From time to time, new funding opportunities arise, that might assist schools, Lions or other organizations in securing the additional or supplemental funds necessary to initiate or expand upon Lions Quest programs. Some of the initiatives below have determined Lions Quest eligible to meet their requirements, and may provide matching funds:
- $500 mini service grants
- Administration for Children and Families
- Allstate Foundation Funding
- Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
- Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
- The Clorox Company Foundation
- Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA)
- DeWitt-Wallace/Readers Digest Foundation
- Fundsnet Services- Education program grants
- Learn and Serve America
- New Mexico Tobacco Settlement funds- Lions Quest named on "MODEL" program list, therefore eligible to receive New Mexico Tobacco Settlement Funds.
- Lions Clubs International Foundation LCIF- The Core 4 grant funding is available for Lions Multiple Districts and Lions sub-districts.
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- National Service-Learning Partnership Resources
- Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
- Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)
- Public Welfare Foundation
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Safe & Drug Free Schools & Communities - Governors Grants (OSDFS)
- Safe & Drug Free Schools & Communities - State Grants (OSDFS)
- Safe Schools - Healthy Students Initiative (OSDFS)
- State Departments of Education
- State Departements of Health
- STOP Act grants from SAMHSA - new in 2008 - Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act
- Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
- U.S. Department of Education - the U.S. DOE administers approximately 200 grant programs. For a complete list, click here. For specific areas click the following links: Character Education, School Improvement Fund, School Dropout Prevention Program, Innovative Program grants
- US Department of Health and Human Services - find and apply for federal government grants
- Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation - Lions Quest is on approved programs list for grantees.
- Weed & Seed Community Program Grant- For agencies and organizations located in high crime areas may be eligible to apply for the Office of Justice Programs' Community Capacity Development Office's Weed and Seed Program to reduce community violence, drug abuse, and crime.
- W.K.K. Kellogg Foundation