Surprise July Mini-Update: 18 Funding Opportunities You Don’t Want to Miss!
A quick bonus update with fresh, time-sensitive grants and calls including from $1M youth climate awards to EdTech pilots and local project grants.
Hi everyone,
Dropping into your inbox with a surprise mid–mid-month update with some great new opportunities have just gone live, and I didn’t want you to miss them! I always try to strike a balance between not overloading your inbox and sharing time-sensitive funding windows. In this case, there are several programs with big potential and tight deadlines, and I wanted to make sure you have a fair shot to apply.
I’d also love to hear from you; would you prefer just two emails per month, or do you find occasional bonus updates like this helpful? Let me know in the poll below, or drop a quick note.
This update includes 18 new high-value and high-impact opportunities, from a $1M+ Youth Climate Action Fund to sanitation innovation, Indigenous knowledge exchange, and inclusive education. It’s a slightly smaller batch than usual but packed with multi-sector opportunities—so whether you’re a grassroots nonprofit, youth-led collective, fund manager or a growing social enterprise, there’s likely something here for you. Many of the deadlines are fast approaching, so let’s dive in!
This post is for paid subscribers only, but the monthly round-up will always remain free.
To ensure equitable access, discounts are available for nonprofits and organizations from LMICs. Reach out for more information.
Latest Funding Opportunities:
Global Health & WASH
2025 Call for Innovations, Save the Children - The Immunisation Accelerator. *New!* *Closing soon!*
The Immunisation Accelerator supports and nurtures the further development and evidencing of promising and transferable innovations that can address the challenge of vaccinating low-dose and zero-dose children. Innovations can be on the supply or demand side, including products, services, approaches, or system changes. It is open to both early-stage stage ideas and those with more evidence.
Geographies: Nigeria, Ethiopia.
Who can apply: Not-for-profit organizations, civil society organizations (CSOs), charities, NGOs, academic institutions, research and technology organizations (RTOs), and businesses of any size operating in Nigeria or Ethiopia are eligible. Government entities are not eligible.
Funding amount: Grants range USD $50,000 - $100,000 per project. Total of USD $1M available.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Health, immunization, children.
Deadline: July 27, 2025.
Learn more and apply here.
RELX Environmental Challenge, RELX. *New!* *Closing soon!*
Each year the RELX Environmental Challenge is awarded to projects that best demonstrate how they can provide sustainable access to safe water or sanitation. Projects must have clear practical applicability, address identified need and advance related issues such as health, education, or human rights.
Geographies: Global.
Who can apply: Anyone- individuals or organizations.
Funding amount: Prize of USD $50,000 for the first place entry and a USD $25,000 prize for the second place entry. The winners also receive free access for one year to ScienceDirect, our Scientific, Technical & Medical business’ database of full text, scientific information, including almost 250,000 articles since 2000 in Environmental Sciences.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: WASH, health, education, human rights.
Deadline: July 27, 2025.
Call for Applications for Fund Managers - Water and Sanitation, Aqua for All. *New!* *Closing soon!* *Great opporunity for fund managers to derisk investments in WASH!!*
Calling on Fund Managers and General Partners (GPs) with an investment strategy focused on the water and sanitation sector in emerging and developing markets. Through this call, Aqua for All seeks to provide equity investments in the form of first-loss capital to help de-risk and scale impactful solutions in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Lower- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). There are two open investment tracks: Track A: Catalytic Investment in Funds: Provides risk capital to investment funds to de-risk and mobilize private capital for water and sanitation SMEs. Track B: Result-Based Financing (RBF) Facility: Supports the design and implementation of incentive mechanisms that reward measurable impact in water and sanitation service delivery. Both tracks include direct investment into the fund to mobilize private capital participation and technical assistance for fund managers and/or investees.
Geographies: Global, investments must target LDCs and LMIC’s.
Who can apply: impact-driven Fund Managers and General Partners (GPs)
Funding amount: Undisclosed amount.
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: WASH.
Deadline: July 31, 2025.
SanUp: Scaling Next-Generation Sanitation Enterprises, UN’s Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (SHF). *New!*
SanUp empowers SMEs to grow sustainable sanitation solutions through tailored technical assistance, catalytic funding, and preparedness support for larger follow-up investments. Now accepting applications from innovative, sustainable solutions that tackle lack of access to suitable products and services and are aiming to scale and become investment ready. SanUp is structured as a two-phase pilot program with the longer-term objective of designing a permanent, revolving financing vehicle for sanitation enterprises. Phase I of the initiative offers a tailored technical assistance (TA) and catalytic financing instruments. SanUp is also focused on preparing sanitation SMEs for larger follow-on investment, helping them become investment-ready and resilient. In Phase II (2026), the initiative will offer financing above US$50,000 per enterprise, building on the foundational work in Phase I. The combined objective of both phases is to test and refine scalable support models that can feed into a revolving enterprise support and financing structure to meet the sector's capital needs at scale, to bring the sanitation market maturity of the countries to a level where commercial investors will play an increasing role.
Geographies: Kenya, Uganda.
Who can apply: Sanitation businesses.
Funding amount: Funding support of up to USD $30,000 per enterprise in Phase 1 (this phase), with the potential of financing above USD $50,000 per enterprise in Phase 2 (expected in 2026).
Targeted Sectors/ SDGs: Sanitation.
Deadline: August 1, 2025.
Learn more and apply here.
Gender Equality & Women Empowerment
SVRI Grant 2026 – GBV in Higher Education Institutions with a focus on STEM, Sexual Violence Research Initiative. *New!*
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to Impact Funding to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.