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Virginia Department of Fire Programs
Since 1969, Virginia has been at the forefront of firefighter training, starting with the Fire Services Training section within the State Department of Education.
Later becoming part of the Division of Fire Services Training under the State Fire Commission and eventually the Virginia Department of Fire Programs (VDFP).
Aid to Localities Grant
Aid to Localities (ATL) known as the Virginia Fire Programs Fund (Fund) is a crucial resource, sourced from one percent of fire-related insurance coverage.
This fund is dedicated to supporting localities in the commonwealth by providing financial aid where it's needed most. Approximately 75 percent of the total fund is allocated directly to counties, cities, and incorporated towns within Virginia.
ATL allocations are population-based and can be used for a range of essential fire services and initiatives.
How ATL Funds Can Be Allocated
These funds can be allocated to jurisdictions* for the sole purpose of the following:
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program
FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) provides funding to state, local, tribal, and territory governments so that they can rebuild in a way that either reduces or mitigates future disaster-related losses in their communities. Unlike the Flood Mitigation Assistance Program (FMA) which is an annually-recurring grant opportunity, the grant funding through HMGP is made available following a presidentially declared disaster, and these funds must be requested by a governor or tribal executive in eligible communities in a state, tribe, or territory.
Eligible Project Types
About Us
The Virginia Department of Historic Resources is the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) in Virginia. As the SHPO, DHR administers a number of federal programs. DHR is also a state agency in the Natural and Historic Resources Secretariat. DHR fosters, encourages, and supports the stewardship and use of Virginia’s significant architectural, archaeological, and historic resources as valuable assets for the economic, educational, social, and cultural benefit of citizens and communities. Our programs include both the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places, Survey, Grants, Archaeology, Cemetery Preservation, African American and Tribal Outreach, the Historical Highway Marker program, 106 Review and Compliance, Conservation, Collections, Easements, and the Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit Program.
Survey and Planning Cost Share Grant Program
DHR’s Survey and Planning Cost Share Grant Program assists local governments in meeting their preservation planning goals through the identification of historic resources. Participating localities receive partial funding and administrative support towards a preservation planning project developed in collaboration with DHR staff. Annual funding for Cost Share is limited and localities must compete to participate in the program. The cost share program was launched in 1991, with over 120 localities participating to date.
What type of projects does the Cost Share program support?
The Cost Share program supports survey of historic resources, completion of survey reports or management summaries, preparation of Preliminary Information Forms and National Register of Historic Places nominations, and the development of preservation planning documents.
How does the Cost Share program work?
A locality or PDC competes to participate in the program by submitting an application outlining a historic resource identification and/or preservation planning project proposal. If selected for funding, DHR will match the amount of money the locality or PDC is willing to commit for the project. In most cases, the local government provides at least one half of the cash for a project but DHR will entertain all applications, regardless of the match amount offered. DHR staff will assume the administrative burden of selected applications by hiring a qualified consultant to execute the project and monitoring the project through our field offices to ensure that project deliverables meet the expectations of the locality or PDC and the department.
How does the Cost Share program assist local governments?
The Code of Virginia directs each jurisdiction to develop a comprehensive plan and to update it every five years. Additional legislation calls for each locality to incorporate cultural resources into its comprehensive plans. Survey of historic architecture and archaeology completed under Cost Share can establish or strengthen local historic resource inventories to support local preservation planning programs. Other common cost share project deliverables, including survey reports, Preliminary Information Forms, and National Register of Historic Places nominations, provide copyright-free information for educational outreach, can be critical tools in developing heritage tourism, and enable owners of historic properties the opportunity to pursue state and federal historic preservation tax credits.
Regional Innovation Fund
Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation's (VIPC) Regional Innovation Fund (RIF) supports entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs) that are building and strengthening Virginia’s innovation ecosystem. RIF provides competitive grants for operating and programmatic support to ESOs serving science- and technology-based startups and founders.
VIPC prioritizes support for and partnership with Virginia’s ESOs. Through the establishment of its Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Division (EED) in July 2020, VIPC has worked to strengthen the infrastructure that helps early-stage technology startups grow and succeed. EED partners with accelerators, incubators, training providers, technology councils, chambers of commerce, investor groups, and other Virginia-based organizations that support entrepreneurs in the early stages of business formation and development. To advance this mission, VIPC launched the RIF in March 2021.
The primary purpose of this project is to “move the needle” in addressing domestic violence. Proposed project concepts should make a noticeable or significant impact, difference, or progress toward preventing, addressing, or responding to family and/or domestic violence in Virginia. These efforts should include actions that create real, measurable effect
About NCRC
The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) is a nationwide network of nearly 800 organizations and champions working for a Just Economy, where all Americans can build wealth and provide for their families with stability and dignity.
Our vision: To solve America’s historic racial and socio-economic wealth, income and opportunity divides. This vision is the foundation of the Just Economy Pledge.
NCRC Field Empowerment Fund (FEF) - Housing Counseling Services
The Field Empowerment Fund (FEF) empowers NCRC network members to level up established service lines.
The Housing Counseling Services series within FEF supports HUD-approved housing counseling agencies in driving homeownership, such as through pre-purchase counseling. In addition, the program builds agency knowledge on heirs’ property challenges to better equip first-time and low-income homebuying households with the know-how to retain intergenerational wealth.
In doing so, FEF-HCS aims to help underserved families begin their homeownership journey, with an additional goal of ensuring foresight into the long-term future of their home purchase.
The FEF-HCS series is funded in partnership with Key Bank and HSBC, and targets communities within the Key Bank and HSBC branch footprints.
Through these partnerships, $2.5 million in Key Bank geographies and $1.5 million in HSBC geographies has been allocated for the subgrants for direct-to-client housing counseling services that will be awarded in three rounds in the FEF-HCS track.
Funding Support
Awardee agencies will receive subgrants to support their housing counseling services to clients.
Knowledge Building
Awardee agencies will attend a training session on heirs’ property challenges and best practices, hosted by NCRC National Training Academy. Bolstering counselor knowledge on this topic will ensure that your agency is not only serving clients in their personal wealth-building journey now, but also helping them preserve that wealth in generations to come.
STEM Competition Team Grants
The STEM+C Competition Grant application is available to schools seeking to establish a new STEM+C competition team or to enhance an existing team. Eligible schools may request up to $5,000 per team, with a maximum of two teams funded in a division during the academic year. The total award per division may not exceed $10,000.
The purpose of the STEM+C Competition Grant is to:
Forest Sustainability Fund for Local Government
Forestland provides many benefits to landowners, but also to communities. Landowners directly realize timber, wildlife and recreational values, while the benefits of watershed protection, clean air and scenic beauty are enjoyed by society at large. Realizing this, the Virginia Code enables localities to provide use value taxation that can assist owner in keeping their land as forests. Under use-value taxation, properties are taxed based on the productive value of the land rather than the current market value, which results in lower property taxes.For county and city governments, maintaining forest land is beneficial, as land devoted to forest land use generally requires less cost in providing services than more intensive uses. However, property in forest land use does result in less revenue to local governments. As a result, the General Assembly established the Forest Sustainability Fund in 2022 for localities to apply for an allocation from the Fund to help offset lower, or forgone tax revenue. Forgone revenue is the fair market value of forest land minus the forest use value of forest land times the locality tax rate.The Code states that monies will be used for public education, outdoor recreation or forest conservation.
Student Support and Access Grant
The Student Support and Access Grant is designed to provide equitable access across all forms of work‑based learning — internships, micro‑internships, project‑based experiences, practicums, and other applied opportunities; with a particular emphasis on experiences connected to all agency and organization types (i.e. public, private, nonprofit, government, etc.). This grant is committed to reducing financial and structural barriers while advancing institutional and statewide goals to ensure every undergraduate student completes an internship or work‑based learning experience before graduation.This grant is designed to prioritize and support undergraduate students who demonstrate strong potential as part of Virginia’s emerging talent pipeline but may face documented barriers to participation or completion of work‑based learning experiences.Barriers to accessing these opportunities may include: academic factors (i.e. grade point average, course-scheduling conflicts, program-specific or pre-requisite requirements, credit load limitations), employment or caregiving responsibilities, limited access to transportation, geographic isolation, limited access to internet for remote opportunities, or other circumstances that may impact persistence or employment readiness.Eligibility Period: The grant period is for two years.
Industrial Revitalization Fund (IRF) Grants
The Industrial Revitalization Fund (IRF) leverages local and private resources to achieve market-driven redevelopment of vacant and deteriorated industrial and commercial properties. The program is targeted toward vacant structures whose poor condition creates physical and economic blight to the surrounding area in which the structure is located. Eligible properties include those formerly used for manufacturing, warehousing, mining, transportation and power production, as well as large-scale white elephant structures, such as department stores, theaters, hotels and shopping centers.
About VDOE
The Virginia Department of Education is the administrative agency for the commonwealth’s public schools. VDOE works in partnership with Virginia’s 132 school divisions to support and improve teaching and learning, set high expectations for all students, and promote student safety, wellbeing, and health.
Advancing Computer Science Education (ACSE) Grant
The Department of Education is pleased to announce the release of the Advancing Computer Science Education (ACSE) FY27 Request for Proposals (RFP). This competitive grant opportunity supports the implementation of the 2024 Computer Science Standards of Learning and provides funding to develop high-quality instructional resources, curriculum, and assessments; deliver professional development for current and future teachers; support summer and after-school computer science programming; and facilitate career exposure and work-based learning opportunities for high school students. Consistent with the grant's legislative intent, funded projects should prioritize at-risk students and schools.
The 2026 Appropriation Act has allocated $1.35 million to support this initiative. All Virginia public school divisions, full-time regional public schools, and programs with a local or regional school board are eligible to submit proposals meeting the intent of Advancing Computer Science Education Grant Request for Proposal.
Funding is available across three project types per availability of funds:
Virginia grants for nonprofits provide funding to support education, public health, economic development, and environmental projects. The following grants empower organizations to tackle local challenges, promote equity, and enhance quality of life across Virginia communities.
Find 195 funding opportunities for nonprofits in Virginia, with $54.1M available. Instrumentl helps organizations secure funding through deadline tracking, customized search filters, and research-driven insights to foster impactful work throughout the state.
How common are grants in this category?
Common — grants in this category appear regularly across funding sources.
Over the past year, when are grant deadlines typically due for Virginia grants for Nonprofits?
Most grants are due in the first quarter.
What's the typical grant amount funded for Virginia Grants for Nonprofits?
Grants are most commonly $12,000.
If you are located in the Virginia area, there is a wide variety of funding sources for nonprofits currently being offered. Right now there are more than 200+ individual open grants available, totaling $54,080,717 in funding. For organizations interested in pursuing grant funding in Virginia, the median grant size is $12,000. However, those who may need more funding do have vast opportunities, as there are currently 57 grant opportunities that are over $25,000. In addition, we have 29 grants that support general operating expenses, while more than 200+ grants fund programs and projects. More specifically, over 3,000+ grants focus on education and more than 2,000+ grant opportunities are focused on art & culture.
Nearly half of the more than 200+ grants available in Virginia come from private foundations and have a wide variety of fields in which they support. There are also plenty of opportunities on the federal, state, and local government levels, as well as a few grants being offered by corporate sponsors. Here’s a breakdown of where you'll find the most grants available:
You should do your research on not only the amount of funding being offered by these grantors but also their focus. Keep in mind that government grants often have larger awards than those on the corporate level, but they also have equally large compliance requirements.
Based on the data we have now, the best time to apply for grants in Virginia is in Q1, which is when about 35.5% of deadlines for grants land. This period offers nonprofits the most opportunities to secure funding. Q3 has come in second with a smaller amount of grant deadlines, with 24.4%. Comparatively, Q4 is the grant period with the least activity, coming in at only 19.7%. To maximize your odds of winning grant funding, be aware of the peak fundraising periods.
The nonprofit funding landscape throughout Virginia has shown significant activity across the past several years. Based on the funding reports sent to the IRS, overall grant funding reached more than $6.05 billion in 2021 and then rose to more than $6.39 billion in 2022. The largest area for funding was single-organization support. Likewise, the top areas that received the most funding were Fairfax County, Arlington County, and Alexandria City.
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