Education & Youth Grants

Education & Youth Grants is sponsored by Triangle Community Foundation. Supports community-based, youth-serving nonprofits and students through post-secondary scholarships.

Grants for Nonprofits | Triangle Community Foundation Triangle Community Foundation is honored to connect nonprofits that are meeting community needs with funding to support vital work being done in our region. Since our community's earliest days, nonprofits have been an essential part of building a vibrant Triangle for all. The Foundation values and appreciates the important work your organization is leading.

If you are a nonprofit looking for funding, please scroll through the grant opportunities below. We look forward to partnering with you. Browse the list of all current grant opportunities at the Foundation or search by keyword.

Click on the grant names for more information. This annual awards program will honor up to 10 local nonprofit organizations with $50,000 each in recognition of their exceptional achievements in contributing to a healthier Research Triangle Region. The Paul Green Foundation Funding awarded to nonprofits to support dramatic productions, projects and programs or publications that reflect the life's work and values of Paul Green.

Our Impact | Environmental Resilience Funding from the Foundation is available to increase awareness of and education around conservation and/or climate issues and increase climate resiliency, particularly of low-income communities.

Funding will support nonprofit organizations that provide summer camps, with a focus on increasing access to summer camps for those who might otherwise be unable to attend due to financial constraints and combating summer learning loss. Durham Cerebral Palsy Foundation Fund Provides assistance to children ages birth through 18 years with cerebral palsy living in NC through grants to three identified nonprofits.

Our Impact | Land Transaction Provides funding to support donated and purchased land acquisition transactions and related stewardship expenses in order to increase the pace of conservation in the Triangle. The Land Transaction Grant Program is by invitation only. Each property funded with these grants must be permanently protected through a Conservation Easement or Notice of Acceptance of Property for Conservation Purposes.

Triangle Capacity-Building Network Grant A joint project of funders across the Triangle, with organizational capacity-building funding available to nonprofit organizations led by and working with communities of color. Our Impact | Cultural Arts Funding will support general operations of nonprofit organizations that are helping increase culturally representative arts programming and/or increasing the arts in public and community spaces.

Our Impact | Education & Youth Funding will support nonprofit organizations serving youth ages 5–24 that are prioritizing advancing youth-led and youth-informed initiatives, increasing the number of youth successfully completing their current educational track, and increasing the percent of youth who are able to access and complete post-secondary education.

Our Impact | Economic Resilience The Economic Resilience cycle of the Sustainable Communities grant program will fund nonprofit organizations that are supporting populations seeking to overcome barriers to family-sustaining employment. Our Impact | Responsive Grantmaking Complex organizational change continues to be a challenge for many Triangle nonprofits and the sector more broadly.

Therefore, we’re building on learnings from the first call for proposals and nonprofit support activities in the last year to launch another Responsive Grantmaking call for proposals. Open Date: April 20, 2026 Strategic Initiative | Housing Affordability