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April 2025 Grants & Resources For Black-Owned Beauty Brands

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April 2025 Grants & Resources For Black-Owned Beauty Brands

Level up your business with these free grants and resources.

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Each month, Sadiaa Black Beauty Guide pulls up with a list of resources for beauty entrepreneurs and brand owners to which they can apply, pitch or submit. With Black-centered grants under fire, this list has become even more essential for start-ups and solopreneurs looking to get stable footing.

Click through for info on current opportunities you can apply or tap in to help your business thrive in 2025.


Goldman Sachs Black In Business

Black in Business is a free 10-week online business education program dedicated to equipping sole proprietors with the tools necessary to turn their business potential into business growth. The program helps sole proprietors learn how to price their product or service, hire their first employee, understand their finances, and so much more. Selected participated will also receive an all expenses-paid trip to NYC for in-person learning at Goldman Sachs headquarters.

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Deadline: April 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST
Apply here: goldmansachs.com


Breakthrough Grant

The Honeycomb Credit Breakthrough grant is offering up a $10K Grant to help small business owners level up. Funds can be used to expand a product line, move to a new space, purchase new equipment, or anything else that will help you breakthrough in 2025!

Application Deadline: April 2, 2025
Apply here: honeycombcredit.com/breakthrough


The MSP Equity Accelerator

Sponsored by Allianz invests in high-growth startups founded by undervalued entrepreneurs. For each cohort, we invest $100K in each of five startups who receive a concierge experience during our 12-week accelerator program.

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gener8tor is a nationally ranked accelerator that invests in high-growth startups and supports the growth of these startups through its network of experienced mentors, technologists, corporate partners, angel investors and venture capitalists.

Deadline: April 25, 2025
Apply here: gener8tor.com/investment-accelerators/msp-equity-accelerator


Black Ambition Prize & Black Ambition HBCU Prize

Founded in 2020 by Pharrell Williams, this groundbreaking opportunity provides funding, resources, and mentorship from top industry leaders to help entrepreneurs in consumer products and services, healthcare, media and entertainment, technology, and / or AI. The General Prize competition will award an early-stage company with up to $1 million, along with mentorship, pitch coaching, and design support.

Deadline: May 2, 2025
Apply here: blackambitionprize.com

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EmpowHer Grant

Just launched a clean beauty brand built around sustainability and the environment? Boundless Futures Foundation grant program may be just the right fit for you! This early-stage capital grant will award $25K in funding to female entrepreneurs with U.S.-based businesses operating for three years or less.

Deadline: May 15, 2025 (apply quarterly)
Apply here: boundlessfutures.org


ONGOING DEADLINES

Amazon Black Business Accelerator

If you’ve got a shop on Amazon (or are thinking about starting one), then this grant program is for you. Accepted businesses get access to mentorship along with FREE imaging services for up to 50 products, $500 credit for start-up and operational costs, and up to $3,000 in advertising credits. Select sellers will also be able to apply for additional cash grant opportunities.

Deadline: None, but don’t wait!
Apply here: sell.amazon.com

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Etsy Disaster Relief Grant Application

The Etsy Fund at CERF+ provides disaster relief grants of up to $2000 to U.S.-based Etsy sellers on a rolling basis based on available funds. Sellers are eligible to apply for a disaster emergency relief grant within one year of experiencing a natural disaster. Must be an active seller on Etsy for at least one year with an Etsy account in good standing.

Deadline: Ongoing.
Apply hereadvocacy.etsy.com


Wish Local Empowerment Grant

U.S.-based Black-owned businesses with a brick-and-mortar shop can apply for microgrants ranging from $500-$2000. Must have 20 or fewer employees and under $1M average revenue.

Deadline: Ongoing.
Apply here: wish.com


Business Funding

Many small businesses are underserved by traditional lenders, with Black business owners continuing to have a higher rejection rate than White business owners. We’ve connected with a service that offers financing and term loans to businesses that have been in operation for at least four month and AI-Powered Platform to help make your business more bankable.

Not sure if you qualify? Click through to create a free borrower profile and generate a Bankability Index Score which shows how attractive your business is to potential lenders (and what you need to work on).

Deadline: None
Apply here: wardfreedompath.com


Bank Of America “Access To Capital Connector”

Bank of America has partnered with Community Reinvestment Fund, a national nonprofit CDFI, to help small business owners find capital via loans ranging from $10K to $1M, coaching, and support.

Deadline: Ongoing.
Apply here: accesstocapitalconnector.com


Small Business Readiness for Resiliency

The U.S. Chamber Foundation and FedEx teamed up to create the Small Business Readiness for Resiliency Program (R4R) to help small business owners prepare for disasters and offers quick-turn relief funding of $5,000 for those prepared businesses after a federal disaster declaration is made in their region.

Deadline: Ongoing
Apply here: uschamberfoundation.org


Amazon Amplify

The Amazon Black Business Accelerator also offers Black-owned businesses access to its Amplify program. The business education program offers a cohort learning experience, including a dedicated Customer Success manager, a network of industry experts and business consultants, and peer group mentorship.

Deadline: None, but don’t wait!
Apply here: sell.amazon.com


S.P.U.R. Pathways

Shared Purpose, Unlimited Reach (S.P.U.R.) Pathways is a multiyear, multifaceted funding program in partnership with Momentus Capital to provide financial support to diverse-owned and underrepresented growth-stage businesses. The program is currently offering loans or investments of $20K and above, along with access to an advisory network for strategic growth advice such as business strategy and planning, financial reporting, daily operating challenges, opportunity evaluation, and other personalized services.

Deadline: Ongoing.
Apply here: macys.com


Start Small, Think Big

The nonprofit has established partnerships to offer free legal, finance, and marketing resources and small business support to BIPOC entrepreneurs, women, LGBTQIA+ entrepreneurs, immigrants, veterans, entrepreneurs with disabilities, low-income entrepreneurs, and formerly incarcerated entrepreneurs.

Must be currently operational and have at least $500 in sales within the past three months. Applicant must also have a household income under 750% of federal poverty guidelines.

Apply here: startsmallthinkbig.org


Minority Business Circle

Here’s another digital platform dedicated to empowering and connecting minority-owned small businesses, providing access to curated funding partners, resources, and virtual events.

Sign up here: minoritybusinesscircle.com


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Stephenetta Harmon is a Black beauty editor, curator, and digital media and communications expert who builds platforms to celebrate the power, impact, and business of Black beauty. Prior to founding Sadiaa Black Beauty Guide, she served as editor-in-chief for the MN Spokesman-Recorder and digital media director for Hype Hair. Find her at stephenetta.com.

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