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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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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

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

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

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

Become, Inc.

This project grant supports Become, Inc., a movement-building organization, to continue collaborating with the residents and artists in Chicago’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood. View Website

Amount

$150,000

Year

2024

Location

Chicago, IL

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Center for Cultural Innovation

This project grant renews support to the Center for Cultural Innovation for AmbitioUS, a ten-year national initiative designed to influence and develop more sustainable alternative economic systems and services by, for and with artists. View Website

Amount

$1,400,000

Year

2024

Location

Los Angeles, CA

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Smart Growth America

This cross-team general operating grant supports Smart Growth America's mission to empower communities to revitalize and grow to promote healthier living and shared prosperity. View Website

Amount

$800,000

Year

2024

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

NDN Collective, Inc.

This cross-team operating grant renews support for the NDN Collective's climate, cultural, economic, healing and racial justice efforts. View Website

Amount

$1,000,000

Year

2024

Location

Rapid City, SD

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Mixed Blood Theatre

This general operating grant will support Mixed Blood Theater's mission and use theater, spoken word, arts, and dialogue to promote belonging and celebrate the diverse voices of Minneapolis and the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. View Website

Amount

$200,000

Year

2024

Location

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Grantmakers in the Arts

This general operating grant supports Grantmakers in the Arts, which provides services to the arts and culture funder community and leadership to advance more responsive, sustainable and equitable practices that will lead to intersectional and economic justice for all. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2024

Location

Seattle, Washington

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Community Power Collective

This general operating grant supports the Community Power Collective and its mission to build power with low-income tenants and workers in Boyle Heights, East LA and the greater Los Angeles area. View Website

Amount

$223,000

Year

2024

Location

Brooklyn, CA

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Communities United For Restorative Youth Justice

This general operating grant supports Communities United for Reparative Youth Justice and its efforts unlock the leadership of young people to end youth criminalization and incarceration in the City of Oakland and the State of California. View Website

Amount

$305,000

Year

2024

Location

Oakland, CA

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Colloqate Design

This general operating grant supports Colloqate Design's mission to build community power by designing social, civic, and cultural spaces. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2024

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Colaborativa La Milpa

This general operating grant supports Colaborativa La Milpa's mission to serve Asheville, North Carolina's Latine community by organizing for affordable housing, immigrant rights, cultural preservation, community safety and well-being. View Website

Amount

$200,000

Year

2024

Location

Asheville, NC

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

School of Arts and Culture at MHP

This general operating grant renews support to the School of Arts and Culture at Mexican Heritage Plaza and its mission to catalyze creativity and empower the East San Jose, California community. View Website

Amount

$305,000.00

Year

2024

Location

San Jose, CA

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Historic Clayborn Temple

This cross-team grant supports Historic Clayborn Temple's operations and programs that use creativity and cultural strategies to cultivate a sense of belonging, safety, love, joy, and abundance in its South Memphis neighborhood, citywide and beyond. In addition, the grant will advance plans to develop a South Memphis Civil Rights Cultural District, comprised of 17 properties, in the neighborhood surrounding the Temple. View Website

Amount

$1,000,000.00

Year

2024

Location

Memphis, Tennessee

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Harness Community

This operating support grant supports Harness Community's mission to convene artists, activists, and movement leaders to educate, inspire, and activate a community of cultural organizers to use the power of storytelling to create a more equitable world. View Website

Amount

$300,000.00

Year

2024

Location

West Hollywood, CA

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Field Building

Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon

This general operating grant supports the Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon’s place-keeping strategies to build connection, resist displacement and cultivate a strong social fabric in and around East Portland’s Jade District. It works with artists and community residents to create socially engaged activations that contribute to the neighborhood’s resilience. View Website

Amount

$300,000.00

Year

2024

Location

Portland, OR

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Jolt Initiative

This cross-team grant (Education, Health, and Arts & Culture), aimed towards democracy and student voting, will support the Jolt Initiative to address the underrepresentation of young Texas Latinos in civic engagement. Focused on cultivating youth leadership and community organizing, Jolt's unique approach is rooted in Latino arts and culture and empowers a Latino-led movement through civic participation and storytelling. View Website

Amount

$125,000

Year

2024

Location

Austin, Texas

Program

Arts & Culture, Education, Health

Focus Area

Local Initiatives Support Corporation

This grant supports Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) in expanding the capacity of community development organizations nationwide and promoting social and economic mobility and opportunities through arts and culture. View Website

Amount

$900,000

Year

2023

Location

New York, New York

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Human Services

Focus Area

Knowledge Exchange

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