Grants for African Entrepreneurs | Find Funding for Your Business & NGO

Explore 8 upcoming opportunities for startups, innovators, and entrepreneurs closing between October and December 2025.

The Fine & Country Foundation runs a £3,000 biannual grant programme supporting charities that combat homelessness and poverty worldwide.

The Founders and Leaders Academy (FLA) 1.0 is more than just a workshop. It’s a strategic gathering of industry experts, business leaders, investors, and ambitious professionals committed to building sustainable, scalable businesses and transformative leadership.

BeyondLimits, in partnership with Zenith Bank, runs the ₦70 million Zecathon (also called Zenith Bank Startup Pitch Competition). This platform supports startups through funding, mentorship, incubation, and exposure.

Explore over $2.3 million in global funding closing between October 13 and 27, 2025. Opportunities are available for researchers, entrepreneurs, innovators, journalists, NGOs, and startups.

The United Nations Environment Programme has launched a call for proposals to identify national non-profit organizations to serve as implementing partners for its $200,000 InTex Africa Project.

The Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment invites applications from dynamic teams and organisations owned and managed by young people between the ages of 18 and 35 to design and produce creative outputs that disseminate findings from a study covering 17 African countries.

The $20,000 Southern Africa Poultry Initiative (SAPI) – Feed Accelerator Grand Challenge aims to surface and develop innovative ideas from business, government, civil society, and academia that have the potential to address systemic issues at any point in the poultry feed value chain.

The development Research and Projects Centre is now accepting applications for its ₦5,000,000 NSI grant Round 2.

The $80,000 Democracy at Work Fund (DAWF) is inviting applications for its latest round of grants aimed at empowering frontline worker organizations