Our 2025 Granting Process is now open.

Acts of Grace has changed its granting priorities and process. 

All granting inquiries will begin with a 30-minute Inquiry Call by Zoom in July 2025.

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To be considered for an Acts of Grace grant, an organization must:

• Be a registered Canadian charity with a Christian faith basis
  
• Be an outwardly-focused charity, serving the broader community beyond its own constituents
• Have an independent Board of Directors or similar committee
• Demonstrate sustained organizational health
• Provide 3rd party prepared and reviewed financial statements for the two prior years
• Demonstrate a proven record of successfully delivering impactful, culturally and geographically relevant initiatives
• Demonstrate thoughtful consideration of long-term sustainability for the organization and its work

The Acts of Grace Foundation accepts one application per granting cycle per charity. Charities are not eligible to apply for new grants until all requirements for active grants have been met, including follow-up and final reports. We only grant to organizations with a Christian faith basis. In addition to these minimum criteria, other factors will also be considered such as the Foundation's Granting Priorities and Exclusions, as outlined below.

Given the breadth of applications presented to the Foundation, Acts of Grace has made the necessary decision to direct its funding to specific areas. To that end, the Acts of Grace Foundation does not fund any of the following types of organizations and/or initiatives:

Excluded organization types:

• Individuals
• Government departments or agencies
• Charities without a Christian faith basis
• Start-up organizations with less than 3 years of operations
• Membership-based organizations (including political parties, lobbyist organizations, service clubs or special interest groups)
• Places of worship, churches, denominations, dioceses or agencies thereof (particularly where the purpose of the organization is inwardly-focused at serving its own members/constituents; we believe - in most cases - the local community has the capacity to fund its own initiatives, especially in Canada)
• Charities (or initiatives) focused on:
       a) culture and the arts
       b) environmental and resource protection or conservation
       c) climate action and clean energy
       d) industry and infrastructure development
       e) community recreation (camps, clubs, community halls and recreation facilities, libraries, zoos, parks and public spaces, etc.)
       f) scholarships, bursaries or tuition support
       g) legislation and policy reform
       h) lobbying efforts
• Schools in North America (especially below the post-secondary level and particularly where the purposes of the organization is inwardly-focused at serving its own members/constituents)

Excluded project/initiative types:

• Aid or relief efforts
• *New as of 2025 Delivery of programs and/or services in the areas of:
       a) medical care*
       b) agriculture*
       c) livelihood / economic security*
       d) WASH*
  * Acts of Grace will continue to consider applications for capacity-building grants for charities working in these areas
  
• Contributions to a charity's unrestricted/general funds, annual fundraising campaigns or general contributions to large-scale capital campaigns
  
• Fundraising or promotional events
• Advertising and publicity costs (with some exceptions for awareness building)
• Inwardly-focused projects aimed at serving an organization’s own constituents
• Initiatives taking place in the United States (we prioritize granting in Canada as our home and native land, believing that the local, US community has the capacity to fund its own initiatives)
• Projects with significant portions of the work taking place and/or the project completed prior to the granting decision deadline (the Foundation does not make grants to retroactively fund a project)