Catalog · 175 programs across 27 agencies
Federal funding programs for cities and infrastructure firms.
These are the programs the Strategic Pursuit agent scores when you run a city dossier. Each one has a dedicated page with eligibility rules, typical award size, application window, statutory authority, and a link to the official agency NOFO.
1 programs
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
3 programs
Department of Education
21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC)
$50K – $2MFormula funding through state education agencies for community-based out-of-school-time programs serving high-poverty and low-performing schools. Cities, school districts, CBOs, and faith-based organizations eligible as sub-grantees.
Public Facilities · Economic Development
Full-Service Community Schools
$500K – $5MFunds coordinated, integrated services at public schools serving high-poverty student populations — wraparound social services, family engagement, expanded learning, and community partnerships.
Public Facilities · Economic Development
Promise Neighborhoods
$3M – $30MFunds community-led, cradle-to-career strategies that improve educational and developmental outcomes for children in distressed neighborhoods. Eligible applicants are nonprofits, IHEs, and Indian tribes; cities partner.
Economic Development · Housing
9 programs
Department of Energy
DOE Office of Indian Energy — Tribal Energy Programs
$100K – $20MCompetitive grants for tribal energy projects: clean energy planning, installation of generation and storage, energy efficiency in tribal buildings, resilient power for community facilities.
Energy · Disaster Resilience
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG)
$50K – $10MFormula and competitive grants to local governments for energy efficiency, conservation, and renewable energy projects. Cities with population ≥35K typically receive direct formula allocations; smaller cities access via state pass-through or competitive tranches.
Energy · Public Facilities
Energy Improvement in Rural or Remote Areas
$1M – $100MFunds energy resilience, reliability, and clean energy projects in communities of fewer than 10,000 people. Eligible projects include microgrids, demand response, renewable energy, and grid modernization.
Energy · Disaster Resilience
Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP)
$5M – $250MFunds projects that enhance grid resilience and reliability against extreme weather and other threats. Three program areas: Grid Resilience Utility, Smart Grid, and Grid Innovation.
Energy · Disaster Resilience
Grid Resilience State and Tribal Formula Grants
$100K – $10MFormula funding to states and tribes for grid resilience activities preventing disruption due to extreme weather, wildfire, and natural disasters. States pass through to utilities, cities, and other electricity entities.
Energy · Disaster Resilience
Industrial Demonstrations Program (IDP)
$1M – $500MFunds first-of-a-kind and early-deployment industrial decarbonization projects in energy-intensive industries. Cities support local employer applicants and benefit from elective pay or transferability.
Energy · Economic Development
Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs (H2Hubs)
$100M – $1.2BFunds creation of regional networks of clean-hydrogen producers, consumers, and connective infrastructure. Industry-led consortia with state and local government partners.
Energy · Economic Development
Renew America's Schools Program
$1M – $15MFunds energy improvements (efficiency, renewables, electrification, HVAC, alternative-fueled vehicles) at public K-12 schools. Cities partner with or sponsor school district applicants.
Energy · Public Facilities
State Energy Program (SEP)
$50K – $5MFormula and competitive funding to states for energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy resilience activities. States pass through to local governments via sub-grants and technical assistance.
Energy
4 programs
Department of Health and Human Services
Community Services Block Grant (CSBG)
$100K – $10MFormula funding to states for anti-poverty services delivered through Community Action Agencies (CAAs). Cities operating their own CAA receive direct sub-allocations; otherwise the local CAA serves the city as part of its service area.
Economic Development · Housing
HRSA Community Health Center New Access Points
$500K – $2MFunds creation of new Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) service sites in medically underserved areas. Cities partner with FQHCs and nonprofits as co-applicants or facility hosts.
Public Facilities
HRSA Health Center Capital Development Programs
$200K – $5MFunds construction, expansion, equipment, and information technology investments at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). Cities partnering with FQHCs benefit through co-located clinics in city-owned facilities.
Public Facilities
Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
$100K – $25MFormula funding to states and tribes for energy bill assistance, weatherization, and crisis intervention for low-income households. State pass-through to local administrators (often Community Action Agencies, but cities run LIHEAP in some jurisdictions).
Housing · Energy
2 programs
Department of Health and Human Services — SAMHSA
SAMHSA Community Mental Health Services Block Grant (MHBG)
$100K – $10MFormula funding to states for community mental-health services for adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbance. State Mental Health Authorities sub-grant to community providers; cities partner via local mental-health agencies.
Public Facilities · Housing
SAMHSA Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant (SABG)
$100K – $15MFormula funding to states for substance use disorder prevention and treatment services. State Single State Agency sub-grants to community providers; opioid-response set-aside available.
Public Facilities · Housing
20 programs
Department of Housing and Urban Development
CDBG Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR)
$5M – $500MSpecial-appropriation block grants to help communities recover from major disasters. Highly flexible; funds housing, infrastructure, and economic revitalization in declared disaster areas.
Housing · Disaster Resilience · Economic Development
Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants
$500K – $50MFunds transformation of distressed HUD-assisted public and multifamily housing developments and surrounding neighborhoods. Planning Grants and Implementation Grants are separate cycles.
Housing · Economic Development
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Entitlement
$500K – $30MAnnual formula grants to entitlement cities for housing, public facilities, infrastructure, public services, and economic development that benefit low- and moderate-income residents.
Housing · Economic Development · Public Facilities
Continuum of Care (CoC) Program
$500K – $50MCompetitive funding to local Continuum of Care collaborative applicants for transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, and supportive services. Cities often serve as CoC lead applicants.
Housing
Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG)
$100K – $5MFormula grants for street outreach, emergency shelter, homelessness prevention, rapid rehousing, and HMIS operations. Entitlement cities receive direct allocations.
Housing
Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS)
$50K – $1MFunds Service Coordinators and escrow accounts that help voucher holders and public housing residents increase earned income and build assets. PHAs administer.
Housing · Economic Development
Healthy Homes Production Grant Program
$1M – $5MFunds remediation of housing-related health and safety hazards in low-income housing including mold, pests, indoor air quality, injury risks, and lead. Cities and states apply with local healthy-homes program plans.
Housing
HOME Investment Partnerships Program
$500K – $15MAnnual formula grants to participating jurisdictions for affordable rental housing, homebuyer assistance, rehabilitation, and tenant-based rental assistance. Cities meeting population/funding thresholds receive direct allocations as Participating Jurisdictions (PJs).
Housing
Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8)
$1M – $500MTenant-based rental assistance allowing voucher holders to lease housing in the private market. Cities operating a PHA administer voucher programs and receive annual administrative fees and HAP funding.
Housing
HUD Continuum of Care (CoC) Builds
$1M – $50MCapital-development track within the CoC program funding new construction or acquisition of permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals and families. New since 2024.
Housing
Indian Community Development Block Grant (ICDBG)
$200K – $5MCompetitive grants to Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages for housing, community facilities, and economic-development activities benefiting low- and moderate-income tribal members. Direct analog to CDBG for tribal governments.
Housing · Economic Development · Public Facilities
Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG)
$100K – $50MFormula block grant providing tribes and Tribally Designated Housing Entities (TDHEs) with annual housing funding under NAHASDA. Largest federal flow for tribal housing.
Housing
Lead Hazard Reduction Grant Program
$1M – $8MFunds identification and control of lead-based paint hazards in privately owned low-income housing. Cities and states apply for Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration or Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control grants.
Housing
Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing (PRO Housing)
$1M – $10MFunds activities that identify and remove barriers to affordable housing production and preservation — zoning reform, land-use updates, infrastructure to enable density, conversion strategies. Cities, MPOs, states, and consortia eligible.
Housing
Public Housing Capital Fund
$100K – $50MAnnual formula funding to Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) for development, financing, modernization, and management improvements of public housing. Cities that operate their own PHA receive direct allocations.
Housing · Public Facilities
Public Housing Operating Fund
$100K – $100MFormula subsidy that covers the gap between operating expenses and tenant rent receipts at public housing developments. PHAs receive annual allocations.
Housing
Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD)
$1M – $200MConverts public housing and certain HUD-legacy properties to long-term Section 8 contracts (PBV or PBRA) so PHAs can leverage private capital for recapitalization. Process-based; PHAs and city housing authorities apply.
Housing
Resident Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency (ROSS)
$100K – $1.5MFunds Service Coordinators that link public housing residents and Indian housing residents to community-based supportive services and employment programs.
Housing · Economic Development
Section 108 Loan Guarantee
$1M – $100MLoan guarantee that lets CDBG entitlement communities borrow up to 5x their annual CDBG allocation for large physical and economic development projects. Repaid with future CDBG funds.
Housing · Economic Development · Public Facilities
Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP)
$1M – $15MFunds Continuum of Care applicants to develop and implement coordinated community approaches to preventing and ending youth homelessness. CoCs partner with public-child-welfare agencies, schools, and youth-serving organizations.
Housing
5 programs
Department of Justice
Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP)
$5K – $500KReimburses up to 50% of the cost of NIJ-compliant body armor for state and local law enforcement officers. Cities apply on behalf of their departments.
Public Facilities
COPS Hiring Program (CHP)
$125K – $5MFunds hiring of new or rehiring of career law enforcement officers, including school resource officers and community-policing positions. Cities, counties, and tribal departments eligible.
Public Facilities
Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG)
$10K – $5MFormula grants to states and units of local government for law enforcement, prosecution, courts, prevention, corrections, treatment, victim services, and technology. Eligible cities receive direct local allocations.
Public Facilities
Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN)
$50K – $1.5MFunds coordinated, multi-jurisdictional approaches to reducing violent crime through strategic enforcement, prevention, intervention, and reentry. U.S. Attorneys lead districts; cities partner via PSN task forces.
Public Facilities
VAWA STOP Formula Grant Program
$50K – $5MFormula grants to states under the Violence Against Women Act for Services, Training, Officers, and Prosecutors (STOP). State Administering Agencies sub-grant to local law enforcement, prosecutors' offices, courts, and victim-service providers.
Public Facilities
3 programs
Department of Labor
Apprenticeship USA Grants
$500K – $10MFunds expansion of Registered Apprenticeship programs in high-demand industries including construction, advanced manufacturing, healthcare, and clean energy. Cities, workforce boards, and industry intermediaries eligible.
Economic Development
National Dislocated Worker Grants (DWG)
$500K – $10MDiscretionary awards that temporarily expand local workforce capacity in response to major dislocations (plant closures, natural disasters, opioid crisis). Cities partner with workforce boards as sub-recipients.
Economic Development
WIOA Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth Formula Programs
$500K – $50MWorkforce Innovation and Opportunity Act formula grants to states for adult employment and training, dislocated worker services, and youth programs. Local Workforce Development Boards (often city/county partnerships) administer service delivery.
Economic Development
1 programs
Department of the Interior
2 programs
Department of the Interior — Bureau of Reclamation
Bureau of Reclamation Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse
$500K – $30MFunds planning, design, and construction of water-reuse projects: recycled water for industrial/agricultural/municipal use, brackish-water desalination, indirect potable reuse. Western states; many Southern California / Phoenix / Las Vegas projects.
Water & Wastewater
Bureau of Reclamation WaterSMART Grants
$100K – $5MFunds water-efficiency, drought-resilience, and water-marketing projects in the 17 Western states. Cities apply for Water and Energy Efficiency Grants, Drought Response Program, or Small-Scale Water Efficiency Grants.
Water & Wastewater · Disaster Resilience
2 programs
Department of the Treasury
Capital Magnet Fund (CMF)
$1M – $15MCompetitive grants to CDFIs and qualified nonprofit housing organizations to finance affordable housing and related economic-development activities. Cities partner with grantee CDFIs rather than apply directly.
Housing · Economic Development
Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI)
$200K – $2MFunds projects that increase access to fresh, healthy, affordable food in underserved communities. CDFIs are lead awardees; cities partner on site identification and food-access strategies.
Economic Development · Housing
1 programs
Department of the Treasury — CDFI Fund
5 programs
Department of the Treasury / Internal Revenue Service
Federal Historic Tax Credit (HTC)
$500K – $50M20% tax credit on qualified rehabilitation expenditures for income-producing certified historic structures. Cities sponsor local rehabs and partner with developers; National Park Service Part-1/2/3 approval required.
Housing · Economic Development · Parks & Recreation
IRA Elective Pay (Direct Pay) — Clean-Energy Tax Credits for Tax-Exempt Entities
$50K – $100MMechanism (not a program) that lets tax-exempt cities, counties, and tribes monetize federal clean-energy tax credits as direct cash refunds — Investment Tax Credit (§48), Production Tax Credit (§45), Commercial Clean Vehicle (§45W), Alternative Fuel Refueling Property (§30C), and 9 others. Unlocks municipal solar, storage, EV fleet, and microgrid investments at scale.
Energy · Transportation · Public Facilities
Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)
$500K – $100MLargest U.S. affordable-housing production tool. Federal tax credits allocated to state Housing Finance Agencies, who award them via competitive Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP) to developers. Cities support local projects through site control, zoning, and gap financing.
Housing
Private Activity Bonds (PABs) — Tax-Exempt Financing
$10M – $1BTax-exempt bonds issued by state or local government on behalf of private projects that serve a defined public purpose — airports, ports, water/sewer, solid waste, multifamily housing, surface transportation, and qualified broadband. State volume cap allocates 9% credit-paired multifamily PABs; exempt-facility categories are uncapped.
Transportation · Housing · Water & Wastewater · Public Facilities
Section 48C Advanced Energy Project Tax Credits
$1M – $250MTax credits (up to 30%) for investments in clean energy manufacturing, recycling, and industrial decarbonization projects. Cities can support local employers' applications and benefit from elective pay or transferability for tax-exempt entities.
Energy · Economic Development
38 programs
Department of Transportation
Active Transportation Infrastructure Investment Program (ATIIP)
$750K – $15MFunds connected networks of safe walking, biking, and rolling infrastructure. Planning and Construction grant categories; cities apply directly.
Transportation
Airport Improvement Program (AIP)
$500K – $50MFunds airport planning and development for safety, capacity, security, and environmental concerns at commercial-service, reliever, and general-aviation airports. City-owned airports apply through FAA Regional Office.
Transportation · Public Facilities
Airport Terminal Program (ATP)
$1M – $50MIIJA-funded discretionary grants for airport terminal building development, multimodal connections, and on-airport rail access. Cities owning eligible airports apply through FAA Regional Office.
Transportation · Public Facilities
All Stations Accessibility Program (ASAP)
$1M – $100MFunds upgrades to legacy rail-fixed-guideway transit stations to meet ADA accessibility standards. Designated transit agencies and cities owning legacy systems eligible.
Transportation · Public Facilities
Bridge Formula Program
$500K – $50MFive-year, $27.5B formula program through state DOTs for bridge replacement, rehabilitation, preservation, and protection. Off-system bridges receive a dedicated set-aside; cities access through their state DOT.
Transportation
Bridge Investment Program (BIP)
$2.5M – $500MFunds replacement, rehabilitation, preservation, and protection of highway bridges. Planning and Capital tracks; cities can apply for owned bridges, with state/MPO coordination typical for larger structures.
Transportation
Buses and Bus Facilities Discretionary Program
$500K – $30MFunds capital projects for buses and bus-related facilities including replacement, rehabilitation, construction, and leasing. Designated transit agencies are eligible.
Transportation
Carbon Reduction Program (CRP)
$500K – $25MFormula funding through state DOTs and metropolitan planning organizations for projects that reduce transportation emissions. Cities access through state DOT/MPO programming cycles.
Transportation · Energy
Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Grants
$500K – $15MFunds EV charging and alternative fueling infrastructure. Two tracks: Corridor (along designated Alternative Fuel Corridors) and Community (anywhere, prioritizing rural, disadvantaged, and Indigenous communities). Cities apply directly for Community grants.
Transportation · Energy
Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program (CMAQ)
$250K – $50MFormula funding for transportation projects that reduce congestion and improve air quality in EPA-designated nonattainment and maintenance areas. Eligible projects include transit, bike/ped, EV charging, traffic flow improvements.
Transportation · Energy
Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI)
$500K – $100MFunds rail projects improving safety, efficiency, and reliability of intercity passenger and freight rail. Cities, states, railroads, and port authorities eligible; grade separation projects common for cities.
Transportation
Enhanced Mobility of Seniors & Individuals with Disabilities (Section 5310)
$25K – $5MFunds capital and operating expenses for transportation services that serve seniors and individuals with disabilities beyond ADA-required services. State pass-through with sub-recipient cities and nonprofits.
Transportation
Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail
$10M – $1BFunds intercity passenger rail capital projects that expand or improve passenger rail service. States, Amtrak, interstate compacts, and certain cities eligible.
Transportation
Formula Grants for Rural Areas (Section 5311)
$50K – $10MFunds public-transportation capital and operating in non-urbanized areas (<50K population). States apportion among rural cities, intercity bus operators, and tribal operators.
Transportation
Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP)
$250K – $25MFormula funding through state DOTs for highway-safety infrastructure improvements that reduce fatalities and serious injuries. Cities access via state DOT/MPO programming using their Strategic Highway Safety Plan.
Transportation
INFRA Grants (Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight & Highway Projects)
$25M – $200MFunds large-scale highway, bridge, freight, and intermodal projects of national or regional significance. Suited to major corridor or interchange investments.
Transportation
Low or No Emission Vehicle Program (Low-No)
$1M – $50MFunds zero- and low-emission transit buses, supporting facilities, and workforce development. Transit agencies are direct applicants; cities partner through their transit authority.
Transportation · Energy
MEGA / National Infrastructure Project Assistance
$100M – $500MFunds very large surface transportation projects that are too costly for other federal programs. Targets projects with significant economic, environmental, and equity benefits.
Transportation
National Highway Freight Program (NHFP)
$500K – $100MFormula funding for projects that improve freight movement on the National Highway Freight Network. Cities with major freight corridors apply via state DOT.
Transportation · Economic Development
National Highway Performance Program (NHPP)
$500K – $250MLargest highway-formula program. Funds construction, rehabilitation, and operations of the National Highway System (NHS), including Interstates and major arterials. Cities access through state DOT programming.
Transportation
Neighborhood Access and Equity (NAE) Program
$500K – $100MFunds projects that reconnect communities divided by transportation infrastructure and improve walkability, safety, and access in disadvantaged communities. IRA-funded sibling to Reconnecting Communities.
Transportation · Economic Development
Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP)
$1M – $500MFunds capital improvements to coastal, Great Lakes, and inland port infrastructure including terminals, intermodal connections, and resilience upgrades. Cities and port authorities directly eligible.
Transportation · Economic Development
PROTECT Discretionary Grants
$100K – $100MFunds resilience planning, resilience improvements, community resilience and evacuation routes, and at-risk coastal infrastructure. Companion formula program flows through state DOTs.
Transportation · Disaster Resilience
PROTECT Formula Program
$250K – $25MFormula funding through state DOTs for resilience planning, resilience improvements, community resilience and evacuation routes, and at-risk coastal infrastructure. Companion to the PROTECT Discretionary Grants.
Transportation · Disaster Resilience
Railroad Crossing Elimination Program
$1M – $100MFunds highway-rail and pathway-rail grade-crossing improvements including grade separations, closures, and safety enhancements. Cities, states, MPOs, railroads, and tribes eligible.
Transportation
Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) Loans
$10M – $500MDirect federal loans and loan guarantees for rail-infrastructure projects including freight, intercity passenger, and transit-oriented development. Cities owning rail spurs or transit-rail corridors are eligible borrowers.
Transportation
RAISE Discretionary Grants
$1M – $25MFunds road, rail, transit, port, and multimodal projects with significant local or regional impact. Cities can apply directly for capital investments and planning grants.
Transportation
Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program
$500K – $100MFunds removal, retrofit, or mitigation of transportation facilities (often highways) that divide communities. Justice40-prioritized; emphasizes restoring connectivity in disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Transportation · Economic Development
Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program
$1M – $100MDiscretionary grants for surface-transportation infrastructure projects in rural areas. Eligible projects include highways and roads, bridges, freight rail, intermodal terminals, and Appalachian Development Highway System segments.
Transportation
Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A)
$200K – $25MFunds local action plans and infrastructure projects that prevent roadway deaths and serious injuries. Has both planning grants and implementation grants.
Transportation
State of Good Repair Grants (Section 5337)
$500K – $100MFormula funding for maintenance, replacement, and rehabilitation of high-intensity fixed-guideway and high-intensity motorbus systems. Targets legacy rail and BRT systems with ≥7 years of service.
Transportation
Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants
$250K – $15MFunds demonstration projects in connected/autonomous vehicles, sensors, systems integration, smart traffic signals, and innovative aerial mobility. Stage 1 planning grants and Stage 2 implementation grants.
Transportation
Surface Transportation Block Grant Program (Highway Trust Fund Formula)
$500K – $50MFormula funds distributed through state DOTs and metropolitan planning organizations. Cities access through their MPO's Transportation Improvement Program.
Transportation · General
Thriving Communities Program
$500K – $5MCooperative-agreement technical assistance to help disadvantaged communities navigate federal transportation programs, develop project pipelines, and secure federal investment. Not a capital grant.
Transportation · Economic Development
Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) Loans
$10M – $1BFederal credit assistance (secured loans, loan guarantees, lines of credit) for major surface-transportation projects. Loans up to 49% of eligible project costs at U.S. Treasury rate. Cities use TIFIA to finance large transit, highway, bridge, and port projects.
Transportation
Urbanized Area Formula Grants (Section 5307)
$500K – $200MLargest FTA formula program; funds transit capital and operating assistance to urbanized areas (population ≥50K). Designated transit-recipient cities and authorities receive annual apportionments based on population, density, and revenue miles.
Transportation
Voluntary Airport Low Emissions (VALE) Program
$500K – $10MFunds airport-sponsor purchases of low-emission vehicles, ground-support equipment, and infrastructure that reduce airport emissions in EPA-designated nonattainment or maintenance areas.
Transportation · Energy
Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program
$500K – $25MFunds projects that reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions through wildlife crossings, fencing, and habitat-connectivity infrastructure on the public road network. Cities, tribes, states, and MPOs eligible.
Transportation · Parks & Recreation
7 programs
Economic Development Administration
Build to Scale (BTS) Program
$400K – $2MFunds regional innovation strategies that accelerate entrepreneurship, business commercialization, and capital-access initiatives. Cities lead or partner with universities, accelerators, and capital providers.
Economic Development
Economic Adjustment Assistance (EAA)
$100K – $10MFlexible funding to help communities respond to and recover from sudden or chronic economic distress. Funds planning, technical assistance, infrastructure, revolving loan funds, and recovery strategies.
Economic Development
EDA Partnership Planning
$75K – $250KFunds local Economic Development Districts and Indian tribes for short- and long-term economic development planning including the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS). Cities benefit through their EDD's plan.
Economic Development
EDA Public Works Program
$600K – $30MFunds construction or renovation of essential public infrastructure that supports economic recovery and competitiveness. Cities can apply for water, wastewater, broadband, business parks, and similar projects.
Economic Development · Public Facilities · General
Good Jobs Challenge
$1M – $25MFunds regional workforce training systems with industry-recognized credentials, on-the-job training, and wraparound services. Cities participate as part of regional workforce-system coalitions.
Economic Development
Recompete Pilot Program
$500K – $50MFunds locally driven, multi-year strategies to close prime-age employment gaps in distressed communities. Two phases: strategy development grants and implementation grants.
Economic Development
Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs (Tech Hubs)
$400K – $75MDesignates and funds consortia developing globally competitive technology and innovation industries in specific regions. Phase 1 Strategy Development Grants and Phase 2 Implementation Grants.
Economic Development
27 programs
Environmental Protection Agency
Brownfields Assessment, Cleanup, and Revolving Loan Fund Grants
$200K – $5MFunds environmental site assessments, cleanup, and reuse planning for contaminated or potentially contaminated properties. Cities can apply directly for assessment, cleanup, or RLF grants.
Economic Development · Public Facilities
Brownfields Job Training (EWDJT) Grants
$200K – $500KFunds environmental career training programs for unemployed and underemployed residents in communities impacted by brownfields, hazardous waste, or other contamination. Cities, community colleges, and nonprofits eligible.
Economic Development · Public Facilities
Clean School Bus Program
$300K – $20MFunds replacement of existing school buses with zero-emission (electric) and low-emission (propane, CNG) buses. School districts, public school authorities, and contracted operators eligible; cities that operate school transportation can apply.
Transportation · Energy
Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF)
$500K – $100MLow-interest loans for wastewater treatment, stormwater management, and water quality projects. Administered by states; cities apply through their state's revolving fund agency.
Water & Wastewater
Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG)
$1M – $500MFunds planning and implementation of greenhouse gas reduction strategies. Includes large implementation grants for projects in transportation, buildings, electricity, and industrial sectors.
Energy · Disaster Resilience
Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) — Implementation
$10M – $500MLarge-scale implementation grants funding the deployment of greenhouse-gas reduction measures identified in CPRG Priority Climate Action Plans. Cities, MSAs, states, and tribes lead implementation coalitions.
Energy · Disaster Resilience · between cycles
Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) Grants
$50K – $2MFunds projects that reduce diesel emissions from existing engines via repowering, retrofit, or replacement. Cities, school districts, port authorities, transit agencies, and tribes eligible.
Energy · Transportation
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF)
$500K – $50MLow-interest loans for drinking water infrastructure, treatment plants, distribution mains, and storage. Administered by states; principal forgiveness available for disadvantaged communities.
Water & Wastewater
Environmental and Climate Justice (ECJ) Community Change Grants
$10M – $20MFunds community-driven projects addressing environmental and public health harms in disadvantaged communities. Cities partner with community-based organizations as co-applicants.
Disaster Resilience · Economic Development · between cycles
Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving (EJCPS) Program
$350K – $500KFunds community-based organizations addressing local environmental and public-health issues through collaborative problem-solving. Cities partner as supporting collaborators rather than lead applicants.
Disaster Resilience · Economic Development
Environmental Justice Government-to-Government (EJG2G) Program
$500K – $1MFunds state, local, tribal, and territorial governments to partner with community-based organizations on environmental justice projects. Cities apply as the government partner.
Disaster Resilience · Economic Development
EPA Tribal Water Infrastructure Set-Asides (CWSRF/DWSRF)
$100K – $15MDedicated tribal set-asides within CWSRF and DWSRF for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure in tribal communities. Funds tribal utilities, water-system construction, and lead-line replacement.
Water & Wastewater
EPA WIIN Reducing Lead in Drinking Water Grant Program
$500K – $8MFunds projects in disadvantaged communities to reduce lead in drinking water, including service-line replacement, pitcher-filter distribution, and lead-testing in schools and child-care facilities.
Water & Wastewater
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI)
$100K – $25MFunds projects in the Great Lakes basin addressing toxic substances, invasive species, nearshore health, and habitat restoration. Cities in basin states eligible directly or through partner agencies.
Water & Wastewater · Disaster Resilience
Hardship Grants Program for Rural Communities
$50K – $2MFunds drinking-water and wastewater compliance projects in rural and small communities facing financial hardship. State pass-through with small-system priority.
Water & Wastewater
Lead Service Line Replacement (DWSRF Set-Aside)
$500K – $50MDedicated DWSRF funding for replacing lead service lines and addressing lead in drinking water. Justice40-prioritized; up to 100% principal forgiveness for disadvantaged communities.
Water & Wastewater
Nonpoint Source Pollution Control (Section 319)
$50K – $5MFormula funding through state water-quality agencies for nonpoint-source pollution-control implementation including agricultural runoff, urban stormwater retrofits, and watershed planning.
Water & Wastewater
Pollution Prevention (P2) Grant Program
$250K – $1MFunds source-reduction projects that prevent waste at the point of generation across municipal operations and local industry. Cities can run technical-assistance programs for small businesses, fleet conversions to lower-emission equipment, and hazardous-material substitution.
Sanitation · Economic Development
Recycling Education and Outreach (REO) Grant Program
$100K – $5MFunds education and outreach to reduce contamination in recycling streams and improve residential recycling participation. Cities can apply on their own or partner with regional solid-waste authorities and nonprofits.
Sanitation
Sewer Overflow and Stormwater Reuse Municipal Grants (OSG)
$1M – $50MGrants for planning, design, and construction of projects to control combined sewer overflows, sanitary sewer overflows, and stormwater infrastructure. Includes green infrastructure projects.
Water & Wastewater
Solar for All (GGRF Subprogram)
$25M – $400MFunds residential rooftop solar, residential community solar, and enabling upgrades that benefit low-income and disadvantaged communities. State, city, and tribal awardees deploy capital through programs they administer.
Energy · Housing · between cycles
Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program
$500K – $15MFunds municipal solid-waste, recycling, composting, and materials-recovery infrastructure. Eligible projects include curbside collection upgrades, transfer stations, MRFs, anaerobic digesters, and post-collection processing capacity. Cities apply directly; tribal and territorial set-asides are separate tranches.
Sanitation · Public Facilities
Targeted Airshed Grants Program
$500K – $5MFunds projects to reduce air pollution in nonattainment areas with the highest ozone, PM2.5, and PM10 levels. Cities and air quality agencies in eligible airsheds apply directly.
Energy · Disaster Resilience
U.S.-Mexico Border Water Infrastructure Program (BWIP)
$500K – $25MFunds drinking-water and wastewater infrastructure projects in the 100-km U.S.-Mexico border region. Border-state cities apply directly or through state and binational coordinators (BECC/NADBank).
Water & Wastewater
Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) Loans
$20M – $1BLong-term, low-interest federal loans for large drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater projects. Can fund up to 49% of project cost and stack with SRF or other federal funding.
Water & Wastewater
Water Quality Management Planning (Section 604(b))
$25K – $1MSet-aside from CWSRF capitalization (typically 1%) for water-quality management planning at the state and substate (regional / local) level. States pass through to designated planning agencies.
Water & Wastewater
Wetlands Program Development Grants (WPDG)
$100K – $600KFunds development and enhancement of state, tribal, and local wetlands programs including monitoring, restoration planning, regulation, and water-quality standards for wetlands.
Water & Wastewater · Disaster Resilience
11 programs
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG)
$50K – $10MFunds fire department equipment, training, wellness programs, and vehicles. Career, combination, and volunteer fire departments and EMS organizations directly eligible.
Public Facilities · Disaster Resilience
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)
$600K – $50MPre-disaster mitigation grants for projects that reduce risk from natural hazards. Funds capability and capacity building, project scoping, and large infrastructure mitigation projects.
Disaster Resilience
Emergency Management Performance Grants (EMPG)
$50K – $2MFormula funding for state and local emergency management programs to develop, sustain, and improve all-hazards emergency management capabilities. State pass-through to local emergency management offices.
Disaster Resilience · Public Facilities
Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)
$100K – $30MFunds projects that reduce or eliminate flood damage risk to NFIP-insured properties. Priority for repetitive loss and severe repetitive loss properties.
Disaster Resilience · Water & Wastewater
Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)
$100K – $25MFunds long-term hazard mitigation measures after a presidential disaster declaration. Available statewide following a declaration; cities apply through state emergency management.
Disaster Resilience
Port Security Grant Program (PSGP)
$100K – $10MFunds maritime security at federally designated ports — surveillance, access control, cyber-physical security, training. Port authorities and city-owned ports apply.
Transportation · Disaster Resilience
Public Assistance Program (FEMA PA)
$100K – $1BReimburses state and local governments for debris removal, emergency protective measures, and permanent restoration of public infrastructure following a presidential disaster declaration. Categories A-G.
Disaster Resilience · Public Facilities
Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER)
$100K – $5MFunds hiring and rehiring of firefighters by career and volunteer fire departments. Also supports recruitment and retention of volunteers.
Public Facilities
Swift Current (FMA Set-Aside)
$100K – $10MStreamlined Flood Mitigation Assistance subprogram for property mitigation in flood-impacted areas following federally declared disasters. Faster intake; targets substantially damaged NFIP-insured properties and repetitive-loss structures.
Disaster Resilience · Water & Wastewater · Housing
Transit Security Grant Program (TSGP)
$500K – $25MFunds security improvements for high-threat transit systems — surveillance, K-9 teams, hardening, training. Designated transit agencies receive allocations.
Transportation · Disaster Resilience
Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI)
$500K – $50MFunds designated high-threat, high-density urban areas for terrorism prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery. Cities and counties in DHS-designated UASI regions eligible.
Disaster Resilience · Public Facilities
2 programs
National Endowment for the Arts
NEA Challenge America
$10K – $10KFunds small and mid-sized organizations extending the reach of the arts to underserved populations. Cities and city-affiliated arts agencies eligible.
Economic Development · Parks & Recreation
NEA Our Town
$25K – $200KFunds creative placemaking projects that integrate arts, culture, and design into local community-development strategies. Cities partner with at least one nonprofit arts organization as co-applicant.
Economic Development · Parks & Recreation
1 programs
National Endowment for the Humanities
1 programs
National Institute of Standards and Technology
3 programs
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Climate Resilience Regional Challenge
$500K – $75MFunds collaborative regional climate resilience planning and implementation, with focus on coastal, Great Lakes, and tribal communities. Cities partner in regional applications.
Disaster Resilience · Economic Development · between cycles
NOAA Habitat Conservation Restoration
$500K – $25MFunds coastal habitat restoration projects supporting fisheries productivity, threatened-species recovery, and coastal community resilience. Cities, tribes, nonprofits, and states eligible.
Water & Wastewater · Disaster Resilience
NOAA National Coastal Resilience Fund (NCRF)
$100K – $10MPublic-private partnership between NOAA and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation funding coastal-resilience projects: living shorelines, marsh restoration, dune systems, stormwater retrofits. Cities partner with NFWF as fiscal agent.
Disaster Resilience · Water & Wastewater
6 programs
National Park Service
American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP)
$25K – $500KFunds preservation planning, interpretation, and land acquisition at battlefields associated with the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Civil War. Cities owning or partnering on eligible sites apply directly.
Parks & Recreation · Public Facilities
Historic Preservation Fund — Certified Local Government (CLG)
$5K – $500KFormula-based pass-through to State Historic Preservation Offices, which sub-grant at least 10% to Certified Local Governments for survey, planning, and rehabilitation activities.
Parks & Recreation · Public Facilities
Land and Water Conservation Fund — State and Local Assistance
$25K – $5MFormula funds passed through state liaison officers for outdoor recreation acquisition and development at state and local levels. Cities apply to state parks/recreation department.
Parks & Recreation
National Heritage Areas (NHA) Program
$100K – $700KFunds Congressionally designated National Heritage Areas in collaborative planning, interpretation, and preservation. Local coordinating entities (often nonprofits or city/county partnerships) receive annual appropriations.
Parks & Recreation · Economic Development
Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership (ORLP)
$300K – $10MCompetitive matching grants for development or significant redevelopment of urban parks in economically disadvantaged areas. Cities with population ≥30K (or jurisdictions within urbanized areas) eligible directly.
Parks & Recreation
Save America's Treasures (SAT)
$125K – $750KFunds preservation projects on nationally significant historic properties and collections. Cities owning eligible National Historic Landmark properties or National Register sites of national significance apply directly.
Public Facilities · Parks & Recreation
1 programs
National Science Foundation
2 programs
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD)
$1M – $100MMajor federal broadband infrastructure investment passed through to states. Cities partner with state broadband offices and ISPs to deploy service in unserved and underserved areas.
Broadband
Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program
$5M – $100MFunds construction, improvement, or acquisition of middle-mile broadband infrastructure. Cities, regional consortia, and utilities can apply for backhaul connectivity projects.
Broadband
5 programs
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
USACE Section 107 — Small Navigation Projects
$500K – $10MCAP project for small commercial navigation improvements — harbor channels, breakwaters, jetties. Used by port cities with sub-Federal-channel-size needs.
Transportation · Economic Development
USACE Section 1135 — Project Modifications for Improvement of the Environment
$500K – $10MCAP project for modifying existing USACE projects to improve environmental quality. Cities downstream of Corps reservoirs or near Corps levees use Section 1135 to retrofit for fish passage, sediment management, and water quality.
Water & Wastewater · Disaster Resilience
USACE Section 14 — Streambank and Shoreline Protection
$100K – $5MContinuing Authorities Program (CAP) project: protects public works and non-profit facilities from streambank or shoreline erosion. Federal share covers most costs up to a per-project cap.
Disaster Resilience · Water & Wastewater
USACE Section 205 — Small Flood Damage Reduction Projects
$1M – $10MCAP project for small-scale flood damage reduction infrastructure — channel improvements, levees, floodwalls, pump stations. Cities with localized flooding risk apply through USACE District.
Disaster Resilience · Water & Wastewater
USACE Section 206 — Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration
$500K – $10MCAP project for restoring degraded aquatic ecosystems: wetlands, riparian areas, urban streams. Cities partner with USACE District as local sponsor.
Water & Wastewater · Parks & Recreation
2 programs
U.S. Department of Agriculture — Natural Resources Conservation Service
USDA NRCS Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP)
$100K – $10MFunds emergency recovery measures to safeguard lives and property after natural disasters — debris removal from streams, bank stabilization, dam-breach response, levee repair. Activated by declared disasters.
Disaster Resilience · Water & Wastewater
USDA NRCS Watershed Operations and Flood Prevention
$500K – $50MFunds construction of watershed-protection and flood-prevention works of improvement in approved watershed plans. Cities partner with conservation districts as local sponsors.
Disaster Resilience · Water & Wastewater
11 programs
USDA Rural Development
Community Connect (Rural Broadband Grants)
$100K – $5M100%-grant program for broadband service in rural communities lacking 10/1 Mbps service. Cities, towns, cooperatives, and tribes apply directly to build community-wide service.
Broadband
Community Facilities Direct Loan & Grant Program
$50K – $50MFunding for essential community facilities like fire stations, libraries, health clinics, public safety, and town halls in rural areas. Direct loans, guaranteed loans, and grants.
Public Facilities · Parks & Recreation
Composting and Food Waste Reduction (CFWR) Pilot Program
$45K – $2MCooperative agreements for municipal pilot projects that develop and test composting and food-waste-reduction systems. Eligible projects include drop-off composting, organics curbside collection, anaerobic digestion of food waste, and food-recovery network coordination.
Sanitation
Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) Grant Program
$50K – $1MGrants for end-user telecommunications equipment, software, and broadband-enabled distance learning and telemedicine services in rural areas. School districts, hospitals, and city-government applicants common.
Broadband · Public Facilities
Emergency Community Water Assistance Grants (ECWAG)
$50K – $1MFunds rural communities responding to declines in water quantity or quality from emergency events. Eligible projects include water source replacement, treatment-system replacement, and emergency repairs.
Water & Wastewater · Disaster Resilience
ReConnect Program (Rural Broadband)
$500K – $50MLoans, grants, and combinations for high-speed broadband infrastructure in rural areas where 90% of households lack 100/20 Mbps service. Cities can partner or sponsor projects.
Broadband
Rural Business Development Grants (RBDG)
$10K – $500KGrants for technical assistance, training, and other activities that support small and emerging businesses in rural areas. Cities and tribes can apply on behalf of their business communities.
Economic Development
Rural Innovation Stronger Economy (RISE) Grants
$500K – $2MFunds creation and augmentation of high-wage jobs, business expansion, and economic-development plans in rural areas. Cities, tribes, and regional consortia eligible to lead Job Accelerator Partnerships.
Economic Development
Solid Waste Management Grant Program
$50K – $500KGrants to reduce or eliminate pollution of water resources by providing technical assistance and training for solid-waste site management in rural communities. Funds landfill closure planning, leachate-control studies, and recycling collection start-up.
Sanitation · Water & Wastewater
Strategic Economic and Community Development (SECD) Priority Set-Aside
$100K – $25MFunding priority across multiple USDA RD programs for projects that support multi-jurisdictional plans for economic and community development. Cities benefit from increased scoring when their applications align with regional plans.
Economic Development · General
Water and Environmental Programs (WEP)
$50K – $25MLoans, grants, and loan guarantees for drinking water, wastewater, stormwater, and solid waste projects in rural communities. Includes Predevelopment Planning Grants and Emergency Community Water Assistance.
Water & Wastewater
Planning purposes only. Award ranges and match percentages summarize publicly available agency guidance and are approximate. Always verify the binding NOFO on the administering agency's page before applying.