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Kresge’s grant database allows you to search for grants awarded since 2009. You can search and filter by program area, focus area, year and location.

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Movement Strategy Center

This project grant will support the Movement Strategy Center in partnering with the Arts & Culture Program to develop and administer Culture of Justice 2.0, a three-year initiative focused on cultural and community resilience. View Website

Amount

6000000

Year

2025

Location

Oakland, California

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits

This grant will support the Minnesota Budget Project’s state policy efforts to advance a more equitable and sustainable tax system, their ability to provide rapid response to nonprofits in their state and nationally to other states, and their engagement in the Human Services Cash Innovate and Activate community of practice as a state policy lead. View Website

Amount

200000

Year

2025

Location

St. Paul, MN

Program

Human Services

Focus Area

CollegeSpring

This grant will enable College Spring to expand its in-school college preparation program to six to eight urban under-resourced Texas districts over three years, reaching 12,000 low-income students. View Website

Amount

350000

Year

2025

Location

San Francisco, California

Program

Education

Focus Area

National Housing Institute/Shelterforce

This cross-team renewal grant, between Arts and Culture and Health, will support Shelterforce as they continue in-depth, independent journalism highlighting health equity, creative placemaking, and community development approaches that interrupt systemic inequities in healthcare, education, housing instability, and economic opportunities throughout the country. View Website

Amount

390000

Year

2025

Location

Montclair, N.J.

Program

Arts & Culture, Health

Focus Area

Community Health Ecosystems

Veterans Education Success Inc.

This grant supports Veterans Education Success (VES), a nonpartisan organization that champions the rights of student veterans, will elevate veterans’ voices while advancing postsecondary access, quality, and accountability through media training, nonpartisan advocacy convenings with policymakers, and expansion of a free legal aid clinic for student veterans. View Website

Amount

275000

Year

2025

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Education

Focus Area

US Water Alliance

This grant will support the 2026 CREWS Grant Partner Convening which will be held in New Orleans, LA, in March 2026. The grant will fund strategic facilitation, event-planning, and logistics support by the US Water Alliance (Alliance) and Catalyst Collaboratives LLC, as well as lodging, meals, transportation, site visits, honorariums, and vendors. This grant also funds a grantee networking event at the Alliance’s 2025 One Water Summit. View Website

Amount

303500

Year

2025

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Environment

Focus Area

University of Pennsylvania

This project support grant is a co-investment by the Detroit and the American Cities Programs in The Center for Public Service and Policy at the University of Pennsylvania (CPSP), led by former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. View Website

Amount

400000

Year

2025

Location

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Program

American Cities, Detroit

Focus Area

UNITE-LA Inc.

This grant will provide general operating support to UNITE-LA, which focuses on postsecondary access and attainment in the nation’s second largest city, including college advising, dual enrollment, degree and credential completion, and workforce alignment. View Website

Amount

300000

Year

2025

Location

Los Angeles, California

Program

Education

Focus Area

Institutional Capacity Building for Student Success

Tulane University

This cross-team grant with the American Cities Program will support the Cowen Institute to strengthen the New Orleans College and Career Attainment Network (NOLA CCAN). NOLA CCAN is a city-wide coordinated effort focused on increasing college access and success for low-income, first-generation, and students of color. The grant supports key staff positions, expands FAFSA completion efforts, enhances counselor training, and strengthens data use across 70+ high schools and organizations. View Website

Amount

400000

Year

2025

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Program

American Cities, Education

Focus Area

The Aspen Institute Inc.

This project support grant to the Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation (PSI) will increase funding for its role as backbone for the Community Foundation Business Model Project, which engages leaders of those institutions to re-envision how they operate (e.g., increasing donor alignment, restructuring fees) to better meet community needs. View Website

Amount

200000

Year

2025

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

RYSE

This cross-team grant from the Health and Arts & Culture programs will enable the RYSE Center to build its capacity as a national field building leader in creative, culturally affirming and community-centered healing strategies that support the collective, multi-modal learning and dissemination activities of Kresge-funded community safety and health partners in Detroit, New Orleans, Memphis and Fresno. View Website

Amount

650000

Year

2025

Location

Richmond, CA

Program

Arts & Culture, Health

Focus Area

Community Health Ecosystems

RE-volv

This grant will support RE-volv, a solar + storage developer and current Kresge PRI loan and guarantee recipient, in its efforts to engage with community action agencies and the National Community Action Partnership. View Website

Amount

70000

Year

2025

Location

San Franscisco

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Field Building

Project on Predatory Student Lending Inc.

This general operating support grant helps the Project on Predatory Student Lending (PPSL) strengthen pathways to an affordable, quality college education by exposing and eliminating predatory behavior in higher education. View Website

Amount

275000

Year

2025

Location

Boston, MA

Program

Education

Focus Area

Partnership for Southern Equity

This grant will support Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions in Southwest Atlanta that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption. View Website

Amount

675000

Year

2025

Location

Atlanta, Georgia

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Environment, Health

Focus Area

National Public Housing Museum

This operating grant supports the National Public Housing Museum to continue programs that integrate creativity, housing justice, and economic empowerment such as cooperative entrepreneurship, workforce training, oral histories of public housing residents, and storytelling as tools for achieving social and civic outcomes, as well as support for artists, activists, and cultural workers in addressing inequities in housing and related issues. View Website

Amount

$280,000

Year

2025

Location

Chicago, Illinois

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

National College Advising Corps Inc.

This cross-team grant with the American Cities Program supports the College Advising Corps’ (CAC) planning efforts to place near-peer college advisors in five Fresno high schools in fall 2026. View Website

Amount

200000

Year

2025

Location

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Program

American Cities, Education

Focus Area

Memphis Medical District Collaborative

This cross-team grant from the Health and American Cities programs will enable the Memphis Medical District Collaborative to leverage the investment practices and capital of nine member institutions to expand economic opportunity, as a pathway towards a more equitable, safe and heathy District and city. View Website

Amount

500000

Year

2025

Location

Memphis, Tennessee

Program

American Cities, Health

Focus Area

MDRC

This cross-team grant from the Education and American Cities Programs will support MDRC to partner with Tennessee Achieves (tnAchieves) and Southwest Tennessee Community College (SWTCC), the only community college in Memphis, to strengthen comprehensive student support systems. View Website

Amount

600000

Year

2025

Location

New York, New York

Program

American Cities, Education

Focus Area

Juxtaposition Arts

This grant renews operating support to Juxtaposition Arts, a youth-focused organization in North Minneapolis that works at the intersection of design, community development, and social enterprise and pairs young people with paid apprenticeships to foster their creative skills, community leadership, and professional readiness. View Website

Amount

280000

Year

2025

Location

Minneapolis, Minn.

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

Just Solutions Collective

This grant provides continued support for the Just Solutions Collective, a national organization working to enable equitable and effective climate action at the state and local level. Community Initiatives provides fiscal sponsorship. View Website

Amount

300000

Year

2025

Location

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

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