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Grant Opportunity Forecast

By Loyola University on Thu, 08/28/2025 - 14:26

Upcoming Grant Deadlines by College

Below is a list of upcoming grant opportunities organized by college. If you would like assistance identifying potential funding opportunities for a specific grant project, please reach out to Sydney Reynolds, Grant Specialist, at smreynol@loyno.edu. We will run a targeted search for foundations that align with your funding needs and assist with the submission process.

This list will be updated often so please check back to see what opportunities are available.

 

College of Arts & Sciences:

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation - Humanities & Research Libraries Grants

Funds history; archaeology; literature; languages, both classical and modern; philosophy; ethics; comparative religion; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those aspects of the social sciences that share the content and methods of humanistic disciplines.

Deadline: Rolling

Funding Range: $7,000 - $19,900
Environmental Research and Relief Grants

The Holt Family Foundation seeks to positively impact communities by providing support to organizations and students actively working to enhance quality of life through innovative programs, education, and advanced research. The Foundation provides support to qualified organizations working to restore communities affected by natural disasters as well as organizations researching innovative solutions to today’s environmental concerns.

Deadline: Rolling

Grant Amount: Up to $27,500

Research Coordination Networks (RCN)

The goal of the RCN program is to advance a field or create new directions in research or education by supporting groups of investigators to communicate and coordinate their research, training, and educational activities across disciplinary, organizational, geographic, and international boundaries.

Deadline: Rolling

Grant Amount: $50,000 - $500,000

 

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS:

Gitlab Foundation

This initiative represents a partnership between the GitLab Foundation, Ballmer Group, and OpenAI, demonstrating their collective commitment to leveraging emerging AI technologies to create economic opportunity and drive income growth.

Deadline: LOI October 16, 2025

Grant Amount: up to $250,000

Citi Foundation Grant 

The Citi Foundation works to promote economic progress and improve the lives of people in low-income communities around the world. The foundation invests in efforts that increase financial inclusion, catalyze job opportunities for youth, and reimagine approaches to building economically vibrant communities. The Citi Foundation's "More than Philanthropy" approach leverages the enormous expertise of Citi and its people to fulfill its mission and drive thought leadership and innovation.

Deadline: Rolling

Grant Amount: median $250,000

FINRA Investor Education Foundation Grant 

Through the General Grant Program, the FINRA Investor Education Foundation funds research and educational projects that empower underserved Americans with the knowledge, skills, and tools to make sound financial decisions throughout life. The foundation especially welcomes applications for research projects of approximately $50,000–$100,000 that use data from the National Financial Capability Study (and other existing data sets) to advance understanding of the relationships among financial literacy, financial capability, and financial well-being. Priority is also given to projects that further financial inclusion and address systemic financial inequities based on race, ethnicity, gender, disability status, and other social differences.

Deadline: Rolling

Grant Amount: $50,000 - $100,000

 

College of Law & Law Clinic:

Impact Fund Grants

The Impact Fund awards recoverable grants to legal services nonprofits, private attorneys, and small law firms who seek to confront economic, environmental, racial, and social injustice. Since their founding in 1992, the Impact Fund has made more than 800 recoverable grants totaling more than $10 million for impact litigation.

Deadline: LOI October 7, 2025

Grant Amount: $10,000 - $50,000

AJMMI: Social Justice Fund Grant

The Social Justice Fund makes grants for grassroots activist projects in the US, giving priority to those with small budgets and little access to more mainstream funding sources. They are especially interested in funding efforts to:

  • End the violence of borders and the criminalization of immigrants, shut down CBP and ICE

  • Abolish prisons and dismantle and redefine systems of policing and criminal justice

  • Confront institutionalized violence against racial, ethnic, gender-based, and LGBTQ communities

  • Put an end to economic exploitation, class stratification, systemic poverty

  • Stop the war machine, end state sponsored terrorism, expose the dangers of nuclear power

Deadline: October 20, 2025 3:00pm EST

Grant Amount: up to $10,000

 

COLLEGE OF MUSIC & MEDIA 

Standard Corporate Giving Program & Charitable Foundation

Fund Arts and cultural organizations play a major role in vibrant communities. We support organizations that offer multicultural art programs and provide enhanced access for the under-served. Specifically, we encourage programs that build audiences and promote the arts through education, interactive media, and artistic excellence.

Deadline: Rolling

Journalism and Media Grant

The Journalism and Media Grant program seeks to promote and amplify just and inclusive news and narratives, based on the belief that accurate and compelling media plays an important role in informing, engaging, and activating individuals and groups to take part in democratic practices and processes. To build and strengthen organizations creating and disseminating just, accurate, and inclusive news and narratives, the program supports work in professional nonprofit reporting, nonfiction multimedia storytelling, participatory civic media

Deadline: Rolling

Grant Amount: median $75,000

 

College of Nursing & Health

Medical Education Contributions: Sanofi US Educational Grants

Funds educational activities and materials designed to improve the knowledge, competence (skill) and/or performance of healthcare professionals, patients, and/or consumers for improved patient care and outcomes.

Deadline: Rolling

Funding Range: TBD

Pioneering Ideas Brief Proposal: Pioneering Ideas and a Culture of Health Robert Wood Johnson

Challenge assumptions or long-held cultural practices. Take an existing idea and give it a new spin—or a novel application. Offer a new take or perspective on a long-running, perplexing problem. Apply cutting-edge ideas from other fields to health. Explore the potential for emerging trends to impact our ability to build a Culture of Health.

Deadline: Rolling

Funding Range: $150,000-$350,000