Small Business Resources

WomensNet offers the $10,000 monthly Amber Grant and awards two $25,000 grants on an annual basis. 

CPRIT offers several funding opportunities for promising cancer research, product development, and prevention programs. 

Female veterans in Texas who own or are starting a business can apply for this annual program to receive $5,000 in grant funding. 

Our mission is to strengthen the fabric of East Austin neighborhoods by promoting housing affordability & economic diversity; preserving and enhancing its history, culture, and nature; and investing in its small businesses and public spaces that are unique to East Austin.

Eileen Fisher, a women's clothing retailer, awards $100,000 to up to 10 women business owners each year.  

Fundera offers small business financing, business credit cards, and small business insights. 

Apply for Grant Online Now.  Apply for grants by creating a workspace.  Workspace enables you and your colleagues to fill out webforms and apply together. 

GrantsAlert.com's goal is to help America's K-12 teachers and schools find the funding they need educate our children. 

Hello Alice partners with a variety of companies to offer different grants for small businesses, including startups. 

The Heritage Grant will provide historic preservation grants to nonprofit, commercial or government entities to support preservation and attract tourism.

The Joan Mitchell Foundation provides emergency support to US based visual artists working in the mediums of painting, sculpture, and/or drawing, who have suffered significant losses after natural or manmade disasters that have affected their community. 

Lending Tree offers a $50,000 grant to help small businesses that are having trouble scaling.  One award per year. 

The "Love, Tito's Small Business Grant Program" will provide 10 grants of $25,000 each to small business owners. 

Mid-America Arts Alliance strengthens and supports artists, cultural organizations, and communities throughout our region and beyond.  MAAA funds artists and programs in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri.

This is a nonprofit association that is a good resource for all small business owners.  

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, also known as America's Seed Fund, are one of the largest sources of early-stage capital for technology commercialization in the United States.  

The Stand With Austin Fund was established in partnership with the Entrepreneurs Foundation to receive charitable donations to support nonprofits assisting individuals and small businesses most negatively impacted by the cancellation of SXSW and least able to recover on their own.

Use the Texas.gov eGrants website to search for, view the details of, and find contact information for competitive funding announcements from Texas State agencies.

GrantWatch lists the most grants for nonprofits, small businesses and individuals. 

The Texas Grant Resource Center offers consultations and orientations for funding research for both nonprofit organizations and individuals. 

Texas businesses that want to start exporting or expand their current exporting initiatives can apply for reimbursement grants for expenses such as shipping costs, interpreter fees, compliance testing, travel cost, market analysis fees, among other expenses. 

Small businesses in Texas with newly hired workers can receive grants to cover employee training.

The Amber Grant awards $500 monthly to qualifying businesses. 

Provides grants for all legitimate expenditures relating professional work and personal living, including medical expenses, for visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers.