Is Your Women-Owned Startup In Need of A Grant? You've Found the Right Site
May 2025 Winner
Wildbatch Co.
Wildbatch Co.
If your women-owned business is a startup, you might be selected for a $10,000 WomensNet Startup Grant.
Even though women startup businesses are eligible for our monthly Amber Grant, we wanted to create this additional grant especially for this underserved sector: We define a “startup” as a business in the “idea phase,” or one that has only had minimal sales (less than $10,000).
Here’s How You Become Eligible for Our Startup Grants
— As Well As All Our Additional Grants:
- 1. Apply for our monthly Amber Grant. By applying just once for the $10,000 monthly Amber Grant, you also automatically become eligible for that month’s $10,000 Startup Grant.
- 2. You do NOT have to apply again. Your single Amber Grant application also makes you eligible for any of our other grants, including:
Here’s How You Become Eligible for Our Startup Grant – As Well As All Our Additional Grants:
- The $10,000 “Business Specific Category” Grant that we give away each month for the next 11 months. Here are those categories and months that they are awarded:
— January: Skilled Trades
— February: Health, Fitness & Wellness
— March: Food & Beverage
— April: Sustainability
— May: Mental & Emotional Support
— June: Business Support Services (e.g. accounting, consulting)
— July: Animal Services
— August: Hair Care & SkinCare
— September: Education & Child Care
— October: Creative Arts
— November: STEM
— December: Fashion & Interior Design
- The three (3) $25,000 Year-End Grants
At the end of every year, we select 3 winners from the 36 monthly $10,000 Amber Grant, Startup, and Business Specific grant winners.
This means your business could win a total of $35,000 in grant money by submitting just one application.
Submitting one application makes you instantly eligible for these multiple grants. Click here for your application »
Past WomensNet Startup Grant Winners
The Amber Grant Fund has grown through the years. That growth is reflected in two ways by the winners below. First, by the increase in the dollar amounts of each grant. Second, by the increase in how many times a grant is given.
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