Norfolk Southern Corporate Giving supports charitable organizations across its 22-state network. The Thriving Communities Grant Program promotes sustainability initiatives, workforce development programs, and community resiliency efforts, including economic development, vibrant community life, and access to basic necessities. The Safety First Grant Program supports organizations that directly provide safety services or operate programs that promote safe behavior. Supported projects must be located within 30 minutes of a Norfolk Southern main line. Applications will be accepted from April 1 to September 1, 2025. Learn more.
The International Paper Foundation provides support in the United States in the communities where the company operates. (Memphis, TN, funding requests are by invitation only.) Areas of interest include education, with a primary focus on literacy, particularly from birth through 3rd grade; hunger, including food banks and other agencies addressing hunger and food security for children, families, and seniors; health and wellness, with a focus on promoting healthy living habits and improving health and wellness; and disaster relief, including helping communities prepare for and to recover from natural disasters. Nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply. Applications are accepted through mid-September, annually. Learn more.
The Institutional Challenge Grant supports university-based research institutes, schools, and centers in building sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. The grant requires that research institutions shift their policies and practices to value collaborative research. Institutions will also need to build the capacity of researchers to produce relevant work and the capacity of agency and nonprofit partners to use research. Application Deadline: September 15, 2025. Learn more.
RWJF Equitable Futures Grant supports scientists, anthropologists, engineers, technologists, creatives, and others to imagine what the world might look like in the next 10 to 100 years. With this RWJF funding, they explore how those futures may unfold in ways that could slow down or speed up our collective efforts to dismantle structural racism and improve health equity. Application Deadline: October 15, 2025. Learn more.
Leonard Litz Foundation is designed to fund nonprofit organizations that advance the interests and well-being of the LGBTQ+ community through advocacy and with programs and services that meet the needs of LGBTQ+ people. Application Deadline: Rolling. Learn more.
The Park Foundation is dedicated to advancing a more just, equitable, and sustainable society and environment, both nationally and in its local Ithaca, NY, community. Funding priorities include democracy, with a focus on initiatives intended to strengthen the foundations of democracy and good governance; civic participation, including the implementation of democracy through exercising the right to vote and other direct forms of civic involvement; media, with a focus on public interest media that raises awareness of environmental, political, and social issues; environment, with a focus on efforts on a national scale or in New York State that promote clean drinking water as well as statewide efforts in New York that decrease reliance on fossil fuels; and animal welfare, including nationally significant efforts to advance the protection and conservation of wildlife. Additional funding priorities focus on sustainability, community needs, and school food and nutrition in Tompkins County, NY. Application deadline: None for letters of inquiry. Learn more.
CN Stronger Communities Fund invests millions of dollars in sustainable partnerships with not-for-profit organizations that allow their company to have a positive impact on the communities within their North American network. The main pillars for their Corporate Giving program are carefully selected for their fit and alignment with CN’s corporate vision. Each pillar tells the story of how CN empowers charitable partners to make a meaningful difference in the communities where they operate. Application Deadline: Varies by Application cycle. Learn more.
The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation partners with organizations and networks working to alleviate poverty and increase social and economic justice in 11 Southern states. The Foundation seeks the most promising opportunities to support power building work to advance racial equity and social and economic justice, and provides support along three primary pathways: democracy and civic engagement, supportive policies and institutions, and economic opportunity. Organizations may use funds for general operating support, project support, “glue” support for networks of grassroots and partner organizations, and organizational development. Application deadline: None for organizational summaries. Learn more.
Wegmans Corporate Contributions Program provides support to nonprofit organizations in the communities the company serves in DE, DC, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, PA, and VA to help improve lives and make neighborhoods stronger. Areas of interest include health, including improving the physical, emotional, and mental health of communities by increasing access to food and resources for healthy living; education and youth support, including job and mentorship opportunities, support of after-school programs, and tuition assistance; and economic mobility, including employment skills programs. Application deadline: None. Learn more.
If you have—or know of—any intergenerational funding opportunities, please send them to gu@gu.org.