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Texas grants for nonprofits: where to look
Texas has a statewide search but not a statewide system. The Texas.gov eGrants search indexes competitive announcements from every agency, which is useful, but it has no filters or alerts and every agency applies through its own portal. The single biggest recurring source of state-administered funding for nonprofits is the Governor's Criminal Justice Division, and Texas is unusual in requiring no general charity registration at all.
Status on this site: we don't list Texas grants yet. This page points you to the official sources so you can search today; get one email when Texas listings go live.
Official state grant portal
Texas.gov eGrants search, run by the Texas.gov state portal.
A bare keyword search of competitive funding announcements posted by state agencies since 2007: no login, no applicant-type filter, no email alerts, and a toggle to show expired postings. It links out to each agency's own application system. The active-postings page offers a daily-updated download. Not to be confused with egrants.gov.texas.gov, which is the Governor's Public Safety Office application system and is login-only.
- Office of the Governor: Criminal Justice Division / Public Safety Office: over $580 million a year in victim-services, justice and homeland-security funds; the largest recurring state source for nonprofits
- Texas Health and Human Services: grants: requests for applications in behavioral health, health and independence services; no notification system, check the page
- Texas Commission on the Arts: grants: own portal, calendar and guidelines
- Texas Education Agency: grants
- Texas Parks and Wildlife: grants: recreation, wildlife, conservation
- Texas State Library and Archives Commission: grants: libraries, literacy, special-needs programs
Open data: The eGrants active-postings page offers a daily-updated report download; data.texas.gov has award datasets but no open-opportunity feed. We're evaluating whether the eGrants report is usable. txapps.texas.gov
Federal grants open to Texas 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 Texas state agencies as pass-through grants, which show up on the agency pages above rather than on grants.gov.
Statewide resources
- Nonprofit association: OneStar Foundation, Texas has no classic membership association; OneStar, the state service commission, is the de facto statewide voice and runs the Nonprofit Management Alliance of Texas
- Charity registration and lookup: Texas Attorney General, Charitable Trusts Section. Texas has no general charitable-solicitation registration; corporate standing is checked through the Secretary of State.
- Community foundations: Council on Foundations community foundation locator (Texas), 36 Texas community foundations; no Texas-specific network
Worth knowing
- Eligibility for state grants is usually established through Secretary of State corporate standing and a Texas Comptroller identification number, plus a UEI for federally funded awards, rather than through a charity registry.
- The Governor's Public Safety Office applications go through egrants.gov.texas.gov, a login-only system separate from the Texas.gov search.
- Texas HHS posts requests for applications on its own page and says plainly that it has no notification system, so set a page-change alert.
- The Attorney General registers only narrow solicitor categories (law enforcement, public safety and veterans causes); most nonprofits never register with the state at all.
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 Texas 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.