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Grants

Backing Small Businesses (American Express and Main Street America)

Status

Usually opens in July and August

Projected from the months this call usually opens — not a date the funder has confirmed.

Closed

Projected from the pattern of past calls — confirm on the funder's page before planning around it.

Amount
$40,000

US$10,000 base grant; a subset of recipients receive an additional US$30,000 enhancement grant. Over US$14m distributed to more than 1,600 businesses since 2021.

Funder

American Express / Main Street America

private · national

Deadline: One call a year — Annual grant round. The 2025 round opened in late July. Applications are currently closed.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Locally significant small businesses with community reach, typically brick-and-mortar, facing economic hardship

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work · The EU SME definition (Recommendation 2003/361)

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://mainstreet.org/about/partner-collaborations/backing-small-businesses

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Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: mainstreet.org

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