scholarships under the federal tax creditEducation
- Wisconsin awards $296,000 in financial literacy grants to schools and community groupsEducation
- Wyoming opens applications for nonprofits seeking to run scholarships under the federal tax creditEducation
- Colorado public school foundations set up scholarship nonprofits to tap the federal tax creditEducation
- Atlassian Foundation offers up to $1 million each to nonprofit partnerships changing education for the AI eraEducation
- New York will take part in the federal scholarship tax credit, Gov. Kathy Hochul saysEducation
- Comments close on HHS plan to let states set Head Start class sizes and to cut the administrative cost cap to 5%Education
- Treasury and IRS issue the rules for the federal scholarship tax credit, and scholarship charities must register before Jan. 1Education
- 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
- Ohio awards more than $2 million to 32 nonprofits serving human trafficking survivorsHuman Services
- Ohio adds $1 million for 55 domestic violence shelters and plans grants pairing victim advocates with policeHuman Services
- FEMA rejects California's final appeal for more fire survivor case management money, and the Red Cross steps inHuman Services
- Connecticut opens a $19.5 million round of capital grants for nonprofit health and human service providersHuman Services
- Arlington County opens $1.2 million Opportunities Grant round for nonprofits serving its residentsHuman Services
- Illinois treasurer awards $178,210 to 10 small nonprofits for food and job training programsHuman Services
- Basic Needs Giving Partnership awards $1.8 million for work on the causes of poverty in northeast WisconsinHuman Services
- Napa Valley Community Foundation opens up to $1.2 million in unrestricted grants for Napa County safety net nonprofitsHuman Services
- Seminole County holds back grants to 24 nonprofits until Florida votes on Amendment 3Human Services
- Wilmington, N.C., weighs replacing its open nonprofit grant round with requests for proposals in two fieldsHuman Services
- Oklahoma lawmakers study a Texas-style tax credit for business gifts to nonprofits that serve familiesHuman Services
- Sarasota and Manatee nonprofits plan for county cuts if Florida voters approve Amendment 3 property tax measureHuman Services
- Texas House committee studies how cities contract with nonprofits for health, safety and homelessness servicesHuman Services
- Maryland awards $32 million in ENOUGH grants to 30 high-poverty communitiesHuman Services
- Massachusetts opens $3.4 million grant round for domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking servicesHuman 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
- Allen Family Philanthropies and ArtsFund award $10 million to 745 small arts groups across WashingtonArts & Culture
- Georgia Council for the Arts awards more than $600,000 for arts programs and arts buildings in 65 countiesArts & Culture
- Artist says South Carolina Arts Commission threatened to bill her for her grant after she refused to sign its ideology clauseArts & Culture
- Mississippi Arts Commission awards $3.8 million to repair and build arts venues in 13 countiesArts & Culture
- Music Man Foundation awards $5.8 million to 20 music and arts organizationsArts & Culture
- Indiana to award $656,000 in federal preservation grants to 12 projects, from church masonry to an Ohio River shipwreckArts & Culture
- California's civic media program sends $18.75 million to 214 newsrooms in its first round, nonprofits among themArts & Culture
- Maine's arts and cultural nonprofits support more than 7,300 jobs, a University of Maine study findsArts & Culture
- New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation awards more than $2 million to 513 Louisiana artists and organizationsArts & Culture
- Poetry Foundation gives $1.52 million in operating grants to 52 poetry groups, presses and magazinesArts & Culture
- Eight federal grant programs for museums close Nov. 13Arts & Culture
- Minnesota Historical Society awards $349,104 in small Legacy grants to 21 history projectsArts & Culture
- New York gives 59 arts nonprofits $1.76 million to build cash reserves, in the second round of its Reserve Fund grantsArts & Culture
- Planetarium director's $2.73 million estate gift will double Rochester foundation's historic preservation grantsArts & Culture
- California awards $2.8 million to 33 groups for free arts events in local parksArts & Culture
- California law gives local newsrooms, nonprofit ones included, a refundable tax credit for each journalist they employArts & Culture
- Public Media Bridge Fund turns from emergency aid to sustainability grants for local stations, with $10 million from Knight FoundationArts & Culture
- Oregon Arts Commission awards $1.3 million in sustaining grants to 317 arts groups, fewer than a year agoArts & Culture
- New York City doubles its grants for artists and small arts nonprofits to $10,000Arts & Culture
- National Park Service awards nearly $1.18 million in Underrepresented Communities Grants for National Register listingsArts & Culture
- National Park Service awards Paul Bruhn grants to fix up historic buildings in rural townsArts & Culture
- National Park Service awards $25.2 million in Save America's Treasures grants for historic sites and collectionsArts & 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
- AstraZeneca Foundation gives $1.1 million to six nonprofits in four states to widen access to health careHealth
- Delta Dental Community Care Foundation awards $16.3 million to nonprofits that bring dental care to people who go withoutHealth
- North Carolina's Healthy Opportunities Pilot will return in early 2027, offering only grocery deliveriesHealth
- California voters reject Proposition 44, which would have required nonprofit community clinics to spend 90% of revenue on patient careHealth
- Boston Celtics owners give more than $200 million to Boston Children's Hospital, the largest gift in its historyHealth
- Tennessee offers $3 million in competitive grants to prevent gambling among young peopleHealth
- Delaware's opioid settlement commission approves $12.1 million in grants for prevention, treatment and recoveryHealth
- Florida Blue Foundation awards $3.33 million to nine Florida nonprofits for mental health programsHealth
- Maryland offers $25 million to community health centers to keep treating patients who lose coverageHealth
- Delaware's $950 million children's fund will be run by a five-member committee and publish its grants each yearHealth
- Delta Dental Foundation of North Carolina commits $1 million to dental care and the state's dental workforceHealth
- Minnesota county challenges federal contract that sends teen pregnancy prevention work to a consulting firmHealth
- More than 130 people earn over $1 million a year from Long Island nonprofits, a Newsday analysis of tax filings findsHealth
- HHS names recipients of up to $27.8 million to spread falls prevention programs for older adultsHealth
- New York City plans $8.9 million in contracts for gender-affirming care for minorsHealth
- Agreement creates a $950 million fund for nonprofit children's health programs in DelawareHealth
- Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America gives Arkansas and Kentucky $10 million each for maternal careHealth
- Federal HIV prevention grants to nearly 100 community groups end as the money moves to health departmentsHealth
- California voters will decide whether nonprofit community clinics must spend 90% of revenue on patient careHealth
- 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
- LA84 Foundation awards $1.7 million to 16 youth sports groups across Southern CaliforniaYouth & Sports
- American Legion Child Well-being Foundation awards 23 grants worth $1 million to youth-serving nonprofitsYouth & Sports
- Harold Grinspoon Foundation commits $50 million in matching grants to Jewish overnight camps over five yearsYouth & 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
- FHLBank Chicago awards $62 million for 1,786 affordable homes in Illinois and WisconsinFood & Housing
- New York City mayor signs law giving certified nonprofits the first chance to buy distressed apartment buildingsFood & Housing
- Honolulu voters create a Food Security Fund for locally grown food, and the city begins deciding how to spend itFood & Housing
- Indiana Supreme Court says the state was wrong to drop a church day care from the federal child care food programFood & Housing
- TD Charitable Foundation opens its $10 million housing grant round to programs that raise renters' incomesFood & Housing
- Airbnb will give its own nonprofit 10 cents from every stay, aiming for 1 million free nights of crisis housing a yearFood & Housing
- Texas appeals court lets Harris County, Houston and Aldine ISD sue over tax breaks for out-of-county housing finance corporationsFood & Housing
- New York awards $8.3 million to 59 food banks and pantries for trucks, coolers and buildingsFood & Housing
- Appeals court leaves in place ruling that blocked HUD's overhaul of fair housing grantsFood & Housing
- Grants Pass offers $60,000 to nonprofits for homeless service facilities with bathroomsFood & Housing
- FHLBank Chicago awards $5 million to train new affordable housing developers in Illinois and WisconsinFood & Housing
- New York City Council passes bill giving certified nonprofits the first chance to buy distressed apartment buildingsFood & Housing
- Minnesota Housing opens $2 million in grants for nonprofits building their capacity to solve housing problemsFood & Housing
- Pennsylvania food banks share $17.5 million in tax credits for business contributionsFood & Housing
- Newman's Own Foundation and partners name 14 recipients of up to $1.4 million in Food Justice for Kids grantsFood & Housing
- John Deere Foundation commits $18.5 million to food banks and the farms that supply them, most of it in IowaFood & Housing
- New York puts $26.4 million into SNAP outreach by 44 community groups as federal work rules tightenFood & Housing
- Hawaii County Council advances bill to keep its homeless and housing fund running through June 2029Food & Housing
- Wyoming Hunger Initiative and Ellbogen Foundation give $117,998 in unrestricted grants to 36 anti-hunger projectsFood & Housing
- Illinois nonprofits can apply from Nov. 2 for local food infrastructure grants of up to $250,000Food & Housing
- Houston foundations raise $34 million toward a $48 million plan to resolve homelessness fasterFood & Housing
- San Diego Foundation and Bear Creek Fund Advisors set up $100 million to finance construction of affordable homesFood & Housing
- Georgia offers up to $10 million in federal housing grants that nonprofits can use to repair and build homesFood & Housing
- Nashville moves to grant $40.2 million to 14 nonprofits for 1,106 affordable homesFood & 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
- Minnesota opens the first round of its lottery-funded environmental community grants, about $4 million in allEnvironment
- California offers $2 million in grants to help the Mojave Desert tortoise recoverEnvironment
- New Jersey law lets Green Acres grants pay the full cost of nonprofit projects on state landEnvironment
- Maryland turns its community forestry fund into grants of up to $10,000, with one application for several fundersEnvironment
- New Jersey preservation trust backs $7.7 million in no-match grants for five nonprofits on state landEnvironment
- West Virginia's attorney general subpoenas environmental nonprofits over climate statements, and two sue to stop himEnvironment
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awards 5.5 million in the first grants for endangered species recoveryEnvironment
- Decolonizing Wealth Project gives $1 million to 35 Indigenous climate and conservation efforts and publishes a land return guide for fundersEnvironment
- NOAA made 229 new grants by Sept. 2, a 74% drop from past years, a grant tracker findsEnvironment
- Pennsylvania opens about $420,000 in environmental education grants to nonprofits, with applications due Nov. 13Environment
- NFWF opens a Great Plains grassland fund backed by Walmart Foundation, with $10 million for ranchland easementsEnvironment
- EPA and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announce Chesapeake Bay watershed grants for clean water and restorationEnvironment
- New York awards $2.7 million to 45 land trusts for trails, staff and land dealsEnvironment
- 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
- Nonprofits hit by Hurricane Isaias in the Florida Panhandle can borrow up to $2 million from the SBACommunity
- New Jersey's casino reinvestment authority opens $3 million in grants for Atlantic City nonprofitsCommunity
- Philadelphia asks nonprofits to bid for its commercial corridor cleaning programCommunity
- Rhode Island's ServeRI awards $1.45 million in AmeriCorps grants to eight organizationsCommunity
- Kauai County awards grants of up to $20,000 to 16 nonprofits, from food boxes for seniors to sea turtle guardiansCommunity
- Minnesota opens a $10.9 million grant round for communities harmed by cannabis prohibitionCommunity
- Nebraska economic development director says some Omaha recovery grantees ignore reporting rulesCommunity
- Hawaii nonprofits damaged by Hurricane Lowell have until Nov. 6 to ask FEMA for repair aidCommunity
- SBA awards $5.3 million to five organizations to build statewide women's business center networksCommunity
- Pennsylvania approves $71.6 million in tax credits for business contributions to 443 community projectsCommunity
- Dan Gilbert pledges $1 billion to a new nonprofit that will own and rebuild Detroit's Renaissance CenterCommunity
- DOGE canceled $468.7 million in grants and contracts to tribes and Native organizations, Brookings findsCommunity
- Every Voice, Every Vote awards $1.4 million to 46 Philadelphia newsrooms and community groups before the 2027 city electionsCommunity
- HHS proposes to fold the remaining rules for Administration for Native Americans grants into three sectionsCommunity
- Kauai nonprofits hit by Hurricane Lowell can apply for state recovery grants of $5,000 or $10,000Community
- Visa Foundation opens a $2 million grant call for nonprofits that help small businesses growCommunity
- 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
- Justice Department has not awarded three quarters of two years of anti-trafficking grants, senator's report findsJustice & Rights
- Texas Bar Foundation awards $1.06 million to 74 groups for legal aid, reentry and victim servicesJustice & Rights
- Kansas awards more than $10.7 million in federal crime victim grants to 64 organizations and agenciesJustice & Rights
- Pennsylvania law funds children's advocacy centers with a new fee on people convicted of sex offensesJustice & Rights
- Sacramento offers nonprofits nearly $1.5 million in grants to prevent youth violenceJustice & Rights
- Arizona receives $28.4 million in federal crime victim funds to pass on to local nonprofits and agenciesJustice & Rights
- Pennsylvania opens $950,000 in wildfire grants for rural volunteer fire companiesJustice & 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
- Defense Department service dog program will fund 29 nonprofits that train dogs for veterans in 2027Veterans
- Cigna Group Foundation gives $3.45 million to 23 nonprofits for veterans' housing and mental healthVeterans
- Alabama opens applications for $2.5 million in veterans' well-being grants to nonprofits and public collegesVeterans
- Home Depot Foundation raises its commitment to veteran causes to $1 billion by 2032Veterans
- VA awards $16 million in adaptive sports grants to 91 organizations serving disabled veteransVeterans
- Texas opens applications for $31 million in veterans' assistance grants to nonprofits and local governmentsVeterans
- VA awards $111.9 million in suicide prevention grants to 191 community organizationsVeterans
- VA grants totaling $1.17 billion to fight veteran homelessness begin Oct. 1Veterans
Global
- Andrew Carnegie Foundation opens a call for peacebuilding and mediation grants of up to $1.5 millionGlobal
Philanthropy
- Medina Foundation, closing in 2027, makes final grants of $1 million to $5 million to 42 Western Washington nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- New Hanover Community Endowment expects nearly $63 million in new grants in 2027 and adds four grants staffPhilanthropy
- Ray C. Anderson Foundation starts Live Oak, an effort to steer more climate funding to the Southeast, and names its directorPhilanthropy
- Anthropic puts $50 million into a San Francisco Foundation fund for Bay Area nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- Press Forward says its funders have put nearly $600 million into local news, two years ahead of its goalPhilanthropy
- Associated Bank and its foundation commit $2.1 million to Nebraska and Council Bluffs after taking over American National BankPhilanthropy
- Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo opens 2027 Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Legacy Funds grants to Western New York nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- Oregon Community Foundation awards $5.3 million in fall Community Grants to 259 nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- Herschend family's giving collective awards nearly $2.6 million to 15 groups in rural southwest MissouriPhilanthropy
- Mobile Beacon opens Wi-Fly grants of Chromebooks, hotspots and two years of internet service to nonprofits, libraries and schoolsPhilanthropy
- United Way awards $7.8 million from Connecticut's cannabis reinvestment program to nonprofits in Danbury, Norwalk and StamfordPhilanthropy
- Unlikely Collaborators awards $7.2 million to 52 nonprofits from its first national open callPhilanthropy
- Social Finance launches a $21 million fund to invest in local news outlets, with MacArthur and Knight as anchorsPhilanthropy
- Giving to women's and girls' organizations passed $12 billion in 2024, Indiana University index findsPhilanthropy
- San Diego Foundation's grants rose 34% to $137.4 million last fiscal year, with 80% kept in San Diego CountyPhilanthropy
- CLA Foundation awards $2 million to 156 nonprofits nominated by the firm's employeesPhilanthropy
- Anthropic adds a nonprofit plugin to Claude and widens Claude Corps to shorter consulting projectsPhilanthropy
- More nonprofits are raising spending on risk management and compliance, BDO's annual benchmarking survey findsPhilanthropy
- New pooled fund aims to raise $30 million over three years for 18 nonprofits serving boys, young men and fathersPhilanthropy
- Google names 10 recipients of the first $1.25 million in West Memphis Energy Impact Fund grantsPhilanthropy
- Dollar Tree commits $40 million to nonprofits through a new fund at the Hampton Roads Community FoundationPhilanthropy
- Ford Foundation reorganizes its grantmaking around seven funding areas aimed at protecting democracyPhilanthropy
- Katz Amsterdam opens Catalyst grants with $4.5 million for seven young nonprofits in Colorado and Utah mountain townsPhilanthropy
- Anthropic plans to put 5% of its shares into a fund that could make large gifts to nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- Small charities that lost government funding in 2025 lost a median 28% of their revenue, Urban Institute findsPhilanthropy
- Petition with 50,000 signatures asks Fidelity Charitable to lift its block on grants to the Southern Poverty Law CenterPhilanthropy
- Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation reports a record $73 million in grants for its fiscal yearPhilanthropy
- Ally Charitable Foundation gives more than $2.5 million to 82 nonprofits in Detroit and CharlottePhilanthropy
- Ball Brothers Foundation awards $5.1 million in fall grants in East Central Indiana, led by Minnetrista and Muncie schoolsPhilanthropy
- Blackbaud Giving Fund passed more than $536 million to nonprofits in 2025, over half of it company matchesPhilanthropy
- Rockefeller and OpenAI foundations open $50 million call for nonprofits that bring AI into city servicesPhilanthropy
- Companies are growing more selective about which disasters they help with, a survey of corporate giving executives findsPhilanthropy
- Six Beaumont-area charitable trusts share more than $2 million among 78 Southeast Texas nonprofitsPhilanthropy
- Education and youth nonprofits get little or no help with most of their capacity needs, a national survey findsPhilanthropy
- BECU Foundation awards $4 million in one-time grants to 12 Washington partners facing higher demandPhilanthropy
- Cargill Foundation makes its first grants outside the Twin Cities in 75 years, starting in Atlanta and WichitaPhilanthropy
- National Philanthropic Trust opens a path for donor-advised fund grants to children's Trump AccountsPhilanthropy
- Texas Women's Foundation gives $900,000 to 25 North Texas nonprofits in its 2026 community grant cyclePhilanthropy
- Foundations gave $1.3 billion for U.S. democracy in 2024, about 1.3% of their grants, Candid findsPhilanthropy
- The Dallas Foundation awards nearly $2.7 million in 97 summer grants, most of it for family economic stabilityPhilanthropy
- John Deere Classic says its 2026 tournament generated a record $20.1 million for 492 Quad Cities area charitiesPhilanthropy
- Bellingcat traces $24.4 million in donor-advised fund grants to two US charities it links to India's RSSPhilanthropy
- OpenAI Foundation names 163 nonprofits for $50 million in AI grants, with legal aid, arts groups and local newsrooms among themPhilanthropy
- Sparklight opens its fall Charitable Giving Fund round to nonprofits in its 24 service statesPhilanthropy
- Most Americans who use nonprofits do not count themselves as users, an Indiana University survey findsPhilanthropy
- Honda and the Honda USA Foundation take grant applications until Oct. 31 from nonprofits in 16 states and D.C.Philanthropy
- Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation awards $13.7 million to 173 nonprofits in its 2026 grant cyclePhilanthropy
- Most foundations changed course after federal cuts, but few call their response very effective, a survey findsPhilanthropy
- Microsoft says it deleted some nonprofits' data early after their Business Premium grants ended, and it cannot be recoveredPhilanthropy
- San Angelo Health Foundation awards $1.6 million to nine Concho Valley organizations, $1 million of it for a river trailPhilanthropy
- 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
- House passes bill to open 403(b) plans of charities, schools and churches to collective investment trustsLaw & Policy
- Texas attorney general drops his suits to shut down FIEL Houston and the Annunciation House sheltersLaw & Policy
- Michigan think tank sues over Proposal 2 rules that could require nonprofits to report donors for speech naming candidatesLaw & Policy
- Washington voters keep the millionaires tax, and its $100,000 cap on charitable deductions stays with itLaw & Policy
- California law opens the charity property tax exemption to new moderate-income rentals in three countiesLaw & Policy
- Howard County executive vetoes the nonprofit property grant bill, calling its $1.5 million threshold arbitraryLaw & Policy
- Maryland's grant data shows about $872 million for nonprofits in fiscal 2025, the first year it marks themLaw & Policy
- Minnesota attorney general settles with two charities serving Native communities over board oversight and lapsed registrationLaw & Policy
- Nonprofits hold nearly a quarter of New Orleans' tax-exempt real estate, and a city watchdog proposes a fee they would payLaw & Policy
- House Rules Committee takes up bill to open 403(b) plans of charities, schools and churches to collective investment trustsLaw & Policy
- White House weighs an order that would label some nonprofits as terror-linked and suspend their tax exemption, report saysLaw & Policy
- Montana nonprofits sue to block Initiative 194, the new ban on election spending by nonprofits and corporationsLaw & Policy
- Unions and nonprofits ask Congress to keep blocking OMB's rewrite of federal grant rules after Dec. 11Law & Policy
- Montana voters approve Initiative 194, taking away the power of nonprofits and corporations to spend on electionsLaw & Policy
- More than 800 New York nonprofits, businesses and funders ask Gov. Hochul in a letter to sign two contracting billsLaw & Policy
- Attorneys general and Catholic bishops weigh in as comments close on the IRS private school race ruleLaw & Policy
- Washington, D.C., raises the lobbyist registration fee for nonprofits to $250, and New York moves to a yearly feeLaw & Policy
- Federal court has not ruled on CAIR's bid to block Florida's terrorist designation, which takes effect Nov. 5Law & Policy
- Oregon nonprofits press their suit over fundraising pages a crowdfunding company built in their namesLaw & Policy
- IRS gives nonprofits in 62 Texas counties hit by July storms until Feb. 1 to file their annual returnsLaw & Policy
- Federal tax on nonprofit pay above $1 million now reaches every employee, not only the five highest paidLaw & Policy
- College associations ask the IRS to withdraw its proposed rule tying tax exemption to race in school programsLaw & Policy
- New York City names 33 nonprofit leaders to a council advising the mayor on the sectorLaw & Policy
- Tax Court upholds IRS revocation of a Pennsylvania sportsmen's club's exemption over natural gas royaltiesLaw & Policy
- Domestic violence coalitions and nonprofits sue HHS over grant conditions on gender identity, DEI and Housing FirstLaw & Policy
- Howard County Council passes a narrowed nonprofit grant bill that now covers only grants to buy, build on or redevelop propertyLaw & Policy
- Federal judge blocks West Virginia attorney general's subpoenas to two environmental nonprofitsLaw & Policy
- IRS letter ruling confirms a church's integrated auxiliary need not file Form 990Law & Policy
- Prince George's County gets $7.6 million in council grants back as its auditor examines the council's grants officeLaw & Policy
- Treasury asks for comments on the form charities use to fund Trump Accounts for whole classes of childrenLaw & Policy
- Louisiana departments paid nonprofits $3.27 billion in state funds over four years, auditor findsLaw & Policy
- Federal government drops its appeals, leaving a loan forgiveness rule aimed at nonprofit employers struck downLaw & Policy
- Louisiana inspector general asks Treasury to tighten payments on $113.5 million in nonprofit line itemsLaw & Policy
- New York nonprofits press Gov. Hochul to sign two bills on how the state contracts with and pays themLaw & Policy
- Pennsylvania raises the weekly prize cap for small games of chance and lets nonprofits sell raffle tickets by cardLaw & Policy
- Mississippi auditor posts a dashboard of $4.2 billion in state payments to nonprofits since 2020Law & Policy
- Taxpayers who do not itemize can deduct up to $1,000 of cash gifts to charity, starting with tax year 2026Law & Policy
- Appeals court rules religious employer exemption does not cover sex bias, in Catholic Relief Services spouse benefits caseLaw & Policy
- IRS gives nonprofits in 27 Florida counties hit by Hurricane Isaias until Feb. 8 to file their annual returnsLaw & Policy
- IRS asks court to dismiss Young America's Foundation challenge to the Schedule B donor listLaw & Policy
- Baltimore and Maryland lawmakers call for background checks on leaders of nonprofits that receive public moneyLaw & Policy
- Portland, Maine, has revoked or denied tax exemptions for nearly 20 nonprofits, and two will ask lawmakers for a fixLaw & Policy
- Bank groups ask regulators to drop a 15 percent overhead limit on nonprofits in community reinvestment grantsLaw & Policy
- Accountants ask the IRS to keep the bank details on its new refund form out of exempt organizations' public returnsLaw & Policy
- Oklahoma weighs letting donors sue over broken endowment terms, which four states already allowLaw & Policy
- California amends its online fundraising platform law to give charities notice before they lose good standingLaw & Policy
- Labor Department says nonprofit employees may volunteer for their employer, but not in their own line of workLaw & Policy
- New York City will pay up to 800 nonprofits their small Council awards as grants, within 30 days of signingLaw & Policy
- ICE investigators reviewed voter registration nonprofits in several states and weighed using undercover agents, records showLaw & Policy
- Federal court throws out notices that would have required immigration checks at Head Start, health centers and adult educationLaw & Policy
- Denver council tightens rules for the nonprofits that spend three voter-approved city taxesLaw & Policy
- Pennsylvania Senate votes to raise the weekly prize cap for small games of chance to $60,000Law & Policy
- Senate passes IRS bill that would give organizations a right to appeal a denied or revoked tax exemptionLaw & Policy
- Supreme Court declines to block Delaware law requiring groups that run election ads to name their donorsLaw & Policy
- Federal appeals court upholds Arizona law requiring groups to disclose the original sources of campaign moneyLaw & Policy
- Treasury and IRS list Johnson Amendment and fiscal sponsorship reporting guidance among their priorities for the yearLaw & Policy
- A 50-state nonprofit compliance database opens to AI assistants, free and without registrationLaw & Policy
- Newsom signs law keeping detention facilities out of California's charity property tax exemptionLaw & Policy
- Florida's governor and Cabinet designate CAIR and two other groups as domestic terrorist organizations under a new state lawLaw & Policy
- The IRS transition year for existing group exemptions ends Jan. 22, with new rules to meet before thenLaw & Policy
- Pennsylvania committees advance bills on prize limits, club proceeds and card payments for raffle ticketsLaw & 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
Science & Jobs
- More than 20 foundations launch All In For Jobs, aiming to align $1 billion and connect 500,000 Americans to jobsScience & Jobs
- BlackRock Foundation awards $13 million to 15 skilled trades training groups in its first national roundScience & Jobs
- Humanity AI opens a $10 million grant call for community-led work on how artificial intelligence is built and usedScience & Jobs
- Citi Foundation offers 50 grants of $500,000 to nonprofits preparing low-income youth for work shaped by AIScience & Jobs