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Grants Awarded

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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Women’s Foundation of Alabama

This grant will advance the Women’s Foundation of Alabama programmatic and policy agenda to close the women of color wealth gap. View Website

Amount

$450,000

Year

2024

Location

Program

Human Services

Focus Area

Voices for Racial Justice

This general operating grant supports Voices for Racial Justice's mission to strengthen Minnesota's racial justice movement through cultural and healing strategies. View Website

Amount

$200,000

Year

2024

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Urban Strategies Inc.

This grant to Urban Strategies Inc. will provide continued funding for their person-centered systems change efforts to ensure that families living in low-wealth communities are centered and included in policy development, particularly those policies and practices that disproportionately and negatively impact their social and economic success. View Website

Amount

$725,000

Year

2024

Location

St. Louis, Missouri

Program

Human Services

Focus Area

United States Artists, Inc.

In partnership with The Gilbert Foundation, this grant will support 10 Detroit-based BIPOC artist-led organizations to increase their capacity to support neighborhood-level projects and community-building efforts. View Website

Amount

$375,000

Year

2024

Location

Chicago, Ill.

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

The League

This grant supports The League to continue the Culture Surge project, a cultural and civic strategy initiative. View Website

Amount

$400,000

Year

2024

Location

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

The Brookings Institution

This project grant will support the Brookings Institute fund an Intergovernmental Personnel Act position with the Department of Treasury. View Website

Amount

$235,786

Year

2024

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Focus Area

The Aspen Institute, Inc.

This project support grant to the Aspen Institute will help its Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation play the role of backbone for the Community Foundation Business Model Project. View Website

Amount

$50,000

Year

2024

Location

Washington, DC

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

The Aspen Institute, Inc.

This grant will support Ascend at the Aspen Institute to continue to strengthen 2Gen approaches at the practice level, within public systems, and policies, and expand family economic mobility and prosperity while also supporting grantee partners with implementation. View Website

Amount

$900,000

Year

2024

Location

Washington, DC

Program

Human Services

Focus Area

The Aspen Institute, Inc.

The Aspen Institute Congressional Program was created in 1983, to help Congress govern more effectively by giving members a unique opportunity to engage each other and experts, fostering open, civil discourse in pursuit of the national interest. Since the program’s inception, the Program has conducted 691 congressional breakfast discussions and 156 international conferences in which 660 Members of Congress have participated. View Website

Amount

$250,000

Year

2024

Location

Washington, DC

Program

Focus Area

The Aspen Institute, Inc.

This grant will enable The Aspen Institute to award the biannual Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, which elevates exceptional community colleges and facilitates the replication of promising practices in the student success field. View Website

Amount

$250,000

Year

2024

Location

Washington, DC

Program

Education

Focus Area

Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History

This grant will provide general operating support for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery, which was authorized and founded by Congress in 1962 with the mission to acquire and display portraits of individuals who have made significant contributions to the history, development, and culture of the people of the United States. View Website

Amount

$10,000

Year

2024

Location

Program

Focus Area

Robert A. Toigo Foundation

This grant - part of the Investment team's three-prong DEI strategy (talent, portfolio, industry leadership) - is a sponsorship for the Robert A. Toigo Foundation's Annual Gala, a gathering of 1,000 professionals representing top finance firms, Toigo alumni and fellows.

Amount

$10,000

Year

2024

Location

Oakland, CA

Program

Focus Area

Opportunity Finance Network

This grant is to support the 400-member Opportunity Finance Network’s annual conference of stakeholders within the opportunity finance field – including CDFIs, investors, foundations, researchers, and policymakers—for learning and collaboration. View Website

Amount

$50,000

Year

2024

Location

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Program

Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

One Nation/One Project

This cross-team Arts & Culture and Health grant supports the One Nation/One Project, a two-year national arts and health initiative examining the role of arts and culture in repairing the social fabric and contributing to healthier outcomes. View Website

Amount

$1,000,000

Year

2024

Location

Program

Arts & Culture, Health

Focus Area

Field Building

National Bankers Association

The National Bankers Association - established 97 years ago as the Negro Bankers Association - serves as the voice of minority banking, representing 32 minority depository institutions, including the nation’s 19 Black-owned banks. This grant will support the NBA’s annual convening at $25,000 (Gold level), and fund research on mortgage lending from Minority Depository Institutions. View Website

Amount

$50,000

Year

2024

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits

This grant will provide funding to the Minnesota Budget Project to support their state policy efforts to advance a more equitable and sustainable tax system and to expand civic and partner engagement in public policy. View Website

Amount

$100,000

Year

2024

Location

St. Paul, MN

Program

Human Services

Focus Area

Main Street Launch

Operated by Jen Leybovich, an executive at Main Street Launch, a small-business focused CDFI headquartered in Oakland, CA. This grant will help Main Street Launch allow Jen to devote more of her time to the work and move it from a largely extra-curricular activity for Jen to an official part of her role. View Website

Amount

$75,000

Year

2024

Location

Program

Focus Area

Live Again Fresno

This grant from the Health and American Cities programs will support Live Again Fresno expand its trauma-informed education, mentorship, community outreach, community employment, and health promotion and community safety programs for Fresno children and families living along Parkway Drive and in the Jane Addams neighborhood of Fresno. View Website

Amount

$150,000

Year

2024

Location

Program

American Cities, Health

Focus Area

Jolt Initiative

This cross-team grant, one of a suite of six aimed towards democracy and student voting, will support the Jolt Initiative to address the underrepresentation of young Texas Latinos in civic engagement. View Website

Amount

$125,000

Year

2024

Location

Austin, Texas

Program

Arts & Culture, Education, Health

Focus Area

Island Press – Center for Resource Economics

This grant supports Island Press’ efforts to inform the public and policymakers of climate challenges and solutions and to bolster urban practitioners’ abilities to incorporate climate mitigation and adaptation into their work. View Website

Amount

$700,000

Year

2024

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

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