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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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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

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

Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources

This grant supports the Institute to convene representatives from local environmental justice organizations and media outlets in Detroit to establish relationships between the two sectors and to prioritize key stories for climate action and impact. View Website

Amount

90,000

Year

2025

Location

Program

Detroit, Environment

Focus Area

Green Infrastructure Leadership Exchange

This grant enables the Green Infrastructure Leadership Exchange, a network of 560+ municipal water utility leaders, to share knowledge and advance advocacy in addressing climate-driven, urban flooding. View Website

Amount

440,000

Year

2025

Location

Towson, MD

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Environmental Protection Network

This grant supports the Environmental Protection Network, Lawyers for Good Government, and National Resources Defense Council (the Coalition) to aid non-profit organizations who have been awarded climate-related funding from the federal government, but whose funding is under threat of rescindment, delay, and/or investigation. View Website

Amount

150,000

Year

2025

Location

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

This grant supports the Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC) in scaling Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) investments in cities through innovative local funding approaches, such as Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund programs, Pay for Success contracting, and GSI incentives. View Website

Amount

100,000

Year

2025

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

Environment

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

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

GreenLatinos

With this grant GreenLatinos will strengthen the capacity of cross-sectoral, Latino/a/x leaders to advance climate-resilience policies and practices centered in equity and justice. View Website

Amount

$200,000

Year

2024

Location

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

WeSolar

This grant will enable WeSolar, the first Black-female-owned community-solar-power company in the United States, to strengthen its capacity to support grassroot groups, nonprofits, health organizations and churches seeking to implement solar projects. View Website

Amount

$50,000

Year

2024

Location

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

People’s Climate Innovation Center

This grant will support the People’s Climate Innovation Center to deepen capacity, collaboration, and alignment in the climate-resilience field by managing and growing a national peer-learning network of community groups; cultivating the next generation of climate leaders of color through professional-development programs; and facilitating cross-sector collaboration to create more effective and equitable relationships between local government and community organizations. View Website

Amount

$800,000

Year

2024

Location

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

People’s Solar Energy Fund

This renewal grant will enable the People’s Solar Energy Fund (PSEF) to support its network of community-based solar developers (CBSDs) in leveraging federal resources and expanding essential capacity building and technical assistance for community-led solar projects. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2024

Location

Albany, NY

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Multisolving Institute

The grant supports the Multisolving Institute in building out the Framework for Long-term Whole-system Equity-based Reflection (FLOWER), a facilitation app that assists leaders generate multisolving solutions that simultaneously address climate change, racial justice, health, and biodiversity. View Website

Amount

$46,500

Year

2024

Location

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

Environmental Leadership Program

This grant will provide tie-off support to the Environmental Leadership Program (ELP), whose RAY Clean Energy Diversity Fellowship Program provides recent college graduates of color with fellowships at organizations committed to advancing climate action to equip them with substantive work experience, tools, and guidance to become climate leaders. View Website

Amount

$100,000

Year

2024

Location

Greenbelt, Maryland

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

Alliance For Affordable Energy

This grant renews general operating support for the Alliance for Affordable Energy (Alliance), an advocate for fair, affordable, and environmentally responsible energy policy in New Orleans and Louisiana. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2024

Location

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment

This grant will support the third cohort of the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment’s (Rose) Grassroots Leadership Fund (GLF), a two-year regranting program that targets grassroots partners of grantees funded through Kresge’s Climate Resilient and Equitable Water Systems (CREWS) Initiative. View Website

Amount

$320,000.00

Year

2024

Location

Program

Environment

Focus Area

National Black Environmental Justice Network

This cross-team grant supports the National Black Environmental Justice Network (NBEJN), a collective of over 100 grassroots environmental justice (EJ) organizations. NBEJN will partner with the HBCU Climate Change Consortium to engage a network of place-based and national racial justice organizations to build the national infrastructure of the EJ movement. View Website

Amount

$700,000.00

Year

2024

Location

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Field Building

American Indian College Fund

This grant supports the American Indian College Fund’s efforts to assist 30 tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) to craft strategic enrollment management plans to boost Native student postsecondary enrollment, retention, and graduation rates. View Website

Amount

$468,000.00

Year

2024

Location

Denver, Colorado

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Collectrify

This grant will support Collectrify, a fund that awards grants to frontline organizations working to shift buildings and communities from fossil fuels to clean electricity. View Website

Amount

$500,000.00

Year

2024

Location

Washington, DC

Program

Environment

Focus Area

Healthy Gulf

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

Amount

$125,000.00

Year

2024

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Program

Environment

Focus Area

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