Small Biz Grant List

Don't chase these

Business grants that are dead, stale, or misfiled

Small-business grant aggregators are notorious for listing retired contests as live. Here are the ones we see most — confirmed dead or unannounced on the funder's own page — so you don't waste an application.

FedEx Small Business Grant Contest

Discontinued

FedEx's own page confirms it: the program ran 2012–2024 and is retired. Aggregators still show it as live, some even with the old 'Apply between March 1 and April 1' graphics. (FedEx now routes to smaller successor programs via Accion Opportunity Fund and the US Chamber Foundation.)

Verified against FedEx — Small Business Grants (retired) on

Fast Break for Small Business (LegalZoom × NBA/WNBA)

Discontinued

The administrator, Accion Opportunity Fund, states on its own page that the program 'began in 2021 and closed for the final time in 2024.' The LegalZoom application URL now redirects away. Still listed as an annual opportunity by grant aggregators.

Verified against Accion Opportunity Fund — Fast Break on

Comcast RISE — a 'May 31, 2026 deadline'

Changed

The program is real but its 2026 cycle is NOT announced. Some aggregators advertise a May 31, 2026 deadline; no official Comcast or EY source supports it. The FAQ redirects to a corporate page and the portal still shows 2024 text. Treat as 'watch,' not a deadline.

Verified against Comcast RISE (EY portal) on

Hello Alice 'Small Business Growth Fund' page

Not a grant

As of July 2026 this page still markets its 2023 round ('third and final round of 2023,' deadline October 2023). Aggregators scrape it as if current. Hello Alice is a useful discovery platform — but only an in-app listing or a program page showing a current window counts as live.

Verified against Hello Alice on

Business-grant aggregators earn ad revenue whether or not a program is real, so their lists are full of retired contests. This page corrects the ones we run into most.

A whole category to be wary of: COVID-era relief (“grants” tied to PPP, the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, SVOG, and various brand relief funds) is the largest class of dead programs still circulating — verify any named example on the funder’s own page.

This is The Live-or-Dead Check from our framework: a program is only live if the funder’s own current-year page shows an open window. A listicle isn’t a source.

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