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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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National Public Housing Museum

This operating grant supports the National Public Housing Museum to continue programs that integrate creativity, housing justice, and economic empowerment such as cooperative entrepreneurship, workforce training, oral histories of public housing residents, and storytelling as tools for achieving social and civic outcomes, as well as support for artists, activists, and cultural workers in addressing inequities in housing and related issues. View Website

Amount

$280,000

Year

2025

Location

Chicago, Illinois

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

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

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

Environmental Health Coalition

This grant will support the Environmental Health Coalition (EHC) 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. EHC 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

National City, Calif.

Program

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

Focus Area

Define American

This operating grant supports Define American's mission and its work with artists, storytellers and culture bearers to promote authentic and nuanced storytelling about immigrant experiences through leveraging research, evidence-based resources and mutual support networks to strengthen cultural expressions that combat the polarization of immigrant stories across mediums and industries. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2025

Location

Louisville, Kentucky

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

CatchLight

This grant seeks to fortify representative local journalism. Catchlight will invest in community-based photojournalists and journalists to partner with local newsrooms and community organizations to tell the stories of community and community residents. View Website

Amount

$450,000

Year

2025

Location

Berkeley, California

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

Asian Pacific Environmental Network

This grant will support the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) 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. APEN 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

Oakland, California

Program

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

Focus Area

The Center for Cultural Power

This general operating grant supports the Center for Cultural Power in building a thriving national network of artists, culture bearers and movement groups working to shift world views through cultural strategy. The Center will bolster its network organizing and cultural strategy trainings, tools and field learning that build power for migration, bodily autonomy, climate and racial justice. View Website

Amount

$1 million

Year

2025

Location

Oakland, CA

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

Truthout

This grant supports the Movement Media Alliance, a coalition of social justice journalism organizations building a vibrant movement media ecosystem through shared infrastructure and collaboration. Kresge funding will expand arts and community coverage among coalition members and strengthen reporting on culture-based organizing that advances broader movement-building efforts. This investment recognizes the critical role of independent media in amplifying community voices, documenting creative placemaking strategies, and supporting the cultural narratives that drive social change and equity in urban communities. View Website

Amount

$250,000

Year

2025

Location

Sacramento, CA

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Next City

Next City, Inc. received cross-team support to advance solutions-based journalism on urban issues. The grant sustains Next City's Detroit reporting hub, expands health-focused coverage, and highlights innovative approaches from place-based community development partners across Kresge's focus cities, amplifying stories of cross-sector collaboration that build just and equitable urban communities. View Website

Amount

$500,000

Year

2025

Location

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Program

American Cities, Arts & Culture, Detroit, Health

Focus Area

Movement Strategy Center

Movement Strategy Center will partner with Kresge's Arts and Culture team to co-design a new initiative that includes regranting and peer learning opportunities for a cohort of grantees working to advance culture and creativity as catalysts for community transformation. This investment builds the capacity of arts and culture organizations to drive equitable community change by fostering collaboration, shared learning, and resource distribution among practitioners using creative placemaking strategies. View Website

Amount

$!50,000

Year

2025

Location

Oakland, California

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Advance Creative Strategies in Place

Movement Strategy Center

Movement Strategy Center, a national intermediary supporting 40 fiscally sponsored partners and over 180 grantee collaborators, receives operating support to strengthen community-based initiatives working at the intersection of cultural strategy, racial justice, and movement building. This cross-team investment recognizes the organization's role in advancing equitable community change through creative approaches that center culture as a driver of social transformation. View Website

Amount

$500,000

Year

2025

Location

Oakland, California

Program

Arts & Culture, Environment

Focus Area

First Peoples Fund

First Peoples Fund received general operating support to advance its mission of empowering Native artists and culture bearers to embrace their creativity, Indigenous identities, and values while driving positive social and economic change in their communities. The organization provides fellowships, grants, and professional development training for Indigenous artists nationwide, strengthening the arts ecology and supporting cultural leadership that builds community assets and pathways to opportunity. View Website

Amount

$450,000

Year

2025

Location

Rapid City, S.D.

Program

Arts & Culture

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

Movement Generation

This three-year grant supports Movement Generation's work embedding artists and storytellers in place-based and national environmental justice initiatives. Founded in 2020, the organization integrates ecological justice, cultural strategy, and technical assistance to help communities build equitable economies and transform extractive systems by reconnecting people to land, culture, and one another, advancing both environmental and cultural equity in urban and rural communities. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2025

Location

Berkeley, CA

Program

Arts & Culture

Focus Area

Iola’s Lyceum, Inc.

This project grant supports planning and program development for Iola's Lyceum to strengthen creative placemaking initiatives.

Amount

250000

Year

2025

Location

Brooklyn, NY

Program

Arts & Culture

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

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

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