Grant Opportunities

Updated April 4, 2024

Conservation Technical Assistance: Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative. USDA. To expand the delivery of conservation technical assistance to support grazing planning and conservation practice implementation and monitoring, conferences and other education, demonstrations, producer networks, workforce training, research and outreach projects to improve agricultural resilience. Due: May 26, 2024

Revolving Fund Program. USDA. For pre-development costs associated with proposed water and wastewater projects or with existing water and wastewater systems. Due: May 1, 2024

Socially Disadvantaged Groups. USDA. To provide technical assistance for cooperative development to socially disadvantaged groups through cooperatives and cooperative development centers. Due: June 3, 2024

Market Access Program. USDA. To foster expanded exports and market diversification by encouraging the development, maintenance, and expansion of diverse commercial export markets for United States agricultural commodities and products. Due: June 14, 2024

Social and Economic Development Strategies. HHS. For community-driven projects designed to grow local economies, strengthen Native American families, including the preservation of Native American cultures, and decrease the high rate of current challenges caused by the lack of community-based businesses, and social and economic infrastructure in Native American communities. Due: May 20, 2024

Kubota Hometown Proud 2024. Charitable. Calling all non-profits! Do you have a community-based project that could use some support? From community gardens and ag education centers to all-access parks and open space preservation projects, Kubota Tractor Corporation and our network of local dealers want to help with what’s important to you and your community. Due: April 12, 2024

Updated April 2, 2024

Telecommunications Infrastructure Loans & Loan Guarantees. USDA. Federal. Project-based funding. Eligible entities include state and local government, Tribes, NPOs including Cooperatives, and for-profit businesses. This program provides financing for the construction, maintenance, improvement and expansion of telephone service and broadband in rural areas.

Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program. USDA. Federal. Eligible entities include Current Rural Utilities Service, electrical or telecommunication borrower; any former RUS borrower; or any nonprofit utility that is eligible. Provides funding for rural projects through local utility organizations. USDA provides zero-interest loans to local utilities which they, in turn, pass through to local businesses (ultimate recipients) for projects that will create and retain employment in rural areas. Deadlines March 31 and June 30.

Rural Business Investment Program. USDA. Federal. Eligible enLLes for-profits and subsidiaries of an entity. Provides a Rural Business Investment Company (RBIC) license to newly formed developmental capital organizations to fill the need for business and development capital in rural areas. The program works with for-profit developmental capital funds. Rolling Deadlines.

Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant Program. USDA. Federal. Eligible entities include Current Rural Utilities Service, electrical or telecommunication borrower; any former RUS borrower; or any nonprofit utility that is eligible. Provides funding for rural projects through local utility organizations. USDA provides zero-interest loans to local utilities which they, in turn, pass through to local businesses (ultimate recipients) for projects that will create and retain employment in rural areas. Deadlines March 31 and June 30.

Public Works and Economic Adjustment Assistance. EDA. Federal. Project-based funding. Eligible entities State, local government, nonprofits 501c3 and not, special district governments, and Tribes. The Public Works program provides resources to meet the construction and/or infrastructure design needs of communities to enable them to become more economically competitive. Supported activities under EDA’s EAA program include construction and non-construction such as construction or upgrading of public infrastructure, sectoral partnerships for workforce training, design and engineering, technical assistance, economic recovery strategies, and capitalization or re-capitalization of Revolving Loan Funds.

Draper Richland Kaplan. Foundation. Eligible applicants nonprofits. This foundation will invest and help provide support to entrepreneurs for a three-year funding cycle to launch and expand their ventures.

Hometown Grants. T-Mobile. Foundation. Project-based funding. Eligible entities are local government, tribal leaders, or nonprfit community leaders. The program will fund projects to build, rebuild, or refresh community spaces that help foster local connections in small towns (with populations less than 50,000), including town squares, historic buildings, outdoor parks, ball fields, or libraries. Elected leaders, town managers or employees, or nonprofit leaders are eligible to submit project details. Deadline: Awards will be made quarterly. Applications will be open on a quarterly basis and the portal will close on the last day of each quarter and reopen for the new quarter on the first of the month.

Community Facilities Direct Loan & Grant Program. USDA. Federal. Project-based funding. Eligible entities. This program provides affordable funding to develop essential community facilities in rural areas. An essential community facility is defined as a facility that provides an essential service to the local community for the orderly development of the community in a primarily rural area, and does not include private, commercial, or business undertakings. Detailed list of essential community facilities included in link.

Thriving Communities Technical Assistance. HUD. Federal. Eligible entities are those that are eligible under specific grants. Technical assistance funding. The program will help local governments ensure housing needs are considered as part of their larger infrastructure investment plans, while also supporting equitable development in disadvantaged communities. Investments to revitalize communities, ensure equitable access to resources, create economic opportunities for residents and businesses, and improve housing availability, affordability, and quality.

Thriving Children. W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Foundation. General operating and project-based funding. Eligible entities nonprofit organizations. The foundation supports in three primary areas: Thriving Children: We support a healthy start and quality learning experiences for all children. Working Families: We invest in efforts to help families obtain stable, high-quality jobs. Equitable Communities: We want all communities to be vibrant, engaged and equitable.

Water & Waste Disposal Loan & Grant Program. USDA. Federal. Project-based funding. Eligible entities, private nonprofits, Tribes. This program provides funding for clean and reliable drinking water systems, sanitary sewage disposal, sanitary solid waste disposal, and storm water drainage to households and businesses in eligible rural areas. Funds may be used to finance the acquisition, construction, or improvement of drinking water sourcing, treatment, storage, and distribution; sewer collection, transmission, treatment, and disposal; solid waste collection, disposal, and closure; storm water collection, transmission, and disposal.

Rural Energy for America Program Renewable Energy Systems & Energy Efficiency Improvement Guaranteed Loans and Grants. Project-based. Eligible entities agricultural producers and small business. Guaranteed loans and grant financing to help agricultural producers and rural small businesses invest in renewable energy systems and make energy- efficiency improvements. Deadlines March 31, June 30, and September 30.

Native American Affairs: Emergency Drought for Tribes. BOR. Federal (IIJA). Eligible entities Tribes. Provide assistance to eligible Tribes that are impacted by the operation of Reclamation water projects with near-term drought relief projects; to assist eligible Tribes to develop, manage and protect their water and related resources to mitigate the adverse impacts of drought. Deadline April 11.

Climate Pollution Reduction Grant. Project-based funding. Eligible entities States, local government, Tribes. EPA has announced two competitions for CPRG implementation grants – a general competition for applications from states, municipalities, tribes, tribal consortia, and territories, and a competition only for tribes, tribal consortia, and territories. These competitions are open to entities that received planning grants to develop Priority Climate Action Plans (PCAPs) under phase 1 of the CPRG program, as well as entities that did not directly receive a planning grant that are applying for funds to implement measures included in an applicable PCAP. Eligible applicants may only apply for funding to implement measures contained in an applicable PCAP. Deadline May 1.

Upskill Prize for Solar Manufacturing. Competition-based funding. Eligible entities private for-profit or nonprofit organizations, non-federal government entities, and academic institutions. Teams must be led by either a U.S.-based PV manufacturer or a U.S.-based training organization. The American-Made Upskill Prize for the Solar Manufacturing Workforce (Upskill Prize) is a multi-million-dollar competition designed to accelerate the expansion of the U.S. solar manufacturing workforce and equip workers with the skills necessary to revitalize the domestic solar module manufacturing supply chain. This prize addresses critical workforce needs at various stages of the U.S. solar photovoltaics (PV) module supply chain. Deadline May 21.