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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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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

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

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

Marin Community Foundation

This grant will support the Community Foundation Climate Collaborative in its efforts to help community foundations across the country advance local climate action. Roughly half of this grant will support work in Kresge’s focus cities, and half will support the national membership network. View Website

Amount

300000

Year

2025

Location

Program

American Cities, Environment

Focus Area

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

Inclusive Prosperity Capital, Inc.

This grant will provide general operating support to Inclusive Prosperity Capital (IPC), a current PRI investee, as it seeks to stabilize from recent claw backs of federal funding aimed at expanding access to solar energy for communities with low income. View Website

Amount

100000

Year

2025

Location

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Field Building

Healthy Gulf

This grant will renew general operating support to Healthy Gulf, whose staff will support robust community engagement in New Orleans and coastal Louisiana to strengthen climate-resilience planning and decision-making at the local level, including consideration of economic, environmental, and social justice factors. View Website

Amount

125000

Year

2025

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Green the Church Renewable Energy Development Dev Co, LLC

This renewal grant will support capacity-building efforts for Green the Church – Renewable Energy Development (GTC-RED), a Kresge PRI loan recipient and a solar+storage developer working with houses of worship to develop comprehensive resiliency and decarbonization hubs that leverage EV charging as a source of revenue. View Website

Amount

100000

Year

2025

Location

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

Field Building

Earth Economics

Earth Economics (EE) makes the case for the multiple co-benefits of equitable green stormwater infrastructure (GSI). With renewed support, EE will provide 15 community-based organizations, including Kresge CREWS grant partners, with GSI research, valuation, and tools tailored to help communities advocate for local water projects and climate resilience policies centered on community needs. View Website

Amount

550000

Year

2025

Location

Tacoma, Washington

Program

Environment

Focus Area

West Harlem Environmental Action Inc.

This grant will support West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT), to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. View Website

Amount

675,000

Year

2025

Location

New York, New York

Program

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

Focus Area

UPROSE Inc.

This grant will support UPROSE to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. View Website

Amount

675,000

Year

2025

Location

Brooklyn, New York

Program

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

Focus Area

Race Forward

This grant provides continued general operating support for Race Forward, which works to build a multiracial democracy and a racially equitable society through interlocking strategies of narrative, power building, and institutional practice. The organization works nationally while grounding each of its initiatives in particular communities. View Website

Amount

1,425,000

Year

2025

Location

New York, New York

Program

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

Focus Area

Field Building

Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles

This grant will support Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles (PSR-LA), as lead partner of the LEAP-LA coalition, to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels. These efforts will help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. PSR-LA is one of 31 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity initiative (CCHE 2.0). View Website

Amount

$675,000

Year

2025

Location

Los Angeles, California

Program

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

Focus Area

Partners for a Healthier Community

This grant will support the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts (PHIWM), which convenes the Live Well Springfield coalition to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels. View Website

Amount

675,000

Year

2025

Location

Springfield, Massachusetts

Program

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

Focus Area

Opportunity Finance Network

This grant is to support the 470-member Opportunity Finance Network as it recovers from the abrupt freezing and potential ending of its $2.3 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund award. In particular this grant will provide resources for travel and modest consultant help as OFN works to develop its role in climate and climate lending going forward. View Website

Amount

50000

Year

2025

Location

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Program

Environment, Social Investment Practice

Focus Area

National Medical Association

The National Medical Association will partner with George Mason University Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, to train clinicians from underrepresented backgrounds to become leaders in climate and health advocacy, organizing, and education through the Climate and Health Equity Fellowship (CHEF). View Website

Amount

390,000

Year

2025

Location

Program

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

Focus Area

National Association of Community Health Centers Inc.

This grant will support National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) experts to provide technical coaching and regional/topic area peer learning cohorts in a variety of subject matters including but not limited to emergency management, environmental health, data systems, policy advocacy, clinic resilience hubs, and heat-health monitoring. View Website

Amount

675,000

Year

2025

Location

Bethesda, Md.

Program

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

Focus Area

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

This grant will support Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability (LCJA) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners. LCJA is one of 31 organizations recommended for implementation funding as part of Kresge’s Climate Change, Health and Equity initiative (CCHE 2.0). View Website

Amount

$675,000

Year

2025

Location

Fresno, California

Program

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

Focus Area

Fresno, Memphis & New Orleans

ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability USA

This grant will support ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability USA in implementing the Communities Leading on Climate Mobility Initiative, a national, multi-sector effort to address climate-driven migration. This initiative aims to build a climate mobility ecosystem by developing local infrastructure and policies that foster resilient, inclusive communities equipped to support those displaced by climate impacts. View Website

Amount

150,000

Year

2025

Location

Boston, Massachusetts

Program

American Cities, Detroit, Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

Homewood Children’s Village

This grant will support the Homewood Children's Village (HCV) to implement place-based community-driven climate interventions at the local, regional, and state levels that help communities better prepare for and respond to the health and economic impacts of climate disruption by partnering with health and other multi-sector partners.

Amount

675000

Year

2025

Location

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Program

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

Focus Area

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