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Pennsylvania grants for nonprofits: where to look
Pennsylvania recently became one of the better-organized states: discovery is centralized on pa.gov/grants and applications are centralized in the Electronic Single Application, so one Keystone Login account carries across most agencies. The Department of Community and Economic Development is the largest single funder of community organizations, and its menu includes loans and tax credits alongside grants.
Status on this site: we don't list Pennsylvania grants yet. This page points you to the official sources so you can search today; get one email when Pennsylvania listings go live.
Official state grant portal
Discover State Grants (pa.gov/grants), run by the Commonwealth's Office of Digital Experience, aggregating 20-plus agencies.
A public search across 300-plus state programs, launched in late 2024, with filters for applicant type (nonprofits, businesses, government, higher education, individuals, libraries), funding agency, funding type (grants, loans, tax credits, cooperative agreements) and category. Each result links to eligibility, dates and application details. No email-alert feature. Applications go through the separate Enterprise eGrants / Electronic Single Application at grants.pa.gov, which needs a Keystone Login account.
- Enterprise eGrants / Electronic Single Application: one login to apply across agencies
- Pennsylvania Open Data Portal: no grants-opportunity dataset at our last check
Open data: pa.gov/grants offers no download or API and the open-data portal has no matching dataset.
Federal grants open to Pennsylvania nonprofits
Federal funding is listed on grants.gov; filter by eligibility "Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status" and search your program area. Much federal money also passes through Pennsylvania state agencies as pass-through grants, which show up on the agency pages above rather than on grants.gov.
Statewide resources
- Nonprofit association: Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations (PANO)
- Charity registration and lookup: Department of State, Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations: Charities. Online registration and public search run in the Charities System linked from this page.
- Community foundations: Council on Foundations community foundation locator, filter to Pennsylvania; there is no Pennsylvania-specific statewide network
Worth knowing
- The grants search is less than two years old; older agency pages still exist and sometimes describe programs the search hasn't caught up with, so check both.
- DCED's eGrants help center supports the Electronic Single Application, which is used by many agencies beyond DCED.
- The Office of the State Inspector General runs a free Grantee Integrity Training that grantees are expected to complete.
- Charities soliciting in Pennsylvania register with the Department of State under the Solicitation of Funds for Charitable Purposes Act; the Bureau reports roughly 13,000-16,000 registered charities.
Avoiding scams
The rules don't change by state: real grants never charge a fee, never arrive as an award for something you didn't apply for, and are always findable on the agency's own site. Our grant scams guide and 60-second checklist apply in Pennsylvania exactly as in California.
Links on this page were opened and checked on Oct 30, 2026. Agencies restructure sites often; if one is dead, the state's main site search will usually find the new home.