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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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Urban Sustainability Directors Network

This grant will provide general operating support for the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN), the premier network through which local government sustainability practitioners across the U.S. access resources and collaborate to advance their work. View Website

Amount

800,000

Year

2025

Location

Sanford, North Carolina

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

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. View Website

Amount

250,000

Year

2025

Location

Washington, DC

Program

Focus Area

Non-Profit Enterprise at Work, Inc.

This grant provides operating support to Non-Profit Enterprise at Work (NEW), one of five intermediaries that form a collaborative committed to strengthening nonprofit sector capacity in Detroit. View Website

Amount

300,000

Year

2025

Location

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

National Council of Urban Indian Health

This grant renewal will support the ability of the National Council of Urban Indian Health's (NCUIH) to advocate on behalf of its 41 member organizations for parity in federal funding formulas and to increase awareness of the most pressing health concerns of urban Native communities. View Website

Amount

300,000

Year

2025

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Health

Focus Area

Live Again Fresno

This two-year implementation grant from the Health and American Cities teams will enable Live Again Fresno to expand its trauma-informed education, community outreach and safety programs in the Jane Addams neighborhood as a member of the Fresno Building Healthy Communities collaborative that promotes health in economically disadvantaged Fresno communities with high exposure to violence and limited access to health promoting resources. View Website

Amount

400,000

Year

2025

Location

Program

American Cities, Health

Focus Area

Green Living Science

This project grant will fund Green Living Science to support a city of Detroit Green Task Force research trip to Philadelphia, PA to build foundational knowledge across the multi-sector attendees to advance and implement renewable energy, recycling, composting, transportation, stormwater management, and climate resilience practices in Detroit. View Website

Amount

40,000

Year

2025

Location

Detroit, Michigan

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

FSG

This grant will support the Collective Impact Forum, a partnership between FSG and the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions, to increase the effectiveness of collective impact efforts in cities across the country. View Website

Amount

30,000

Year

2025

Location

Boston, Massachusetts

Program

American Cities

Focus Area

College for Creative Studies

This grant supports the 2025 Kresge Arts in Detroit (KAID) program, which provides awards and professional development resources to individual artists across metro Detroit. The grant funds will sustain the program's three signature awards: the Kresge Eminent Artist Award (EA), Kresge Artist Fellowships (KAF), and Gilda Awards (GA). It will also support supplemental activities, such as communication efforts, public celebration events, and professional development resources. View Website

Amount

1,490,000

Year

2025

Location

Detroit, Michigan

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

Arts and Culture Ecosystem

Civilla

The grant will support Civilla with further integration of Human Centered Design within the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). View Website

Amount

400,000

Year

2025

Location

Detroit, MI

Program

Human Services

Focus Area

ChangeLab Solutions

This grant supports ChangeLab Solutions to host their Accelerating Policy Change series in communities interested in partnering with regions where health inequalities persist to help educate and use tools of law and policy to support health. View Website

Amount

400,000

Year

2025

Location

Oakland, California

Program

American Cities, Environment, Health

Focus Area

Chalkbeat

This grant provides general operating support to the Detroit bureau of Chalkbeat. Kresge’s funding for Chalkbeat supports its efforts to highlight community voices and impacts on early childhood, education equity, and educational outcomes for children in Detroit. View Website

Amount

150,000

Year

2025

Location

Detroit, Michigan

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

Big Cities Health Coalition

Big Cities Health Coalition

This grant will support The Big Cities Health Coalition’s goals to support the local public health ecosystem, be a resource to members, and foster leadership development amidst future public health challenges. View Website

Amount

750,000

Year

2025

Location

Bethesda, Maryland

Program

Health

Focus Area

Vision To Learn

This grant in partnership with the Detroit Health Department and the Michigan Department of Health will provide support and expand overall clinical and general operations, as well as contracted optometry professionals in providing eye exams and glasses for all children within the 66 Head Start programs in Detroit. View Website

Amount

400,000

Year

2025

Location

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

Ubuntu Village NOLA

This grant will support Ubuntu Village to amplify its violence prevention work through expanded collaborations with the Office of Violence Prevention, University Medical Center, and the Seeds of NOLA Trauma Recovery Center to improve health outcomes in economically disadvantaged New Orleans neighborhoods. View Website

Amount

400,000

Year

2025

Location

New Orleans LA

Program

American Cities, Health

Focus Area

Three Frame Media

This grant supports "The Class," a six-part PBS docuseries premiering in 2025 that highlights educational innovation. View Website

Amount

175,000

Year

2025

Location

Santa Monica, California

Program

Education

Focus Area

Outlier Media

This general operating grant will support Outlier Media, a nonprofit news organization focused on information needs in Detroit communities. View Website

Amount

150,000

Year

2025

Location

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

National Community Reinvestment Coalition

This grant supports the 2025 Just Economy Conference, an annual convening of leaders from community, business, foundation, policy and government that are involved in economic justice. View Website

Amount

10,000

Year

2025

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Detroit

Focus Area

National Center for Inquiry and Improvement

This grant supports the National Center for Inquiry and Improvement’s (NCII) second collaboration with the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program and the Ohio Student Success Center, to scale Ohio’s successful Leadership Academy. View Website

Amount

500,000

Year

2025

Location

Program

Education

Focus Area

Michigan Community College Association Foundation

The Michigan Center for Student Success will use this funding to strengthen capacity building initiatives for community colleges across the state. View Website

Amount

650,000

Year

2025

Location

Program

Education

Focus Area

Metro Solutions Inc.

This cross-team grant provides seed funding to launch the first phase of Detroit Youth Organizing for Power (DYOP), a two-phase, four-year collaborative initiative aimed to strengthen the field of community organizing in the Detroit area. View Website

Amount

250,000

Year

2025

Location

Southfield, MI

Program

Arts & Culture, Detroit

Focus Area

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