Below is a list of current and upcoming opportunities. If you have questions about an opportunity listed below or additional grant opportunities you’d like to add to the list, please contact Josie Smith (josie@regionalopportunityinc.org).

ROI Grant Opportunities

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Grant Opportunities Outside of ROI

The following opportunities are offered by organizations other than ROI. ROI is not affiliated with any of these grants. This list is meant to provide our partners with other sources of funding for the great work they do in the Indiana Uplands Region.

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READI 2.0 Arts and Culture Grants

The READI 2.0 Arts & Culture Initiative from the Indiana Economic Development Corporation is providing $65 million in statewide funding for projects that enhance regional identity, quality of life, and creative workforce development across Indiana’s READI regions. Funding will support activities ranging from public art, placemaking, and cultural facilities to creative campuses, festivals, arts education, and digital arts innovation.

T-Mobile Hometown Grants

The T-Mobile Hometown Grant program funds community projects in areas with populations less than 50,000. The program supports projects to build, rebuild, or refresh community spaces that help foster local connections in your town. Projects should be shovel-ready, physical builds or improvements that can be completed within 12 months of receiving Hometown Grants funding. Eligible projects include adaptive uses of older and historic buildings into community gathering spaces, improvements to outdoor parks or trails, technology projects for the public library and more.

  • Award Range: Up to $50,000
  • Timeline: Applications will be open on a quarterly basis through 2026.
    • Spring: Applications open January–March
    • Summer: Applications open April–June
    • Fall: Applications open July–September
    • Winter: Applications open October–December
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Seed Grants for Early Childhood Education Programs

The Frances R. Dewing Foundation is offering grants to support early childhood education programs for children through sixth grade. Grants provide seed funding for new or experimental projects, including creative daycare initiatives, that have the potential to create broader community or educational impact. Support is available to nonprofit organizations and public education entities

  • Award Range: $2,500 – $25,000
  • Timeline: Applications due April 1, 2026 and October 1, 2026
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ProLiteracy’s Literacy Opportunity Fund

The Literacy Opportunity Fund from ProLiteracy provides general operating grants to nonprofit organizations delivering direct adult literacy services. Funding supports core expenses such as salaries or teachers stipends, instructional supplies, equipment, space rental, and program costs. Grants may also be used to launch new literacy initiatives or to strengthen existing programs. Eligible applicants must work directly with adult learners to improve literacy and basic education outcomes.

  • Award Range: Up to $6,000
  • Timeline: Applications due April 1, 2026
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Research Grants in the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is offering Research Grants in the Arts to support research studies that investigate the value or impact of arts in American life.

  • Award Range: $20,000 – $100,000
  • Timeline: Part 1 Applications due March 23, 2026. Part 2 Applications due April 2, 2026.
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Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program

The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program, through the Indiana Office of Energy Development, supports four program to maintain affordability through reducing energy consumption, increasing reliability, resiliency, and stability by reducing demands placed onto the electric grid, and providing environmental benefits. The four support activity areas are energy planning, energy efficiency audits and retrofits, electric transportation, and workforce development. Local Indiana governments, specifically municipalities and counties, are eligible to apply.

  • Award Range: Up to $200,000
  • Timeline: Application period opens February 2, 2026 and closes April 5, 2026.
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McCarthy Dressman Education Foundation Grants

The McCarthy Dressman Education Foundation supports programs that enhance student learning and educational quality with emphasis on programs that best serve the at-risk and under funded including curriculum development, inquiry projects, and after-school programs. The Foundation offers two grants. Academic Enrichment Grants focus on maximizing innovation and results in classroom and education departments. Teacher development grants focus on increasing the effectiveness of individual educators and small teams of teachers.

  • Award Range: $500-$10,000
  • Timeline: Applications due April 15, 2026
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USDA Value-Added Producer Grant

The Value-Added Producer Grant program from the US Department of Agriculture helps agricultural producers start or expand activities related to processing and marketing products. Funding supports planning and working capital projects that generate new products, expand market opportunities, and increase producer income, with a focus on economic viability and sustainability. Priority is given to applicants enhancing domestic manufacturing, energy security, new markets for US farmers, and geographic diversity. Applications are open to agricultural producers, farmer cooperatives, and other businesses.

  • Award Range: Up to $200,000
  • Timeline: Applications due April 22, 2026
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Hart Family Fund for Small Towns

The National Trust for Historic Preservation is offering grants from the Hart Family Fund for Small Towns. Grants are intended to encourage preservation at the local level by providing seed money for preservation projects in small towns with populations of 10,000 or less.

  • Award Range: $2,500 – $15,000
  • Timeline: Applications due May 1, 2026
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Indiana Arts Commission Arts Project Support Grants

Arts Project Support Grants to provide funding to support a public-facing short-term arts project or a series of arts activities. Examples include performances, exhibits, arts festivals, arts and cultural planning, arts learning for specific populations such as older adults or youth, public art, or some other arts-based or arts-serving activity.

  • Award Range: Up to $4,000
  • Timeline: Spring Application due March 5, 2026; Fall Application due September 3, 2026
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Labcorp Charitable Foundation Grants

The Labcorp Charitable Foundation offers grants to support community-based nonprofits advancing health, education, and well-being.

  • Award Range: $5,000 – $25,000
  • Timeline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis
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Wish Local Empowerment Program

The Wish Local Empowerment Program provides grants to support Black-owned brick-and-mortar retail businesses across the US. The grants help to cover operating expenses such as workforce retention, rent, inventory, customer research, and community engagement. The program aims to promote equity and strengthen diversity in entrepreneurship. Eligible businesses must have 20 or fewer employees and annual revenue under $1 million.

  • Award Range: $500-$2,000
  • Timeline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis
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Genesis Inspiration Foundation Arts Education for Children Grants

The Genesis Inspiration Foundation offers grants to support arts education programs that give children, particularly in under-resourced communities, greater opportunities to engage with the arts. Grants are available to museums, schools, and nonprofit cultural organizations offering hands-on workshops, performances, and immersive experiences that spark creativity and curiosity.

  • Award Range: $10,000 – $100,000
  • Timeline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis
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Childcare Support for Women Working in Healthcare

The Zorya Foundation’s Mothers in Medicine Fund provides childcare support to women working in healthcare who are mothers or primary caregivers. Grants are available to direct service healthcare workers to help offset childcare costs and support job retention. Applicants may apply for either a one-time $1,000 grant to cover one month of childcare or a full-year childcare grant totaling $12,000.

  • Award Range: Grants of $1,000 or $12,000 available
  • Timeline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis
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Agricultural Leadership Grant

The CHS Foundation is offering Agriculture Leaderships Grants to support programs that strengthen rural communities and prepare the next generation of agricultural education, leadership training, and career development for students from high school through early professional stages.

  • Award Range: $1,000 – $1,430,000
  • Timeline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis
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FundPlay Software Grant

FundPlay Foundation, originally formed as a philanthropic initiative within the youth sports management platform LeagueApps, works to support youth sports organizations across the country that use sport as a vehicle for youth development. The Foundation’s Software Grants provide technology, training, and support to sports-based youth development organizations across the country. Grants include a free license to LeagueApps’ youth sports management software, a small cash donation for the organization, free coach training for staff from Positive Coaching Alliance, and other benefits.

  • Award Range: Cost of license to LeagueApps and other benefits
  • Timeline: Not specified
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Water and Waste Disposal Predevelopment Planning Grants

The Water and Waste Disposal Predevelopment Planning Grants from the US Department of Agriculture provides funding to help eligible rural, low-income communities plan and developing funding for the agency’s Water and Waste Disposal Loan and Grant Program. The goal of this program is to support the provision of clean and reliable drinking water systems, sanitary sewage disposal, sanitary solid waste disposal, and stormwater drainage for households and businesses in rural areas.

  • Award Range: Up to $60,000 with a 25% cash match requirement
  • Timeline: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis
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Water & Waste Disposal Loan & Grant Program

The Water and Waste Disposal Loan & Grant Program from the US Department of Agriculture provides funding for clean and reliable drinking water systems, sanitary sewage disposal, sanitary solid waste disposal, and storm water drainage to households and businesses in eligible rural areas. Long-term, low-interest loans and grants combined with a loan are available.

  • Award Range: Long-term (up to 40 years), low-interest loans
  • Timeline: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis
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Jeffris Heartland Fund

The Jeffris Family Foundation’s Jeffris Heartland Fund supports historic preservation projects in small towns and cities in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The Fund provides matching grants for advanced planning studies for historic preservation projects preparing for a capital campaign and a restoration project. Grants cover 50% of the cost of a Historic Structure Report, and must be matched dollar-for-dollar with cash from other sources. Projects must be located in small towns and cities with a population under 150,000 that are not within a major metropolitan area, and the historic site must be on (or be eligible to be on) the National Register of Historic Places.

  • Award Range: Up to 50% of the cost of a Historic Structure Report, with a 1:1 matching requirement
  • Timeline: Preliminary inquiries accepted on a rolling basis
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CreatINg Places Grants

CreatINg Places is a place-based grantfunding program from the Indiana Housing & Community Development Authority (IHCDA). The grant supports projects that activate underutilized public spaces or create new public spaces. The program aims to generate public interest and involvement in the development and implementation of place-based improvements by incentivizing small, public donations with a matching grant from IHCDA if and when their funding goal is reached by a set period of time.

  • Award Range: $5,000 – $50,000 with a 1:1 fundraising match requirement
  • Timeline: Applications are available now and accepted on a rolling basis
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Community Facilities Direct Loan and Grant Program

The purpose of the Community Facilities Direct Loan and Grant Program from the US Department of Agriculture is to provide funding to develop essential community facilities in rural areas. Projects supported through this program must demonstrate substantial community support, and facilities must serve the rural area where they are or will be located. Rural areas must have no more than 20,000 residents, according to the latest US Census Data. Examples of essential community facilities include healthcare facilities, including hospitals, nursing homes, or dental clinics; public facilities, such as town halls, courthouses, airport hangars, or street improvements; community support services, such as childcare centers, transitional housing, or community centers; and public safety services such as fire departments and vehicles or police departments and vehicles.

  • Award Range: Unspecified, applicants may apply for a loan, a grant, or a combination of both
  • Timeline: Applications are available now and accepted on a rolling basis
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Community Heart & Soul Seed Grant Program

The Community Heart & Soul Seed Grant Program provides start-up funding for resident-driven groups in small cities and towns looking to implement the Community Heart & Soul model. Community Heart & Soul is a resident-driven process that engages the entire population of a town in identifying what they love most about their community, the future they want for it, and how to achieve it. 

  • Award Range: Up to $10,000 with a 1:1 cash matching requirement
  • Timeline: Applications are available now and accepted on a rolling basis
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Next Level Jobs – Employer Training Grant

The Employer Training Grant offers employers $5,000 per employee who is trained, hired, and retained for at least 6 months in seven priority sectors: Advanced Manufacturing, Technology and Business Services, Transportation and Logistics, Health and Sciences, Building and Construction, Agriculture, and Early Childhood. 

  • Award Range: $5,000 per employee, up to $50,000 per employer
  • Timeline: Open now and ongoing
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Next Level Jobs – Workforce Ready Grant

The Workforce Ready Grant is a grant program for individuals that covers the tuition and fees of qualifying certificate programs across Indiana. Trainings are available in the following industries: Advanced Manufacturing, Building and Construction, Health and Life Sciences, Information Technology and Business Services, Transportation and Logistics, and Early Childhood. 

  • Award Range: Cost of qualified training
  • Timeline: Open now and ongoing
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School-Based Healthcare Solutions Network: Principal Student Support Services Grant

The School-Based Healthcare Solutions Network (SBHSN) is offering a new grant opportunity for public school principals interested in implementing student mental health support services. Grant funds must be used to expand access to mental health support services for students with a documented history of chronic absenteeism, behavioral challenges, or declining academic performance. The grant provides a fully funded mental health professional for each school campus who will deliver evidence-based mental health support services directly to students. In addition, qualifying schools are eligible for up to $5,000 per year, renewable for five years, to support student service initiatives aligned with the program’s objectives.

  • Award Range: Fully funded mental health professional, plus and additional $5,000 per year, renewable for five years
  • Timeline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis
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Children’s Book Project Grant

The Children’s Book Project Grant, from the Pilcrow Foundation, is a 2-to-1 match grant for rural libraries to purchase up to $1,200 worth of new, quality, hardcover children’s books. 

  • Award Range: Up to $1,200 with a 2-to-1 matching requirement
  • Timeline: Applications are due every April 1 and October 1
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