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Application Deadline: October 15, 2025
Program Summary:
The Capital Project Grants stream, supports not-for-profit organizations throughout B.C. to complete inclusive, accessible capital projects that meet community-identified needs and priorities.
The objective of the Capital Projects Grants stream is to enable not-for-profit organizations to complete capital projects that provide significant benefit to communities. The grant is designed to support community-identified needs and priorities. Its focus is on people – their needs, their development, and their involvement with the community. These Grants support inclusive projects that provide widespread benefit to a diverse range of community members.
New Criteria to Note for 2025:
The following key changes have been made to the 2025 Capital Projects Grant Guidelines:
- New applicants that have not previously been screened for eligibility will not be considered. An organization must have been approved for any type of community gaming grant in the previous three years.
- Organizations which have been approved for a Capital Project Grant within the last two years are not eligible to apply.
Grant Amount:
There is $5 million allocated to support Capital Project Grants. Applicants may only be funded once in each three-year period and the maximum grant is $250,000.
Eligible Projects have a total cost between $20,000 and $1,250,000. Projects less than $20,000 or greater than $1,250,000 are not eligible for Capital Project Grant funding. The maximum grant available is $250,000.
MATCHING FUNDS REQUIREMENT: Applicants can request between 20% and 50% of the total project cost. The remaining amount must be secured and available for immediate use when applying for a Capital Project Grant.
The applicant must demonstrate within the application that it has the matching funds required for project completion (i.e., there is enough money to cover the entire project budget). The applicant’s matching funds contribution must equal or exceed the level of capital project funding requested.
Project Eligibility:
To be considered for funding, a capital project must fit into one of the following categories. Applicants should apply under one specific category that best matches their project.
1. Facilities Projects:
The construction of new facilities and renovation or maintenance of existing facilities.
- The project is undertaken by an eligible organization primarily for community benefit.
- Upon completion, the project – or the facility within which the project is located – is accessible to the public.
- The project is for the construction of new facilities, renewal, expansion or material enhancement of existing facilities or property development.
- The project is located on:
- Land owned by an eligible organization.
- Land leased to an eligible organization on a long-term basis; or
- Public land.
2. Acquisitions:
The purchase of fixed capital assets for long-term ownership and use by the organization (e.g. vehicles, equipment and IT projects).
- The acquisition is made by an eligible organization primarily for community benefit.
- The project is for the purchase of privately owned fixed capital assets for long-term use; and
- The capital acquisition must fully belong to the eligible organization.
3. Community Infrastructure:
The development of public amenities that improve B.C. residents’ quality of life.
- The project is undertaken by an eligible organization primarily for community benefit.
- Upon completion, the project – or the facility within which the project is located – is accessible to the public and is inclusive of the greater community.
- The project is for the installation of public amenities that improve B.C. residents’ quality of life.
- The project is located on:
- Land owned by an eligible organization.
- Land leased to an eligible organization on a long-term basis; or
- Public land.
4. Repatriation Projects:
The repatriation of Indigenous cultural belongings.
- The organization applying for funding and leading the project must be an eligible not-for-profit organization.
- The not-for-profit organization that is applying for Capital Project funding could be either:
- applying to receive cultural belongings (the applying organization may be working on behalf of or in partnership with an Indigenous organization or community); or,
- applying to send cultural belongings back to an Indigenous organization or community.
- If the applicant for funding is acting on behalf of either party involved, then a letter of support is also required.
- Research, negotiations, and determination regarding rightful ownership of cultural belongings must be completed prior to applying for Capital Project funding.
Eligible Applicants:
The Capital Projects Grant intake is open to applicants which have received funding through Community Gaming Grants in the previous three years (2022, 2023, and 2024 intakes), or during the current fiscal year. The 2025 intake is not available to new applicants.
Organizations which have received Program Grant or PAC & DPAC funding during this period are eligible to apply.
Previous Capital Projects Grant recipients may not apply for two years after receiving project funding. Organizations which have received a Capital Projects Grant in 2022 are eligible to apply; however, those funded for the 2023 and 2024 intake may not apply in 2025. Applicants must be in good standing and have their most recent Gaming Account Summary Report submitted to be considered for a Capital Project Grant.
To be eligible for a grant, organizations must meet all the following criteria:
Engage volunteers in the operation of the organization and/or program(s).
- Be a not-for-profit (including designated Community Service Cooperatives)*.
- The organization must:
- Have a primary purpose to operate for community benefit.
- Engage volunteers in the operation of the organization and/or program(s).
*Not-for-profit organizations are not required to be provincially or federally incorporated.
However, provincially or federally incorporated not-for-profit organizations must be in good
standing with the B.C. Registries and/or Corporations Canada.
Examples of Eligible Projects:
Examples of eligible projects in each category may include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following types of capital projects:
Facilities Projects: the construction of new facilities, renovation or maintenance of existing facilities and property development. Examples include:
- Construction of a new permanent built structure (e.g. office, centre, daycare facility, theatre, food bank storage, sports facility);
- Renovations that restore, refurbish, upgrade, retrofit or otherwise improve the general conditions of an existing facility to extend its useful life (e.g. roofs, flooring, air circulation, seismic resilience, foundation repair, kitchens, bathrooms, elevators, gutters, accessibility retrofits, hall expansions, asbestos abatement); and
- Property development projects (e.g. fences, courtyard, irrigation systems for sports fields, parking lots, floodlights).
Acquisitions: the purchase of fixed capital assets for long-term ownership and use. Examples include:
- Vehicles, boats, vehicle part replacements/modifications (e.g. bus, van, delivery truck, fire truck).
- Machinery and equipment (e.g. safety equipment, sports equipment, commercial kitchen equipment, stage and lighting equipment, sound equipment, instruments).
- Technological resources and systems (e.g. computer systems, IT projects including websites, networks and software, security systems); and
- Property and/or buildings.
Community Infrastructure Projects: the development of public amenities that improve B.C. residents’ quality of life. Examples include:
- Outdoor structures (e.g. docks, playgrounds, outdoor pools, sport rinks, industrial sheds, courts, artificial turf, boardwalks, trestles).
- Parks (e.g. water parks, skate/bike parks, fitness and recreation spaces); and
- Natural areas (e.g. hiking and walking trails, green spaces, wetlands, community gardens, habitat restoration).
NOTE : Playgrounds located on public school grounds that are eligible for support through the Ministry of Education Playground Equipment Program will not be eligible for Community Gaming Grant funding through the Capital Projects Grants.
Repatriation Projects: the repatriation of Indigenous cultural belongings. Examples of eligible projects may include:
- Museum/Individual returning artifacts to the community.
- Project components and eligible costs may include:
- Transportation and storage costs (e.g., travel costs for those involved in the repatriation project, protection for moving or transporting cultural belongings, or infrastructure to support work or placement).
- Cultural ceremonies and honorariums; and,
- Project management, consultant fees, etc.
