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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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Women’s Foundation of Alabama

This grant will advance the Women’s Foundation of Alabama programmatic and policy agenda to close the women of color wealth gap. View Website

Amount

$450,000

Year

2024

Location

Program

Human Services

Focus Area

Urban Strategies Inc.

This grant to Urban Strategies Inc. will provide continued funding for their person-centered systems change efforts to ensure that families living in low-wealth communities are centered and included in policy development, particularly those policies and practices that disproportionately and negatively impact their social and economic success. View Website

Amount

$725,000

Year

2024

Location

St. Louis, Missouri

Program

Human Services

Focus Area

The Aspen Institute, Inc.

This grant will support Ascend at the Aspen Institute to continue to strengthen 2Gen approaches at the practice level, within public systems, and policies, and expand family economic mobility and prosperity while also supporting grantee partners with implementation. View Website

Amount

$900,000

Year

2024

Location

Washington, DC

Program

Human Services

Focus Area

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits

This grant will provide funding to the Minnesota Budget Project to support their state policy efforts to advance a more equitable and sustainable tax system and to expand civic and partner engagement in public policy. View Website

Amount

$100,000

Year

2024

Location

St. Paul, MN

Program

Human Services

Focus Area

Hispanic Unity of Florida

This grant to the Hispanic Unity of Florida will provide continued support to advance and expand its two-generation approach support services to Miami Dade County. View Website

Amount

$500,000

Year

2024

Location

Hollywood, Florida

Program

Human Services

Focus Area

Who’s Your Dani, LLC

This grant is to support the planning and implementation of the 2024 SIS (Sisters in Service) session. This series and support was requested by Black women grantee human services partner leaders focused on service and systems change. View Website

Amount

$145,135

Year

2024

Location

Houston, TX

Program

Human Services

Focus Area

The Sycamore Institute

The Sycamore Institute

This grant will continue to build on the Sycamore Institute’s research efforts to provide more accessible and user-friendly data products for policymakers, issue influencers, and the media to better understand and articulate the systemic barriers to and opportunities for child and family economic well-being across Tennessee. View Website

Amount

$150,000

Year

2024

Location

Nashville, Tennessee

Program

Human Services

Focus Area

R. Adams & Associates

This grant to R. Adams & Associates will support the implementation phase of the Brothers Backing Brothers Collaborative focused on Human Services’ men of color grantee partner leaders focused on person centered systems change to advance multigenerational family social and economic success.

Amount

$95,000

Year

2024

Location

Program

Human Services

Focus Area

Equis Institute

This grant will provide support to Equis Institute to continue their research to better understand the Latino community and electorate there-by improving the quality of information and data available to community and partner organizations to improve their approaches to reaching and engaging Latino communities. View Website

Amount

$200,000

Year

2024

Location

San Francisco, CA

Program

Human Services

Focus Area

T P Ricks, LLC

This grant will support T P Ricks LLC’s work in collaboration with the current grantee, Communications Across Barriers, to continue to provide poverty informed training and community engagement efforts throughout Louisiana’s human services sector. View Website

Amount

$50,000.00

Year

2024

Location

Baton Rouge, LA

Program

Human Services

Focus Area

Women's Foundation For A Greater Memphis

Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis

This grant to the Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis (WFGM) will support their continued efforts to align people and resources, coordinate community-based services through a Two-Generation and person-centered approach that supports economic and social mobility. Foundation funding will support their development of a more comprehensive understanding and implementation of a two-generation approach, allowing them to realize their Vision 2025 Strategic Plan to expand investments and increase the impact of partners working to increase social and economic mobility for women and their families. View Website

Amount

$600,000

Year

2024

Location

Memphis, Tennessee

Program

Human Services

Focus Area

Powered by Shakti LLC

This grant will continue the partnership with Power by Shakti to work directly with the human services team and partners by providing 2Gen technical assistance specifically aimed at identified state and federal lever of opportunities for change and improvements. A key body of work in 2024 will be focused on supporting the 2024 TANF Innovation and Action Community of Practice. View Website

Amount

$155,000

Year

2024

Location

Program

Human Services

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

Accounting Aid Society

This grant provides project support to the Accounting Aid Society (AAS) to expand tax preparation capacity in Detroit’s neighborhoods as part of the Detroit Tax Credit Coalition. Kresge funding will ensure that non-filers who typically do not file taxes but are eligible for public benefits through the tax system can fully benefit from public resources by supporting AAS to extend tax prep capacity beyond the traditional tax season and to expand into neighborhood sites to provide tax prep services in locations most proximate to residents. View Website

Amount

$50,000

Year

2023

Location

Detroit, Michigan

Program

Detroit, Human Services

Focus Area

United Way for Southeastern Michigan

This grant provides project support to the United Way for Southeastern Michigan to facilitate the Detroit Tax Credit Coalition, which coordinates tax preparation providers, community-based outreach partners and civic and corporate leaders to advance economic mobility for Detroiters by ensuring access to benefits available through federal and state tax filings. View Website

Amount

$200,000

Year

2023

Location

Detroit, Michigan

Program

Detroit, Human Services

Focus Area

Coordinated Investments and Technical Assistance

R. Adams & Associates

This grant aims to support the next phase of the partnership with R. Adams & Associates, focused on examining the human services public sector's role in securing climate/environmental justice to advance multigenerational social and economic family success.

Amount

$50,000

Year

2023

Location

Program

Human Services

Focus Area

Supporting Public Policy and Field Building

Economic Security Project

This grant aims to support the next phase of the partnership with the Economic Security Project (ESP), which is focused on activating and equipping the Guaranteed Income Community of Practice members to move from pilots to policy. This phase will likely include a national GBI summit in Detroit to catalyze existing efforts in Michigan. View Website

Amount

$900,000

Year

2023

Location

Washington, D.C.

Program

American Cities, Detroit, Human Services

Focus Area

Supporting Public Policy and Field Building

ideas42

This grant supports the next phase of a partnership with Ideas42 focused on dismantling harmful Detroit narratives and adding more local partners, informed by behavioral science expertise, to develop campaign efforts, rigorously measure progress against damaging narratives, and disseminate findings for field building in other places. View Website

Amount

$610,000

Year

2023

Location

New York, New York

Program

Detroit, Human Services

Focus Area

Supporting Public Policy and Field Building

Mosaic Changemakers

This grant supports the Mosaic Changemakers’ fellowship program (2023 Cohort), a leadership and network development program for BIPOC leaders in the South, including Memphis, working to advance economic and racial justice. View Website

Amount

$300,000

Year

2023

Location

Nashville, Tennessee

Program

Human Services

Focus Area

Supporting Public Policy and Field Building

Economic Opportunity Funders

This grant will provide operational support for the Economic Opportunity Funders to connect and align funders through events and joint learning opportunities to strengthen social and economic mobility outcomes for families. View Website

Amount

$75,000

Year

2023

Location

Program

Human Services

Focus Area

Supporting Public Policy and Field Building

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