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Senate Bill 1134 bars counties and cities from funding or promoting programs designed with reference to race, sex, ethnicity, gender identity or sexual orientation, and makes grant recipients certify that local money will not pay for required DEI instruction. Miami-Dade is moving 19 employees off its volunteer boards.
Rulings on Sept. 18 in Rhode Island and Sept. 22 in Washington vacated the agency's August 2025 decision to end the grants for low-income communities. Neither court ordered money paid or grants restored, and EPA says it is considering an appeal.
The Alabama State Council on the Arts announced 247 grants on Sept. 16, paid for by the Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts. Applications for its arts facilities grants, of up to $100,000, open Oct. 1.
Reps. Joe Neguse and Don Bacon introduced the Safe Spaces for All Act on July 27 and announced it on Sept. 17. It would add onsite security staff, off-duty police officers and application costs to what the Nonprofit Security Grant Program may pay for. It is still in committee.
Volunteer Louisiana, the state service commission in the office of Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser, is taking applications for State Formula grants that place AmeriCorps Volunteers with local organizations. A notice of interest is due Jan. 3, and the commission says it may favor existing programs over new ones.
U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley ruled Sept. 17, in a suit by eight states, that the February 2025 directive was arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law. Claims over the canceled grants themselves belong in the Court of Federal Claims, she had ruled earlier.
The Dave & Cheryl Duffield Foundation announced its five-year Big Bet for Pets on Sept. 17. Its first two open calls, 250 grants of $10,000 and a $10 million pool of multi-year grants for clinics ready to grow, close on Dec. 16 at the latest.
Communities Foundation of Texas said 94,700 donors had given by the midnight close on Sept. 17, ending a season that opened Aug. 27. Last year's event stood at $74.2 million at the same hour and reached $78 million by Sept. 30.
Firms often cite anti-money-laundering rules when they ask a charity to open an account and hand over its leaders' personal details, CNBC reported. A 2024 federal ruling says those rules do not require a new account, and several states now set deadlines for paying charities.
The First Circuit paused a judge's ruling against the Continuum of Care funding notice on Sept. 16 and, at the challengers' request, vacated it on Sept. 24. Of the $4.04 billion on offer, $1.3 billion is set aside for new transitional housing and supportive services projects.
The States United Democracy Center and Grant Witness released Lost Funds on Sept. 16. By the Herald's count of its data, slower grantmaking makes up more than half the total, and nonprofits are among the recipients in 43 of its 61 kinds of disruption.
Arts Capital Atlanta, a coalition of the region's arts organizations and funders, will split its first pooled fund among every applicant found eligible. It expects awards of about $2,000 to $5,000 each, and applications close Oct. 29.
The Santa Cruz, Calif., group of nonprofit insurers, which covers only 501(c)(3) organizations, announced the support on Sept. 15. Its release does not say whether the money comes as grants or as investments.
The Ohio community foundation and its fund holders awarded about as much in grants as the year before. Its next competitive deadlines for nonprofits in the Dayton region are Oct. 2, Nov. 12 and Dec. 1.
The Westlake foundation's third-quarter grants, announced Sept. 15, go to groups in Cleveland, western Cuyahoga County and Lorain County, four of them first-time grantees. Its next round, for community service organizations, is by invitation and closes Oct. 15.
The Institute for Policy Studies released Gilded Giving 2026 on Sept. 15. It says the largest foundations' assets are growing faster than their grants, and asks for a 10% payout requirement for private foundations and a deadline of three to five years for donor-advised funds.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 1193, which applies only to Alameda County, on Aug. 27, and it takes effect Jan. 1. Supervisor Nate Miley said the board would ask county lawyers about a lawsuit after Sept. 15; none had been announced by Sept. 29.
An Aug. 25 opinion of the Office of Legal Counsel says three federal laws barring faith-based providers from spending grants on worship, religious instruction or proselytization violate the First Amendment. Whether to stop enforcing them is now up to HHS, which must tell Congress if it does.
The Assembly of the City and Borough of Juneau voted 6 to 2 on Sept. 14 to table indefinitely an ordinance that would have ended the sales tax exemption for most nonprofit sales from Jan. 1, 2027. City staff had put its yield at $3.3 million a year.
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced the awards on Sept. 14: $855 million in one-year Supportive Services for Veteran Families grants and $318 million in three-year Grant and Per Diem grants. The funding notices carry terms drawn from a 2025 executive order on grant oversight.
The foundation announced its largest round of Community Grants on Sept. 14, $4 million more than last year, with more than 200 additional grantees. Taco Bell franchisees nominate them, and the foundation does not review unsolicited requests.
The company named the recipients on Sept. 14, a day before its Dreamforce conference opened. The other $18 million goes to public school districts in San Francisco, Oakland, New York City, Chicago and Indianapolis.
The foundation announced the two-year commitment on Sept. 14 with its 10th Goalkeepers Report. About $400 million is for education, including AI tutoring in U.S. classrooms. The money goes to partners already doing the work, and no application process was announced.
A Seventh Circuit panel heard arguments Sept. 11 in a suit against a 2024 law covering nonprofits that report $1 million or more in grants to other charities. The judges did not say when they would rule; the law remains in effect.
More than half, $6.3 million, goes to one partner organization in each county through the Grassroots Arts Program. The council also facilitated $1.1 million in direct appropriations to the Lost Colony, the outdoor drama in Manteo.
A notice published Sept. 11 names five activities HUD would favor in future Continuum of Care competitions. It says transitional housing and services-only projects fell from 36 percent of the program's money in 2009 to 6 percent in 2024. Comments are due Oct. 13.
The Indiana UNITY Health Alliance, announced Sept. 10, would let human services nonprofits and local United Ways across the state cover their employees through one group plan. More than 40 organizations with over 1,000 employees have shown interest, and proposed rates come in October.
H.R. 10330, introduced Sept. 10 by Rep. Alma Adams and Rep. Jamie Raskin, would require written grounds and notice before the IRS looks into a college's tax exemption, a two-year limit on examinations and, after a clean one, a five-year wait for another on the same issues unless the Treasury Secretary approves.
Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America announced the initial five-year commitment on Sept. 10. The money is to pay for state matching grants, partnerships and infrastructure; the campaign has not said who will receive it or how.
The initiative of ten foundations, among them MacArthur, Ford and Mellon, opened its first open call on Sept. 10. U.S. 501(c)(3) organizations can seek $75,000 to $1 million, for up to three years, until Oct. 21.
The foundation named its 2026 recipients on Sept. 10: more than 850 organizations near Dollar General stores, with grants of up to $5,000 for programs that help K-12 students who read below grade level. The next round opens in spring 2027.
The foundation announced the total on Sept. 10 at Atlanta City Hall. It covers research, training and grants in three initiatives: for girls, for parents with young children, and a new one for mental health. The foundation does not take unsolicited proposals.
House Bill 2728, in committee since Aug. 5, would revoke the powers of every Pennsylvania corporation, nonprofit corporation and LLC and grant them again minus one: spending for or against candidates, parties or ballot questions. A Senate version announced Sept. 9 has not been introduced.
The state Department of Agriculture announced the awards on July 27. Its list now shows 61 grants worth about $3.55 million, the largest $205,000 for a Chicago land trust, and the new state budget adds $2 million for another round.
Its fourth Global Innovation Challenge, announced Sept. 9, takes letters of inquiry until noon New York time on Oct. 6. In the United States, only 501(c)(3) public charities whose programs reach listed areas of 10 states, Washington, D.C., or Puerto Rico qualify.
The Medicaid Community Support Network, announced Sept. 9, plans grants, training and shared information for nonprofits whose clients face work requirements and six-month renewals in the Healthy Michigan Plan from 2027. A full launch is planned for this fall.
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the awards on Sept. 8, days before the Jewish High Holidays. Each organization could ask for up to $250,000 for physical and cyber security, and the state does not name the recipients.
The AHEAD program's 72 grants, now up to $200,000 each, go to nonprofits, local agencies and tribal groups in Arizona, California and Nevada through the bank's member financial institutions. Recipients have 18 months to spend the money.
Grants rose from $307.5 million the year before while new gifts fell. Most of the money follows the advice of donors who hold funds at the Ohio community foundation; its next deadline for Franklin County nonprofits is Oct. 2.
The coalition was launched in April 2025 with the Council on Foundations. The heads of the MacArthur and Lumina foundations, who helped build it, discussed it in Indianapolis on Sept. 2, the day MacArthur said it would keep its payout at 6 percent through 2028.
The state program, run by the Illinois Department of Human Services with Chicago's Field Foundation, took applications until Sept. 28 for more than $4.3 million in grants. Funded projects must be finished, and the money spent, between Nov. 1 and June 30, 2027.
The informal deal is in no law or chamber rule. The Senate already sent its projects through local governments in the spending law Gov. Henry McMaster signed Sept. 1, while the House still named nonprofits on their own lines.
Reps. Lloyd Doggett and Terri Sewell introduced the PROOF Act, H.R. 10258, on Sept. 3. It would require written notice before an examination, a documented record behind any revocation and at least 30 days to protest, for examinations begun since Jan. 1, 2025.
The proposed rule, published Sept. 4, would delete a 1975 IRS allowance for policies favoring racial minority groups. It would reach about 18,000 private schools, colleges and universities in tax years beginning after May 31, 2027. Comments are due Nov. 3.
The county's Social Action Funding shrinks from $1.7 million to $667,403 in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. Commissioners approved the seven agreements on Sept. 24; the county administrator had offered the one-time money as a year's notice before the funding is discontinued.
Three nonprofits are among the recipients Attorney General Brenna Bird announced on Sept. 3. Her office expects about $20 million in all through June 2030 and keeps taking applications, reviewed on a rolling basis.
Rob Johnston's challenge, reported Sept. 3, would add $1 million to the endowment behind the foundation's Community Grants in six Georgia and South Carolina counties. The foundation's campaign seeks $1 million for grants to be awarded in January.
The Jewish Federations of North America put the cost at $1.015 billion, 33 percent above its 2024 estimate, or about $225,000 for each of more than 4,500 synagogues, schools, camps and community centers. Guards and security directors take the largest share.