American Express-2025-10,000
🟡Coming Soon
8/1/25
Deadline:
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Funding Amount:
$
10000
Description
Receive $10,000 to Strengthen Your Small Business
American Express is offering 400 grants of $10,000 to locally significant small businesses with projects that boost resilience, promote sustainable growth, and deepen community impact. Applications open July 16 and close July 31. Selected businesses may also qualify for a $30,000 follow-up grant after completing their initial project.
Eligibility
The applicant must be an owner of the business.
The applicant must be at least 18 years of age or older.
The business must be in a “bricks-and-mortar” location and operate in an older or historic main street, downtown, or commercial district in the United States. The business must have occupied their current bricks-and-mortar location since January 1, 2025. (Home-based businesses, even those located in historic neighborhoods, are not eligible. Brick and mortar businesses located outside of historic downtowns and commercial corridors, including, but not limited to, office parks and shopping malls are also not eligible.)
The business must be an independent business and not part of a franchise or a nonprofit.
The business must employ 20 or fewer full-time employees.
The business must have been in operation on or before January 1, 2024.
The business must be a business entity in good standing in the state in which it was formed and the state in which it does business.
The business must have an active business license, if required by state or local government. (Applicants may be asked to provide documentation if selected.) · The business must not have received a Backing Small Businesses grant in any previous cycle, nor received a grant supported by American Express in 2025 (including the Backing Small Business Disaster Recovery Grant Program)
